Show SOMETHING ABOUT BY kate rati THORNE come lilly and milly add and delly and melly molly and mary alary and and sy shrah rall rail an and jimaly jimain abid and johnny and charley and all the rest of you that have a composition to write for next week dry up your tears put of your doleful faces whiled teil tel tet you how to do it you cant 0 yes you call can if you only know how such bard hard work I 1 know it is il I 1 know now all about I 1 it many mahy a time I 1 have st an hour with hand and the only thing in tle tie the world 1 I could think of would be IS pring spring is the pleasant est season of the year the flowers begin to blossom the trees put forth their green leaves the squirrel hups hops from frym branch to branch I 1 and everything ing is very glad gad to think spring is coming And when I 1 got so far I 1 always had to sefor stop por for want of something to say oh oli yes you cant tell me anything bad abort about the matter that ahat I 1 dont know already I 1 til always wely WIly feel sorry for children when mien they come home from school with their long co composition I 1 in faces oil on and so I 1 want to tell you about a class of boys and girls hereabouts who thinht think it is flin to write their compositions ahen they have one to write they eone cone bounding into the house to tell of it as joyful as if they tiley were going chati skating ng I 1 wondered much what the magic was that had made play lay of what used to be such hard wore work and so I 1 went up to one cne dala dull da to uund find out ut this was wa I 1 saw haw la ia ar room sat the teu tew her at lier her desi desk lefore lat ore her burt vure flut i lut tut twenty little bo nv n v and ami ehl eh ehi l nhi i 11 0 ww w i ill lil w N erk ert rv arelt Tr eit elt ahi ami one ani N it u 1 mii mei i ld L zi i lit r t hiir blin d I 1 c r t f h 1 11 1 S 1 t reki celi reni re rp re t r au ue f a af ai alj ali J black lyly lyls ani ana L brwn rl avii eyes but att bitt t e c eyes were all loo looking ung U ng straight at the teacher and the lips were all smiling and this wab vak what aheard I 1 yv children children how many feet has a w S dag four t how many has a cat eat faur 1 ij how many eara have they each w two V how ow many tails talis v one ne 13 f 01 L v t what are til themi elkins Skins bjoyce both d with ditlif haar ul xi then what is ig the difference between 1 a do dog and a cat eat J 4 A f r the tire children ildo looked ltd blank and nor one spoke i if there were a cat eat and a dog both in this room could you tell fell me which was which i how ji they dont loo look k alike spoke up w eddy addy rather doubtfully j nb ab wi but how differently do L they loo ap ial ili ms the dog 1 is the biggest I 1 I 1 said johnny fa fay ay iy sure bure that chehad found it ail all out but suppose they were of the same ivo size a little dog and a bigcas big cat 11 rit dit d rii another sli sll silence ence and then dulys i 1 11 I hand was raised ancher and her blue eyes r sparkled and she said sald timidly the kitty would purr if you should stroke her but the dog 21 1 I 1 t I 1 well weil ch children ild iid en you need not tell me ii any anymore more now but I 1 want you to go f home and look at all your sour dogs and cats and see in what things they th eyare ahre different from each other and the 1 t su subject beet af your next composition will be why a cat eat is not a dog the children were dismissed and w went e nt home but you m may max ay be sure that all nil tho the dogs and cats in about twenty houses k had to undergo a th thorough brough examination that night they were doubtless some what surprised at having their thein i claws counted and their mouths so un cenemo y opened and their teeth and tongues looked at and their eyes looked into and the d dogs vond wondered ered what the f f reason was that thab they had to be taken into a dark room and their hair rubbed v the wrong way to see if it woul would sparkle but they bore bor it ve ver patiently considering that they co cou U d not be made to lopnow know what it w was 1 19 K all ail for then the children talked with t their ein eln fatherland father fathers sund sand and mothers and rummaged rumage di the bookshelves book shelves and read everything every thing athey the could COU iid ild find about dogs and catesjr cats and az they remembered many mahy little s SK ories orles or about them thim themselves selves and when next ne composition day came every one onedas was w ready and as eager and happy ag as if ey F were about abou t to do a very pleasant the thi thima 1 g I 1 should like to tell teli telly yow you OH what sonie of s the compositions were what things wore in them and how they af aiu alu laughed some of the children dis i agreed to some some things too harr harz harry had hadt hadi written that eat cat caffe eyes were always I 1 Z ways wass gre green een emma thong thought attl they ley icy were yellow while josie said her lier kittys kitrys were brown bakty berty thought that the greatest difference between eats cats and dog dop was that boss boys liked dogs and girls liked cats alto aito altogether ether they hada merry time over i their compositions and I 1 am sure that AA 1 any one of these twenty children could i tell the difference now between a dog and a eat cat without any hesitation one day somebody asked one of the f little boys boya why it was that lie he liked to 1 write compositions s so well he twist ek el his buttonhole button hole liole with hig hi fingers and looked up at the L louds clouds W with ith his 1 eyes an and dafter after aften thinking a minute s said sald ail aid i I 1 I 1 I 1 1 i ti 1 guess its I 1 always a Y sM write about ff 1 i W bari baci nv 1 1 now 1 trezila theres these the tho secret ret for foi 3 you 0 u 1 my illy j childr always write about what w you vou know and it will not be so bohard hard f r after liflet all ib 1 1 l p WHAT aia ti HE waits walts WA q when ahen i a man naan i i of sense came to marry it isa is a r ion he wants not an n artist it t js is hot q merely a creature who can pidy pi ay the piano admirably sing ala a la one ope opera a and t dance to perfection itis it is a being abeloe who u k can comfort and couii counsel sel sei him one who can and reject and feel irad a nd judge and discourse dis couise and discriminate J one who can assist him in his affairs lighten his sorrows purify his joys i strengthen hs his principles and educate his children such is the woman who J is fit for fora a mother and the mistress of ofa a I 1 family A woman of the former des deg crip tion may iny occasionally figure in the drawing room and attract the attention of oft t e c eom company pany but she is I 1 s ch entirely unfit for foya fora a bt help lp enatt to man aud arid fo to train 1 JJ tip up a child in themay the way it should go i that lac is nnie flip nobles that beams 4 W hr r it ii rw arx tJ band hand i the r 0 os ac itt 1 i iv ivi 1 4 irti ir e I 1 ti uc 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