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Show L'P AGAINST TOUGH PROBLEM Small Jane's Scruples Prevented Her From Eating the Candy That Had Been "Lent." Little Jane's mother brought home a box of candy given to her by an Kpi;opal friend shortly before Faster, Fas-ter, and passed -around some of Its contents to her children, explaining that Mr j. Cox's children had given up eating candy until after Easter, "so they cannot eat any now, as It is Lent." Little Jane's brothers promptly ate their pieces, but she stood looking' at the candy in her band with a puz.led air. "Why don't you eat it, Jane?" her mother asked. "Because," she explained, "then how could I give it back if it's just lent?" A Youthful Logician. Margaret is only seven years old, but sometimes quite naughty. On one of these occasions her mother, Imping to be particularly impressive, said: "Pon't you know that if you keep on doing so many naughty things your children will he naughty, too'" Margaret dimpled, and cried triumphantly: tri-umphantly: "Oh, mother, now yon have given yourself away!" Harper's Magazine. |
