Show LOVE OF CHILDREN AND HOW IT SHOWS AMONG THE GREAT David Harum um is tho the most popular novel ever published In America It is possible that none to corne come will ever have a like vogue It was the first of ot the books to be circuses d in advertising advertising adver- adver and and tho novelty took Then it came at a ps psychological The publishers stopped giving out the figures of its sales two or three years eara ago but it had reached the mark then with still a lively and constant demand One reader liked It for cr its humor m r el Jn i t fJ another an for the shrewdness e of the old hoss boss trader many for tor its lovemaking All All- though struck admiring hands over the a episode of ot the little widow and then loosed looser them to pull out handkerchiefs to wipe away the tears that the scene produced Harum saves the widows widow's home from frome the e grasp of the money shark t for a bit bitof bitof of re reminiscent t sentiment The e widows widow's husband had taken him to a circus when a ragged barefooted boy too poor to get a ticket lie he stood and watched the fortunate ones go in with all his hunger and his wistfulness in his eyes A woman died in Danville Ill last Wednesday who was the heroine of a parallel case calle in real life Her Iier name was Anna Pierce and the kind hearted man who took her Jo to th the circus was Abraham Lincoln lie came along the tie country road and saw her crying on the doorstep her folks were too poor to buy a ticket for herGet herGet herGet her Get out your our new dress and Ill I'll take you ou Lincoln said and while she made the change he sat on the step and played played with her little brother Then hand and in hand the great gangling man and the little maid mald dancing at his side because of her Joy and because too her little steps had to ber be multiplied be-multiplied to equal one of his seven league strides went into n town and passed through the n sf prosaic r I canvas e entrance n into o paradise e. e Lincoln gave himself a greater pleasure than the little girl wonderful as it was to her He had the child heart which is the greatest endowment of the great It makes them understanding understanding understanding under under- standing and sympathetic It keeps them young and alert and responsive It refreshes and recuperates them The Theman Theman Theman man who has it will have the love of children children chil chil- dren of ot good men and women and of God With this child heart which Is IB the best gift the good fairies can bring to the cradle of ot a babe goes a love for children ren as as' bro broad d and general as the casing air Homely or attractive e clean or dirty good or naughty they wind themselves hes around tho the heart of the child man The bigger the tile man the bigger this love the more it comforts comforts comforts com com- forts and refreshes him Scott had his MArjorie with her hatred of ot semmi Thackeray cynic c only in his books was as adored Mored by all an children many will remember Stevenson for the gift of ot his own own birthday to the little daughter of ot Gen Ide who bewailed that she had on one only once In four tour years because be- be because be be- cause caus she was wars born on the of ot Feb Feb- Mark Twain feted by a king and adored b by the commons spent nearly all his ils time on his recent nt voyage from England England Eng Eng- land with a a. little UlUe Cleveland girl Cleveland Plain Dealer |