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Show le te Ai tinea SS a a a THE REPUBLICAN, SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1906 47==<>" OUR CHILDREN'S PAGE +» _ INTER-MOUNTAIN a WHEN THE BOOKS RULE "You left us for along tine, Sald the books to Billy Brown; "You shut us up in a hot old desk When you gaily left the town. | | THE ONE ra? A little five ydars old, and her words of four letters Polly had to,her possessions and drew them aw ty | the | o side own' en on eh ; } head her shake had decided to send and mamma || papa : ea | Now in the ton wee Then Polly took her seat and found) desk, turning up her nose at Polly) ite town where | yrarie the in Now, to school, | her drawing pictures on. hei the while to show. her. indignation | Polly lived there was no kindergarten |Marie was a. real little urtist, and) "Tattle-tale," she whispered at Polly the little en folk, so . they were ea. sent could makeever the seen funniest And then it he was Polly under-)} |‘for Polly had Once shepletures drew ||stood how had that offended to the big schoolhouse on. the Ula fat old man with such a queer hat} "I'm sorry," whispered. Polly, mov-| limb a on head his wagged and it, Heard was. WON. walnut sitting squirrel A | | Polly WHO "rm rowing very tound and tah a 2 Hnic Famer at School, Polly's First Day 3S j pocket tended laid it looked Wan} it away the rosy apple which was inn-e-v-e-r_ tattle again If you want] friends| close have and along get refreshmentand|{to vece her for tenderly in Sally lap Sally | 5you mustn't blab.' Z s | at the apple but did not push : till no ‘ signs |; " he did ‘No, I'll never ' blab again." promised of did nai tan Folly draw sie funnyLil pictures. never watch whe ny | ciiritrelenting, Then. for"Pollyshe ‘leaned: over hth and ||e" whispered: "Ul bring you some choco | "Oh, then I shan't like you, if you lwhere they were taken in charge by jon his head that Polly, forgetting at|ing close to Sally and trying to put) late after lunehe on." 7 "| don't." declared Sally But at that j the primary teacher _[the moment that she was In a place |her arm about her waist Sally. only Sully, being only human, and very | Yery moment the bell for recess tap| Polly's home was in plain view Of] where she must keep quiet, laughed |}drew herself farther awa und made young and little one at that felt. th t ped and all the children put their | the schoolhouse, so her mamma knew] outright. Teacher quickly turned and |another wry face, licking her he could withstand Polly's advanc s books away, turned very straight in| he could see the Nitle daughter at|}spoke to Polly, telling her she must /tongue out at Polly You can just} toward reconciliation no Teoneec: and their eats and prepared to rise on} jreeess when she should come out to} not do so again. jfind another chum Oo you 1." |} taking the apple in her hand she he second tap of the bell Then in | Diay with her little comrades on the "l Jaughed at the picture," rid whispe re sall "T don't like tatle-| looked it well over, put -it away. inanother minute they were outside the jblg playground Polly was 1 a pink lawn frock, shining white apron dressed] polly, covered by a] She wore her] not knowing yun-chumlike drew such to ai that it tell on funny was very | tales." Sally man!" | side "Sally Then, as Then | Ogure on teacher was busy writing] the blackboard, and. thet white canvas shoes, for the school/teacher reprimanded = Sally, which} was no danger. of) being "seen, }opened the first week in September, /eqused that little mi to hold her | began a series of "making-ups." }while it was still summer. late in front of her face, so that none | she offered to let Sally next the | Polly felt very proud as she walk-|pyt Polly might Jed toward the schoolhouse, hand-in-|yery ugly face, | hand with Marie, a neighbor girl, Who] ¢ending seatmate jwas two years older than Polly, and You swam and. fished and played; You climbed the tree o green You hunted. anim: and plant That grew the rock ots 1 Through all your summer gay, As we lay, sweltering in the heat, \ But ‘worrs will turn,' ‘tis said; ‘Each dog. doth have his day;' And now. that fall is here Ve've come and come to stay For nine. long months