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Children....
A BATH.
When I wa jut little chiM,
Hei'ore I went to sleep
I alway took my evening bath
I liked it "prttty deep."
Sometime I di'ln't want to go,
An J sometime there were tears;
Hut mother never fulled to mv;
'Sow waah l2hiud your earn,
Ami rion't neplect the comers." or
"Don't Kpltuwi too hard!" she'd cry;
Yet she wim quid; to help me '"
When soup got iu my eye. i
And now that I'm n great big boy,
I wonder every day
Where other mother learn the things
My mother uff.l to say.
.-Allien Arthur Knipe, in St. Nicholas.
CONUNDRUMS.
When is a cigar like dried beef?
Ans. When smoked.
Why does a horse cat In a very odd
way? Ans. Because he eats best
when he has not a bit fn his mouth
If a tough beefsteak could speak
' what English poet would It mention?
A.ns. Chaucer "chaw, sir". Wash
Ing Star.
NO CLAIM.
Kenneth's Aunty was teasing him
This is my rug," she would say:
"this Is my mother," etc. Kenneth
would reply, "No, It's mine." Then
he turned the table3 and began claim
ing some of aunty's possessions,
which she; In turn, denied. Finally
he pointed to aunty's best man, who
hadn't proposed yet. "This Is my
man, he said. But aunty was silent
Philadelphia Record.
KIND TO ANIMALS.
irwiH b naotner had been very
. careful to teach him to be very kind
fcto animals. One day he came run
ning In to his mother, exclaiming
ea?erly, "Oh, mother, I'm sure you
will like the little girl who's moved
In next door. She such a nice little
girl, mother, and so kind to animals
"She looks like a nice little girl,"
ald Erwin's mother, "and I think I
shall like hpr. But how Is she kind
to animals?"
''Well." exclaimed Erwln, "we had
some chestnuts Just now, and she
found a worm In one, and she
didn't eat It:" Philadelphia Rec.
Al.
FREDDIE'S IMPRESSION.
This little boy, attending Sunday
school for the first time, was greatly
Impressed by the teacher and the
larger boys of the class. On return
Ing home his mother questioned him
In regard to what was said and what
he must learn for his next lesson.
The child, In a frank, open way, re
plied: "Oh, mamma, ,A was all
about God and love, and a lady
tamed Eve, and how she gave an ap
ple to a man called Adam, who nev
er save her a bit." The mother, to
lead him on, Bald: "Who was Eve?"
Why, mamma, she was Mrs. Eve
Adam, a friend of God's, who kept
louse la a garden." Philadelphia
T.ecerd.
WORKING IN A POSTOFFICE.
As I work as special delivery boy
la the postofflce, I thought you would
like to learn about It. Sly duty is to
deliver special delivery letters and
ort papers. Every day there are
letters without proper addresses.
Creat care should be taken la writ
leg addresses plainly and putting
Jour name and address in the corner.
JHllIons of letters go to the Dead
Letter Office yearly on account of
lack of plain addresses. At Christ
inas time there was a general rush at
the postofice. Thousands of post
cards came dally, with about two
hundred packages. I stuck on about
$10 worth of stamps every day. The
money order' system Is a good way of
sending money, and all Valuables
should be sent by registered mall.
Clarence Randall, lu the) New York
Tribune.
STOPS RUNAWAY.
Hazel McMuIlen is a good horse
woman, and to that fact, probably,
several people owe their lives. As
driving Is one of her chief pleasures,
her father recently presented her
lth a spirited horse, which unfor
tunately took occasion to demon
strata Its splrltedness one day when
Its young mistress had taken a friend
to drive.
Hade the occasion additionally inop
! fortune. The principal street ot the
town was full of people, and a nuni-
fc"r of molfr cars stood tide by side,
w"'a bartiv ciKiiiRh room between
"'era tor .itvdiioV to puss. That the
flri driver vuiili'd her runaway bo-
1 cars, without a
tit luH'iiiiK down
:t'.c!ei:t proof of
d A.
s s
: a VI! n I ho;
u i .y bri'li'.
: ' ! ..t f th.-y r,
I ..: My .m.;i si
t tl.:-
', and
iK'l',1',1
Ii .-ill,
1 !. i' fu-:.,d. Ki:.'il-
ins down and puttlns all her strength
Into the effort, she pulled the horse
against a heavy truck which had
halted by the roadside. Tlio ahoc'.c
of the sudden halt threw her out, but
without lujury. Bee Hive.
RAGS AND NIGER.
I thought you would Hke to hear
about my coon cat. Perhaps you
don't know what a coon cat Is. Ours
Is yellow and his hair la about four
Inches long all over' his body. The
hair on his legs looks like little pant
aloons and the hair around his neck
Is Just like a muff. Wo have got an
old black cat, too, and we call him
Niger, and the coon cat's name is
Rags. Perhaps you think Rags a
funny name, but when we first got
him he had been among the burdocks
and got his fur stuck full of them.
