Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1910 — For the Children [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

For the Children

Cornelia*. Curia. Cornelia hasn’t many toys. Although she’s very good— No toys to lend, to others, though She’d like to- if she could. The other children come to school With little things to show, With candies, which they give away To children that they know. Cornelia hasn’t anything Like other little girls Except—and. oh, she’s glad of this— The sweetest golden curls! In rings and twists and twines and twirls They fall, a soft cascade, A sight to thrill the little girls ' Who only have a braid. The children love Cornelia, and! They love her golden hair. And she has found that here at last -Is-something she can share. For when a child, is sad at school Cornelia whispers. “There, Don’t cry, and I will let you play A minute with my hair.” She throws her hair back on the desk, And, oh, what fun to play With those soft, twisting golden curls That drive the tears away.!. Cornelia hasn’t many toys Like other little girls, But that will never trouble her While she can lend her curls. —Philadelphia Record. A Little Maid’s Guess. A certain wise little woman 8 years old has two brothers, with whom she

trlous Mt builds its. DQSts fn straight lines directly north and south and enables one to easily determine the direction without the aid of instruments or watching the sun. Nulling It Fast. Once when I was a little school-girl, a visitor said something in a speech he made to us which I shall never forget. “Suppose,” said he, “ydu were building a house, and instead of putting the shingles and weatherboards on with nails, you fastened them in place with tacks. It would be a foolish way to work would it not? For the first high wind would send them off in all direc tions. “None of you would do so silly a thing as that, lam sure. But how are you doing your school work day by day? Are you just tacking the lessons on so they will stay long enough tor the recitation and then drop off your memory, or are you nailing them fast, so that they will stay on for life and become a good, sound part of your education ?”—-King’s Own.