Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1901 — FOR THE LITTLE ONES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR THE LITTLE ONES.

Johnny’s Composition on the Beaver end Other Things. The beaver is an animal with] sharp teeth and a tail like a large I omelet. It inhabits watery places and is very fond of its young, of which it usually has several. The beaver is very industrious and acquires great skill in the use of its tail, with which it plasters its dwellings. The way a beaver operates is as follows: It selects a large tree growing on the banks of a brook or some similar stream and then gnaws the tree till it falls across the stream, thus forming a dam. It is not wrong to say dam when you are speaking of beavers. We should never indulge in profane swearing if we can avoid it. We should eve? remember the lessons we learned at the knee of our dear parents when we were little, but a beaver dam is far different. When my grandfather was a boy, he went to school where there was nothing but prairie, and the boys whispered because the teacher could not find any switches and had a boil on his hand. One day the teacher took- a dried beaver’s tail out of his desk and spanked the whole school with it, and it didn’t leave a mark on the beaver’s tail, but there never wa3 any more whispering. My grandfather, is blind in one eye, but his memory is good. The beaver is becoming very scarce, and you have to go to the Field museum to see one now.—Johnny in Chicago Record. _ A Young Hero. When the water was high over its banks in Brush creek, near Deshler, 0., July 5, nearly all the boys in town went to the creek to take a swim. One of the bovs, James Spangler, was pulled unJer by the current. Frank Michael, a boy of thirteen, made a dive after him from a bridge, bringing the drowning boy to the surface. Then a

struggle for life began. Spangler, being about twice as heavy as Michael, dragged his rescuer under the water. In some way the latter got away from the drowning boy’s grasp and caught hold of an iron rod that was a part of the bridge’s support. By this he managed to keep himself and Spangler from going down again until men came to their assistance. It is reported that young Michael also saved the life of another boy in June.

Hanging Baskets For Children. A great many of the little girls and boys who live in towns have no garden at all and perhaps not even a window box in which to grow a few pretty flowers. Many of them would enjoy growing flowers of their own. If they will follow these directions, they may cultivate a very pretty hanging basket. Let them ask the greengrocer for a carrot from which the top foliage has not been cut away. Cut away the carrot, leaving only about a couple of inches at the end where it joins the fern. Seoup out- the inside of this short piece of carrot and pour a little water into it. Then hang up this little bowl, still leaving the foliage upon it. At first the fern will appear to be growing upside down, but after a time it will grow upward in the right direction. Fill the hollow part with water from L.\e to time, as the water dries up, and occasionally place the carrot enl in a different position, for the sile nearest the window will grow thicler and quicker than that which hafßcss light.

Girls and Boya. Japaneß girls and boys are as clever as with their bouncing keeping them going they Hy at posture dancing, ►pinning clapping their bands, a fan over and under the bull, it on the backs of their and guiding it round the the road at will. They pretty pictures for a The ledger and kites aro much as those commonly seen in Youngsters huve They gum powder glass st rings and try to cut each free.

FRANK MICHAEL.