Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1901 — FOR THE LITTLE ONES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR THE LITTLE ONES.

Queer Playhouse That Belong* to Some Detroit Children. The children that lived in the shoe didn’t know what fun was. That’s what the children that live in a bottle in Detroit think. There was the “old woman” to be reckoned with in the shoe, but G. Jay Vinton’s youngsters can get both fists full of jam in the pantry and then duck into a haven of refuge in their huge bottle and have it all to themselves. The bottle came in sections to the Vinton yard at 83 Stimson place

from Omaha, where it was once on exhibition in the Transmississippi exposition. It is made of wood. At Omaha it did double work as advertising agent for the firm whose goods it represented and as a candy booth. It was shipped back to Mr. Vinton, who built it, to be smashed up for firewood. But the ever alert young Vintons heard of it, and then they pleaded until he promised them the bottle for a playhouse. Though a ten foot section of the neck was left out and another section from the bottom, the cork is still high enough so that when the little fellows wake up they can see the cork of their playhouse through their second floor windows. The bottle has a door large enough for them to enter, though the children, are sure there would be more fun in crawling in and out where the cork fits in the neck. At least ten small children can get into the bottle and imagine to their hearts’ content that they are sirup and pickles and everything else that they can’t have much of.— Detroit Journal.

Young Clockmakcrs. Atlanta, Ga., boasts of some ingenious and ambitious boys since two lads of that place, the older but fourteen and the younger eleven, have designed and constructed a clock that is a wonder of painstaking work. It contains over 300 pieces of wood, all of them cut from hoards with a small foot power scroll saw and afterward sandpapered and put together with screws and mucilage. The clock represents a cathedral, from the dome of which a bell peals forth the hours of the day. Inside the building the columns and statuary of a cathedral are reproduced in wood. The clock is fifty-one inches high and twenty-one inches wide at the base, and the contrast in colors is decidedly pretty, the wood used being maple, white holly and walnut. The figures on the dial were cut from walnut with a pocketknife and look attractive on the white holly. Notwithstanding the simplicity of the tools used, the boys have succeeded in producing a timepiece of which they may be justly proud.— American Boy.

Was Moses a Cowboy? Fred heard his father talking about a cattle stampede in the west, where the cowboys were caught in the great rush and some of them trampled to death. After a minute or two of profound thought he said: “Papa, was Moses a cowboy?” “No, Fred. Why do you ask?” “Well, I’ve always heard of him as being in the bulrushes!”

PLAYHOUSE IN A BOTTLE.