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Show !, the :! A Y' r . " : as- I j I LETTER-WHITING DIRECTIONS. rlia j! Tny I f rlta on one side o paper only. I ; T?.1101 have otters too long. 3 of I Address all letters to "Aunt Eusy." In- and I termouutain Catholic ?n I IN JOHNNY'S POCKET. , net fl An old shoestring and a sixpenny nail, lin- I w fcome crocf-r's twine and the shell of a I snail, l0 fj Two hickorv nuts and an old brass pin, j- ff A lumo of cum and a bit of tin. ,. a Two marbles, a ton and a fishhook or if tw. ta A do2en "B" shot and his father's corked' cork-ed' "If - screw. m Jf ' A button, a knife and a leather string. 0 fl .Tobacco tags, of kinds galore, . A penny whistle and an apple core, fl Four carpet tacks and a discarded locket t.j y 1 found tonight in my sweet boy's pocket. n" AUNT BUSY HAS HER SAY. ta I I Dear Nieces and Nephews: ut; Aunt Busy's dear children are now f entering- into another school year. The ,'o 1 happy vacation days are ended and only the memories remain, n. Aunt Busy hopes that the coming t school year will prove successful for ' ! you all. Of course, you know that 8 i- its success or its failure is in your e I own hands. Aunt Busy does not want ! to "preach." but she earnestly hopes a 1 that you have resolved to Improve f every moment of your school year. J Study hard for the sake of the good i parents w ho sacrifice so much for you; study hard and prepare the way for the time when you will have to enter f the world and receive your share of its responsibilities. Aunt Busy hopes to hear often from i her dear children. She extends to you all her earnest wishes for a happy and successful school year. f AUNT BUSY. LETTERS AND ANSWERS. Carr, Colo., Aug. 28. j Dear Aunt Busy I was down pick- 1 lng berries and choke cherries In our meadow yesterday. I scared two rab-j rab-j bits down in the bushes. Coming j home we saw seven rabbits, and Joe, j my big brother, killed them. We had, f rahhit for breakfast and dinner today M 1 am 6 years old now. My favorite trait of character is . kindness. Your I loving nephew. 1 DIONYSIUS MANTEY. I Aunt Busy is always pleased to hear j from you, dear nephew. My! but j Aunt Busy feels sorry for the poor S little "bunnies." Tell brother Joe that Aunt Busy hopes he kills them quick- "i t ly, so they do not suffer, j "Write soon again. Carr, Colo.. Aug. 28. . f Dear Aunt Busy I will write you a . letter. Mamma, papa and the baby went to Fort Collins last month. Mam- f ma brought home many nice things j from Fort Collins. Mamma is going ! to have the baby baptized. His name, I will be Paul. I love the baby; he can I augh real loud. Aunt Busy, I kissed lis wee mouth for you. The trait of I :haracter that I like best is charity. t will close for this time. From your i oving niece, ANASTASIA MANTEY. Aunt Busy was so delighted- to hear from her dear little Manteys. She j has missed hearing from you this sums' sum-s' nier, but, of course, you were enjoying ' vacation. Paul is a splendid name for the dear baby. Aunt Busy hopes to receive a letter from him some day. Thank you j, d-ar for kissing baby. Kiss the dear, Fweet boy very often for Aunt Busy, j She loves every darling baby in the f whole world. Carr, Colo., Aug. 28. ; L Dear Aunt Busy I have not written l T ' you for a long time, but I did not lil to read the letters in uie paper. M- favorite trait of character is humility, hu-mility, because Christ has said, "He that exalteth himself shall be hum-Hed. hum-Hed. and he that humbleth himself Khali be exalted." Our family was picking berries down in the meadows the other day. There I are a number of sheep camps down here. We killed seven rabbits. The I bushes are loaded down with choke- I cherries. I picked two gallons. Our f meadows are filled with them. A few the long, beautiful days, with berry-j berry-j around the loop southwest of our I ranch. We had vacation two weeks ago. Hoping to see this letter in print, - I w ill close. From your loving niece, AGNES MANTEY. Aunt Busy was coming through , - Colorado a few weeks ago and she was thinking of her little friends at Carr station. She saw many dear children I playing in beautiful meadows and she ! '-vished they were the little people who write her such