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Show . s . . - - . . j LETTER-WHITING DIRECTIONS, f'l II Avrite on one side of paper only. II Do not have letters too long. Address nil letters to "Aunt Busy." In- 1:1 lermouutain Catholic. HER LITTLE FELLOW YET. 1 "What funny creatures mothers arc! f I sometimes laush to see t li For all my bimiess and my age j How mine looks after me. a ?hr wants to warm me when I'm cold, II To dry me when I'm wet: y I do believe she. thinks me just A little fellow yet: I'm not a schoolhov any more, "f With satchel at my back: jt won't he many years before I don the haversack. I'm going: to join the volunteers Mv father was a "vet" .And purely then 1 will not be (A little fellow yet: Ah. well, the mother's cood as gold. And kind as kind can be; I There's no one else in all the world j That's half as kind to me. So let her think.it if she wi!!. When I. too. am a "vet" It may be 1 will wish I were i Her little fellow yet: V. A. Maitland. in Christian Work. AUNT BUSY HAS HEE HAY. Dear Nieces and Nephews Aunt Busy js wishing that you would show a little more interest in her. She only received two letters this week, and she wishes to thank the two dear children chil-dren for remembering- her. Poor old v. auntie: She will have to wear stronger inp out watching for letters. Aunt Busy is also anxious to hear from new nieces and nephews. Now, ' , dear children, please remember that . ' y there is a funny looking little old lady, y i' with white hair and spectacles, who looks for letters from some dear bright i children every week; and when the letters do not come the old lady is almost al-most ready to cry, jitst as she used to do many, many years ago. This old lady is your ever loving AUNT BUST. LETTERS AND ANSWERS. Butte City. Mont, July 50. Dear Aunt Busy This 1s my first letter to you. I have two sisters who are going- to write to you soon. I have a pretty baby sister; her name is Agnes. Ag-nes. "Well, this is all for this time. Your loving1 niece, LILLIAN HOWARD. Aunt Busy gladly welcomes you, Lil- ! f lian. Tou write a remarkably good hand. "What system do you use? Write soon again. Denver, Colo., July 29. A. Dear Aunt Busy I hope you will ex- cuse me for waiting so long, to write to you. My gTandpa died last month and we all feel verj' bad. I say a prayer every night for his soul. I will dose now with love to yu, Aunt Busy. Your niece, MARY SCOTT. You are a dear good child and Aunt Busy is proud of you. The dear grandpa grand-pa is waiting and watching for you in heaven, so be a good child aDd some day you will see him again. About the Blues. Young people should never have an attack of the blues. But some of them delight to take gloomy -views of life, to cultivate sadness, to think that they ar badly treated or having a hard - time to get along in the world, and to imagine tnat tney are gums iu uic early. This is a foolish frame of mind Jor most of them. The blues usually come from a clogged liver or an overworked Etom-A Etom-A s h- A man in perfect health rarely f gives way to melancholy. If he does the cause of it is usually that he is in the state of sin. .Sadness belongs to J'atan. The good should rejoice alwys. A clear eon-si eon-si -iefi'-e is a pretty s-rfe r'efense against the blues. THE FOUE O'CLOCKS. Thf- litile brown-eyed maiden led Mv f-et to find her posy bed. Thf ci't of seeds she put too deep J" v!i in the springtime earth to sleep, all that grew were four o'clocks. A -id now the blossoms flamed in JlocKs; T:,. white, the striped, the crimson gems I:.-!!! riot on the branching stems, A; ! in the liht of afternoon ' r.i.osomed to the bee's low tune. Knrh cud seemed filled with sweet in- f 1 Aiid now a whirr, a noising tense And mv wee maid nor spoke, nor stirred, h-.-t we should scare the humming bird.: --vra A. Matson Dolson, in Ladies. Tenderest of Mothers. An old soldier who, for more than f...rty vears, had led a life of irreliglon a:, dissipation, and who wa. m known by his companions or nsnb -ver to have been a Catholic. 8Uddenl Moi.d the priest one day as he was losing the little cottage where he liwl. and surprised the m" Z tiling him that he wanted to go to. uyTr'e you a Catholic?" inquired l'Ves!''father," was the reply:, "that 5s io sav, I was once a Catholic. "'"ertainly you may wne :Jnr" ion whenever you wish, saia i M'iest. "But I am curious to know w hat Jims impelled you lo this step? It tan hardly be fear of immediate death, for ; you look as well and hearty as I eer ! ' 1 was never better in my We. " Plid the man. "For the past tortnW Hiave been feeling unusually e"- f ul t .:i.KhinS has taken hold of faen fj A vague unrest, which e beVn -rib.