Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1911 — FOR THE CHILDREN [ARTICLE]

FOR THE CHILDREN

Table Rules For Little Folks. In silence 1 must take my seat And give God thanks before 1 eat. Must for my food in patience wait Till 1 am asked to hand my plate. I must not scoldMnor whine nor pout Nor move my chair or plate about. With knife or fork or anything I must not play, nor must 1 sing I must not speak a useless word. For children should be seen, not heard. I must not talk about my food Nor tret if 1 don t think it good. I must not say, “The bread is old. The tea is hot, the coffee’s cold.” I must not cry for this or that Nor murmur if my meat is fat. My mouth with food I must not crowd Nor while I'm eating speak aloud. Must turn my head to cough or sneeze And when I ask say. "If you please.” The tablecloth I must not spoil Nor with my food my fingers soil. .Must keep my seat when I have done Nor round the table sport or run. When told to rise then I must put My chair away with noiseless foot And lift my peart to God above In praise for all his wondrous love. A Brave Mother Rat. A cat that lives at one of the pojice stations in New York city went nosing about in the basement and found a nest full of baby ruts. She started in to eat them. but the mother rat came out of the dark and jumped at the intruder. There was a little fight, and then the ent backed out. She went □pstairs and got another ent. nnd rhe two went down to the basement. It needed more than two cats, though The rat beat off both her enemies and followed them upstairs and out into the street. Somel>ody set a dog into the fight, hut the. dog got tired after he had been bitten a few times, and he gave up the fight, tike the cats. vThe rat was victorious, but she had been hurt so much in the battle that a poBeeman shot her to put her out of pain, and then the baby rats, of •course, had to be drowned. The Bluebird. There is an old Indian legend that the bluebird was a piece of the sky which came down to live on earth. It surely looks as if this were true, for his head. back, wings and tail have the lovely blue color .Of the spring sky on a sunny day. Though be is now really a bird of the earth, the bluebird seems to enjoy getting back as near the sky as he can, and we often hear his call come floating down when he is so far above as to be out of sight. The bluebird is not entirely blue. Indeed, be is said to be the most patriotic of birds, for his colors are red. white and blue. With the blue above and with a red breast and white underneath, the little fellow surely seems to be doing his best to display our nation’s colors. The soft warble of the bluebird is one of the most deHghtful signs ot spring. Glass Sandpaper. “There is no sand in sandpaper.” said the manufacturer. “It is a powdered .glass that does the business. That’s where the broken bottles go.” He. nodded toward a pile of broken bottles in the yard. “We powder the glass into half a dozen different grades.” be said. “We coat our paper with an even layer of hot glue. Then, without loss of time, we spread over the glass powder. Finally we run a wooden roller lightly over the sheets to give them a good surface. When, in the past, sandpaper was made of sand it wouldn’t do a quarter of the work glass paper does.” Conundrums. Why is a baby tike wheat? Because it is first cradled, then thrashed and finally becomes the flower of the family. What is that which is sometimes with a bead, without a bead, with a tail and without a tail? A wig. When are tailors and house agents both in the same business? When they gather the rents. J Why are the tallesV-pebple the laziest? Because they are always longer In bed than others. What class ot women are apt to give tone to society? The belies (beUsi. t The French Scholars. According to a recent college professor. three French boys were studying “Hamlet” and their task was to render the soliloquy “To be or not to be” from French into English. This is what the professor read on the three respective papers: “To was dr not to am.” “To were or is to not” “To should or not to will.” Now you. my friends who study French, can say to them “It serves you right” About the Sloth. A sloth will feed on the leaves, buds and young shoots of a single tree without once descending from the branches so long as food lasts, though sometimes it will pass from one tree to another if it can do so without going to the ground, instead of walking on the branches it swings beneath them with its back downward, its coarse, .shaggy hair looks like grass withered in the sun and gives it such an appearance that It cannot be readily seen except when in’motion. The Civil War. The dates officially recognized as the beginning and the end of the civil war are Jan. 9. 1861. when the United States steamship Star of the West was fired on by state troops in Charleston harbor, and April 3. 1866, when the president proclaimed the rebellion at an end.