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Show THE DESERET EAGLE. 36 WHAT IOLLOWED. HOME AMUSEMENTS studios outright, A young man, arreted for svindlirg and substituting those for which An ingenious person who is much wita children invented a little game his employer out of $30,000, sat alone the new method is adapted, for in a criminal's ceil, out of which daythem which she called "The This game will call for the light had faded. Cowering on bis hard namely, the material science. If humanitarian Mar-lonettes- from the berninii" the retentive powers had been cultivated with the perceptive ones, there would have resulted a mental symmetry, waking possibly a wider range of studies ending in broader culture. Memory, if given some time and trouble for its own sake, responds to cultivation perhaps more readily than any other mental power. The economy of such a plan is as evident as that of mending the leaks in a vessel before begining to till it with water. At a certain time in the. life of the child, beininir at the age when, under our present system, he is cutting colored paper and modeling clay turkeys in the kindergarten, the memory is so easily and naturally trained that its cultivation beIn comes a positive pleasure. the few years following this time, fruitful results are still more help of ," elder bisters, bed, he pictured to himself the world good-natur- ed perhaps, but, after the children have outside, full of waimth and light and tried it once or t a ice under her guid- comfort. The question came to him ance, fiey can very easily play ittnem-Srlve- s. sharply : "How came you hert ?" Was it real y for the stealing of that Let the sister tell some story, "Little Ktd Hiding great sum? Hood," "Fuss in Boots," "Dick Yes and no. Whittirgton," or any other of the dear Looking back twenty years, he saw ten years old. old tales or fairly stories will do. Take himself a school-boy- , the distressing story of ''lied Hiding He remembered one lovely June day, Hood," for instance, and let one of the with the roses in full bloom over tfce children take the part of the grand- porch, and the dress his motner wore mother, a rollicking, sturdy child while at her work, and the laborers in should piay wolf, and a third should be the wheat fields. Freshest of all, he remembered bis Little Ktd Hiding Hood heistlf ; then, as the bister slowly tells the story, let Uncle John such a queer, kind, forgeteach of the children act bis part in ful old man. That very mornirg his pantomine, adapting the language to uncle bad sent him to pay a bill at suit tie different dispositions of the the country store, and there were children. Hud Hiding Hjod can have seventy two cents hit and Uncle John a cape or shawl (preferably red) did not ask him for it. Whin tbiy draped around Ler, and should start met that noon, this boy, now in prison, out wlti her basket on her arm, after stood there under the beautiful blue to her anxious sky, and a great temptation same. He baving said good-bj- e mother. As the story goes on the wolf said to himself : "Shall I give it back, should appear, got up as fiercely as the or shall I wait until he asks for it ? If means at hand will permit, and final he never asks, that is bis lookout, if catastrophe can be made as terrific as tie does, why, I can get it again topossible. "Cinderella1' will lend itself gether." to tMS sort of treatment excellent!) ; He never gave back the meney- A theft of $30,000 brought this young and, as it affords an opportunity for ali tne children to take part as guests at man to a prison door; but when a boy, the famous ball, will make a most turned that way years btfore, when interesting play when there are a he sold his honesty for seventy two well-kno- wn During these easily obtained. years the memory is to he formed uumber of chidren to be amused. cents. rather than tilled. Profrssoy With a little tact and patience, anyone That night he tat di?gaced, and an (Uoi'ije T. W. Pntrh'k, in thv Ju htattlinuil liar inc. Toe annual report of the Carlisle Indian school calls attention to the significant fact, that every young Indian who applies for admission now a days wears the garments of civilization, and most of them make use of the English tongue, having learned it in a school on the ' reservation." A dozen years ago, the applicants were almost wholly ignorant of Erglish, and they wore the peculiar costume of their tribe. The educational policy among the Indians has won a positive and permanent victory. Young Mens' Era. who has charge of the Cjildren can open criminal, in bis chilly cell. eep thim contented and entertained forbouisat a time. child's imagination can invest even the mast A commonplace things and events with romance and reality. A paper cap and the yard measure will turn the fretlul little lad into a proud soldier-boy- . Au apron fastened on securely will make a line train for the princess. The fairies can be supplied with wings of newspaper, cut in shape and fastened to the shoulders, or a scarf or veil pinned at the nec and fastened at t e wiist. A wheelbarrow or box will make the most tlrgaut coach in the young people's eyes. Of course, some cLiidicn are very raucn easier to amuse than others. Tne delicate, nervous child has neither the strength nor the inclination to enter into his stronger brothers' sport. The Home Magazine. mysterious rirglng of electric bells in a Swiss house was traced to a large spider, which had one foot on the bell Whispers can be transmitted 500 miles wire and the other on the electric-ligh- t by the new telephone which, it is said, tne Bell company has Just perfected. wire. A Uncle John was long ago dead. The old home was desolate, his mother broken-hearte- The prisoner knew d. that what brought him there was not the man's deed alone, but the boyV. Had the boy been true to his honor, life now would have been different. One little cheating was the first of many, until his character wis eaten out, could bear no test, and be ten-year- s wrecked manliness and bis life. little boy was riding along with his father, and there was an empty ovei-tosi at behind them. lVesently-theA y ok man walking. "Father," fraid the little boy, "it is a y pity to have an empty seat while s needs it." So the father asked the tired man to ride, for which he was a tired-looki- ng me-bod- very grateful. It is often a pi'y, children to keep things you cannot use when somebody else needs them. Olive lants. |