with you So you' needn't make a fuss For we shall teach and guide you And-you'll Have to obey us." Th who knew all about going to see her, and made aj indeed, at her ofThen she took all| EN SE A Ed SE school dow; but her head. to Polls Sally Then She a her own pered to lates?" Polly First} win-| pocket Polly only pouted and shook} came a happy thought took from her apron ‘a Ay then (ranger Who's |Sally but she the best going of o il Sore ee lanswered Marie. | to sit jchum, A Pew Things Worth with what In 7 a : ] Hi , \ . | i | sit with A promisec | hen | Polly my bes te t | secrets. ; Tho it's Without through, to read open from end to end, aac or bend? (A chimney.) some words that were | | TH Laura and Joe FAI to the In the slums of a big city they with their parents, who were ince 2: ose _ ‘ ' It for Y] (; GL / Fb f / é A / A king ts standing ) hy b And soon Then from His poor here, must lose the block life blood an his head. will flow so red eA RYLAND you find The Well, Will ~ lurking near | em-|must of her ran parents all the would errands evenings and allow, and} and sold mornings. ened view. It) rest a bit before going." "You replied Laura. up go around. on sit} | Laura were to little slum ap: foe p.-€ y. and a Then was lovely a. hedge Cullen Robert Bryant Browning 90, died died at at 84 77. Thomas Carlyle died at 85. Charles Darwin: died at 73. Benjamin Disraeli died at 76 Ralph Waldo Emerson dled at Johanna Goethe died at 83 Oliver W. Holmes died at John Ruskin died at 81, Harriet B.-Stowe died at 85. Alfred Tennyson died at 83. Gen. Lew Wallace died at 78. Walt Whitman John G, died Wordsworth Nonsense rook, come ome We've Yor died at Whittier William lost now what Wel, I don't 85. at 80. a col no 72. dip I and me." you, visit fairy|280, but I saw nothing of you find to I return San-| Now fallen had you though las to into! such see in as} in a low name the/in the tone, is cit somewhat Laura abashed. Simmons, I am with you then. | Joe just)me," here, the like from. a and crowd come sald to do "My|really | live|*‘Not T of|/all back here to lady, old the so?" secrets oa Shin ice l course." |} though love to go into only over the the into luncheon "Would of the school Hapa a pk Irish Wit é 5 ran} O'Toole-An' won-|0Ul that} that she was sharing conte * ee es lot ic phwat hole fer, Pat-Sure, out the Pat? an got, the dirt it are 8 yez diggin' blessid little O Toole! I ain't ahole. I'm a-diggin an' leavin' the hole. ae Old Lady to Irish Porter-wWill be so kind as to tell me when porte leaves, train 9 o'clock Irish Porter-Certainly, 40 minutes vee Smum. eae you the It hee a Oh, 2 aah told . of you to have I meant that hole, Dennis said a man to a ew avorlemi . ae ae toé do his gardengaged eee Beat rath "Never forenoon rate you?" And: of mamme chad fo. say. ved even. she smiled. as she did. so. give yerself the trouble solr, I've found it fer self,"' : swered. Dennis, as he picked himself from the hole in question blossoms | 80 sald; way, eae little Joe} : in look, | people look and his eyes and open have | did almost beleving himself in dreamland, ; papa and with you kind with : ; ae we sure een nntoat happiest yeaethe ea : ~ how think oust world the mamma will thank you for helping them horrible work into away could|@nd to get away from the theythe have to do And all day ['ll night. the milk to learn and pigs the feed the cottage pretty bounds. no. knew brought forth pic- the inside Once delight |ehildren's |-phe dear old lady house?" the house, hous@-into there And corner, the | nd to spend that have come hedge, | children the beyond vines, flowers and|dey down in the grove at the foot of|things of interest to little pines forming a cool| the hill. But I did not enjoy play-|toe Now we'll go after 8she conditton Laura in the paused sight. : resentment of her life é at and The at the/ing, con-! my ‘cause-'cause-my working are papa ady o the hor-|cld lady, becoming the lives | in the little stvanger mamma as just eph deeply. at nee is my little brether,' - oa ¢ Then, remembering und'| hard erested inter gate c mayYou lead sure Joe mav thebe way." dear, every are ones Joe. During the meali the old lady drew} |from them the story of thelr poverty but nook }]Then