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Show ! Fdiry Tale I yAARY GRAHAM B0WJER j .contoii n vn'iiii 'wrti i"Qw - j CHILD NEWS j "I have another copy of Natureltnd I News." said Eillie Brownie, "to read I aloud to every- one. It is like the last number, too, in which there was almost more news about children chil-dren In it than about Mother Nature's Na-ture's children. "But everyone was interested In hearing that news." "Oh, yes," said the Gnomes, "we love to hear about the children. We like to have the wto children hear Mr. Toy-Rabbit- , D ' - . about us, too, so Pussy-Cat. , . j as to let them know that we like them and would do them no harm." "We like to hear the news of the children, too," said the Fairies. "So do we," said the Elves. "So do we." said the members of the Oaf family. "So do we," said the members of the Bogey family. "So do we," said Witty Witch and Old Mr. Giant. "So do we," said the rest of the Brownies. "I shall read the paper aloud now," Billie Brownie said. They all sat about and these were the items of news which Billie Brownie Brow-nie read aloud: Six children and a toy rabbit recently re-cently had a picture of themselves taken sitting on a veranda. Bill, the youngest of all, sat on a cousin's lap. Bill is only a baby, though in no time at all he'll be a real boy. He is fast becoming that way now I He seems more boyish every day. The toy rabbit rab-bit was sometimes called a toy rabbit and sometimes called Mr. Pussy Cat. He had been made supposedly to look like a rabbit, but before he had been finished he just as closely resembled a cat. So he was most interesting looking. He sat up proudly in the picture held by Bill's only girl cousin. Bill's large dark brown eyes and light red-golden hair, and the Httle-girl-cousin's soft coloring, and the color of the eyes of the others in the photograph pho-tograph did not show. Otherwise the photograph was a great success. Mr. Toy-Rabbit-I'tissy-Cat was not in the least ashamed of his strange looks. Little Mahulia has a new broom. Her other broom became quite useless and she couldn't sweep nicely with It at all. Little Mahalia loves her new broom and calls it a "sweet" broom and a "good" broom, and sweeps the sidewalk three times a day now that she has such a good broom. Maggie's father calls her "Love Mag" and "my daughter" and "my Dupps." They are all his pet names for her. No one else calls her by these names and Maggie loves her father's pet names and feels so happy when he uses them. Elaine has a little toy jug and saucer sau-cer and she pours the water from them when she is in her bath back and forth and has such a good time. First she fills them with water from her bath water. Then she empties them into her bath again. Then she refills them, and so on. Elaine also has a new carriage for her two rag dolls and there is a little covering at one end of the carriage so that the dolls will not get sun-I sun-I stroke. Buddy loves rhymes and pictures and stories. Ue is not old enough to read to himself as yet, and when he can get no one to read to him he rocks the big rocking chair and sings and tells stories to himself. He will sit for almost any length of time on the floor looking at pictures pic-tures too. He calls milk "num-num" and says "no, no, no," before be does anything naughty. He seems to think that if he scolds himself lie can then go and De naughty! Lucy won the skipping race In school and came second in the running run-ning race. She enjoys playing play-ing tennis, al-.i. al-.i. i. 1 muugu everyone u , beats her at it ocks the Bi9 But it shows what Rockin9 Chair, a good sport she is to still Ul;e the game and want to play it Word ejmes that charades are verv popular in the Elsie-Jack-Marian Freddy-Joe family. very evenl n would hear whispers if you lived at their house, and then you would he" You didn't hear what we said, did And. last item of all npili prue for arithmetic, f tll always before found hard to master |
