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Show J I ..Our Boys and rl$.. ) y Edited by Aunt Busy. t This department is conducted solely in the inter ests of our girl and boy readers. Aunt Busy is glad to hear any time from the 5 nieces and nephews who read this page, and to give ; thorn all the advice and help in her power, j "Write on one Fide oi! the paper only, j Do not have letters too lone. I Original stories and verses will be cladly received j j and carefully edited. i. I The manuscrips of contributions not accepted will I i he returned. j , "1dfre' T!ctters 10 Aunt Busy. Intermountain y Catholic. Salt Lake City. THEY'LL NEVER BE LITTLE AGAIN. j Oh brinsr yourself down to your little one's rkf 1 I And g-ive to his infantile troubles relief- " I Don't turn him away with a word and' a frown Though he seems like a cross he will turn to a crown Thc "mother boys" always have made the best men And they'll never be little again, f j Don t spend all your time over fashion s demand ; "S r over the heathen in far away lands: Thr well in their way they can never compare I I With the Rood you may do to the children vou bear They may go from you. too. and you can not tell I ' when I And they'll never be little again. I It will not be lost, all the care you bestow, ' When unto the years of discretion they grow: : j Th. y will be the kinder when you are crown old, : Your day will go down in a sunset of grold. The reward of your toil it will come to you then Uut they'll never be little again. j v I. Kitchey. ' I AUNT BUSY HAS HER SAY. j 1 Donr jof-rs and Xcpliows: Amu Busy liii.s J -1(os lur Thanksgiving- day story contest mid t-h vipe to limouiu'o ihr -winners next wock. As ; j '"ll to you before, she will not decide the prize I winners, nor will any of The hitfrmovmtain staff. f Two nicmhers of llie Salt I.ako Herald and two of j 1 ill'1 ilt Take Tribune staff have kindly consented I to iu-l as judges, so Aunt IJusy's dear girls and boys j I vvill have to neeeju the decision of four very clever, I bright newspaper men. Aunt Busy hopes to start j another interesting- contest right after Christmas. and hopes thai the dear nieces and nephews will lake an interest in entering: their names. Xext I wick the names of the girl and boy who were siu- i 1 cos ful in this contest will be announced. Aunt i Ttnsy intends to publish their pictures, too, if she , ' -an get them. Loviiiclv. AUNT BUSY. : J CONTESTANTS FOR AUNT BUSY'S PRIZES. Mi-s Elizabeth Burns, .".It Center street. Salt Lake City. To in K. Ihicev of Denver. Mis Nellie Clancy of Butte. ? Miss jfa'ry Yezzctte of Brookside, Colo. i Miss Xora Crawford. '2'-)i B street, Salt Lake. .Toseph Thomas. Salt Lake. Miss Mamie MeXamara, Tuscarora, Xcv. j Miss Ethel Pat ton. Dewey, Mont. Leigh Sullivan. Lewiston, Mont. Thomas Louphlin, Salt Lake. Ceorgia Sullivan. Chevenne, Wvo. Clara lluahes. Salt Lake. Alice E. Lackey, Bawlins. Wyo. .Toseph Biehartls, Fort Colliiis. Colo. Acnes Tiiehards. Fort Collins, Colo. Alice Kost, Evanston. Wyo. Alice Dollinger, Colorado Springs, Colo. I LETTERS AND ANSWERS. J Fort Collins, Colo., Xov. 2$, 1!4. Dear Aunt Busy: Can you rive me a little cor-v cor-v rcr in yur heart. I am 9 years old. in the fifth : I grade and do hope I can win the prize. At least I am going- to try, as my brother Joe is trying-, too. ) Only it would be too long- a,nd lake up too much . I space, T ebuld tell about the Pilgiinis. so I have -! put it into as few lines as possible so you can read I it. Hope to hear from Aunt Busy and that your litttle niece from Fort Collins has won the prize. I Lovinfrly yours. ACXES BICTIA11D. 1 1112 South Beniington Street. Yes. Aunt Busy has n big- corner in her heart for ihe dear 3iieee from Fort Collins. She hopes 1o hear ofien from the little stranger for ihe fu-1 fu-1 lure. You have ihe right idea for newspaper writ iiig. Alice, when you make your story as short and complete as possible. Success for the prize, little liiece. ' Eva ut on. AVyo., Dee. 2. 1!))4. " My Dear Aunt Busy: Have been thinking- sev-l sev-l oral times of writing- to you, but from mere neglect have failed to do so. 1 am 12 years of age and a studtnt of the seventh grade. I have a nice teacher her name is Mrs. Xorwood. I hope some time to be up in Salt Lake and will come to see you. as we. r have a few friends there. I gtiess they know where f you live. I am iroinpr to be one of the contestants. i as I have not seen any letters or stories from Ev- an.