she told a cently lost many there, had made You|dreamland | | three were down at 5 re at | where the aia lady se laughed were and Laura were and noisy; Joe deeper into the to feel weary, "I them that she had re- who Uttle granddaughter her home there in that place with her grand- T had pen |ionely sur- picnic ienic grounds, 5 @ private con- in the n aos "old everThesince ladyang had tied for ee aa all be!" it will Oh, how grand all it that pass to came it out just as the dear old lady cows. And turned jater, --___-- +» + ---- : WASHINGTON GEORGE A : : LEAGUE. =- ura e hints beautiful count Was 2 z PeVi aro aa a Be tied 3 passed , | purpose there is 3 to f se of learning ar Be all aged pe Know of that once great personage fy ory . "tne old' driving' horse. libraries are full of interesting inform. ; : r 4p ola gardener and his wife attended | ation of his boyhood, his early young to the work about the place, thelr|™manhood and private life. The school and a ee . his good wife feel that they so Oh, I shall be so are | detail into we and af ahem anu sey Sees, antes pInin aitiear: poro oe oll ae oe Th ie : cee Pe and * simple, éatatdé: incidents connected with his quiet life on the/of Mount cone a moatVernon Sosom "int the _ ae: . i, ors happy- happy!" "And so shall I." said Laura ina calmer voice than Joe's "or she was thinking that there might be drawbacks and that it might not be possible for all this suggested happiness to come about. Then, turning to the dear old lady, who was watching her face closely, she went on; "Maybe my papa and mamma could not do the work right; maybe, too, Joe and I could not do anything to pay for our board Perhaps we'd better not plan on it till you've tried papa and mamma and go cannot go, only ae eee ote as m ary hero from studying their pag‘there > lez SW es. The league members would search your Satie' ittle eoscrnsuities eccentricities, nn for ef apr he had astern a few now past the time of work and mean of their own. to settle In a little home paryour installing see about I shall you do at place their in ents little ones say to such a proposition?" "Oh, how lovely that will be!" erled Joe, clapping his hands in joy. "Papa and mamma here in this beautiful out- of-doors! storles everything superintending "Tomorrow I shall come to home in the city and arrange for your papa and mamma to come and make their home here. My old gardenér but found work for us children." Used bythe RST eae > . Piet Peas Vernon, is and esident. F tears The old lady bent over Laura, in her blue eyes, and as she caressed |genial family, make most delightful the child's hair she sald: "Any papa|reading for the young. Also the stories and mamma who have raised such aj|that are told by his faithful blograph- surrounding wish much mistress But fun reigned. and of the oceasion. although they breathed the fresh air, enjoyed the fragrance of the woods and wild vines and flowers, Laura and Joe still felt unhappy on account of their parents. and. hand in hand, wandered away from the frolicsome crowd, going the had was informed | versation with the committee in charge . « 26 g Then, all satisfac-| that she}of the children. were a solemn little pair, with their hie dark eyes and thin, pale faces. One uprather-was wish, thought-one dear Their minds. in their permost mother and father could not enjoy the outing with them, but must stay ii: their hot, dingy room sewing away at thelr back and leg-breaking machines. And in their loving little hearts the children wished and longed that their parents might be with them. After two hours of delightful sail on the water the boat landed right under a great tree-covered cliff, where a water fall sparkled in the Septemyer sun. Soon those in charge of the children led them up pretty shady path to a spreading level, where crass and trees abounded everywhere, A pienic ground was seen reached and «wings and hammocks were put up. | fan tea. our at At last, when the time came to ae : stegs «Ff rn the children's hostess sat down gn porch between them and said misterlog ne to malt) ean, sugar!on a fallen rest. Ae Be mee en " ~» fenic to.