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Show -S s'L .Our Boys and irl$.. ;r,aj -J Edited by Aunt Busy, ., 'rhapj j LUCKY TED. liini I That was the nickname they called him by, . lat- ' I ! The bove at his school and this was why: . mS J He was bound to win from the start, they said: l-Kpr'8 I u was aiWays the way with Lucky Ted. o-it I The earliest flowers in his garden grew; l I -j-lie sums on his slate came soonest true; a j (. t.0lild sail a boat, or throw a ball, utnau I Or guess a riddle, the best of all. ts. ; ! I you wondered what could his secret be. I Hut watch him a while and you would see. I He thought it out till the thing- w3 plain, I J And then went at it with might and main. I ! Trusting but little to chance or guss, I ' He karned the letiers thai spell SuV-a. ( th I ! -A rrady hnnd and a thoughtful hea.J , j .o much for the "luck" of Luekv Ted! DPk- i Blanche Tremor Heath. ' thr i P of AUNT BUSY HAS HER SAY ABOUT , Dear Xieoes and Nephews who arc netrlc-cting 0 r lately. She has not. heard from the little Manteys j ' ir many moons; the little clam diprgers must tli ' luivc fallen into the Pacific; ocean; the little Dorseys nly write in spells: the Xevaua children write !:i ; i very six months; the Wyoming: girls and boys have evidently forgotten their poor old Auntie as 1 well as the Colorado children; while the Montana ' Utile folks never give her any attention. What has H c.nnf of May Moriarily, To sic Keishle, Kva Sun. Richard Murphy and the hundreds of other ,hnT children who are enshrined in Aunt Busy's i lienrt. although she has not the ace to mention r iheir n nines? Poor, funny, old woman! She will , . ' M'on le quite bald instead of gray if the neglect m ;l In Ms much longer. ' AUNT BUSY, re.. ' U'- j AUNT BUSY'S SUBSCRIPTION CLUB. Every girl and boy who gets live ,,f " 110w ?uscrcrs or t0 Intermoun- we v a"1 Catholic will be given a hand- ft- f e'n some watch, fully guaranteed. ' a s I,? SB no l)r'oe subscription to the ! vSjfrs paper is $2, making the amount for i live subscriptions $10. ) V "" The money must be sent either by f nimiey order or registered letter. A prize of $1 I will be given to the one who sends in the first five Milseribers. V ! LETTERS AND ANSWERS. j Salt Lake, April 4, 1904. j Dear Aunt Busy: Did you have a nice Easter Sunday J I did and wished that Easter came every j week. 1 have a pretty new white hat and a white are s with blue ribbon that. 1 wore on ftunday morninp. I went to U o'clock mass to hear the ; little girls sing. This is all for this tune. Aunt 1 Busy. YourXeice, XELL1E POWERS. n . Aunt Busy enjoyed hearing from her little Easter 0 i girl. M.av every Easter tide of your life be happy, Xellie. lt Aunt Busy would like to see the pretty hat and s gown. She. often attends the 9 o'clock mass and 1 likes to hear the dear children sing. f 1 Denver, Colo.. April 1, 1001. 1 Dear Aunt Busy: Are you not glad that tpring z ' I has come at, last? I hope that Easter Sunday will le a line day. I go to school all the tune aud to Sunday school, too. I am twelve years old and would like to become one of your dear neiccs. Hoping to sec my letter in print. I remain, your loving neice, .MERCY PRICE. Aunt Busy is extending a very glad welcome I to the lovely spring time, little neice. She also ex- if I j lends a glad welcome to the dear little neice from '( I Denver and hopes to hear from her very often. j Salt Lake City, April 2, 190-t. f Dear -Aunt Busy: Have you quite forgotten t rif '. It is long since I wrote you, Aunt Busy. Have I you given up your subscription club? I hope not I Wau.se I meant to try for a watch, but was a little, i s-l'iw. 1 like to read Aunt Busy's page and am the ! ;irst to unfold the paper each week when it ar- 1 r.--. Hoping vou will fonnve vour tardy niece, I rc- j main, ' MARY COLLIXS. ! Aunt Busy never forgets any of . her dear oor- 1 J . Tfitoiidents. She certainly has not forgotten about s v r club and hopes you will earn a pretty, watch cry oon, Mary, j 1 WHAT THE YOUNG PEOPLE MAY DO ON EASTER. ! .lut before sitting down to write I was talking to young man, a student in Columbia College. I " What are you going to do on Easter for Sun- . ! shine."' I asked. j His face lighted with a smile as he replied: I ! f-hiil! write a long, long letter to my mother." ! If you are away from home, no matter how I young or how old you are, if you have father and 1 ni"iher send them an Easter letter. In the folds put 1 a tlnwer that its perfume may carry to them your prayer that they may be spared you yet another One liny 'boy of six years has been talking of j L: Eater for weeks. His mother says that she is j going to do all she can to help him realize his f mMk. He has invited all his "friends" 1o din- - in r. She loeMi't know them all. but there is Jim, I who brings the morning paper; Charlie lives in the. L.uj'1-omo house three dnrs away the dinner I would be nothing without him. Phil brings home ? 1 1n- wah every week. ' ;' "The wash rwoman is not his mother," explains I ihe boy, "he never had one, but he is fine." More j :1jjii one g.d play tlfse two boyB have had together on rainy days. So far nine have leeu invited, but I :ilmot every day there is a new ''friend added to : the li-t. ihe'bestW of all.' How 1 envy the mother and bow I would like to j b one of those "best friends'' on Easter day. ' And now, children, you' who are at home from j -,.!,, j,lW are. you going to spend your Easter vacation? Just think a bit, and see if you can't ! do something that you will le glad to remember all ihmugh the springtime and the summer. Easter f is a good season for Sunshine, even though there may be plenty of rain in the early part of the I month. Isn't there some chibl of your own age, right i near your homo, to whom a book" that you could sp8ro nr a drive lhat you could arrange for would ho a joy? Isn't there a cripple or a sick child any- 1 where close to you, whom you are in the habit of j forgetting too much? Isn't there an old man or an 1 1 old woman