-ton. We have taken The Tntcrmountaiu Catholic for a numlier of. years and like it very much. I think I will close, as it is getting- late. From your niece. ALICE FRANCES KOST. , Aunt Buy has a warm welcome for the dear !j liitle Evanston niece. She will be pleased to see I you whenever you come to Salt Lake. She appre- ciatesyour kind words for The Intermountain Cath- I w oj,- jiud hopes to hear from you often. I 7 Fort Collins, Colo.. Xov. i, K'04. Dear Aunt Busy: One stranpe little nephew has entered the contest. Both J and my sister are trying- to get ihe prize. I am 12 years old and in the sixth grade. I spent my Thanksgiving- in Long-nioiit. Long-nioiit. with niv cousin. Your little nephew. .TOE RJCHABD. Aunt Busy has a glad welcome for the little nephew from Fort Collins. Why have you never writien to Aunt Busy before? Xow that we are acquainted ac-quainted perhaps we will hear very often from each other, so remember. Joseph, that Aunt Busy will iioi forget you. SHORT COMPETITIVE ESSAYS, Aunt Busy's Boys and Girls Present Observations cn Thanksgiving. ! Thanksgiving- day was first held by the Pilgrims in c'l. Before telling how they kept it. I must tell why they kept it. They left England to come to America to worship Cod as they pleased. In the spring of 1021 they planted corn and pumpkin seed. About the middle mid-dle of the summer everything- was dying, even the colon isi. for fear a famine would come, but they prayed, and rain soon came. Covornor Bradford set aside a day for feasting and thanksgiving for the mercies God had shown ihem. When it came they invited Massiot and niiK ty other Indians with whom they had lived in peace ;;nd harmony. They popped corn and had pumpkin pies, and gave thanks to God. Thus ihe, governor of each state issues a proclamation procla-mation setting- aside the last Thursday of Xovem-fc' Xovem-fc' 4f each year a dav of thanksgiving and feasting. " ALICE KOST. Evanston. Fori Collins, Colo.. Xov. 2S, lf01. . The last Thursday iir the month of November was hot apart for ihanks to God for his blessings of mankind. They way in which thanksgiving came to he was that there were a few people who Jived in England believed or worshipped God somewhat-different than ihe other English people. So the Pilgrims, a. ilUy were called, went away to Holland. They got lired of Hollaud because if they Y stayed in there they would take, up Dutch fashions and drop the English ways. So ihey left Holland" and went to Am ricn'. They w.-V h which they came was in two ships, one the Mayflower and the other the Speedwell, which was very weak and after being left behind because of leaks that sprung, the MayfloVer went on alone. It was in many storms and was a long time getting to America. But at last the ship sailed up Plymouth harbor. They landed and had a week of prayer and feasting, so this is the reason that Lincoln set apart a day of thauksgibing in November the last Thursday it was in the year ISfi.'J. So we can see that we follow fol-low sonic of the' wavs of the early settlers. JOSEPH RICHARD, Fort Collins. Colo. . - Fort Collins, Colo., Nov. 2S. 11U4. Thanksgiving day. since 1863, has been set apart as a legal holiday by every president since Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln's time. A day for thanks to be given to God for his goodness to mankind. From every heart and tongue praises are given for the year so soon to be past. The next thought is a good dinner. Turkey is the favorite meat, as the Pilgrims Pil-grims used the wild turkey, which they had to shoot in order to get something to eat. Is it any wonder they gave thanks to God' for iheir safe ,S-oyagc, after spending so many days in hardships. They were a brave set, for when they Mayflower went hack not one of t his band returned with it. Many tears were brushed away when they saw the good ship sail away, but preferred our own dear America to the cruel king of England. God bless our country, the home of ihe free, and Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day. AGNES RICHARD. '. Fort Collins, Colo. Thanksgiving first originated from the Pilgrims. Pil-grims. They came over to ihe New World in 1020 and settled mostly in the New England states. Most of them had farms. They all had large crops and after the harvesting-was over they set aside a day to thank God for the good crops. Then they had a feast to which they invited some of the friendly Indians. This is when Thanksgiving Thanks-giving first originated, and it has been observed ever since. ALICE DOLLINGER. 118 W. Yermijo, Colorado Springs. Colo. TALKS TO BOYS. Be honest, boys. "Honesty is the best policy." the proverb says. Surely.