Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1904 — FOR THE CHILDREN [ARTICLE]

FOR THE CHILDREN

Hidden Trlrgnma. In this guine you ure to imagine you have a distant friend with whom you have an understanding about an expected message. It might be that there are two or three contestants for a certain prize or honor. The name of one might be Jenkins, that of another Harrison and that of the third Sheldon. Suppose Jenkins is the successful contestant and that you wish to telegraph to your friend simply the name of Jenkins. However, you wish to conceal the message as much as possible, so the understanding is that the first letters of the words you telegraph will spell the name. With this explanation each player sets to work to write a clever sentence in which the first letters will spell Jenkins. The various players may get sentences like this: Judge Engles never knew I noticed Sally. Julia's elbow next knocked Irish Norah silly. Jack expects no kiss in Nova Scotia. Jam ekting nearly killed Ikey Natham Saturday. It is impossible that there will be any two alike, and the game is to see who can write the cleverest. The telegrams are read aloud, and the players vote to see whose is best. The sn( on the Bookshelf. The owner of one of the pews in a country church discovered one Sunday that a robins’ nest had been begun on the shelf occupied by the books, actually tucked between the angle formed by two prayer books. He did not disturb the robins’ preparations, but waited with some curiosity to see whether the nest would be completed. Sure enough! The following Sunday the nest was not only finished, but there were five little eggs in it. The birds themselves waited on the sill of a nearby window during the entire service, seeming not a bit embarrassed at the crowd of people aronnd their borne. The following Sunday the robin did not even leave the nest, but remained guarding the eggs all during church time. The nest was not disturbed, and in due time the baby robins grew up and at last left their early home and saintly surroundings.—Philadelphia Ledger. Jefferson's Ten Rates. Thomas Jefferson, who framed the Declaration of Independence and was the third president of the United States, also thought out these ten rules, which every girl and boy would do well to remember and practice: Never put off until tomorrow, what you can do today. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.

Never spend money before you have earned it. * Never buy wbat you don’t want because it is cheap. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold. We seldom repent having eaten too little. Nothing Ls troublesome that we do willingly. How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened! When angry, count ten before you speak. If very angry, count a hundred. The Celestial Schoolboy. * Each Chinese schoolboy must furnish his own stool and table, the ink well, a cake of india ink, a brush for writing and paper.* With these be begins bis weary task of learning ts write and read the thousands of Chinese characters. These are to open the way to the Chinese classics, and a knowledge of this ancient literature and wisdom means education to the Chinese. At the opening of a Chinese school a paper on which is written the name of Confucius ls pasted on the wall. Before this honored name the pupils and teachers burn paper money and Joss sticks and bow their heads three times to the floor. The teacher then tells Confucius the day, the month and the year when the school is opened and begs for his favor. Every morning when the pupils arrive they must bow twice, once for the teacher and once for Confucius. What Do Ton Think of Ned’s Exmwl “Mamma, Ned took my piece of cake.” “Why, Ned!” “Well, mother, she was quarreling with Bob about it, and you told me always to take her part when she was in trouble.” A sad Frotfgie Tale. A naughty young froggie who lived in a pond v “ “ Wandered off. one spring day, In the meadows beyond. Disobeying, bad child, both his father and mother, Who had bidden him stay with his wee baby brother While they went to call and take afternoon tea With their friend. Lady Toad, in the old hollow tree. And when they were feasting on butterfly wings And gnats and bluebottles and such dainty things. Their servant, a beetle, came tn a great fright To say that the froglet had vanished from sight. Just picture the grief of the father and mother And the punishment waiting the bad {Toggle brother! Their neighbor, the water rat, stood at his door And told how h* saw a duck swim from ths shore; How quickly she gobbled the poor little out# Before he oould Jump or give one crook _ fff trtefcl

Oh, there’s suffering In Btore for the truant, 'tis certain— But before that sad scene we will let down the curtain.