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Show v . M Boys and (HiK of Y I' Edited by Aunt 'Busy. ' ! This department is conducted solely in the info in-fo I I jfn-t? of our sir and boy readers. ' iji I Uni Busy is prlad to hear any time from the i I riiv and nephews who read this nage, and to give j I tjK.i;i nil the advice and help in her power, I I Write on one id; of the paper only. T I ! ),- have letters too long, h I Original stories and verges will be gladly rc-d rc-d I tcived and carefully edited. u The manuscripts of contributions not accepted f vill lie returned. f I Address all letters to Aunt Busy, lntermountain 0 f I Catholic, Salt Lake City. j' 1 A LITTLE GIRL'S PRAYEB, I j piip thro' the heavens, white cl-jwl, whits cloud, I I And open the gates of the groat, wide noon! i f jViui O. that upon you my soul could bail, I And kneel at the feet of our God, soon soon: : 1 1 I Over the high, strong winds, sail, sail! I I And bear my love to our Lord's sweet Mother I AtkI O, dear Cloud, please seek him and giv-) , I I The love of my heart to my poor, dead brother: I I Gerald Keith, in New World. j 1 AUNT BUSY HAS HER SAY. j i l'i ;ir Nieces and Is'ephews: j 'j Aunt Ihiry is heginniiifr to feel a little hurt over I I tlio neglect of so many of her coi respondents this Himiner. She remembers once that Clayton Ivcrnan i i'f Ogden wrote her that the Ogdcn hoys were the t f !f -ripht ingredients."' Well, she would very much I j :k to hear from the 'ingredients" occasionally. I How alu;t the little lauteys? Aunt Busy i li.'pcs they have not fallen into ihe Colorado river. Thriv are tome dear children in Columbia Falls ?. vii" have not written for ages. Aunt Busy can till . 8 column of space complaining of how the is neg- l ("!:!. but does not like to mention names. Poor , !! Auntie! She is actually '"melting'' with grief, i f Sii'-ii very wann days, too; and the poor old soul is ! siitimr at her desk with her funny little 'cork- ..crew" curls all straight from grief and heat. She i. i i thinking of having her picture in the paper, so : rou can sec how sad, fat and funny she looks, all i:.r"'.igh being neglected. Ever vour loving ; AUXT BUSY. LETTERS AND ANSWERS. Cherry Creek. New. July li). 1904. ? ;-r Aunt Busy 1 have a little sister. She is -I ( .ir- old and 1 am j( years old. Sister has two e!i'i- and I have two also. ; J a;u your loving niece, f MAUDIE PIIALAX. !Au'it Busy extends a glad welcome to the dear lini" niecp from Nevada. Aunt Busy lived in J vada when she vas a little girl, and she was a . !'.v lmj'py little girl. too. Write scon again, i audio, and tell Aunt Busv what you named vour .!-:;-. Salt Lake City, July IS. Bear Aunt Busy 1 have a very pretty dollic, v.h".-e name is Violet. .y old doll is called Aunt Bu-y. after you. I will have a kodak picture taken hi" her some- day and send it to you. Good-bye, Aunt Ihi-y. Your loving niece. NELL1K BKEXXAX. By all means s'-nl the picture of your Aunt I Bii-y to old Aunt Busy. Why not write often to Aunt Busy's department i i I Salt Lake, July 20. IVar Aunt Busy Do you know how to swim?- I am learning how this summer. It is very hard f , work and 1 hope to know how very soon. Your loving niece, COLLIE .L'FApDEX. j Aunt Busy .does not know how 1o swim, Alollic. I is toil old and fat to ever learn now. She I liiinks all the children should be taught how to r.vim. VACATION" TIME. ".', I'm so glad that school is out,:' exclaimed Nellie Burke to her favorite companion, Annie Si.. .... ' '.'Why. what are you going to do in vacation V a-kr-d Annie. "Noiliing,"' was the reply; "nothir.g at all. I'm j'J-t fdng to take a gool lime." "And won't you have any fun?" queried Annie. "(Mi, yes. plenty of it. I'm going into the country coun-try :i my Aunt Kate's for two -weeks; then I'm go-h;z go-h;z ti the seashore with Cousin Margaret, for ten ; next. .lennie Casey is to visit me for a week, '!:. after that, I may go to the World's fair in I S. ;. uis for a week or two, with Louise Kelly and ; ' '.' n:..;l;fr. That's as far abend as I've planned so j far. What are yqu going to do C "Wj 11. mamma is not well, and although she I thinking of sending me to the mountains for ; a !i.'"ii!h. hedged her not to do it." I I "Why not , "In-iead, I'm 1o go to a dressmakers and take : ;. l-ns in sewing." . j "The ideaT ! "Yes, and it's my idea. Mamma is sick, and the v' " ii,- for the family is too much for her now. So I ! v: r'-ovfd to learn how to make my own clothes i:nd the clothes of my two little sisters. That will I !ii ve her a great deal." j "It will be a queer vacation for you. "tn'i, 1 don't mind lhat, so long as it enables me I to !n n mamma." ; .I !'.!-! as they had said, Xellie spent her vacation ; 3n v!-iiiii around,-in going to picnics and excur- I t-i"i -. in attending lances, and in other forms of ''v-rsion. while Annie Slu:a went day, after day to a 'I ri v-niakiiiff school and rery soon was able to use ,;'"!