for whom you can do something? If 1 there isn't then 1 wish I knew where you live. if Cynthia Allen in Ladies' Home Journal.. I J IRISH FAIRY TALES. IJT TIR-XA-X-OGE. I (There i a country called Tir-na-n-Og,- which I means the Counlry of the Young, for age and I death have not found it; neither tears nor loud f laughter have gone near it. The shadiest boskage eoyers it perpetually. One man has gone there and returned. The bard, Oisen, who wandered away on a white horse, moving on the surface of the foam with his- fairy Xiamh, lived- there 300 years, and ihen returned looking for his comrades. The moment mo-ment his foot touched the earth his 300 years fell on him. and he was bowed double, and his beard i swept the ground. He described his sojourn in the . , fk Land of Youth 1o St. Patrick before he deid Since? Sj ihen many have secen it iu many places; some in the depths of lakes, eivi have heard rising therefrom a vague sound of bells; more have secen it far off on the horizon, as they peered out fronj the western west-ern cliffs. 'Xot three years ago a fisherman imagined imag-ined that ho saw it. It never appears unless to announce some national trouble. There are many kindred beliefs. A Dutch pilot, stttled m Dublin, told M. De La Boullage Le Cong, who traveled m Ireland in 1014, that round the poles were many islands, some hard to be approached because of the witches who inhabit them and destroy de-stroy by storms those who seek to land. He had once, off the coast of Greenland, in 01 degrees of latitude, secen and approached such an island only to see it vanish. Sailing in an opposite direction, they met with the same island, and sailing near, were almost destroyed by a furious tempest. According to many stories, Tir-na-n-Og is the, favorite dwelling of the fairies. Some sav it is triple the island of the living, the island of victories, vic-tories, and an underwater land). UP-TO-DATE POLITENESS. In a Chicago woman's club the other day the discussion turned' on "small courtesies," and among other asphorisms offered were these: Thank you and if you please are always in fashion. fash-ion. Small courtesies are always the product of tho gentle heart. The hardest of all the small courtesies is always to look pleasant. Politeness is the outward expression of a loving heart. The best place 1o teach politeness is in the home, for the parent represents the child's ideal of perfection. ' Politeness' in little things is most appreciated, because it usually is most unexpected. Wicked people are not trained in homes whore courtesy prevails. The man who jostles a woman- on the street, or who refuses to give up his seat in a car to a woman, is apt to be a criminal at heart. One deception that is excusable at all times is that of looking and acting pleasant when yon feel the opposite. HIGHEST CROSS IN THE WORLD. The highest cross in the world is said to be that which caps the loftiest peak of the Harz mountains. moun-tains. The cross is in reality a tower, and it commands com-mands a magnificent view of the country around. The height of the tower is 120 feet, and it staands on a mountain 1,731 feet above the sea level. A stair of 200 steps leads to the top of the cross, but iherc is. an elevator, of which the people avail themselves who for any reason wish to avoid the long climb. A TINY DOG. The Mexican lapdog is so very minute in size as to appear almost incredible to those who have not actually seen the animal itself. A well known writer on natural history, speaking of this tiny member of the canine species, says lhat ''it is precisely pre-cisely like those white woolen toy dogs which sit upon a pair of bellows and when pressed give forth a nondescript sound inteded to do duty for a legitimate le-gitimate banrk." THE VALUE OF OLD MEN. (From Frank Leslie's Monthly for April.) America is the young man's country, we are told, because so many of the conspicuous figures-among figures-among us are young men. The thing is saia conventionally, con-ventionally, as if there were some moral virtue in being young; as if, too, the greatest tragedy in American history was not the death some forty years ago of half a million men in the prime of . life, which deprived our generation of its wisest counsellors. Experience is the only school which gives a degree honored of all men, ami a man of three score, with the . vigor of life still, in him, should .be the most useful citizen of a community. '. The awful, catastrophe at Baltimore furnished a splendid instance. The conflagration had been raging for twelve, hours. Chief Horton of the fire, department had been disabled by a live wire. The fighters were without a head. Then William C. McAfee, veteran fire chief, retired for age and accounted ac-counted an old man, offered his services to the mayor. They were accepted. Donning his oilskins and grabbing his trumpet, the old chief went into action. At once the men. knew they had a leader. They needed one. The fire was roaring down to the river bank where were some great rosin works filled with turpentine. And as they went so must go East Baltimore. "There will be h 1 to pay if the fire gets into that resin." yelled McAfee through his trumpet. "If enough of you men will follow me, we'll go in there and dump the whole outfit into tho bay." . They followed the leader and they saved East Baltimore. CANONIZATION OF IRISH MARTYRS. The archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Walsh, has just issued n pastoral letter which was read in all the churches of the diocese, announcing the welcome news that proceedings have been instituted for the canonization of the Irish men and women who suffered suf-fered death for the faith during the persecutions in Ireland. The Irish bishops requested the archbishop arch-bishop to institute the inquiry, and all Irish people, clergy and laity, are deeply gratified to hear that the first steps have been taken in the process of raising rais-ing our Irish martyrs to the altars of the church. Freeman's Journal. - ' A ' |