We had to cut big spots of his hair
off, so that Is the reason we called
him Rags. We have an old rocking
chair and nn old Morris chair. The
rocking chair Is Rags' and the Mor
ris chair is Niger's. Each lies In his
own chair in the daytime, but at
night they both He in one chair.
Where I live coon cats are very com
mon, but they are beautiful. Cath
erine Vlckery, in the New York Trl
bunt).
THE LITTLE PLANT.
Ilester'B mother had been making
a flower garden on the sunny side of
the house, Just where all flower gar
dens ought to be. There were packets
of poppy seeds, bachelor-buttons and
yellow daisies to be planted. Mother
had told Hester how the spring rains
had prepared the ground, and how
the sun would keep the little seeds
warm until they sprouted and thrust
their pale green heads up through
the black earth, to grow and grow
Into beautiful plants, as told by Ber
tha B. Stavert, In the Children's Mag
azine. Hester begged a few seeds and a
place In the garden for her own flow
er bed: and mother lovingly watched
her little girl a3 she raked the soft
dirt and patted It with her little fat
hands to make it ready for the seeds.
Hester thought It most as much fun
as making mud pies, to dig the shal
low trenches, which, alas, were not
very straight, and sprinkle the tiny
seeds in them. It did not seem to
matter a bit. to her that two or three
sunflower seeds happened to fall Into
the poppy row. Fancy the great vel
vety stalks of the sturdy sunflower
growing beside the slender, falry-llko
popi le
Er ty morning for several days
aft?;- the planting Hester would hur
ry around to the side ot the house
and search her garden for the first
sign . ot a tender green shoot. It
seemed to the anxious gardener as
if the seeds would never sprout;.. One
day the fat little fingers dug 'down
Into the soft, warm earth and pulled
out a poor baby plant that was al
most ready to com.9 out of the
round.
"Oh, oh! See what you havo
done!" cried the little plant. "Boo
it's cold out here! Put me back in
my warm bed, naughty child, or I'll
freeze to death!"
Hester was so frightened that she
made a round hole with her chubby
thumb and stuck the baby plant into
It in a hurry. All day long she
seemed to hear the tender sprout cry
ing with the cold, and when she went
to bed at night she dreamed that the
Dew Fairies were hushing and caring
for the plant baby Just as mother
cared for little sister. Hester knew
that Dew Fairies were real, because
she had felt them kiss her yellow
curls when she played out too long
after ta,a.
Next morning wnen bub went out
to the garden mother was there be
fore her.
"Come, aee all the little green
heads peeping out of the ground,"
called mother. "But here is a poor
littl tlant that someone has dls
iuihea. 21 looks very weak and pale.
nd If Jt if" I ani afraid it will be
a little iV.l"
Hester's chla quivered and great
big tears splashi down the front ot
her clean frock.
Oh, you dear little plant DaDy,-
she cried. "I didn't mean to nurt
you, and I'll take good care of you
every day if you will only live and
ilflase not be a cripple."
Then Hester's mother, who knew
what a temptation it had been to sea
how the flowers were growing, took
her little girl In her arms and gently
told he that the earth children must
not interfere with Nature's work,
that they must help, to make the
world bruutlful and not destroy' the
lovely living things.
The plant buby lived, becaus ot
Poster's car?; and perhaps the Dew
rniriog lad something to do with it
t .t At any rate, It kept on growing
i::id genius stronger fSfry dny-tft;
. t ile Of Us crooked stalk, . u 'ft :1 it,
burs? into bloom and was locded WlU'
tottlous red popple-'- ': . .' ' -
OVERCOME.
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Cartoon by
NOTED EDUCATOR URGES COLLEGE GIRLS TO FLIRT,
Adds Spice to Study, Professor Palmer, o! Harvard, ThlnksGIvcs Proper
Knowledge ot Social Life-Warns Radclllfe Girls Too Much Time
Given Up to Books Jiusl Be Made Up by Hard Flirting Afterward.
Boston, Mass. Professor George
Herbert Palmer, of Harvard, sixty
seven years old, twice wed and re
ported to be contemplating a third
venture In matrimony, his next bride
to be a Wellesley professor, has come
forward with the statement that a lit
tle flirting, properly conducted, of
course, Is not only advisable, but
even imperative, for the average col
lege boy and girl.
"Flirting Is the surest road toward
the proper knowledge of social life,"
bays the professor, who has the dis
tinction of being the oldest member
of he Harvard faculty, and whose
second wife, Alice Freeman Palmer,
was president of Wellesley College
from 1881 to 1887.
"I think the girls of Radcliffe and
the boys of Harvard devote too much
of their time to study. They actually
bury themselves In their books, and
the result Is that when they get
through college they don't know a
thing about social life.