-rns. to cut out garmemts, and to make plain V ' Nclii:- was in such a whirl of excitement, made I V ) s " niany new acquaintances, aI1'l was so often away -i'"!n hoi!i(.. that she speedily got out of the convent ? ' ;!( my ou.-tom of fortnightly communion. In fact, ! ! did not go to confession once that summer, al- . j 1 sad io relate, she had more to tell than if I a ;:i;.,n had never come to take her away from j 'c.- pf-acc and regularity of sehool. A nine had the pleasure of seeing her mother j mil-rove in health and ff feeling an increase of : "' lion towards l;er on ihe part of both her par- i -n;- mi account of her unselfish and loving desire ! ' ' !" 'f uo. Bcsiles, she had a number of days' 1 utinyr. trips to the park, car rides wilh her sisters, j -nd o'lier lit'le treats 1 Bat her mother provided for i ''!. It was, however, mostly a quiet home vacation,. :? -' nt in aequirinjr a useful accomplishment that v' tild be of benefit to herself all her life, j Moreover, she kept herself innocent, and was as Tii,t!ed in soul when vacation ended as when it nn. Whioh of those young sirls, do you think, in f the sifrht of the angels, had "the better time" that f tiinnier J DOLLS IK" ALE LANDS. ' Dolls seem always to have been favorite play- Ihines everywhere and in every age. Curious V'nodeu dolls, ma?e with prcat care and having f i'".ible joints, have been found in the catacombs of Home, where the early Christians took refuge j' when the wicked Xero sought to destroy them, ji Dolls carved out of solid ivory, some of them vr tv old, have been found o.mong the Eskimos of ' Alaska. t The children of the Comoro inlands in the South t ' Iaritic ofran, have dolls, hut, strange to say,, their ! i dols iavc no faces. The j'yople of the Comoros are ! Mahometans, und the 31ahomctan religion forbids ' ' the making of anything which resembles the human form. So the dolls arc made without any heads, the wise men of the islands saying that such objects cannot possibly be considered as being in human likeness. Japanese children, a.-s well as "grown-ups," are very" fond of fireworks, especially of one kind which, when it. is touched off, throws out a paper bird that sails away through the air, waging its wings just like a real bird and hardly to be distinguished from one. The Japanese children have dolls, too, and a variety of other toys. Their dolls can be bought in Japanese shops in this country now. They have r.iovbe joints and a head which-an be waggled and partly turned around. Even the Lapland children, far in the frozen north, have dolls, carved to look like their fathers and mothers. These they dress in warm furs and they make for them little toy sleds and "toy reindeer. rein-deer. Some Eskimos have dolls which will move, their hands and arms when a siring is pulled. A favorite favor-ite one is a little wooden figure clad in furs and seated in a canoe. When a string is pulled he appears ap-pears to be paddling vigorously. MANLINESS OF A BOY. Several days aa-o 1 happened to board a car which was crowded. A little man perhaps he was 12 years old offered me his seat with a charming charm-ing bow and smile. He soon found a seat, but . popped up wheji another woman entered, pulled off his cap, which was fringed with rags, and with such a jolly, wide smile made room for the new-comer. Five times in as many minutes that smile broke over the face of the young traveler as he gave his scat again and again, and soon every one in the car was smiling. in sympathy. Xp one. thought whether his clothes were whole or lagged,' but some one said: 4,I wish my boys enjoyed being gentlemanly as much as he does," and a -fine looking man remarked re-marked quite loudly to his neighbor: "That's the sort of manliness that makes our great and good men." The boy heard this remark and looked around to see who was manly. A 3EAVE GIEL. Xellie Smith, a 7-year-old Xew Jersey girl, owes nor life to the courage and sclf-forgetfulness of a school friend, Annie Silverman, five years her senior. But even Annie's heroism might have proved unavailing if she had not added to it a presence of mind and self-possession which would have done credit to a woman many times her age,' Xellie was on her way home from school, and, as she crossed the railway tracks, her foot became wedged between two A planks. She tried to wrenclj herself free, but with each pull her foot seemed to become more firmly fixed. The little girl's heart began to beat fast, and when a shrill whistle fell upon her ears, her vague alarm became a definite terror. The fast express was bearing down upon her," and she realized that death was at hand unless help came quickly. Annie Silverman, who was also returning from school, heard NellieVcries, and ran to the rescue. The train was so near that she might have easily been excused for becoming panic-stricken. Instead, In-stead, she