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Show ' Edited by Aunt Busy. titbit oartTent,iS co,iducte solely in the interns inter-ns of our girl and boy readers hietUsUL?U7 t!S Klad t0 hear aTl? time from the wrw adV1Ce and helP in her Power. -tH ne SMe of the W only. Do not have letters too lone .nd?auter -Ul he Sladly .receive, Uc!urCriPS f contributis not accepted ,ni ! "G0D BLESS US EVERY ONE." ' "CrSZl' 0?e'" prayed Tl,1- Tim. Of soul up' ; dWarfed f dy yet so tall i iSJwi;Irookaihirt- Rf r'uld Slve to llim th while 3ut p.tying gnncos when hte only need as but a cherry smile. And thus he pray, 1, -God bless us every one"' heart: and S- -PJsins onc. as nearer saint than man. I like to fancy God in Taradise Lifting a finder o'er rythmic swing Of chimin harp and song, with eager eyes Turned eastward, listening- The anthem stilled the angels leaning there ! nfow 6 lde" wa"s-the morning sun I hnstriTas burning flower-like with the prayer Ood bless us. everyone:" i Jan.es Whitcomb Rilev. ! . AUNT BUSY HAS HER SAY. Dear Nieces and Xephews: Aunt Busy is still rusticating at this pleasant summer-resort in the mountains, and enjoying that sweet repose that comes so seldom in the lives of persons born to be busy like your auntie. Of course you have observed one person do half a dozen things while another hesitated to commence one. "While the buy person Is using her hands one minute, her braiu is planning plan-ning something for the next minute or for an hour ahead. Well, that has been the employment of Aunt Busy since she got out of short clothes. But V Bs there is a night designed for sleep, so there should be a day for rest and relaxation-, and Aunt Busy is taking that day. And that should be a day to forget the almanac, to turn the calendar to the wall, and if need be, to stop the. clock. Yes, reckon reck-on time like the Indians that Aunt Busy visits in this place. She asked one of the little girls how long since she (Still Water is her name) washed bor face. Still Water held up three fingers of her chubby hand and replied: "So many sleeps." That meant three days and three nights since she washed her face. I laughingly told the girl her name should be More Water instead of Still Water. Aunt Busy left strict instructions -with Uncle Busy to forward letters from nieces and nephews - to her summer address. The poor, dear man must have gone off filling somewhere in the canyons, tor no letters have come, to Aunt Busy. Well, this vacation fever must be catching, and all Aunt Busy's correspondents have it good and hard. All the belter, for when it is over each will return to e.-sons and employment, invigorated in body and mind. Oh, dear children, how thankful we should be lo live in this boundless western country where one, looking up, can see the snow on the mountain tops and then, looking down in the valley, behold a paradise para-dise carpeted with nature's wild flowers and foliage. foli-age. It is only a t-tep from a city door to a country cottage, only an hours walk from -the cat under the table to the sheep and cattle browsing on the ranch pasture. Aunt Busy has jiist finished reading read-ing an account of a seaside excursion given by tome rich and good people of New York to the children of the tenements. Poor creatures almost stifled for lack of pure air, and who cannot lie in bed as you do with a blanket for cover, but must fceek the roofs of tall tenement houses and, half naked, compose themselves to sleep. Think of this, i dear children, and resolve that when you become Ftrong and active as men and women, your heart will go out in pity and your money will be spent in plenty for the poor children denied God's pure-pir pure-pir and living in wretched tenements. Your loving AUXT BUSY, |