"They should mingle a little frivol
ity with their studies In other
words, they should flirt a little. Were
I to advise the boys of Harvard or
the girls of Radcliffe, I would tell
them to go around and see things
more than they do. v
"I am always reminded of a girl
graduate of Radcliffe, who studied so
hard that she got the reputation of
being over-studious. She never went
anywhere. While the other girls
RADCLIFFE GIRLS ARE
Dean Colea Won't Discuss Profennor Palmer's Advice, II ut Swoops
Down on Young Couple Who Try It."
Boston, Mass. "Flirt by all means.
A little flirting now and then Is good
for oneK and If done In the proper
way is absolutely harmless" advice
of Professor George Herbert Palmer
to RadcllfTe girls.
Miss Coles, the dean of RadcllfTe,
was asked her opinion of this advice
from the oldest member of the Har
vard faculty.
"Oh. I can't discuss It I can't talk
about It at all." .
Sitting near by was a pretty stu
dent, and the reporter raised bis hat
to her. The girl smiled and the
young man queried:
KILLS SELF WHEN CALLED A FLIRT.
Telephone Girl Taken Acid After Reprlmanct- Illamed Through
I'.rrorClilef Didn't Know Operator's ttharp Ketort
Was to Man Wlio Insulted Iter.
Philadelphia. Pa. Insulting re
marks addressed to a girl employed
in the Bell telephone exchange hero
and a reprimand from the chief
operator when she told the man who
had insulted her by wire what Bhe
thought of him, caused her to commit
suicide by drinking carbolic acid. She
was Miss Elizabeth Monk, seventeen
years old, of No. 152 2 Passayunk
avenue. When the chief operator
reprimanded Miss Monk the chlbf did
not understand the situation, and
thought the girl was flirting. Miss
Monk, when called upon afterward to
explain her conduct, experienced ro
difficulty In clearing herself of the
imputation which had been cast upon
her. Notwithstanding that, Bhe went
home, determined to die rather than
face her comrades in the exchange.
Before she drank, the ncld she wrote
a note. In it she called attention to
the fact that Bhe hnd been repri
manded publicly by her chief for act
ing ts any girl should do when In
sulted by a man.
"I am'too ashamed to go back and
face the other girls," she wrote,
"Rather than lisve the stigma of be
ing r filrt cast upon me, I shall kill
myself."
Miss Monk was almost dead when
the was discovered. In the hope of
saving her life she was hurried to the
McthnJist tplscopal Hospital, where
she. tiled an hour afterward without
recaiiilng Consciousness. Beforo the
trouVlo aroso in tho exchange she had
C. R. Macauley, in the New York World.
were having a good time she re
mained In her room studying. She
was graduated with high honors, and
when I was bidding her good-bye I
told her that she had a task before
her.
"She thought I would say some
thing in regard to work, but, contrary
to her anticipations, I told her that
she would have to flirt good and hard
to make up for lost time, and she said
that she would.
"Of course, it makes a good deal of
difference who does the flirting,
where and with whom. The time,
the place and the boy aud girl have a
good deal to do with It. If all could
see the tlred-out boys and girls that I
see. all would, I know, admit that a
little bit of flirting now and then
would be a real vacation for them.
"I have three lectures a week at
Itndcllffe, and It Is surprising how
many young girls are letting the very
best part of their lives go by without
having the least .bit of enjoyment.
There are many boys here at Harvard
who do not ltnow what social life
means. They study from the time
they enter school until they graduate.
"Of course, there are some who do
nothing but fool away their time; I
do not mean to say that that is what
I uphold, for it is not. What I mean
Is to mix things up a bit, sprinkle a
little flirting into the studies. One
can have a little of both and still
come out all right at the end."
FORBIDDEN TO FLIRT
"What do you think about a little
flirting now and then?"
"Well, I don't know. I have been
thinking"
That is far as the girl got when
the dean swooped down on the couple.
"Here, this Is not right. You must
not talk to the girls here. I cannot
allow it," she said, excitedly.
"Then you do not believe Professor
Palmer Is that it?" asked the re
porter. "You know I was Just trying
his advice."
"Well, I don't say I believe it or I
don't believe It, but you must not
talk to our girls."
made all arrangements for her vaca
tion, and had told friends that ad
vancement had been promised to ber.
A man called fur a number and
endeavored to engage Miss Monk In
conversation while she was getting it
for him. She replied courteously un
til he began to make insulting re
marks to her. Miss Monk resented
them at once. She told him he ought
to be ashamed of himself, and that
he had better go about his business.
To compel him to do so she cut him
off on the wire.
It is asserted the girl's chief did
not understand the situation and
heard only a few ot the words Bhe
had uttered. Their Import was mis
construed. "Your language Is a violation of
the rules of the office, and you will
bo called upon for an explanation to
morrow morning." it is usserted the
chief operator said. "You know it is
against the rules to hold a conversa
tion In business hours."
