| Show AN AMUSING PARROT How Polly Frightened the HenThe Cuteness Cute-ness of the Bird Our next door neighbor owns an amusing parrot which is always getting Into mischief mis-chief but usually gob out again without much trouble to herself When sho has done anything for which she knows she ought to be punished she holds her head on one side and eyeing her mistresssays in a singsong tone Polly is a good girl until Kha sees her mistress smile then she flaps her wings and cries out Hurrah 1 Polly is a good girli She has been allowed togo to-go free in the garden where aha promenades promen-ades back and forth sunning horself and warning off all intruders One morning a hen strayed out of the chicken yard and was quietly picking up her breakfastwhen Poll marched up to her and called out SheD I in her shrill voice The poor hen retreated to her own quarters running as fast as she could followed by Poll who screamed Shoo I at every step A few days later Poll extended her mornIng morn-ing walk into the chicken yard Herewith her usual curiosity she went peering into every corner till she came to the old hen on her neat The hen made a dive for Polls yellow head but missed it Poll thinking discretion the better part of valor turned t o run the hen with wings outspread followed fol-lowed close after As she ran Poll screamed in her shrillest tones 0 Lord 0 Lord I member of the family who had witnessed nessed the performance thought it time to nterfere in Polls behalf as the angry hen was gaining on her Ho ran outandstoop l ng down hold out hU hand Poll lost no time in traveling up to his shoulder Then from her high vantage ground she turned and looking down on her foe screamed Hello there Shoo I Tho frightened hen returned to her nest as rapidly as she had come AsJiland Item Trouble With the Aneels Oh papa said little Nellie And a now thought to her springs What ailed the fallen angels Couldnt they work their wings Jiiandon Hacksaw A Good Deed In a Naughty World A brighteyed twelveyearold boy was in the crowd hurrying along Clark street when his attention was arrested by the nn tics of a bony old horse attached to a rickety rick-ety vehicle at the curb The old fellow had been given his feed of oats in a nose bag that hung six ruches below his lips and he I was throwing up his head in frantic efforts I to catch the precious morsels out of his reach The boy stopped patted the old fol I laW 1 on his neck and idLet me help you old fellow He held the bag up and the old horse proceeded with his lunch His thankfulness could have been no better expressed ex-pressed in words than he expressod it with his ayes It was a small thing to do but ret a score of people passing took the lesson les-son If that boy carried with him through life the principles shown forth in that simple sim-ple act neither he nor those about him will be growling out the query Is life worth living Chicago Inter Ocean Fun for Children The gramaphone a rival of the phonograph phono-graph is intended for childrens parties but it is also amusing to children of a larger growth The instrument is built somewhat o n the principle of a phonograph reproduc ing sounds on the turning of a handle Over a hundred nursery rhymes are deposited de-posited in the interior of the instrument and it declaims Twinkle twinkle little atar with a force which is positively start ling Sometimes it finishes up with a laugh I I which has an awfully weird effect London Com Journal Declines to Pray In French Apropos of tho present craze for French nurses and French education cornea a story that holds its own moral Ethel Grandmamma I dont say prayers any more Grandmamma shocked What do you mean child Ethol Well you see my new nurse can only teach me French prayers and of course God cant understand those so I Just j dont bother Him Thonehtfal Beymd lIi Years Mamma said Chippy Oldblocklooking up from tho newspaper that he was slowly spelling out I should like to be Annie L Jorklns little boy What makes you say that dear asked Mrs Oldblock She had tried very hard too d to-o her duty by him and it grioveJ her to think that his affections should go out to Eomeone else Why you see this paper says that the Annie L Jorkins has just come into port with her spanker goneHoston JVcus |
