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Show 1? 6tir Boys and "ffirls I i Edited by Aunt Busy. WHAT A BOY CAN DO. i Thet,e arc pome of the things that a boy tan do: l I i He can liout so loud the air turns blue; t j I He can make all the sounds of the beast and bird f ? And a thousand more they never heard. 1 !. I I I He ran crow or cackle, chirp or cluck ' l ; i Jill he fools the rooster, hen or duck. , 1 He can mock the dog; or l3tvib or cow, I And the cat herseir can't, beat his "me-ow." i ; ! i He has Founds that are ruffled, striped or plain; Li He can thunder br like a railroad train,, i ? Stop at the stations. .a breath and then Apply the steam and be off again. s He has all of his powers in such command j He can turn riffh'l into a full brass band, With all of the instruments ever played, ; And march away as a street parade.1 ? You can tell that a oi- is very ill ; If he's wide awake. and is keeping still. But earth would he r;od bleu? their woise: A dull old place if there were no boys. 1 . Nixon "Waterman. AUNT BUSY HAS HER SAY. ! Doar XiVct's anl Nephew?: I Aunt Busy's olil. ffrny hoad is Ht Jat free from I llio anxiety shout iho lub name. The one selected 1 I 13 "Aunt Pu-y"s Sunlwams," the prize being won I by a nephew hwjiv up in northern Montana. I One dear little jrirl. Mary Kelly of Albany. X. 1 ' j V.. pusrpostrnl "The Sunbcams.r nearly winning ihc 5 v ' prize, but the other name was preferred. Aunt Busy never, eould select the name be- I cause she loves all the young people very dearly, so I her very good friend, ihe editor of the Salt Lake Herald; was the judpre. Aunt Busy will tell you I - something: that you must not tell. The editor felt ' the responsibility of the selcetion to be so import- flBt lhat ho had one olhcr editor and two ye ry clever I reporters to assist. I licbert O'Connor of Columbia Falls, Mont., is f - the prize winner. Aunt Busy congratulates him : Heartily and will send iho dollar bill this week. Aunt Buy hopes that all the children will be pleased uth the name. ' ' This week "s he prints the report of the "Sun- jhino'work already bein? done by the Sunbeams. I - and hopes to have such pood reports every week. ? She roamins. dear nieces and nephews, your lov- 1 ins old AUXA BUSY. j I - AUNT BUSY'S SUNBEAMS, The St. Lawrence branch, consisting of ' fire i nieces.. report sending twelve eents to the Thanks- I giving dinner given by ihc Salvation Armv. I I Ten little Denver girls arc each dressing a' doll ; to be given to ten poor children for Chridstmas. ; The Buds and Blossoms' branch, consisting of ix little girls, are framing pictures to be present- ' .' "'d to old ladies at. the poor house for Christmas. Four dear girls are planning to eacli send a tor.v book costing 2o cents to the lvearns St. I t nn"s orphanage. 1 ... A family consisting of three girls and two boys i ?K-h send a penny a week to the St. Anthony guild j 1 established here in Salt Lake. LETTERS AND ANSWERS. i Ogden, Utah, Xov. 17. ; Dear Aunt Busy Most all the Ogden boys are writ ing you. so I thought I would write, too. A pretty ' name for your club would me "The Club that makes t all God's children oup and equal.'' I hope the Og-. Og-. ... --ifrrf hoy"wW get thcr nribzc: It isa beautiful: idea to get up a club to help the poor little children who ' i have no one to care for them. T am an altar boy and about the largest boy in the school. I am working hard for the gold medal in Christian doctrine at ihe cud of ihe year. You' know Father Cushnahan has promised the medal, f and lhat is the reason I am working so hard. Love 1 from all ihe boys. WALTER BAUCIIMAX. i A glad welcome -from Aunt Busy, Walter. .The OgrJn boys are very dear to her. Best wishes for j winning the medal ! - . Carr, Colo., Xov. 25. l)'ai Aon- Busy I will write you a letter, as I ' snw my ;,st in the paper. We milk twenty-six cow- now. We are done putting up our hay. We went pick.;:;g cod yesterday. All wc children went except Paul. Martha, 3dary and Dinnysius, and Agues Ag-ues and Le and pupa and myself went. I help I milk morning and night. 