Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1906 — FOR THE CHILDREN [ARTICLE]

FOR THE CHILDREN

How Coral Creator** Rat. In far worse plight than the old womau who “had so many children the didn't know what to do’’ is the caretaker of little coral creatures, who have so many mouths that it is simply impossible to feed them all. This is the case of Custodian Spencer at the aquarium in Battery park. New York There was a time when he tried to give them a meal a day by spearing minute particles of food with the point of a slender stick and offering one of these to every mouth or two of the mass of tenacled openings that make up the surface of the coral rock. But this was speedily found to be too laborious an affair, and now they are fed three times a week witk minute bits of shredded clam or sonictimes oysters strewn through the water uear them. The tiny, filmy tentacles, something like an eighth of an inch long, reach out for these, and when one gets a dinner and his next door neighbor does not (though the dinner grabber gobbles down his bit of clam without any apparent regard for his hungry brother), he nevertheless has a mysterious way of imparting nourishment to him afterward, and it so happens that if a half or even a third of the tiny creatures get a meal the rest of them never go hungry. , • Game of Dancing Bear. A player who doesn't mind going on all fours at times is covered over with a shawl, which, provided he cannot see through it, should otherwise be light. He is the bear, and his keeper leads him about at the end of a rope fastened round his arms and body, but adjusted so as to leave the arms free below the elbow r . The keeper sometimes bums or whistles a tune, to which the beas will dance, but he warns the party that the animal is of uncertain temper and will try to catch some one. This the bear constantly, endeavors to do, the keeper doing his best to prevent him by pulling on the rope. When, however, the' bear succeeds the player caught becomes bear. Kiddles. What is that, if you take away its eye. only leaves its nose? The word no(l)se. Why should turtles be more pitied than any other animal? Because theirs is a very bard caae. Why does a baby boy always get a hearty welcome in a family? Because it never comes a-mlss. Why is a coal miner like a canary? Becuuse he Is brought up in a cage and has to peca for a living. Loyalty. Never permit yourself to comment unfavorably upon a friend. If you have a complaint carry it in person to the individual concerned. Loyalty is the life breath of real friendship, and If there was more loyalty there would be fewer broken friendships. la This Yoot Who owns eight Angers and two thumbs. Yet does not fall, whatever comes. To try to keep the nails so neat That they are like pink rose leaves sweet? Who keeps ten nails a-shining so That half a score of half moons glow? Who keeps all nails so fair and trim That no dark clouds disturb a rim? Who travels up the hills so steep. Though air is keen, though strong winds sweep. Yet keeps the lips so tightly pressed That all the air that seeks the chest No other way to journey knows Than that which lsadeth through the nose? * Who travels over hills and dales, -n Yet never, never, never falls Whene’er the toot Toward ground la put. To let the ball . Upon It fall -S Before the heel shall touch at all? Who thus walka on with graoa and sase? Who thus makes every stop to please? The Democrat soy job work.