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Show BOYS LIKE TO OWN THINGS Give Your Sci Possessions That He Ma,"Keep,'' and He Will Treasure Treas-ure Them. fc The average ooy believes firmly in '.he principle of the private ownership ' personal property. He would rather b the sole possessor of a broken l.:ic.tll('d knife with no blades thait a t"'.- handled, four-bladed affair in ifVership. asserts tiomas W. Lloyd 'Mnt 5 Magazine. ;;. r Jft. the desire to own something 'possess property is inherent in '" ni.ink.ind. And mothers should en-I en-I . I'-avor (o foster this desire, it will V -'nl orn increase the boy's happiness, j but win t,.;,( h him the value of acqui- : j "Hon. v..,hjn proper limits lie W"!a",,'""- l,is own P'ny'hins-'s. his L'b'-'" ''' '' ' 'I ' b''lk-. w II ' ke is permitted to do th;s y-" '' In "u'.'':r cMri'Jf things tint - If. ' ' ' l''1goriyr,I"'r:biP- and he w ill I Xid t0l" h"ve a place for his" place. And this is a valuable lesson. ; Lo not make a younger boy wear his older brothers clothing" which the i hitter has outgrown, if it"can be avoid- ed. Of course iu some families. 1 where every cent counts, .this cannot ! bi helped. Every hoy. and we speak, from experience, hates to wear another's an-other's clothes. He wants his own ! Give him his own bureau drawer ! and at least a portion of a closet, and ; teach him habits of .orderliness and system in the care of his possessions, i These habits are easily learned when i young, and their value to the man of business is incalculable. Satisfied. Hut thai it would cost too '-''h to print it. the landlady would v .'.ly include this story in her .ti i rlise-nient rlise-nient every time t-hp n . I.oarders In answe r to :.tt adicrM. n.ent that y- .i.bh; lied h' lore the story happened, hap-pened, sue received as "paying guests" a lady and g -nileniau and liu'.o girl who had come down in the world. I Their descent was comparatively re- ' cent, and the lady still mourned departed de-parted grandeur. She had hopes of getting some of it bacTSl k ' to that end she instructeuT11"' 'v girl to pray, on tr-.e night ot S Pr0 V , rival at the boarding house. tiaway would soon give them their prVi&O-! prVi&O-! home again. ;-' ;-' The child opened her eyes ajid looked around the comfortably furnished furn-ished room "1 f.'on't see anything the matter with this." she said. Queer Fable About Cotton. When cotton first came to Europe , to make its principal center in Lan-chashire Lan-chashire it was the subject of the I qi:-.iint and wonderful fable of the ! "Vegetable Lamb." The Huffy white i libers of the bursting cotton pod so : resembled sheep's wool that travelers reported that in Tartary there grew a shrub the fruit or boll of which contained con-tained "v.ithinne a lyttle lieaste in ricsche. in Bone and Uloode. as though it were a lyttle Lauibe with outer wool." After the lamb had been eaten the wool was made into cluth, : continued this story, which is the earliest European account of the manufacture man-ufacture of cotton. |
