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Show Jujur Bop anlGiflc ku0Mt f ? f Edited by Aunt Busy, rrif.:- IN BOYHOOD'S HAPPY DAYS. qv C ? j0- dear to my heart is the old-rashioned school- 'i tlio I when sad recollections present ht-r to view; I The wav that she d often us boys with a rule lamm ? Would make the -full future look terribly blue, ilo s0 ( And still in my fancy 1 feel my flesh tingle, , I Time never can quite that sensation destroy, earJy i yor Whcn she got started she made the house jingle-as jingle-as t0 I That old-fashioned schoorma'am I kn'.'w when a p i boy. J'f,r 1 r-jlC titrongr-museled schoolma'am, the quick-tempered !l, Wo ' ' si-hoolma'am, , ! The argus-eyed schoolma'am I knew when a boy. Oli-. I c If vou'd jc-Ft crook your finger 'twas quickly detected, . I ' Xnd fullered at once with a fuss that you'd dread, 1Jlr. ir'n all the boys in the school half-suspected tie 1 j ijhe could see Jest as well through the back of her . head. ?oIo- ' Thr"c vvsn t- 110 use m our tryin' to fool her, z jn ? she'd get am impression we couldn't destroy, I ;l t lion she'd go at it and lay on the ruler The old-fashioned schoolma'am I knew when a boy. .Mj.i yet. notwithstandin' her constant endeavor, ?ve" 5 " Them schooldays with jest lots of pleasure was fraught, r ' - ;il ways went into some mischief whenever , ea I We thought we could do it without gettln' caught. I -c threw paper wads and was noisy and pranky, And lid all we could her poor soul to annoy; ' " ! o wonder that once in a while she got cranky ,.,r'- i' ' That old-fashioned schoolma'am I knew when a : boy. .. .. ,,"' i i'hc lwardpd-round schoolma'am, the underpaid . K. ( schoolma'am. ! ' j'r.'' .- The much-abused schoolma'am I kuew when a boy. ,j,y. . I l 'Hank Spink" in Boston Herald. K-ii .1 I J K bJ ' H ' ' AUNT BUSY AI)vises tboubled nieces. ,f!s I jVar Xioces and Nephews: ,ow ! Aunt Buy has some very interesting letters in dn I 1,rr department this week from the very Icar and j I very interesting Ogden boys, and she knows tliey I will he read with much pleasure by all her bright is- i young friends. ? Aunt Busy has also received a personal letter ' frun a dear nieee in Denver, whose friend received lv f mi nnswer from Aunt Busy last week." The little r. nver maiden writes a long recital of woes and 1(1 j trials that she really thinks exist, and, altogether. I Iie must be very unhappy. She says that no one likes her, that she is scolded from morning to night, tliiit ihe teacher has "pets" in the class oh, such ; a Jit of troubles! - i Poor, dear, little girl! AVhat a pity that her I pretty head is so troubled, and all over something rli.it can be so easily remedied. ; Aunt Busy has very often quoted in this de- I part men! .a verse that she remembers from early I eliildhood days : ; "This world is a difficult world, indeed, f; And people are hard to suit; ; And the man who plays on the violin. ' j Is a bore to the man with the flute." f Aunt Busy thinks this expresses better than nnyihing she ever heard the condition of affairs in ,? life, when some people do not "approve of what their neighbors do. The only course to secure happiness and quiet contentment, is to be guided by one's own con-' con-' science, and, of course, by the advice and dircc-linn dircc-linn of those who love us and those we love. Oh, this awful bugbear of "they saids,"' "I (heard.-." "some one said," etc. Life would be the perfection of happiness if all the people in the world attended strictly to their own affairs,' not uiinding those of others. . As Aunt Busy has often told you before, heaven is the only place where such happiness can hr found; so the only thing to do is to reach there M'imf day. The surest way to reach there is to 1 mind your own affairs and ffive those of your f friends ihe benefit of .the. doubt always, if there should be oecuaMOii to think wrong of them.' Aunt Busy hopes that the dear nieee "with all the woes'' will seriously consider .the advice given by Aunt Busy for many, many j-cars past to the Uur children who write to her. Xover mind what people say; mind less what thev think. But always do what vou think and really know to be right. ,AUXT"BUSY: LETTERS AND ANSWEHS. St. Joseph's School, Ogden, Utah, May G. Dear Aunt Busy Yesterday the children of St. Joseph's school were honored by a visit from ihe Bight Bev. Bishop Scanlan of Salt Lake City. We heard a srrcat deal about the bishop, and know he loves children, and often wish the boys of St. Joseph's school could have the pleasure of seeing him once in a lifetime. That wish was unexpectedly unexpect-edly realized yesterday afternoon, when our good bishop gave us the nicest little instruction on good manners, lie told us we should be like a bottle not like a black one but like clean bright ones, and ihen explained why. lie pointed out the rough comer.