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Show jTSoys and flirls... ' EDITED BY AUNT BUSY. , pnartment is conducted solely In the Inter- Tn'f iir jrirl and boy readers. r5 Is pl3d to hear any timo from the Aun,nd nephews who read this page, and to give n!?1",s 1 (j-itl ajvice and help in her power. ,S ?te on one side of the paper only. ivT'ot lve letters t0 l0ne- wiial stories and verses will be gladly received ';r,fui'v The manuscripts of contributions not accepted will beflre"s a!' letters to Aunt Busy. Intermountain POLLY AND THE TEA PARTY. fl.-nicrukr. f-he's a little bit skittish. She likes jlSvc her cvn way. But if you're kind to Polly, j-m fU:r f.lir'11 be kind to you." The Doctor ftroked Polly's beautiful brown rr.rk. anrl told John, the stableman, to see that she '.as madr" comfortable. Alice and Marjorie looked j ftl1(j longed to pet their fathers new horse; but ,1jpv were afraid she" seemed so big and proud, ihoWh 'irr e-ves v"erc ff?nP enough. jor r. when she was safe in the stable, they took '"lirfl P t0 P' m Bu see ner- he turned her head s t'ic'v cnered- Then Alice, who was larger than l'ri" if?tcr, walked boldly into the stall and T.'attI Pflly'f nose. 'pian't papa Pa.v so'" she exclaimed, gleefully, i,i Mfl'iorie. "She's as kind as she can be!" and Vnrjorie. not to be outdone, followed slowly and stroked the mare?s smooth, round side. flTVn the doctors children grew to know Polly IvTtcr. t liry found her the gentlest creature in the Vorbl. She ate lumps of sugar from their hands, j-dcmnciimes apples: but her favorite dainty was fjicSor cake made soft with water. Once or twice. c;,, proved her skittishness by breaking out of the j7p and running around the garden, though she .-rarfful, even then. She kept always to the big, j,.,ud paths, and seemed to know that the flower were not 1o be walked on. When John, the fii'lcnian. came hurrying to catch her again, she u-ocld look at him with a mischievous light in her fPil, brown eyes, as if to say, "I'm not. so bad, after ii am 1 One day Polly was put into her stall, and the rt'vr shut. She was not to come out that afternoon, after-noon, .lohn said, because it was Alice's birthday. She and Marjorie and the little girls from next n'.mr wore to have a dolls' tea-party in the garden. They tried two or three, places for the table, but norip were so pood as the little plot of grass just in front of ihe rtable. When they had the dishes all ?t our there, with rich, creamy milk in the little cup?, .-lioed apples and oranges on the plates, and iu 'he middle a ginger pudding made on purpose. f.--r ihe party, a better time could not have been :mfl?md. The little girls ate daintily, and offered a part of each dish to their dollies; and they had no idea that aSy one was watching their banquet but thpmselves. Put. presently, larjorie looked up and screamed. Alice looked, too, and what she saw made her turn palp. The stable door had been pushed open, and ,'nrrp stood Polly, just behind their dolls' tea table. chr was doming out! It was too late to run. '"Oh. -hat shall we doT' cried Marjorie. Put Polly paused one moment, with her neck Hied ,and her nostrils wide open. Then she ;-ped up into the air and over the party, without t uning one of them. When they recovered from wir fright, she was quite at the other end of the fcrder. That night Alice and Marjorie told their father b.f whole story. He looked very grave, and said: "It was a narrow escape a very narrow escape. But 'Mi ee. my dears, kindness always pays for ielf in the end." Paul Sutter in Sunday-School Tirru. EASY ACCOMPLISHMENTS. Some one has suggested fifteen, things that every girl can learn before she is fifteen. Xot every pne can learn to pla: . or sing, or paint, well enough 'o give pleasure t v friends, but the following "aoer mplishments" t r, ""bin everybody's reach: Shut, the door, rod .c it' softly. lprp your own o,: in tasteful order. Hnre an hour for rsi .g. and rise. Iarn to make bread as well as cake. NVver lot a button st; y off twenty-four hours. Always know whre your things are. pror let a day p.jss without doing something to siake smohody comfortable. Vvr-r come to breakfast without a collar. Never go about with your shoes unbuttoned. Speak clearly enough for everybody to under-' Xevrr hum so as to disturb others. Xcvcr fus, or fret, or fidget. 1 NASTURTIUMS. Xa-turnums are undoubtedly the coming flower. They s re hound to become as popular in a year or t;ro a, cPrt pf.as are today. A few years ago sweet ppfg VTrr. rarc.v sowed excepting in mixed lots, but mixxl varieties are seldom planted. In the cnn,p vay flower growers should no longer sow m;xel cr.rtp of nasturtium0. In ordering your sup-!'ir sup-!'ir r. ,;,r.i0 fioeds this spring, select named sorts ,r'.'v; p,r'' Purchase only those varieties that you 'ii!nk vi l,f.t please yot:. Keep them separately n ?hr garden and if theie is any mixing of va-rietjps va-rietjps vented, mix them after the flowers have n picked. Mor than fifty varieties are listed in the cata-jf'?::rN cata-jf'?::rN i:id if you go into partnership with a neigh-many neigh-many of these may be purchased and divided. y-p dwarf varieties arc more conveniently grown t;;r. - r climber?, since they require no trellising. |