1 was 0 years old Oct. 11, s and Nora made mc birt Inlay cakes. We still drive 1 'lie snnie horse. Bert. We have got the pictures of I 'Washington, Lincoln and Longfellow framed and arc hanging in our schoolroom. There are eleven i coes to our school, but one left. There are twelve i e;its in our school. We have got a flag for the i school and flagpole. We are practicing on. a dia- ! I Topue for Thanksgiving, and my name in the dia- '. h'guc is Mrs. Will Judsou. I think your nieces . of Colorado neglect you. As it is time for me to feed i the chickens, will close. From your loving niece, ; AXASTASIA MAXTEY j Aunt Busy is always happy to hear from her dear little friends at Cflrr. She sends her dear love to all the little folks. Salt Lake City, Xov. 16. ? Dear Aunt Busy I thought to write you a let- tor. This is my second loiter to you. I've thought out a name for ihe club. I think St. Marie would ; be a nice name. Tim is all I can think of. so good- by. From your loving niece, GLADYS 1IEGXEY. Aunt Busy is very sure that her little niece, Gladys, is a very dear child. She thinks she must I be a very holy lit lie person, who docs not know how : 1 1o even laugh, she is so serious. Is Aunt Busy ' right? i Ogden. Utah, Xov. IS. Dear Aunt Busy I think St. Agnes would be ! b nice name for your club. I am in the fourth grade. I like to go 1e school very much. Wo take ihe Intermountain Catholic and I like to read Aunt Busy's comer. Love from all the girls. Your loving lov-ing niece. CASSIEM'LAUGHLIX. : Aunt Busy greets you warmly, little Ogden niece. Thank you for your kind words for Aunt Busy's department. HEART BEAUTY. "It is a pity that Margaret is so well, is so horrid homely." "Margaret homely! You would never say thai if you knew her better' Mrs. Carter looked up in surprise. "Certainly no one would call those irregular features anything but ugly." Poor girj. she must fed it when she is with her sisters, for their beauty is such a contrast." "You never ihink of her features when you arc about tor. She is so ready to do a favor, and is so kind and gentle in her ways. She has always a kind i word for everybody." I heard a slight rustle behind mc, and glanced i around just in time to see "Margaret disappear down ? ihe stops; she must have been reading in her favor- . ie nook among the honeysuckles at the end of the I j piazza. That night she came into my room as usual ' - for a little chat before. retiring, but she was, uu- I usually quiet as she sat on the stool at my feet and f V gazed at the fire in the grate, for the night wa 3 f Coh " " : ' k 41 don't know what you will think of mbc," she '! i said at last, and there was a tremor in her voice, "but I could not help overhearing what you said about me this afternoon, and I want to thank .you for it. You see.-1 am so 'horrid homely,' as Mrs. Carter said, and I have always felt it, especially when people will compare me with Edith and Laura, and speak of their beauty. Don't think that I am envious. I am proud of them that they are so pretty, pret-ty, but I cannot help being sensitive about my ugliness. ug-liness. -I used to get angry and fret because my hair wouldn't curl, and because my mouth was so large and my nose, such an ugly shape; until I guess I was getting as ugly inside as I was out," she smiled sadly. 'One day an old woman came to the house selling laces, and when she went out of the gate she fell. I ran down and helped her up and straightened the things in her basketa for her. She-laid She-laid her hand on my shoulder and said: 'God bless you. young lecdy, youse not. got the beauty that's skin deep. Xo, youse. not got skin beauty; youse got the heart beauty; that's inside. Youse got a kind word for an old woman. God bless you, child.' '"Well, lhat 'heart In-auly' was a new idea to me, and I thought over it a great deal; and I made up my mind that. I would try to have that, if I could hot have the 'skin beauty.' and if I. was kind to everybody they wouldn't think of my ugly face. What you said this afternoon well, it made me feel that I was gaining a little at least. It was the first time 1 ever heard any one say that I was anything any-thing but horrid ugly." She laughed, but there were tears in the gray eyes that looked into mine. ''Heart beauty. T shall try 1o have it if I can.' she said half aloud, then gazed fixedly again into the lire. Xrw York Observer. . J A. |
