Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1913 — For the Children [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

For the Children

A Little Valehtine Girl With a Great Big Heart.

The young lady in the picture surely' has gone to a great deal of trouble with her valentine. Just think what an amount of work and patience were required to fashion sued a large and beautiful heart! She Is evidently pleased with her handiwork. The ex‘ pressiou on her face shows that. Of course she must have made it all by herself! She wouldn’t look so happy otherwise. Wonder who she intends It for? Perhaps for'papa or perhaps for mamma. More likely it is for mother, although It is hard to tell. Anyway, whoever gets it will be overjoyed, for who could help being happy when such a charming little girl remembers them so lovingly on Valentine morning?

Lineoln and .the Boy. Here to a story of Lincoln and the children: When the president was in Springfield, 111., he met a little boy who waa introduced to him and allowed to shake the great man’s hand. Of courae the boy boasted of this honor among his schoolmates, who wouldn’t believe him, making bis llie miserable by their unkind speeches. Young America, however hurt he felt, was not going to be put down by a little thing like that. No, indeed! He sat down and wrote a letter to Lincoln telling him of hto trouble. After awhile be received a letter which is still preserved. It read: Executive Mansion, March. 19, 186 L To Whom It May Concern: I did aee and talk with Master Georg* Evan* Potter last May at Springfield, 111. Respectfully, A. LINCOLN. From that time young George, instead of being laughed at became the envy of the other boys. The part of the story that most interests ns, however, to that Lincoln at this anxious time, amid the thousand things demanding his attention, should have found time to heed the unimportant request of a schoolboy. It shows us that Lincoln hated all injustice, however humble the object of It might be. Lincoln, the Kind Hearted. When Lincoln visited Fortress Monroe in 1863 his attention was called to a narrow door, bound with iron, the use of which he was anxious to learn. “What to It?” he asked. “Oh, that is the sweat box.” was the reply. “It to used for refractory sailors. A man In there to treated to a big dose of steam beat and has very Uttle\ ventilation. It brings him around pretty quickly.” Lincoln, ever merciful, demanded that he be allowed to try the treatment to which thousands of American sailors were subjected yearly. Taking off hto hat—for he was several inches over six feet in height—he entered the incloßure, which he found to be little more than three feet in length or width. At a signal from him the door wss to be opened. It was then closed and the steam turned on. He had been inside hardly three minutes before the signal was given. .President Lincoln had experienced something he had never known bad eclated before. Turning to Secretary Welles of the navy department, be ordered that no such lnclosure as the sweat box should ever be allowed on any vessel flying the American flag. 'Conundrums. Why are bakers the most seif denying people? Because they sell what they knead (need) themselves. What relation to that child to Its own father who to not its own father’s own son? Hto daughter. When does a pig become landed property? When it to turned into a meadow

Making Valentines, f All tb« year we save up things Cut from paper*, heart* and rings, Little boy* called Cupid*, too. And all aorta of flower* will do. Then we take some paper white; And we scallop it Just right > And aero** the top we write Borne nice line that read* ilka this: “TO my sweetheart with a ktoa." Mow we’re ready to begin, j And we paste a Cupid la lAnd perhaps * wreath and dove. With a scroll which say*, “True love" ' / . We pick out from all the rest On* for mother that Id best. - ’ , And we write. "Our hearts are true. Dearest Valentine; to you." * Alice T. Curtis In Youth’* Compete**

Photo by American Press Association.