Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1911 — For the Children [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

For the Children

Princess Juliana, Heir to the Throne of Holland.

The charming little lady shown In the illustration is Princess Juliana, only child of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, or Holland, as it is often called. 1 The father of the princess is Henry, prince of the Netherlands and duke of Mecklenburg. Queen Wilhelmina succeeded her father. King William 111., in 1800, when she was but ten years old, her mother acting as regent until the young queen reached the age of eighteen. Princess Juliana was bom April 30, 1909. She is heir apparent to the throne and may some day reign as queen.

Tho Parrot Scolded. If parrots seem ill nntured it is not always their fault They say ill natural things, but they say nothing that has not been taught to them. So Mrs. Watkins’ parrot must not be blamed for speaking ill naturedly to the burglar. The burglar got in Mrs. Watkins’ house one night and was trying to steal something or other that Mrs. Watkins would have preferred to keep, and in looking around the boose he woke up the parrot You know bow grumpy you feel if you are awakened before yon have had enough sleep. It was just the same way with the parrot, and she scolded the burglar. She told him that he was a bad man and that he must get out. and the burglar, who did not know that it was a bird that was talking to him. got out as quickly as he could. He probably thought that he had been visiting a ghost

A Doughnut Twice Cooked. They had a fire in the window of a bakery in Boston. It started in an overheated doughnut—in the rim probably and not In the hole The doughnut was a large affair, as much as a hungry small boy could eat in two seconds, and over it was a large mag nifylng glass, so that the small boy, if he should come along, would not bite off more than he could chew. He did not have a chance to try, because the sun got around to the window and shone through the magnifying glass on the doughnut, and pretty soon the doughnut got so hot that It burned. You know how such things happen, because you have probably burned yonr hands with magnifying glasses, but you did not have to have the fire department come to pat oat the blaze.

Some Odd Names. Vereshchagin, painter of the celebrated picture “The Russian Feast.** had a puzzling cognomen. His own pronunciation of his name is Vert-shah-gin, second syllable accented. Munkacsy. the Hungarian painter of the well known picture “Christ Before Pilate," pronounces his name Moon-kotch-e. second syllable accented. Mr. Gladstone, who was prime minister of England, pronounced his name Glad-stnn, first syllable accented. Mr. Carnegie pronounces his name Car-na-gy, second syllable accented. A Queer Little Animal. In Chile there lives underground like the mole a queer little animal with a long name, chlamyphorus, which really means armor bearing. Its fore feet are adapted for digging. The whole upper and hinder parts of the body are covered with a coat of mail made up of a series of square plates. The peculiar tail is protected by small scales, but the under parts of the body and legs are covered with soft hair.

Origin of an Old Rhyme. “Humpty Dumpty” was a bold, bad baron wbo lived in the days of King John, committing many cruel deeds in his strong stone castle, bnt at last was tumbled from power. His history was pnt into a riddle the meaning of which w.is an egg. The rhyme is more than 400 years old. The Gift. Fate save a chit 1 these letters four With which his lot to spell: O-H-E-R, no less, no more. The mystic letters felL -) The boy received them with a frown. a "Give me that hoe,” he said. “Fate dooms me for a drudging clown I’* For H-O-E-R he read. “Fate’s fault!” they cried. Fate smiled serene. "Why blame me for his hoe? With wiser eyes he might have seen And spelled H-E-R-O!^’ * —Youth's Companion-