dropped on her knees beside the child and exerted all her strength to free the little foot. "While the whistle of the approaching train shrieked its warnings and the engineer tried in vain to come to a stop before reaching the girls, Annie set her teeth and pulled as steadily and strongly as if there had been no occasion for excitement. The locomotive locomo-tive was close upon them when a violent wrench accomplished the desired end, and the two girls fell at the : if of the track and lay there while the train ihundcred by, almost too excited to know whether they. were hurt or not. ARCHBISHOP IRELAND TO BOYS.V Avoid .as you advance in years, the special temptations that come to young men. ' I am not going to mention all of them, only one intemperance. intemper-ance. As you go through the world and watch your fellow-men, you find the majority of failures in life due , to intemperance. This vice of intemperance intem-perance attacks the weak and the strong, the educated edu-cated and the ignorant. It is generous, open-hearted open-hearted men that are the most exposed to this terrible terri-ble curse. Determine, then, to avoid that temptation. tempta-tion. I would advise every man to go fcrth armed; stop at once. Pledge total abstinence. A man is absolutely secure with it; without it there is.danger. It is all very well for a young man to say: "I'll only take one glass1;" but will he stop at one ? Pledge total abstinence; for there is in it discipline, ancj discipline makes character. The, underlying principle prin-ciple of character is self-control.' If we practice this self-control on one point we surely shall practice prac-tice it in everything. RESULT OF BLASPHEMY. Here is a remarkable story of the effect of blasphemy blas-phemy taken from the Sacred Heart Kevicw: Something more than fifty years ago the writer, of this was having a pleasant walk on a summer's evening, when a teamster drove along and very cheerfully asked me if I would ride. I was headed for home, accepted the- invitation and found him a pleasant, -hatty old gontleman. We had not gone far when we came in sight and hearing of some boys quarreling, cursing and swearing. Said the driver:' "I don't like to hear any one.swcar-." And his face showed that lie meant what he said. He said: "I don't belong to any church or society, but I know there is an All-Powerful God abjove us. I have not allowed myself to swear for more than thirty years, and I will tell you the reason." 1 was born and brought up in a farming town in New Hampshire. The season I allude al-lude to was one of the most Troductivc we ever had. One of our neighbors when the harvest time was over had all his barns and cellars filled to overflowing, over-flowing, when he said he stumped the Almighty to starve lnm the comin"1 winter. The winter had hardly set in when his provisions began to rot. He had to throw them away by the cartload. Then his barns took fire. The neighbors all helped him as best they could, but every building ho had on the farm was burnt to ashes except the house. There was enough of lhat saved so that he managed to live through the winter, but if it had not been for . the charity of his neighbors he would have starved. "No, 1 don't like to hear any one swear," were the last words my kind driver said when I reached my home, i " MEXICAN CHILDREN. In Mexico a group of lads from 7 to 12 will meet, and each boy will decorously lift his hat, and salutations of extreme courtesy will be exchanged, and then comes the boyish chatter, the run and the laughter the same as anywhere. An old man or woman is not the butt of the. youth of Mexico; rather for the old people are reserved the shadiest seats under the trees in the park. A Mexican boy or girl on entering a room walks around among the ' company shaking hands with all, and on leaving tne room does the same. Urbanity is taught in the public pub-lic schools as arithmetic is at home. There is no one jostled on the street; the best scat in the horse car is promptly given to the ladies, who never fail gracefully to acknowledge the favor. I have never seen a Mexican gentleman fcil to give his seat to a woman, whether she was richly or poorly dressed. PRECOCIOUS MOZART. At 3 years of age Mozart would amuse himself for hours together in picking out thirds on the piano pi-ano with his wonderful ear;, at 4 years he learned minuets, and before 6 played some of his own compositions, com-positions, actually starting on a concert tour with his sister at that age. Before three years had -elapsed -ho, hadjaken. by .,$tormJ"our of the most important capitals in Europe Vicuna, The Hague, Paris and London. His reputation .as a composer was established by the time that he was only 10 years old. Mozart fulfilled in maturity the promise of his early years, but at the age of 35 passed away, engaged on a requiem which ho gradually learned was to be for himself. . . |