Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1902 — What English Boys Read. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

What English Boys Read.

Some, one has been inquiring as to what it is, boys and„girls read nowadays, and the warden of St. Andrew's college, Bradford, answering for his own boys, says the younger boys read Ballantyne and Ilenty, those of the middle fbrm Weyman and Kipling, while the oldest boys concern themselves with Emerson and Carlyle. As to board schools, two boys only at St. Austell have read Scott and Dickens during the last year, while Burton-on-Trent has neglected both these authors, but at Gloucester, where Scott is “very low down in popular favor,” Dickens is first favorite. The girls of Plunistead find Scott and Dickens alike “too long and too dry.”London Globe.

The Australian Boomerang. A piece of cardboard shaped into a crescent, the corners of which are rounded off, should be placed on the tip of the finger, supported between

the nail afitd the finger tip. Then with a vigorous flip of the linger of the right hand at the extremity of the toy it is impelled into the air with a rotating motion. If properly done, the toy will return to its starting point nfter going around in a circle. Not Tommy’s Fault. Mother—There were two apples in the cupboard, Tommy, and now there is only one. How’s that ? Tommy (who sees no way- of escape)—Well, ma, it was so dark in there I didn’t see the other,—Glasgow Evening Times. Foley’* Honey and Tar cores coughs and colds and prevents pneumonia. Take no substitutes. Sold by A. F, Long.

THE WAY TO FLIP IT.