Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-09-02 | Page 20 | Children's Smart Sayings

II f ALL IN THE MIND. I ! RANDMOTHER was talking about a peck of I ! ' trouble, and Willie listened very attentive- J ly. When he got home he told his mother that I Ij grandmother had a bushel of something, but he I;. j could not remember what, j', j! j "Cucumbers?" aBked mother, who know some- ? ' thing of grandmother's plans. P J "Oh, no," said Willie, "it Is not anything to eat; It Is just something you think you have." j:- WHEEE SHE CAME IN. t. F I had 520 I would buy more things than this ) 1 house could hold," said Tommy. "I wouldn't," said Albert. "I would buy " and, looking at hiB little sister, continued, "a dl- araond ring for Mollle." Mollle, suspicious of such generosity, declared: "I would not havo your diamond ring, but you'd better pay the nickel you owe me." , I HAD BEACHED HIS LIMIT. ) I C USIE and Philip were playing. Philip some- f what roughly. Their uncle had asked Philip not to jump down from the chair. J "If you do that again," he said, "you may t' break your neck." ' Susie, who had heard over and over again In 5j the family the phrase, "It's the last you'll get," ' spoke up. jj3" "Tes," she said, "and that's the last neck you will get." DEVOID OF ROMANCE. JUI OTHER," said Theresa, "If I went away up to the top of that high building and out on the roof and couldn't get down again, don't you think God would give me wings like a bird and let me fly up to heaven and be an angel?" "No," said Bennlc, entering into the conversation conversa-tion without being invited, "if you tried that flying fly-ing stunt you'd bo a lame duck, If not a dead ono." MARY'S KIND. YUS ART wants a box of consecrated lye," said AVA Martha. "Tou mean 'concentrated,' " said mother, who was making out the grocery list. "That's what Mary said, mother, and she said It acted like a charm." THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. 7 ATHER, did you know Christ was a Jew?" asked Johnnie, just home from church. "Yes," said father. "Oh, father, I always thought ho belonged to our church," said Johnnie, genuine regret In his voice.