Miss Monk endeavored to explain,
but ber explanation was not accepted.
She was directed to go "to the front"
In the morning. Throughout the
long night on duty In the exchange
she brooded over the trouble. When
morning finally came she "went to
the front" and told of the insults to
which sha had been subjected.
"Your explanation is perfectly sat
isfactory, Miss Monk," she wast In
formed. "Report for duty as usulil
this afternoon."
GAY 8WIS3 CUSTOM.
t ,
Featlvs Day Datei Back to the
Romans. '
March 1 Is a day of Joyful festivity
among, the school children In most
of the Engadlne communes. At 4
o'clock In 'the morning a party of
schoolboys march through the village
clanging cowbells, big and little, with
all their might, to proclaim tho dawn
of a boisterous day to their slumber
ing schoolmtes n'.lll abed.
As the day grows bright tho boys
gather, each one with a huge bell
hung round his neck, on the vlllni;
square, where they form In ranks
according to ttielr size. When the;
preparations, always conducted amid
great excitement and Juvenile Jubila
tion, have been completed, the pro-
streets to the accompaniment of furi
ous bell ringing and noisy ycdelllng.
One of ithe eldest of the demonstra
tors, with a milk pail on his shoulder,'
In the costume of a dairyman, with
yellow breeches, white stockings, low
shoes, finally embroidered braces' over
a shirt of spotless white, turned up
sleeves displaying a brawny arm, the'
diiryman's .hat perched Jauntily on
the iback of his head, marches proud
ly at the head ot the herd. At the
end of the procession Is another bi;
boy with a big staff in his hand, like
a berdman.
All this reminds us of the way the
cows go to tbe Alps to the sound
of bells. The whole festival la noth
ing but a spring ce'ebratton to her
ald the return of ithe milder sea-:
son, which has been looked forward
to with longing for months.
The custom is said to be of Reman
origin, hence its name "Chnlanda
Man" (from Kalendare), which Jus'.l-'
flss the assunipt'on that, from 'the pa
rlod of the year chosen for the ob
servance of the festival, it must haj
originated in the mild climate of Italy,
and not in the cold clime ot tbe En- '
gadlne.
In the way described the troop
mcrches on from house to house, and
is presented by the matrons with rice,
chestnuts, saurages, bread, and ev'en -wine
and money. The hotels are all
visited, and the patrons always con
tribute some small change. Out ot
the proceeds a general Jollification Is
provided, at which the Rlrls of the "
neighborhood tike part. How intense
Is the youngsters' enjoyment of the
Cbalanda Marz festivities can scarce
ly be Imagined by any one who has
not looked on at these annual Junket-
Ings. So dear is the memory of tb
old custom that even gray haired
men and women follow the clamoroin
band of children, and are ever r?ajv
to bestow seme small offering on
them.
This spring festival may, however,
hve a more primitive origin in tho
universal propensity of man and wom
an In their untnated state to get to
gether upon tbe flr-t tin h ot spring,
to choose each one his or hvr mats
for tbe coming season a modification,
InJoAjl nf olmtlft anrlncr f H v n 1
that reappear 1U otter countries In
disguised ceremonies. New York
Tribune
Tbe Italian government has estab
lished a bureau to denl excium..y
with the electrification of the Btute
railways, which Is making rapid
strides.
AN OLD TIMER
Has Had Experiences.
A woman who has used Postum
since It came upon the market knows
from experience the wisdom of using
Postura in place of coffee if one val
ues health and a clear brain. She
says: S
"At the time Postum was first put
on the market I was suffering from
nervous dyspepsia, and my physician
had repeatedly told me not to use tea
or coffee. Finally I decided to take
his advice and try' Postum. I got' a
package and had It carefully pro
pared, finding It delicious to the taste.
So I continued Its use and very soon
Its beneficial effects convinced me ot
Its value, for I got well of my nerv
ousness and dyspepsia.
"My husband had been drinking
coffee all his life until It had affected
bis nerves terribly, and I persuaded
him to eblft to Postum. It was easy
to get him to make the change, for
the Poistum Is so delicious. It cer
tainly worked wonders for him.
"We oon learned that Postum
does not exhilarate or depress and
does not stimulate, but steadily and
honestly ttrengthens the nerves and
the stomach.
"To make a long story short, our
entire' family continued to use Pos
tum with satisfying results, as shown
In our fine condition of health, and
we have noticed a rather unexpected
Improvement in brain and nerve pow
er." Increased brain and nerve power
always follows the use of Postum in
place of coffee, sometimes in a very
marked manner. "There's a Rea
son." Look in pkgi. for the famous lit
tle book, "The Road to Wellville."
Ever read the tove letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
Tlicy are genuine, true, and full ot
bumao interest.