‘It's the back We'll time aboutLeta said Lani grounds," wD Laura. = know-search me! we ase z In fact, the little girl was|%ense yeve talk about the games they @iggin' out bring him here," said the|/where on the velvety. how And lawn" have so many ' pretty' ,grew in profusion. "I to show children things old lady standthe sweetest-faced im the path teading to the gate, | little of those so dear to her. But the beau-| ‘He r ac ore ne yo | Ts ' her was too!Laura. ty of the place before ¥y. woods. After they had walked for sometime Joe be-perhaps half an hour-little Jingle. spoon, the spoon! we'll have could F with? 73. at died 79. 85. Victor Hugo died at 83. Washington Irving died at 76, H. W. Longfellow died at 75. J ames Russell Lowell died at Thomas Moore died at 73. Charles Reade died at 70. | Pe Willlam People. 70. mamma Polly |Then, forgetting the strange and "Bul the good ladies who bysaght wd never |‘the kind old face was made kinder by a smile as the old lady advanced and|US here today will be looking Sa us|companion, the child broke out muc h | |!#id a hand on Laura's dark mamma and papa if only |"Oh. right away -"said go back we don't hiar.|!f place; Ain‘t It g-r-a-n-d?" "It's time for lunch, and Joe |see this! ‘iow do you do, little girl," she said,|Laura. came house-not accustomed packground gate and drank en, | was,s, inhab-| rible Breet Vv sit) but} Pa They 5 other of i bOnt rer might grass, be where they look at the 3 not at | | | Cea Len Ce Sta Dea eiae at the , teresting characters in history to study. It is a splendid idea for the children of : : ny . a town or community to form a |"George Washington League" for the children Literary her came | cePlease As she stood there a step was heard | aura | Old 7 lady around looking and, ehind, Saw that} of it won-|!08 top Isn't ‘It's like the that in the book us Christmas." citly-appeared nestling among. shrubs, with tall two children blocks away] a pretty but whe x Shee eonld ‘rane rand vlay all The "‘Fresh-Air: soclety" was reday.. to pleasure great this for sponsible Pen iktlencoires 5 : 3 S s. Very early the start was made, and Laura and Joe held each other's hands lightlyy asas theyes stood agi against the deckleck: died tell noon Turnips aso u died last Tim might not set a foot on its refresh-| (rast between this beautiful picture|as they can this minute, and it seems} prised a few moments later ta see | ing children, and the little grand-| ing. coolness and the dark, close, stifling. one-room| wicked for Joe and me to be out in| aura return, holding by the hand a|daughter had been the light of her] But there came a day when Laura] place where she lived in the top of a|the country when they can't come jdear old lady who Joe thought might ife.. and Joe were to pay a visit to the] @irty tenement house In the city came] too." i. ‘Iba a gaint : -_-country-a place they. knew. only by|t¢o her mind, and, though child as she] . "Andjwho fs Joc?" asked the swect| And in another few minutes the So the day, all so glorious out there itatite, op Some : "the Fathe t the es came is ABLOR» Ae 2 most ALNGE in0 one-of our zoo Country," description with a lot of say? you, eaten have IT benefactress sald gates, Fairyland ‘Through aura to her mamma and papa as she led them through the gate to their new and happy home a few days crowded park, and on a bench Bancroft blow? thirsty." and hungry I are both has|and that fairy little some you "4 little Joe, | sald "It's like fairyland," ground picnic to the go down "T'll passed I just the sky? from of | dropped bits the searching eves great his blue sky that could be seen through} 0Ut through thin gate a few minute and ask permission to have you and one required poor couple| the was a rare thing for the to play or to go several to rest a little while in Anderson squirrelte you fat. and the two children had theirit and Joe planned Laura, and be, should noble their to live with went parents rewspapers Ages x said little growing | laughed at something| little girl almost trem-| happenings Lee b man who'll strike the if you can't the king surely be let go z it,"" which Pol- | |} ber excited little mind held, mamma |/arked her what she had learned from See | the books { "Oh, a lot of things, mamma," she |ae3 . =P a : par en ‘ ee gat / _ R ha," i "You're after | Well. tyre