Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. [ARTICLE]

FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.

“we four.” Out in the street Jack found, one day, An old umbrella, thrown awav. “Better than nothing,” he merrily said, As a cloud sent its raindrops down on his head. Along came Bob. “Any lodgings to let?” “Yes,” laughed Jack; “come in out of the wet.” Then Will came up with a “Halloo, boys 1 What’s the occasion for all this noise?” ‘‘Come alpng in” said Jack, “an’ seel” So the old umbrella gave shelter to three. And last of all, as they laughed together, A doggie, who hated such rainy weather, Came slinking by with his tail arawu in, And a very uncomfortable soaking skin. “Come in with the rest of us, do,” cried Will; And doggie wagged a grateful “I will.” “There, now,” laughed Jack, “we’re fixed, we four, An’ there isn’t any lodgings to let for more." —[St. Louis Republic. LOOKING FORWARD. Little Emily had been very naughty because her marnra i would not let her go out with a party of friends, with whom they were staying, and she screamed so that every one in the house was distressed aud worried. Her mamma had to lock her up in a room and tell her she should not come out till she said she would be good and promised not to cry any more. Every now and then her mamma would go and ask her to promise, but she only screamed the louder. At last a silence fell upon the house, and when poor mamma opened the door, there, stretched upon the floor, lay the pretty weary little form, and when the dear mother drew her to her and asked the oft-repeated question, “Will you be good and promise not to cry any more?” the pretty eyes looked up, still full of tears, and the little girl said, “Yes, mamma, I’ll be good, and promise not to never, never cry any more till some of ray dear relations die.”—[Harper’s Y r oun" People.

TIIS CLOTTED TAGE. The writing master entered the class room and passed from one pupil to another to review the task he had set before them. He paused before the new comer: the page was blotted, scratched aud disfigured with the stain of many tears. “Master,” said the boy in trembling accents, “I have labored in vain; my hand is crippled;there is no resemblance between these crooked lines and the model I have endeavored to imitate; but, master, pity me, for I have douc mv best,” By his side sat his companion. “Behold my page!” he exclaimed. “It is fair and clean, unsullied by a blot, untouched by an ungainly mark. O, Master, in my wisdom I forbore to incur your displeasure. Is not a blank page preferable to the tear-stained, misshapen attempt of a crippled hand tfoat cannot and never will be able to make a fair copy?” The master threw aside the clean white page without vouchsafing to cast a glance upon it, but he leaned with infinite compassion and tenderness toward the pupil who had done his best; gently he took his hand and guided it over the lines, with words of love and encouragement—and the humble pupil t,.ok courage and rejoiced whilst his idle com-, panion looked upon his fair white page, aud saw its brightness overshadowed by the displeasure of the master. —[New York Observer. A PATR OK GOLDEN SLIPPERS. You have no idea what little feet the children of Constantinople have, especially the girl 3. In the Turkish Building it the Chicago World’s Fair, there is a beautiful booth at which golden slippers ire sold. The slippers are the tiniest things you ever saw. They are very narrow and turn up at the toes, making i point like the top of a Chinese pagoda. They are made of something which looks like cloth-of-gold, and they are embroidered with cunning litt’c gold roses surrounded by little gold leaves. AU the boys and girls who pass the Golden Slipper Booth go crazy with delight at the “angel slippers,” as they call them, but when they try to get a pair to wear, then they realize what very small feet the Constantinople women and children possess. Lust week, a real funny thing happened at the Golden Slipper Booth. A party of Americans passed the booth and admired the slippers, ns no one who sees them can help doing; but they did not buy any, although one of the little girls in the party said she would like to have a pair. About five minutes after the American people had gone past, one of the older boys of the party came running back with a girl’s overshoe in his hand. “Please give me a pair of your golden slippers just the size of this overshoe,” said he. “They are for my sister, the little girl who passed here just now, and who said she would like to have a pair of your golden shoes. I stole an overshoe of hers out of my mother’s handsatcliel so as to get just the right size. Please, Mr. Turk, give me a pair just the size of these.” The little, dark-skinned Turkish salesman took the overshoe and tried to find a slipper to match it. But although the overshoe was not a large one by any means, there was not n single pair of the golden elippers in the whole booth that could emateh it in size. Yet the little girl who owned the overshoe was only ten years old. When the boy saw that he could not buy his sister a pair of golden slippers to wear, he was very much disgusted, and tome one heard him telling the clerk that he did not believe girls with such small feet could possibly have any brains. —[The Ledger. TONGUE-TWISTERS. Read the following aloud, repeating the shorter ones quickly half a dozen times in succession: Six thick thistle sticks. "Flesh of freshly-fried flying fish. The sea ceaseth, and it sufficeth n 9. Hi<?h roller, low poller, lower roller, A box of mixed biscuits, a mixed biscuit-box. Strict strong Stephen Stringer snared slickly six sickly silkly snakes. Swan swam over the sea; swim, swan, swim; swan swam back again, well swum swan. It is a shame, Sam; these are the same, Sam. ’Tis all a sham, Sam, and a shame it is to sham so. Sam. A growing gleam glowing green. The bleak breeze blighted the bright broom blossoms. Susan shineth shoes and socks; socks and shoes shine Susan. She ceaseth shining shoes and socks, for shoes and socks shock Susan. Robert Rowley rolled a round roll round; a round roll Robert Rowley rolled round; where rolled the round roll Robert Rowley rolled round?

•' Oliver Oglethorp ogled an owl and oyster. Did Oliver Oglethorp ogle an owl and oyster? If Oliver Oglethorp ogled an owl and oyster, where are the owl and oyster Oliver Oglethorp ogled? Hobbs meets Snobbs and Nobbs; Hobbs bobs to Snobbs and Nobbs; Hobbs nobs with Snobbs and robs Nobbs’s fob. “That is," says Nobb, “the worse for Hobbs’s jobs,” and Snobbs sobs. Sammy Shoesmith saw a shrieking oongster. Did Sammy Shoesmith see a shrieking songster? If Sammy Shoesmith saw a shrieking songster, where’a the shrieking songster Sammy Shoesmith saw? I went into the garden to gather some blades, and there I saw two sweet pretty babes. “Ah, babes, is that you babes, braidinn of blades, babes? If you braid any blades at all, babes, braid broad blades, babes, or braid no blades at all, babes.”—[Argonaut.