- it is. Look at it from any side you wish. The best policy, both for your spiritual, as wqII as temporal welfare. Learn from the experience of others that honesty is a most necessary nec-essary virtue. Honesty is necessary, especially for boys. The boys are our future men. As such 1hey will be the main factors of men to one another. It is extremely extreme-ly neees-ary that they be honest. Will they be it, if they have not learned to be honest when they were boys? Will they be honest, in important things, if ihey have not learned to be so in less important ones ? Surely not. See. then, boys, how you should strive to acquire a spirit of honesty, even now in the small dealings you have with your fellow men. Many of our boys are not honest. They steal, steal not exactly big things, but small ones. They are not honest. An honest boy will never steal, even the minutest article. Some boys ihink they are quite honest, but when temptation comes and they have a good chance to steal something, they fall and act very dishonestly. Dishonesty ran be detected already al-ready in the small boy. When his mamma sends him to ihe grocery to buy something he keeps the change. He i dishonest. He thinks perhaps he is smart, but he is not. It doesn't take a smart head to plan such a dishonest act. Some hoys take the pennies lying- around on' the tables or in the pantries pan-tries of their homes. They are dishonest, because "they steal. They don't steal all the change they find, but only a few pennies; nevertheless.' they are dishonest. Honesty excludes every act of stealing, I though small the theft may be. Some boys cheat iheir comrades in the games they play; ihey are dishonest. Some boys' feel proud and, boast if they have passed off a counterfeit coin without being detected: de-tected: they are dishonest. Some boys keep small amounts back from their week's wage and deceive their parents as to what they really earn; they are dishonest. An honest boy will never attempt, such things. An honest boy will never steal, no matter how small the amount, how alluring the occasion, how secure the chance. If you were left alone for weeks with a stack of pennies ten feet high, which had not been counted and would not steal a single one, then you would be honest. And "how minv boys would he honest in uch a temptation '? Still, all boys should be honest. How about that, boys? Are you honest '. If not, be it. Learn to be honest. Rev. M. Klasen in the Mirror. A PHILANTHROPIC PRINCE. It was in July, 18w, at Carlsbad. A large throng of elegantly dressed promenaders assembled in the court around the music pavilion; and among them was a tall, distinguished looking gentleman who was the cynosure of all eyes. Annoyed, evidently, by Jhis open curiosity, the gentleman walked nway and entered one of the avenues, vhcre a pale-faced little girl approached him. holding out her hand. I "Who sent you out to beg, my child asked the gentleman. "My sick mother,' was the reply. "What does your father do;"' "He is dead and we are so hungry,'' said the girl, bursting into tears. The gentleman had taken out his purse, but he put it back again and said: Show me wnere your moiner lives. The girl led the way through t he streets into an alley, and stopped before an old house. 1 "She lives here, i-ir." They entered the house and climbed up the rickety stairs to an attic. There in a corner, on, a straw pallet, lay a young woman wasted to a shadow by hunger and disease.. As the two entered, the poor woman half rose from her bed and said: "Oh. sir, niy little girl should not have brought you here, for 1 have no money to pay you for your services !"' "Have you no one to help you?" asked the supposed sup-posed doctor. "No one: the other people in the house are very poor themselves.' Upon hearing this, the visitor took out. his purse and gave the child money to buy food and wine. He then took his leave, and soon afterward one of the principal physicians in the city entered the humble abode. On seeing this second visitor, the woman was perplexed. "Sir," she said, hesitatingly, "my little girl has made a mistake in calling you in; a doctor has already been here and prescribed wine for me." "But that gentleman was nut. a physician, and it was he who sent me 1o you,'' was the kind rejoinder. re-joinder. The gentleman who had accompanied thelittle girl to her poverty-stricken home was the Czarowitz of Russia, who afterward came 1o thehrone, and whose untimely death, at the hands of an assassin, caused universal niourningr.-r-Avt Maria. |
