Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — OUR BOYS AND GIRLS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

THIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT OF THE PAPER. :Quaint Saying! and Cate Doinga of the Little Falk* Everywhere, Gathered and Printed Here for All Other Little Ones to Head. Nellie’s Dolls. Dh, dear! I am nearly distracted to-day. My family worries me so; For sweet Angelina, my very best doll. Has quarreled with Benjamin Joe. Poor Margaret Mabel has torn her best dress, And Jane has cracked three of her toes; Jemima has hart her right arm and been scalped, And Daisy has broken her nose. Then Eleanor Rose has got a sore mouth Just while she was learning to talk; Dear Bessie has lost both shoes and her hat; And so 1 can’t take her to walk.

The twins, Jack and Jill, have got such a bad cold; And Elsie has measles; and I Have sent for the doctor, who hasn’t come yet, And I fear they will certainly die. iMy kitty has scratched; my mamma's asleep; I can’t find my slate when I look; My tea-set is broken and sister is cross, And Johnny has hidden my book. (If papa was here he would sing me a song, Or tell me a story, I know, And if he would ride me downstairs on his back I guess all my troubles would go. !I do feel so bad; do you s’pose it’s my nerves? ' f j And do you know what will relieve? ißut there; I heard somebody open the door; It’s papa—l really believe! 1 i —Presbyterian Journal; ! »» -'•) JLiHow Children Pteyed in Athens., A very learned grofessor has been ! lately telling how children used to play jin old Athens. The ball was a universal plaything. As the children grew older there came the hobby-horse, the game with dice (made of the knuckle bones of animals cut into square pieces), and spinning tops both In the ; house and in the open air. Toys and go-carts and “mud pies” engaged the

interest of Athenian children as of all European nations. Then followed at a somewhat more advanced age a game which consisted in throwing slantingly Into the water small smooth stones, how many leaps they imade before sinking (which we call “skimming” or. “ducks and drakes”), 'blindman’s buff,trundling hoops, and all kinds of games with the ball, walking on stilts, leap-frog, kite-flying, seesawing on logs, swinging, etc. Girls had dolls made of wax or clay and ipainted. Blindman’s buff was played thus; The boy with his eyes bandaged imoved about calling out, “I will catch a brazen fly.” The others answered, “You will hunt it, but you won’t catch it,” all the while striking him with whips till he managed to catch one of them.—Jewish Messenger.

What Can Be Done with a Cent. A few years ago the Episcopal Church of a small Maryland town was in want of an alms basin. The congregation ,was for the most part poor, and few in numbers. The minister in charge appointed a young girl a committee of one to collect subscriptions. The amount needed was $5, for an alms basin costing that much had been heard of for sale by a more prosperous parish that had outgrown the one with which it started io .life. The ydpng woman’s first call was at the store' of a well-to-do merchant Asking something from him for her fund, she received the following reply, spoken in a very gruff voice: “I can * give you nothing;” but as she turned to leave he added: “There, you may have that if If'will do you apy good,” and suiting the action to the word threw down on the counter a cent. Mortified and abashed, her first impulse was to leave it where he had thrown it, but better judgment prevailing she picked it up, thanked him and left. Without going further -she returned home and told her mother that she would not ask for anything more and run the chance of such treatment a second time. “Take the cent, my dear,” ithe mother said, “and show what you can do with it” She followed this advice and bought a small china dolt and, dreeing it la some/ scraps which