Show FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS I Entertaining Sketches for Our Youthful Readers AND SOME FOR OLDER HEADS Facts Concerning the CodA Frost Picture The Cats Explanation Coral Coast f The Curiosity Shop Tho cod rivals the herring in its importance to mankind It is a much larger fish than the herring sometimes attaining to the weight of seventyfivo or eighty pounds t e THE COD Tho cod is an inhabitant of northern waters being found in the Arctic seas and in all the northern parts of the Atlantic ocean both on rocky coasts and on sand banks where tho largest fish are sometimes caught The productiveness of the great banks of Newfoundland excels that of all others though tho cod fisheries of Sweden Ireland and tho north of Scotland are also important Tho fishery is earned on by means of lines and The the lines being in general very long The writer has seen a cod lino baited and ready for use in a fishing village near Edinburgh Edin-burgh 800 hooks being on tho line placed at intervals of about one foot from each other To prevent tho lino getting tangled as it was baited it was nicely coiled round with quantities quan-tities of fresh grass strewn between each coiL The gathering of this grass was the duty of very small Ushers children of about C years old tho older children gathered the shell fish for bait Tho cod is very voracious swallowing smaller fishes whole Strange articles such as a gold watch a ladys ring etc have been found in tho stomach of this fish The cod is used as food either fresh salted or dried Great quantities of dried cod are carried from Newfoundland to tho West Indies and arc consumed also in tho Roman Catholic countries of South Europe The discovery within late years of the medicinal rj value of cod liver oil has added greatly the importance of this fish Cod liver oil is prepared pre-pared largely in Britain Norway and Newfoundland New-foundland A Frost Picture K Winter the wizard was gruff and Brim He saw how the little ones frowned on him Do they think he cried that the flowers are dead Just because they are sent to bed And ho blustered and blow with much ado To find hoWlittle the children knew But in the night with a pencil white Upon their window a sketch he drew Lovely it was In the morning sun Who can say just how it was done Ah1 said Daisy and Ohl said Don Here are the flowers with their night clothes on = Youths Companion Two Kcmarkablo Parrots Socorro New Mexico boasts of two parrots par-rots gifted with moro than ordinary intelligence intelli-gence Golden Days tells how ono of these parrots sings to the accompaniment of a piano A party of friends were recently gathered at the residence of tho young lady who owns tho parrot and there tho parrot was brought into prominence Tho bird as soon as it was brought into tho room commenced com-menced to whistle a popular tune After whistling this tune three times over one of the company suggested that the tuno be changed whereupon tho parrot stopped quickly and turning on the young man cried Chestnuts Tho young lady then began to play on the piano and tho bird after listening awhile ruffled up tho feathers on his head and sang TheLast Rose of Summer L Sum-mer and Homo Sweet Home Tho voice was rather too shrill to sound pleasant but tho words could be distinctly heard The rival parrot of Socorro is owned by a hotelkeeper hotel-keeper He perches in front of the hotel on a high pole and sings Molly Darling about half his waking hours He also has an extensive ex-tensive vocabulary and can repeat long sentences sen-tences after several hearings Both these parrots are from southern Mexico and are very valuable The Cats Explanation You ask tho reason little friends Q Why cats dont wash their faces Before they cat as children do In all good Christian places Well years ago a famous cat The pangs of hunger feeling Had chanced to catch a fine young mouse i Who said as ho ceased squealing n I DONT WASH TILL AITEB EATING All genteel folks their faces wash Before they think of eating I And wishing to be thought well bred Fuss heeded his entreating But when she raised her paw to wash Chanco for escape affording Tho sly young mouse then said goodby Without respect to wording A feline council met that day And passed In solemn meeting A law forbidding any cat To wash till after eatingEva Eva J Beede |