Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1895 — OUR BOYS AND GIRLS [ARTICLE]

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

THIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT OF THE PAPER. I Quaint Savings and Cute Doings of the Little Folks Everywhere, Gathered and Printed Here for All Other Little Ones to Read. How Many-Claws Has » Cat, “How many claws has our old cat?” Asked Eddie. ‘Who can tell me that ?” “Oh! that,” said Harry, “every one knows — As many as yon have fingers and toes.” “Yeth,” lisped Ethel, “she'th jutht got twenty; Five on each foot, and I think it-th a plenty.” “Yes," said Bertie, “just five times foul That makes twenty—no less nor more.” “Wrong,” Baid Eddie. “That’s easil; seen; Catch her and count ’em—she has eigb teen! “Cats on each of their two hind paws, Have only four, and not five, claws.” —St. Nicholas. Write Rite Right. Write we know is written right When we see it written write, But when we see it written wright, We know it is not written right;” For write, to have it written right, Must not be written right or wright, Nor yet should it be written rite, But write, for so ’tis written right. A Little Ho Idler. The smallest conscript in France last year was Luclen Mathey, of Asnleres, whp was exactly seventy-five centimetres, or about thirty inches high. This year the record has been beaten by a young man in the department of the Seine, who is a centimeter shorter. When his father called at the recruiting office with him to Inscribe his name the clerks thought It was a Joke, but the proper documents were produced to show that the youth was 21 years of age.

Little Tommy’s Case. 6:30 a. m.—Tommy arises. 6:35.—He complains of a headache. 7 Quite sick, but able to eat a hearty breakfast. 7:3o—Getting worse very rapidly. 8— He develops signs of fever. B:ls—Complains of toothache and sore throat. B:4s—He fears he will die. 9 (school time)—High fever, aches all over and sobbing with pain. 9:ls—Little Tommy is out in the yard wrestling merrily with the neighbor's boy. Be Like the Kite. Now comes the season for outdoor toys, so take them all down from the shelf. Now is the season for girls and boys. *Tis the time to enjoy oneself. So bring out the toys, have lots of fun, and struggle with all of your might, To aid In the battle of life, softieone, and you’ll soar as high as the K I T E 1 ! ! I I Do Yon Believe Thia? A book recently published,,ls called “Pussy and Her Language.” In It the author, Marvin R. Clark, tries to prove that cats have a language which may be learned if men will take pains to understand it He gives the following list of words and their meanings. You can study them at your leisure and perhaps you may be able to add others tb the new cat dictionary: Aelio—Food. Pro—Nail or claw. Lac—Milk. Tut—Limb. Parriere —Open. Papoo—Body. Aliloo—Water. Oolie—Fur. Bl—Meat. Mi-ouw —Beware. Pt.lee-bl Mouse Purrieu—Satisfacmeat. tion or content. Bleeme-bl —Cooked Yow—Exterminameat. tion. Pad—Foot. Mieouw—Here. Leo—Head. The author says that cat language is very like the Chinese, and hints that either Chinamen learned from cats or cats learned from Chinamen. Lightning Spanked Little Richard. Richard Cole, the seven-year-old son of Albert Cole, 1523 Walnut street, Helena, Mont., did not go to Sunday school the other afternoon. It was not his fault, for with the assistance of his mother, he was getting ready to go as fast as he could, when Providence, or somebody or something else, interfered, and all at once stopped Richard and plans. The lad was bending over a trunk, getlng out a pair of shoes, when a bolt of lightning struck the house, entered the room and struck him in the small of the back and ran downward. Richard set up a yell, and his very much frightened mother rushed in and picked him up. The first thing the lad did was to ask who It was “that shot him.” The lad’s trousers were a complete wreck, having been torn to pieces at the place which was to have occupied the bench at Sundayschool, but, strange to say, he himself was not very much hurt.