- that had to be cut. off, etc. Wc made the rc-ohuion then and there to try to chop cut all the onier (for we have quite a few), and become some of ihe bishop's brightest and smoothest bottles. The bi-hop gave us something else. You cannot guess whet it was. If I told you I am afraid some of his other children might feci jealous. Oh, Aunt Busy! I it was fine! Why, I feel my mouth water and wish that afternoon of Mr.v o. might last always. Your loving nephew, JAMES O'CONNOR. The dear Ogden boys do not write too often by any means, but when they do they surely write j something good. . Aunt. Busy rejoices with you in your delight at. meeting Rt. Kev. Bishop Scanlan. Indeed, he d.x-s love children, and the more they resemble perfect bottles the better he loves them. Aunt : Busy is sure that the dear Ogden boys will long remember, the bishop's kindly lecture and the I 'treat" also. " Aunt Busy is happy over receiving so many interesting letters this week from the Ogden "bot- v . 'les." She misses you greatly when you neglect l her. Of course, you are all trying to be good dur-f dur-f 1 ing the absence of dear Father Cushnahnn. You nni-t ireat Father Mannion well, too, while he is wih you. He also likes good children with good j maimers, like the dear bishop talks about. j Ogden, Utah, May (j. Dear Aunt Busy James O'Connor and Harold I Yeasv are writing you about the-bebop's visit to ! our little school. We had the biggest, grandest, i tino-t time we ever had. We promised the- bishop we would be very good and let him know who was I the best, so wc are trying very hard. We were f very lonesome since Father Cushnahau left, but l cur bishop could knock all the lonesomeness out of a fellow and make him feel tine. Father Mannion Man-nion is very nice to us, and comes three evenings 5n Ihe week to hear our catechism, lie wanted to scare us by telling us the bishop was going to ex- ;imiue us, but the bishop said no, no, he wanted j us to have a good time and we did have a good t lime, thanks to Bight Rev. Bishop Sctuilan." May I God bless him. Love from all the boys. Your 1 3oving nephew, J01IX M'DERMOTT. S Such a bright, interesting letter, John! Aunt I Busy is sure that Rt. Rev. Bishop enjoyed meeling I ihe Ogden lads.. He will be proud of. them all some day, as well ?uear Father Cushnahan. I Ogden, Utah. May 6. Dear Aunt Busy We had a big big surprise Sast Wednesday afternoon from Right Rev. Bishop Scanlan. Don't you know he was up lo' see the j Ogden lads and said we were fine fellows, better I n i Lan girls. I never saw a bishop' befor and I J V ofien wondered wha tho". were like "and if they, I . ?er fpoke to little boys, but I believe our bishop, I likes be:s better-than anything1 else. : He talked" SS 1 Y0U We havc n8hinc-in our ' for i l ?mCe- swcctncss as as sunshine, TW 1 n shoW U,S smethiS to make us sweet! a kshop right off, without waiting a minute. We are lonesome after Father Cushnahan. When he comes back. I am going to make him have the bishop here all the time, and we will have lots of lun. our loving nephew, HAROLD YEAS Y. Aunt Busy always likes to hear from her own little V easy, and the last letter is welcome, indeed, lour description of your distinguished visitor's ca His very interesting, Harold, and Aunt Busy is happy indeed to think the dear old Ogden bovs met their bishop, and met him informally, too. Perhaps you will be a bishop some day, Harold. 1 ou surely will be something very good, considering consider-ing the good example you have constantly before you. BOYS AND DUCKS. "There are ten white ones and two black," declared de-clared Tommy, "and that makes twelve! Come on and see. Teddy!" So the two little boys ran off to the brook, and "hen the ducks saw them they jumped and new, and then off they swam in the water. "Why, they're scared as anything!" exclaimed Tedddy. "Our ducks are not. They let you feed and pat them, ami one duck I hold in my lap!" Tommy sniffed. "Do youi" he said, contemptuously. contemp-tuously. "Yes," answered Teddy, slowly. "That's just what I can do!" "IFm!" sniffed Tommy again. Teddy laughed. "It's my sister Belle's jtiotto that makes them so tame," he said, smiling; "and it's a very good motto. It's 'Do unto ducks just what you'd like a duck to do to vou!" "He, he!" laughed Tommy. "Ho, ho!" "We never throw stones or sticks at our ducks," continued Teddy, solemnly; "airi we never shout or say 'Sh!' to them;; and we feed them just as if we, well we were ducks, too!" "Whew!" whistled Tommy. "I fire stones at; my ducks every day!". "Then," declared Teddy, decidedly, "that's why your ducks flew so!" But the next summer Teddy went to sec Tommy's Tom-my's ducks again. There were ten white ones and two that were black. And when the little boys came running down the bank to see them, not one of the twelve either jumped or flew. They sat on the grassy shore, and plumed their feathers, and blinked their shiny eyes, first one and then another. "We're not afraid' they seemed to say. "And it's your sister's moto did it!" exclaimed Tommy, happily; and that was all he said. |