Aberdeen herald. [volume], August 03, 1911, Page THREE, Image 3

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Fun and Poetry
Daddy's Bedtime
O , Crippled Martha
OlOfy ——— Was Made Queen
Of the May
n letter I got today from my brother out in the country," started In
B daddy one twilight, "he told me such a beautiful story about kindness
JL to a crippled child that I made up my mind 1 would tell It to you just as
soon as you were safely in your cribs."
"Whoop!" yelled the children as they raced upstairs, and it wasn't ten min
utes before two small voices began piping down the hall. "All ready, daddy!"
"All this happened," began daddy after he was comfortably fixed in his
big rocking chair between the cribs, "on tills last May day at the school fes
tival arranged in Brother Gordon's town. All the folks worked for a mouth
to got tilings ready. A platform was built in the grove next the schoolhouse:
n big Maypole was put up with a ring at the top, to which were attached dlf
ferent colored ribbons, one for each child, and all the mothers were busy for
days In the kitchen behind locked doors.
"And so it went along to a week before May day, when the most important
thing of all, the choosing of the queen, had to be done, in the little school
house there were many pretty girls, especially one named Amy, who, with her
blue eyes and golden hair, looked more like a small angel than a real child.
"Hut one of the children, Martha, was not pretty at all, and, worse than
that, she had n twisted foot, so she bad to get around on a crutch, and, worse
yet, her parents were so poor that they couldn't take ber to one of the great
hospitals where such wonderful cures are made on criprled boys and girls.
"On the morning of the choosing Amy had a lonp talk with her teacher,
Miss Brown. and when at the first call for names a great shout of 'Amy!' went
up. Miss Hrown made a little speech.
" 'Amy has asked me,' she said, 'to tell you all now she loves you for call
ing for her, but she feels that another little girl deserves to be queen much
more than she does. And Ido too. For In all the school for sweetness of tem
per, for courage under pain and for smiling over troubles there Is no one like
Martha.'
"And the children yelled themselves hoarse, and each one said to the other,
"Why didn't we think of that before?'
"And so Martha was queen, and, do you know, the excitement made her
really pretty, and when the mayor after his speech handed her a pocketbook
that would take her away for the curing of her poor foot you would have
thought the town was crazy."
"That is the best story yet," said Evelyn.
"I think so, too," said Jack.
THOUGHTS ON LIFE.
They ure slaves who (lare not be
In the right with two or three.
—Lowell.
llow small a part of time they
share
That are so wondrous sweet and
fair!
—Waller.
Oh. would I -were a boy again.
When life seemed formed of
sunny years.
And all the heart then knew of
pain
Was wept away in transient
tears!
—Mark Lemon.
To look up and not down,
To look forward and not back,
To look out and not in, and
To lend a hand.
—Edward Everett Hale.
A PRAYER IN RHYME.
These are the gifts I ask of thee.
Spirit serene:
Strength for the daily task.
Courage to face the road.
Good cheer to help me bear the
traveler's load
And. for the hours of rest that
come between.
An inward joy in all things heard
and seen.
These are the sins I fain
Would have thee take away:
Malice and cold disdain.
Hot anger, sullen hate.
Scorn of the lowly, envy of the
great
And discontent that casts a
shadow gray
On all the brightness of the com
mon day.
—Henry van Dyke.
TEMPTATION.
Ah. lie who prayed the prayer of
all mankind
Summed In those few brief
words the mightiest plea
For erring souls before the courts
of heaven-
Save us from being tempted lest
we fall!
—Ilolmes.
Had ths Good*.
it we wuat Is a
night waUiiunu 1 watch, nlert
and ready for the sligutest noise or in
dication of bury: 1 -a, somebody who can
sleep with one e. f Pud both > • u
and is not afraid to tackle f> .. .g.
Ste?
AppU "'-I Bm, »ir. I'll send my
wife arouad
CripDled Martha and
Amy. Who Made Her
Queen of the May
THE MOTHERS OF MEN.
The bravest battle that ever was
fought.
Shall 1 tell yon where and
when?
On the map of the world you'll
tind It not;
'Twas fought by the mothers
of men-
Nay. not with cannon or battle
shot.
With sword or nobler pen;
Nay, not with words of elo
quence fraught
From the mouths of wonder
ful men.
