Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1889 — [?]ple Tales for Little Children [ARTICLE]

[?]ple Tales for Little Children

1. Hare we here «n *Tbum. It is full Vt pictures for little children with dirty fingers to look at Here are two piotniea of papa* Thia is one of him Before he wm married to mamma. He looks like C two-year -old colt behind a band of Here is a picture of papa after he had married mamma. Now he looks like a government mule hauling a load cf pig iron. Bes if you can pni ▼on? finger on the wose and the eyes and the taouth oi each picturt Turn down » leaf when you come to * pr. ttv picture you like. The baby is eaiing br-tui and nolftsses. Let him take the album and 'ook at the pictures, too. 2. This is a lamp. It is full nice, yellow oil. Can you light the lamp ? 11 there is too much oil pour some of it in the stove. Mamma will not miss the oi' U you pour it <n the stove, but she rnay miss you. A little oil on the carpet is not a bad thing for the oil, but it is fc bad thing for th carpet and you. 3. Do uot make a noi.-.e or you vill wake the policeman. H» is sitting on the doorstep asle p. It is very hr.rd on him to have to si cp out of doors these en d i i Jits. There >s a bank being robbed around the comer and a. woman to being killed in the next block. If the policeman waked up he might find it out and arrest somebody. Some people believe this is wh it policemen are for, but the policemen do not think bo. 4. Who is this creature w ith long hair and a wild eye ? He is a poet. He writes poems on spring and women’s eyea and etrauge, unreal things of that kind. He ’a always wishing he was dead, but he wouldn’t let anybody kill him if he could get away. A mighty good saw age-stnffer was spoiled when the man became a poet. He would look well standing undei a in scending t lie-driver. 5. Tie girl is at the gate. A young tnr»a is coming down the lane. The girl’t papa is sitting on the front porch. He is very old. He has raised a family of sleven children. What is the poor old Xi „i thinking about, and why does he ? .ze so intently at Bis light Loot ? May be is thinking about raising the young i.an who i.-, coming down the l*n* - er