Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1895 — CHILDREN’S COLUMN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHILDREN’S COLUMN.

k DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS. tomething that Will Interest the Juvenile Members of Every Household —Quaint Actions and Bright Sayings of Many Cute and Cunning Children. The Lost Voice. “Oh, my!” exclaimed the Ricadoo, a-sit-ting by the shore, i “Oh, woe is me, I ne’er can be, a singer any more For lately in a solo I tried a note so high My voice it got away from me and flew up in the sky.

If I just had that voice again how happy I would be, But now I ne’er can sing again, Oh, deary, deary, me!” He Knew Why, “Our first Impressions most readily slip our memories,” said the teacher. “Oh, I know why!” shouted Johnny. “Well, why?” “Our first impressions are slippers.” Her Encore. A little girl we know does not understand encores, and so found fault with the audience at a recent children's concert, in which she helped to sing a chorus. “I know we didn’t make one mistake,” she exclaimed, on her way home, “and yet they made us come out and sing it over again !”-t-London TltBlts. Wouldn’t Use False Keys. The notion that alcohol may do good because, for a moment, It seems to do good, was well answered by a physician’s response to a man who was somewhat too much given to the pleasures of the table. This man bad said to the doctor: “What do you think of the Influence of alcohol on the digestion, doctor?” “I think that Its Influence Is bad,” said the physician. “But a little whisky taken just before a meal Is tfie only key that will open my apetlte, doctor.” “I don’t believe In opening things with false keys, sir!” answered the other. This response was particularly applicable, for a falsely stimulated appetite is a sure prelude to Indigestion. Treasure Is a Wonder. There is a little girl living .with her parents In Newport, Kyi, who is a mtislcal prodigy. She is but five years old, and can play in good time and with technical accuracy several compositions more than ordinarily difficult She has not only developed this aptitude for the piano, but has a wondrously accurate ear. She can tell the key at onCe In which she hears some one else play, and already transposes from one key to another with the familiarity of a professional. The name of this girl Is “Treasure" Ballentyne, and she is not only precocltfhs In music, but very bright In other respects. “Treasure” ,1s like a little doll, she Is so much petted, and often she is the Central .figure at attraction in drawingroom parties. She takes all the attentions given her with becoming modesty and never refuses to play unless asked by big, naughty boys’ who, she thinks, want to tease her,,says the Cincinnati Enquirer. Her parents are going to do all they can to place in the hands of their “treasure” Jhe best opportunity and means of a thorough musical elucatlon. Wanted Him to Jump. “The West Philadelphia Philanthropist” Is the name given a courtly and dignified gentleman whose benevolent air, high silk hat and leisurely gait would indicate, what is Indeed the fact, that he has retired from active life and spends most of his time in helping the poor. He was proceeding up a narrow alley not long since and stopped to ob-

serve with his beneficent smile the frisklngs of a crowd of little girls who were jumping the rope while two of them “turned.” After they had gone through all the varieties of “pepper and salt,” “back door and front door,” “guinea pigeon” and the rest, the philanthropist, dropping in a “well done” now and then, became anxious to go on and requested the children In rotund tones to allow him to pass. His fact was a study when the ypung ones turned all the faster, and one called out: “Jump, mister, jump! It’ll do you good!”—Philadelphia Press.

ASKED HIM TO JUMP.