books, old dolls, carefully kept, {mcould ‘toy: one every ‘sort-of |/and ‘Then. atta Tesira wna fos had azine work Hans "Ah. HANOove, will see how little was left for food Leaving Joe-seated in the cool, Lau-! Clouds." And the dear old speaker; "Oh, yes'm," cried Laura, the very }seen and appreciated they room, where to the diningeverything, and clothing, with nothing for plea-};a went on up the path which led to| lffted Laura's face between her palms|idea of entering that beautiful, fairy- | were led and appetizing luncheon was |a dainty |like place rousing her to enthusiasm. As she} @0d smiled still more sweetly hill. the crest of the wooded sures and amusements Laura kept the room as tidy as the| neared the top the landscape broad-| "No'm, I'm no fairy,' said Laura,|"Do you mean that Joe and I are to |spread on a snowy cloth. Joe. George comrades| with a number of her little mates, the danger which continually menaced teacher that she had precious little } luncheon!* her to eat time is e n : t that ail: told At last iw hen she had 7 - y Z yy DB he , p ; 2 cs Se (ify to earn so'much as $10 between them. the tree tops we read stories half] to almost As their rent amounted gave Claus this story|}ta read who you of that sum, Great to played, Just think-I two sewing machines ran in their little| derful out here? dark one-room abode, for Laura and|had any Idea there could be so trees in one rass and so many oe A : ; sults and) qiq you, Joie?" Joe's parents made boys' jackets. women's work week's hard at morning. so full of ‘All right,"' | I while there Semon All day long|h{il and look iy work. a "sweatshop" ee celled little her grandmamma the heard having sou Z SJ GATES. | precious to be lost, and she looked|had already been too long away from )torily arrauged, she took the hands | Just be the happiest family, won't to her | we?" "Tl of Laura and Joe and returned go. to turned quickly she and/Joe, everything admiring Jooked, and eyes brown own her Laura, And as Gates," Falryland "The house, yon-| down log a on resting him who/left she be could it that "'Y! ling for I'm feeling aw-| f guess, lunch, for i was enjoying Such a feast "TU's the|der he said. pointing toward the|Laura whispered to Joe as they passed moist, looked Into the misty blue eyes fully hungry.' of the dear old lady and said. "How poor Via Pal hunecd as well ae Chie |}gateway to Fairyland," she whispered|spot where she had left. her brother, through the yard, all glorious in green ; i and You are lived|ty," said Joe. "But i'm so tirea 1] *° hers¢ f [ must hurry back to him. " crimson, pink and white, for every- could we help loving you? DAVIS. belonged When derful. written ROUGH HELENA the about thing teacher said the | home m the blackboard. Polly could read | with ez the words "eat" and "dog" | wnd hat But when it came to BY of which Polly, Wb ZAM \ | bled with fear, thinking that teacher | | rolght swallow the false tooth and die her to But there and then lright vreat rellef teacher went on with the | instruction without the slightest mis-| | hap | CHILDREN look one | weentslest Spinning wheels were invented in year 1539. | next the window, if you want to Barometers were first used by Tor- |} You see, I came early and picked my ricelli in the year 1670 lsent before the other girls got here The Paris millinery hat from which [I'm where you can look out and see all modern millinery has come was jeverything." coneocted in the year 1404. "All right,' said Polly, removing The first balloon was made by her hand from Marie's and giving it Tetienne Montgolfier. of <Annonay, to her new-made chum, Sally. Then France, in the year 1783. they formed a line and marched like earliest record of the. ixstence room, primary the into soldiers of the mariner's compass was found where the teacher smiled very sweetin 1180 But the Chinese appear to lyu and said: "Good-morning to you all,. my. little-dears have had knowledge of it many cenPretty; Good everything was -movturies before, ¥3.