interesting letters. JL Aunt Busv loves to hear about your f happy home life. Your news about the cherries in the meadows remind hf-r of when she ran around all all the long, beautiful day with berry-gained berry-gained face and hands; but she was so happy. She likes to hear how you -njoy yourselves, because a happy vnuth means so much when one grows f id Write often, dear, and tell Joe that Aunt Busy wishes he would write to her. Denver, Colo., Aug. 30. Dear Aunt Busy-I will write you my first letter, hoping that you are well. I am going to school next week. We have two cows and-some chickens. I vuld write to you sooner, but I was very urjrr vacation. Well, -ood-bye. -iobt insntec. A glad welcome, little Denver niece, from Aunt Busy. She is very fond of her bright children who live in the beautiful -Queen" City. She ho .pes to , hear from you very often for the fu- t ture Best wishes for a successful ' ' school year, little Marie. Dancing Water Drops. 4U Scatter a few drops of water over 1 dusty ground, and you will see them assume the form of little balls, and roll about separately. This is due to thf fact that the water of which the drops are composed is not sufficient to penetrate between the particles of .lust and spread out so as to wet the ground. Let a drop of water fall on a hot iron, and it will take the form of a ball, too. That is because it is protected pro-tected from the action of the heat by the cushion of steam between it and the iron. Laundresses are in the habit of touching the bottom of an iron with a wet finger as a means of testing the iron's heat. The contact makes a slight hissing noise, but it does not burn the finger, for the little cushion of steam protects it. . This property that a drop of water has of retaining its globular form will enable you to make a very pretty experiment. ex-periment. A drop of water on ordinary paper will spread out and wet the paper, for the two have great affinity for each other, but if you coat the paper with lampblack or plumbago, the drop will retain its globular form. Get, therefore, there-fore, a strip of strong, paper, six inches wide by three or four feet in length, and coat one side of it with lampblack or plumbago. Now place upright on a table five or six books of decreasing size, and pin the paper to the backs of them, leaving leav-ing depressions in the paper between the books. The depressions should decrease de-crease in depth toward the books of smaller size. Pour some water, drop after drop, on the paper where it falls over the largest book, and the drops will run down the first depression, one after another, and havnig thus gained momentum, they will continue their course over all the depressions, and roll into a plate at the lower end. The Crane's Desire. Did you ever hear the old fable of the swan and the crane? A beautiful swan alighted on the banks of the water wa-ter in which a crane was wading about seeking snails. For a few moments the- crane viewed the swan in stupid wonder, and then "inquired: "Where do you come from?" "I came from heaven," replied the swan. "And where Is heaven?" asked the crane. "Heaven!" said the swan, "heaven; have you never heard of heaven?" And the beautiful bird went on to describe the grandeur of the Eternal City. She told of the streets of gold and the gates and walls mads of precious stones; of the river of life, pure as crystal, upon whose banks is the tree whose leaves shall be for the healing of the nations. In eloquent terms the swan sought to describe the hosts who live in the other world, but without arousing the slight est interest on the part of the crane. Finally the crane asked: "Are there any snails there?" "Snails:" repeated the swan; "no! of course there are not." "Then," said the crane, as it continued contin-ued its search along the slimy banks of the pool, "you can have your heaven. I want snails." This fable has a deep truth underlying under-lying it. How many a young person to whom God has granted the advantages of- a Christian home has turned his back upon it, and searched his wife, his family, his all, for the snails of sin? How many a girl has deliberately turned from the love of parent and home to learn too late that heaven has feen forfeited for snails? |