-. For several days I hae been -yin to myself that the tll "aw you I would ask if I migm b 1 "And afterward?" queried the Pig "You intend to lead a goofi Chstun life to the end of your daj I JPded "That is my lotion, respon the soldier-"ith God's help father With God's help, of courbe. j s-rved the priest. -Without his s ' , we can do nothing. I am rejoiced at your good disposition, my friend, and you may come this evening at 7 o'clock." "eVry well, father. But you will help me, I hope. I have forgotten all about confession, and I do not know any prayers." "No prayers at all not the 'Our Father?' Surely you musf have known that in childhood." "1 have forgotten it." "Or the 'Hail Mary?' " "I have forgotten that also." "Well, well. But you must have said some prayers, now and then, to have received the grace which Almighty God is working in your soul." ''No. I have never said any prayer, because, as I told you, I do not know any. But there are a couple of litttle verses my mother taught me more than fifty years ago. Often at night when I am in bed they come into my mind a matter of habit, you see, and frequently I have fallen asleep while murmuring them to myself." ""Will you say, them for me now?" asked the priest, quietly, "I would like to hear them." The old man "began, without the least trace of self-consciousness: "I put my trust forever, O Mary pure, in thee; Then show thyself a mother, And daily succor me. "And when death's hand shall touch me. Thy pity I implore; Oh. lead me, dearest Mother, To God forever more!" "My dear friend, don't you know," said the priest, "that, though you may have been entirely unconscious of it yourself, the Blessed Mother of God, whom none has ever invoked in vain, has always had you in her keeping? You have great cause for gratitude. Come to me this evening; it wil not take long to restore to your memory the 'Our Father,' the 'Hail Mary and the Act of Contrition." As th priest pursued his homeward walk, he said to himself: "I believe, in spite of his apparent good health, that the hand of death has touched him." And so it proved. The old man made a good confession and received holy communion the next morning. The following fol-lowing day he was found dead in his bed. Ave Maria. "Jacks" is an. Ancient Game. What little girl is there who has not played jacks? In practically every civilized civ-ilized country the children play jacks. They may have different rules as to what makes a miss or a game, but they pick up the jacks in the same way, with the same quick movement. The game is so old that t one knows just when it was invented. At any rate, it is known that the little children chil-dren in Egypt played jacks, although they called them something quite different. dif-ferent. The jacks they used were little pieces of bone. The bones were little knuckle bones, very smooth, and with several corners, so that they could be picked up quickly. In some of the tombs of the Egyptians these little bones have been found lying beside the mummies of little children, so that it is supposed that the jacks, or whatever they called them, which these children played with so long ago, were buried with them. It is thought that jumping the rope is as old a pastime as jacks. Little girls have been swinging ropes for other little girls to jump through for two or three thousand years at least, and possibly, pos-sibly, much longer. FAHRENHEIT THERMOMETER. Origin of a Scientific Instrument in Every Day Use. (New Orleans Times-Democrat.) Sir Samuel "Wilks, writing to Knowledge, Knowl-edge, gives the history of the origin of Fahrenheit's thermometer, which is generally used in this country- It was really invented by Sir Isaac Newton, and the starting point of his scale was the heat of the human body. Newton's New-ton's paper is to be found in the "Philosophical "Phil-osophical Transactions" for the year 1701. He describes his instrument as a glass tube filled with linseed oil, and to it he attached a scale to measure the-degree the-degree of heat of the liquid into which he plunged it. His lowest point was that of freezing, as his highest was that of boiling water. He chose for the starting point on his scale the heat of the human body, and this he called by the round number 12, the duodecimal system "being then in use that is, he divided the space between the freezing point and the temperature of the body into twelve parts. He further stated that the boiling point would be about 30, as it was nearly three times that tv,a vmman body. A few years afterward, when Fahrenheit Fah-renheit was working at the subject of heat he took Newton's instruments for his experiments, but finding the scale not minute enough, he divided each degree into two -parts, and so made it measure 24 instead of 12 He also did more, for, finding he could obtain ob-tain lower temperatures than freezing and notably that of i and salt mixed together he took this for hss starting point. It was from this point he began to count 24 degrees up to body heat. This made, by his measurements b the point for freezing. Boiling pomt he made r3 It then became zero, freezing ? body heat 24 and boiling water 53. Thfs was really the same as Newton's, inly the scale started lower and the numbers were doubled. Later on, fin?-Sig fin?-Sig that he could measure increments of heat more minutely, Fahrenheit divided di-vided each degree i-nto four parts.It will now be seen that if the numbers Just mentioned are multipliea by four we hive the thermometer which is now in use. . |