Hut det-p in the walled up moth
er's heart.
A mother that will not yield.
Hut patiently, quietly bears her
part —
To them iu this battlefield.
No marshaled troops nor biv
ouac song.
No tmuuera that gleam or
wave.
But. oh. those battles they last
so long—
From babyhood to the grave.
-Joaquin Miller.
THE campfir:
Did you ever watch the i-nmpiirc
When the wood Inn fallen low.
And the ashes 'gin to whiten
Uomihl the embers' crimson
glow.
With the night sounds all about
you
Making silence doubly sweet.
And a full moon high above you
That the spell may be com
plete?
Did you ever sit there thinking
Mid your pipe's gray, pungent
breath.
While the fire's last feeble flicker
Met a magic glowworm death?
Tell me. were you ever nearer
To the land of heart's desire
Than when you sat there smok
ing
With your feet up to the Ore?
— Hector Donald.
1 1
Those Dear Girl Friends.
Miss Utaplace— I had my pictures
taken last week, and today I got some
of them. They are just as natural as
life. Miss Parcavenue—My, but you
bear up cheerfully under misfortune!
Aren't you going to even bring suit or
anything?— Baltimore American.
Gay When Enemy Is Muzzled.
"Thi-i young foxhound will make no
excellent plaything for my boys."
ABERDEEN, WASHINGTON THURSDAY AUGUST 3, 1911
THE IDEALS OF A BOY
By BYRON WILLIAMS
£
I VERY boy by nn
ture is a bora
hero worshiper
ICarlyle calls at
tent lon to the fact
that hero worship
exists, has exist
cd and will for
_ ever exist unl
s, versally a mo n >.■
I mank in d. 11
i springs early if
3 the human mind
L Who, then. is
I your boy's idea!':
Look into tills: it
makes a differ
ence. Po not ex
poet because the
boy lias be e u
tau gh t from
DRIVING.
books of the
greatness of
Washington and Lincoln and McKin
ley that one of these will be hi"
model. This is too abstract for tin
adolescent mind. What the boy tie
mands and gets is an everyday right
at home ideal, some one he knows
and can Imitate.
Is he imitating the life nnd charao
tor of the upright judge on the bon ti
or the questionable horse jockey down
at the livery stable?
That you may the better understand
this hero worshiping phnse of a boy's
life I will take you back to my own
boyhood, telling you frankly of my
childish aspirations ns awakened by
men whom I worshiped.
First there was Mart Royal. Mart
lived across the road from my home.
He was the delivery man for the local
grocers and drove a pair of rat color
ed bronchos. Mart used to greet me
with. "Hello, kid; come In!" when I
peeped through the crack in the barn
door at him. And one day he lifted
mo up on the high seat of the deliv
ery wagon nnd let me ride two blocks.
When he put me down he told me to
hurry home ns fast as my fat legs
would carry me, and I did so, decid
edly out of brcnth, but from that day
until my mother Interfered a worship
er of Mart Royal.
The prancing of the horses, the gay
trappings of the harness, the rattle of
the "democrat" wagon, all combined to
exhilarate and charm me. And the
day that Mart let me drive up the
lane to the barn—ah, that was Indeed
an Interim of triumph!
Then mother took me in hand and
told me that she and father had other
plans for me. I didn't exactly under
stand at first,
but she managed
somehow, just as
you will when
the time comes,
to win me away
from this, my
first hero.
My nest god
was Bill White,
fisherman and lo
cal no account.
While his wife
took in washing
and scrubbed
and sewed, Rill
Jay about in idle
ness, doggedly
watching his lino
dowu at the mill
pond or up by
the race, lie white's great
was not cour ed op nsH
warmly by the
citizens; hence his willingness to talk
to mo when of an evening I caught
sight of him returning with n great
string of flsh fromjhe rjver.
I not only admired and worshiped
Bill for liis piscatorial prowess, but for
the celerity with which he squirted to
bacco juice. And lie smoked a pipe
that sinelled as ripe as an apple.
By und by I began to get large
enough to discriminate a bit In my
hero worshiping and with mother's
assistance selected a real hero In the
embodiment of n lawyer of the village.
