Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1901 — FOR THE LITTLE ONES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR THE LITTLE ONES.

The Pretty Playthings That Mary Made Out of “Stickers. 1 * Little Mary is the happiest of children usually, but qne day her Auntie Joy found her looking almost doleful. “I’m tired of everything I’ve got to play with,” said Mary. “I wish I had some new playthings—some playthings that nobody had ever thought of before.” “I don’t believe there are any playthings like that,” said Auntie Joy smiling, “but come with me and I’ll show you how to play with some playthings that used to make me very happy when I was a little girl, but that I never see any little children playing with now.” Bv the time Mary had found her hat Auntie Joy was ready with two paper bags from the kitchen. They went out to the empty lot near the house and Auntie Joy told Mary to be careful. “We shall like the playthings we are after much better in our hags than clinging to our skirts,” she said, laughing. So they filled the two bags with the “stickers” which Mary had always hated before and went back to the veranda. And here Auntie Joy poured the “stickers” out on a big paper and showed Mary how to make them into doll’s furniture. Mary enjoyed the play so much that it was supper time long before she expected it. “I haven’t had such a good time this summer,” she told Auntie Joy as they went into the house together. And if any of Jane Jerome’s little girls want to make doll’s furniture out of “stickers” all they have to do is to stick the “stickers” together in any shape they want them. And the bovs, who don’t care about •doll’- furniture, may make pretty baskets in the same wav.

Pet Eagles. There are a few cases in which eagles have been made pets, so that we may suppose that if the birds were commoner they could be tamed at least as easily as bears. An imperial eagle taken from the nest accepted caresses, answered to a call and did not fly away when at liberty. At Alva there used to be an eagle kept on a chain, which shows, perhaps, that it could not be trusted to roam about the Oehils. A golden eagle, caught when fully grown, was successfully domesticated, hut its wings were cut when it was first taken and so it had time to get accustomed to its new home and new life. Sometimes it went off for two or three weeks, but always came back. It was fed on crows, shot for it. Whenever it attempted to seize a crow on its own account it always failed. Jim being much too artful a dodger.

Rhyme of the Presidents. First stands the lofty Washington, That noble, gnat, immortal one. The eld« r Ada ins next we see, And Jefferson makes the number three. Then Madison is fourth, you know. The fifth one on the list, Monroe. The sixth, and Adams comes again, With Jackson seventh in the train. Van Buren, eighth, falls into line, And Harrison makes number nine. The tenth is Tyler in his turn, And Polk, eleventh, as we learn. The twelfth is Taylor in rotation, Fillmore, thirteenth, in succession. Fourteenth, Pierce has l>een selected; Buchanan, fifteenth, is elected. p As sixteenth Lincoln rules the nation. And Johnson, seventeenth, fills his station. The eighteenth, then, is Grant, you know. And, nineteenth, Hayes from Ohio. Then comes another Buckeye son, Garfield, the loved and martyred one. Whose term was filled by Arthur through, % hen Cleveland comes as twenty-two. Then Harrison as twenty-third. When Cleveland once again is heard. As twenty-fifth, McKinley great. Who, too, has shared the martyr's fate, And, though the deepest grief is felt. We hail the gallant Roosevelt.

Mamie and the Verse. “Mamie,” said the father, “run out and play; there is something I wish to tell your mother.” “Well, papa,” answered Miss Mamie, “my verse at school today said, ‘He that hath ears, let him hear!’ so I think I ought to stay and hear what you are going to say.” Playing Barber Shop.

Tom liia tli* wisaora, and TkT« hi • chair; Tommy ia playin* cut Ted’a curly hair. "What atyK nirY" aaya Tommy, preparing to lop; “Like papa’t,” saya Teddy—"a hqie at the top.” —llarrtot Brewer Btcrlinf In St. Nicholas