$ 5 5 peed ra ad ing along school-fashion; classes were and examined pupils new formed; Kiddles. placed where they belonged. Polly asked Was called to teacher's side and Riddle, come riddle, come rue; is it you can't Ss ij ly honestly promised do al good to faith with not kept she | :romise | | Then the bell called them to books end Polly was taught some more from| jthe blackboard by teacher Once the What and play- |laughed very hard. And such an ac-| <An-| her. kill surely would | cident |} other little girl confided to her that | |}she thought Polly‘s pink frock the | prettiest Dne worn that day to fst! | but that Polly must not tell anybody, | | tor Maime thought her blue frock the} | firlest ever seen. A third little giri| |} whispered to her that soon she would | | have a birthday, and that Polly should | | be invited to the party on a Saturday,| | elthough the real birthday would fall| jon Thursday Fut that being a school |} day the party could not be given till} was} Polly of course, But, | Saturday the teentsy-| "tell nobody to | cautioned i said me, a haven't You may sit with sit and "Come | iSally, addressing Polly |chose any seatmate yet. Knowing. laughing way." same the fat I'll get to} riddle the same tell home at |} cook |} the grocer boy of course guessed | lright off to the grent admiration of} But even while the nut and squirrel |} the others Then she was the hero-| Spoke together thus, }ine of that recess, Each little girl|A little teentsy-weentsy worm ; Wanted to walk round the yard with | Crept up without a fuss. an arm about Polly's waist. And Polly | j Walnut-shell into Mr. And these in secrets little many {eRe promenades. One little girl told her| He slowly wormed his way, up! inside kernel the ate which! And tooth a false had teacher | that today tale the ends So f she} swallow to liable wa she c to introduced just was asked call them into ‘ : : She's all my then a riddle her. told |} told |} had friend <svlth7s t who ae I} ‘er I've Gracie. knows romping, !?8 Polly and Sally joined a group of other little girls and Polly thought --- | er; ERTG toward pointing Marte, asked to tightly who and stoodslate holding book Sally was the be to girl little | tet the question and Polly, jas the Jast bel) rang to j the hoolhouse bUllding, choco-| asked in a whisper : holding it out for each to take a bite. ee answered Sally, trying to| Then Sally would take two bites her- | how reluctance. "But you must never self; and so on till only a tiny core Dis oe eB OW 5 By" Ue Men) Oe y *)was left Then they played "wring-|., some to halloo would Marie ; Way | small rcquaintance, who in turn }would come running to Marte's side Then the neweomer would lock at Polly, whisper question in Marle's jear. to whieh Marie would answer In ja loud whisper: "‘It Polly This is her first day at school,' Then would ifollow an exchange of glances bejtween Polly and the little Stranger, Polly, | her whis-| many * n fine a arm one under carried Polly her In while slate, and book fnew ns a reposed there pocket japron brilliantly painted slate pencil, with a very harp point In the same | pocket was an apple for Polly to eat lat forenoon recess, for Polly's mamj}ma knew ft would be too long for her }lttle girlie to wait till noon without refreshment light ome On reaehing the schoolhouse Polly several with | acquainted made {wa The Marte's of friends girls, jlittle | introductions ame about in this and How "As many 48 mamma will give me she had never before known what real| answered ‘Polly, happiness coming,| {U9 was like. First they at the apple | "And then we'll be chums again?" she| "Mich she had given to Sally, Sally | o ji perfect little gentleman and lady as|ers of his boyish love of sports, such my two little guests here will prove/as wrestling, swimming, hunting, and a themselves perfectly competent to look | horseback riding, are intensely interafter my little home, and they will you! be! the esting. {s no Washington chapter in {llustrious of the there life Indeed, for As it, too to share worthy ee two-why, a NaN lyou Ni wi "II wish wi I had as he > sat downc sai oy" he he said, « drink,c sister," on ai fallenn loglo to rest. are to (pone BT ‘to the school bless your love me a precious little, hearts, that cannot my boys and make any a lt gf fat file away ell ; of the a mile away. half be girls thrown acai for close does not win their an boy and the man. ie scrutiny and admiration e |