He was a clean representative of the
law—one of those attorneys who do
credit to the profession—and I took
him as my ideal. 1 clung to this man
for years. I don't think he ever
knew it, but 1 watched him closer
even than Ilawkshuw, the detec
tive, would bave
had he been un
der suspicion. I
listened to all
that was said
about him and
all that I could
hear him say as
he stood in the
courtroom or in
the village gro
cery store, and
when he waa
Qlected Judge T
believe 1 was as
pleased as were
members of h 1 s
own family.
Happily the
HYPNOTIZED BY THE 3 U g C was 8
VILLAGE LAWYER. * «?, T F?
diclnt disappoint
me, os did the local sheriff who de
serted his family and ran away with
another man's wife about the time 1
was getting ready to worship him.
Just as a boy Imitates the man who
smokes and the man who chews Just
so he imitates other ohnrueteristics of
the hero ho hns chosen to worship.
When (he mother realizes this she will
keep posted on who the boy is emulat
ing and have something to say regard
ing the selection of his hero.
Her Chance and She Took It.
Wedmore— I made the mistake of
my life last night. I told my wife 1
didn't like her new gowu. Singleton-
And «-he Pared up, eh? tVedmore—
Oh, nr.; It wasn't that. But now she
wants tlio money for another.—Boston
Transcript
THE USEFUL SAFETY PIN.
It Can Be Employed In Many Way*
About the Household.
Not even a hairpin is capable ot so
many uses outside its legitimate office
as the safety pin. Like the hairpin,
the safety pin may be employed to do
what the needle is supposed always to
do on well kept garments—fasten but
tons and catch ripped facings. As :i
button fastener on a garment it has
no rival for thoroughness, though it
might not be well to whisper this fact
to the girls who have not made the
discovery for themselves and who are
apt to find sleight of hand methods in
mending.
But In the closet and wardrobe and
the workbasket the safety pin finds
its greatest usefulness. And right
here why does not some enterprising
manufacturer bring out safety pins
that are line enough to run through
small button eyes? I"or in keeping
buttons of the same kind apart fiotu !
the riffraff of the usual button 1
there is nothing like a safety pin
that is, when the eyes of the buttons
are not too small to let the pin g<;
through them.
Most women have washable waists
and skirts from which the buttons
have to be removed when they are
! sent to the laundry, and a mere safet\
|ilti will keep these together and save
the wild excitement of finding that
1 last button that is sure to disappear
just at the most exasperating mo
: meat.
Ilalf a dozen long, fine safety pins
in the workbasket threaded with but
tous of various kinds, hooks and
eyes anil the like will save trips to
the button bag and preveut nervous
search when one Is in a hurry. Noth
ing will take tlie safety pin's place in
the small traveling sewing receptacle.
A small pin will take on all the but
tons one can possibly need for an ordi
nary trip, and another will hold to
gether the hooks and eyes that may
be required.
For the closet, especially in travel
ing or visiting, n few safety plus will
make themselves very useful. If there
are not tapes on skirts—and there
never are these days—a pin catching
both sides of the skirt together at each
side the front and then these pins
caught on two hooks in the closet will
do better service than the'usual skirt
hanger.
Frock of Green Pongee.
This stunning afternoon frock is
made of reseda green pongee and Is
most attractive when trimmed wltb
silk braid and buttons of the same ma
terial. The beautiful chapeau worn
with the cunu is handmade and con
sists of black lace and willow plumes.
Getting Tobacco Smoke Out of the
Draperies.
Many women who do not In the least
object to the odor of fresh cigar or
even cigarette smoke about the house
find the stale after odor that hangs in
draperies and furnishings Intolerable.
The window of a room where smokers
sit should always be dropped au inch
or two from the top, for the light
smoke rises and is sucked out through
this aperture. When the room has
become permeated with the smoke
from several cigars or cigarettes close
it up tightly and place on the floor a
large tub of cold water in which float
bits of straw pulled from a broom.
The straw and woter for some reason
absorb all the stale odor, and when the
windows are thrown open next morn
ing the air of the room will be fresh
and pure.
The Proper S ; *ed Broom.
A heavy broom should be chosen for
thorough sweeping in preference to a
light one. for the weight adds to the
process. To test a new broom press
the edge against the floor. If the
straws bristle out and bend the broom
Is a poor one and should be rejected.
They should remain In a firm, solid
mass.
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Read the best books first or you mny
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—Thoreau.
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The oldest royal d.vnastry In the
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