Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1901 — FOR THE LITTLE ONES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR THE LITTLE ONES.

A Kitten That Had a Jolly Good Time In the Snow. Perhaps it will be interesting to our little folks to hear the story of Katura, a seven-month-old kitten that during the first snowfall es the winter was found collecting snow into heap-- and then rolling it into balls. We supposed this to be a freak simp . ,nd, though we watched her t .;g and scrambling in the son ur,... we supposed that the next eno. ' would find her forgetful or indifferent. But, to our surprise, at the next storm of the kind we found her at a still more animated game. Standing near a fence, with gleaming eyes and waving tail, she watched the flakes fall. Finding that they fell from a height, she stood upon her toes and, holding up her paws eagerly, looked into them, tossing up the supposed contents. Her excitement increased each moment, and, hoping to bring herself nearer to the sourse of the fairy, feathery things, she mounted a flower box, and, rearing her little lithe body, she continued to catch and toss, catch and toss, until she grew wild with excitement. Then, leaping down to the walk, she once more gathered and rolled the woolly stuff into balls, scattering them hither and thither, every line of her body expressing the most perfect, gracious action. This is surely an exceptional case, knowing, as we do, that the feline race has a decided antipathy to getting its feet and paws wet. —Pniladelphia Ledger. It Fools the Eye. You cannbt always be sure a thing is so because it looks as if it were. First impressions are not always correct. You would think that the

long lines in-this picture were not exactly parallel, and yet they are. The deception is brought about by the short crisscross lines.—American Boy.

THE CRISSCROSS LINES DO IT.