Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1904 — FOR THE CHILDREN [ARTICLE]

FOR THE CHILDREN

Porto RSeo Batter Bor. • Every morning the people of the large towns of Porto Rico are awakened by little merchants crying, "Batter, butter of the country!” These are the butter boys, who go trotting In each morning, as soon as the tropical dawn begins, to sell the native batter which has been made by their mothers the day before. Each little merchant carries a plate on his head, balancing it expertly, like a juggler, and never bothering to steady it with hi* hand, whether he Is running or making change. The plate contains about fifty or sixty “pats” of the stuff. It isn’t very good, although It seems delicious to the Porto Ricans, because their climate is not adapted for keeping butter well, so they are accustomed to an article that would seem rancid and strong to the tackier persons in the north. The “pats” are very small, weighing less than an ounce each, and they sell for about a cent The customers of the butter boys usuafty buy Just enough to serve for one meal The butter boysf mothers don’t make this batter in a churn. They merely shake milk or cream in a big jar til! It is fairly solid. Then they put in tots of salt and send it to town.

■ »i — Bade BeUev-e It Wm a Bee. Lady Henry Somerset one day visited a hospital and saw a little crippled boy. The doctors were changing the plaster cast 00 his crippled limb, an operation which the anrgoans said was extremely painful. Yet the brave little fellow kept perfectly still, without wincing or making any noise except a queer low buzzing sound with his mouth. After the doctors left. Lady Somerset asked him how be could possibly stand it "That's nothin'," he answered. “Why, I just made betiwe that a bee was stlngln' me. Bees don’t hurt very much, you know, and I kept buzzin’ because I was afraid I'd forget about it's being a bee If I didn’t" The little fellow's courage Impressed Lady Henry wonderfully, and from that time on she became devoted to children—especially sick and crippled ones. Tbe BmpuAfnl Bor. An exchange gives the following Instance of a lad’s politeness; such thoughtfulness for others by young people is a most winning trait of character; An old man entered a railroad car and was looking for a seat when a boy ten or twelve years of age rose up and said: “Take my seat sir." Tbe offer was accepted, and the Infirm old man sat down. "Why did you gfee me yonf seat?” he inquired of tfaß boy. "Because you are old, sir, and I am a boy,” was the reply. A hundred years ago there . would have been little need to record as remarkable a similar Incident. Among things that are good or hopeful In a rising generation there Is one great change for the manifest to everybody—a declining reverence toward age and toward God. Tbe ChiUwa of the Otar. trim children of the Russian czar are being physically educated on the English plan, their royal mother being much tn favor of English Ideas. The little ones wear Short socks, exposing the leg, and rather short sleeves both winter and summer, tha idea being to habituate them to changes of temperature. Their study hours ore short and touch time ts given to play. The two oldest speak English. To Bcmm Vni States. Linens that hare been stained by tea or coffee may be cleansed by moistening the spote wtfh water and holding them over the fames of a small piece of burning sulphur or a few sulphur matches. Wash Immediately with water tn which a little ammonia of soda has been dissolved. Stains that nothing else will remove are often taken out by tha vapor arising from horning sulphur, hut the material mast he washed thoroughly at oaoa.