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IN CHILDISH FANCY
VIEWS OF LIFE FROM THE INFAN.
TILE STANDPOINT.
Remarks That Have a Tendency to
Seem Irreverent to Older Per
son Really But Evidence
of Simple Faith.
The child heart, the child spirit,
with its adorable freshness and naivete
of outlook, is responsible for a peren
nial crop of "good stories." To the
normal child everything in this
strange, huge world is so wonderful
that he has no special sense of re
moteness from anything, while it is
hard to make unanswerable demands
upon his credulity. Simple faith is
quite easy to him, because he has to
take practically everything on faith,
anyway. Much of the misnamed "ir
reverence" of the little ones arises
from this inevitable attitude of mind.
A recent writer, for instance, tells
of a little boy who, after thinking
much of the omnipresence of the Cre
ator, asked his mother at nightfall:
"Mother, God is everything, isn't
he? Then he is right in the room
with us right in this little bed with
me?" Then, with a smile so sweet
and affectionate as to be almost an
gelic, "I'm going to move over and
give him lots of room."
The same little fellow upon another
occasion astonished his maternal par
ent by an unexpected but perfectly
sincere prayer.
"Please. God, send down to my
house another boy just about my size
for me to fight with!" I
This child, while deeply religious In
temperament, also was very passion
ate. One day his father, shocked at
an unwonted display of temper suc
ceeding a fit of religious fervor, re
monstrated thus:
"My son, I should think you'd be
ashamed to be so bad, and you scarce
ly up . from your knees from asking
God to make you a better boy."
"Well, I asked him hard enough,"
was tbe surprising answer, half
choked with sobs, "but if he can't do
it alone I'm not going to help him!"
The child's sense of logic and jus
tice was fully developed even in early
Infancy. He thought, pondered, came
to reasonable conclusions, knew no
hesitation about expressing his
thoughts. When his mother gently
reproved him for running about the
nursery in a state of nature, the child,
with a simplicity quite free from im
pertinence or irreverence, pointed to a
copy of an old master depicting the
Holy Child and Madonna, hanging
upon the wall.
"He used to done it," he quietly re
plied. The older sister of this small
philosopher was endowed with an un
usually calm and positive nature. Not
hers the fears, the anxieties, the emo
tional storms that afflicted her more
sensitive brother. While still very
young she gave evidence of a genial
tendency to "know it all."
"I wonder what we're of, and how
we're made," pondered the little boy,
after one of his long and silent rev
eries. "I don't know what we're made of,"
little sister responded, briskly, "but
I know just how I'm made. First
there's, little round me that's busy and
does things, then over that I wear a
skeleton of bones, and then all the
sinful lusts of the flesh." Chicago
Record-Herald.
Dolly's Version of It.
Dolly was not quite six when her
mother bought a flock of nine Ply
mouth Rock hens and a rooster, and
diligently explained to Dolly that the
rooster was the "papa hen" and the
rest were all "mamma hens." After
two or three days of confinement, to
accustom them to their coop, they
were let out to wander about the yard,
and Dolly was set to watch them
The hens stayed together nicely, but
the rooster, showed a tendency to
wander into the next-door neighbor's
chicken yard. Dolly chased him back
time and again until she was tired
and out of patience. She turned her
back for a minute, and when she
looked around there were the hens up
by the coop, while the rooster was
sedately pacing across the garden
toward the next yard.
Dolly stamped her foot on the side
walk and screamed, "Come back here!
Como back to your own family." The
rooster proceeded with perfect equa
nimity. Dolly watched him for a mo
ment with a look of utter disgust
Then her mother heard her say very
emphatically in an undertone:
"That's just like you men, anyway
Llpplncott's.
Put It Up to Cannon.
People all over the country write to
Speaker Cannon about everything.
Some of them condemn him and some
praise him, but all of them always
want something for somebody, usually
themselves. But the prize package in
the way of a request dropped in on
Mr. Cannon In the form of a perfectly
respectable looking letter yesterday,
says the Washington Post. Here it is
"Our beaux cannot marry we girls be
cause all foods and clothing are too
high. What good is us girls if we do
not have husbands? Why doi t you
make congress provide husbands for
us? You will do the country more
good by seeing that all the young peo
ple are married. If all the young peo
ple were married we would not need
any congress or president. This world
would then be a paradise. .We must
have husbands. Get some for us."
For reasons of the most profound deli
cacy the writer's name Is omitted, but
the letter is postmarked C'evo-lana, O
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HIS WAY OUT OF IT.
Prospective Tenant (noticing lev-
eral inches of water in the cellar)
My, this cellar leaks.
Landlord It don't leak a drop. That
water has been in here for two
months and not a single dttip in es
caped. How Sharper Than Serpent's Tooth."
An irritable old farmer and his un
gainly, slouching son were busy grub
bing sprouts one hot, sultry day, when
the old man suddenly stumbled over
a small stump.
"Gosh dura that everlasting stump!"
he exclaimed. "I wish it was in hell!"
The son slowly straightened up
from his work and gazed reproachfully
at his father.
"Why, you oughtn't to say that.
pap, be drawled. You mignt stumble
over that stump agin some day.
Everybody's.
The Right Spirit. 1
Apropos of Valentine's day, a pas
senger on the Bermudian said:
"Mark Twain once told us, in a little
Valentine day speech on this boat, of
an Irish wooer who had the right
Valentine spirit. Acceptance or re
jection he could take with equal
grace.
" 'Will ye be my valentine?' he said,
on February 14, to the girl he loved.
" 'No,' she replied ; 'I am another's.'
"He heaved a sigh and said: .
" 'Sure, thin, darlin', I wish ye was
twins, so that I could have at laste
the half of ye.' "
Cold Meat. '
Mrs. Bacon. They say these cold-
storage houses are responsible for the
high price of meat.
Mr. Bacon. Is that so? Well, 1
hope we'll have no more cold moat for
lunch, then. Yonkers Statesman.
Hope is a fine thing, but it doesn't
always enable a man to deliver the
goods.
Nut i ookies.
Use for these tittle cakes a, cupful
nicKory nuts or any other nut pre
rerred. Rub to a cream one pound
light brown sugar and one cupful lard
and butter mixed. Add two wetl
beaten eggs, one cupful sour ijAlk
Into which a rounded teaspoonfulsoda
has been beaten, the cupful nuts and
flour, a little at a time until the dough
Is stiff enough to roll out. Roll thin,
cut in circles of any fancy shape de
sired, place on a well greased pan and
bake In a quick oven for fpur or five
minutes.
Cleaning Lace.
Pure alcohol can be used with won
derful success as a means of cleaning
black Spanish or chantilly lace. The
alcohol should be poured into a clean
basin and whipped with the hand un
til it is frothy, when the lace should
be dipped into it and well worked
about ' with the fingers until the dirt
is removed. After gently squeezing
out the spirit the lace should j be laid
on a folded cloth, the patterned edge
pulled out, each scallop or picot be
ing fastened down with a pin' When
perfectly dry the lace should! be un
pinned and pressed gently between
the palms of the hands until smooth
in lieu of ironing it. as this would
flatten the pattern and spoil trie color.
Woman's Life.
Dressing for Salmon,
One-half teaspoon mustard, line cup
iinpear. one-half cup sugar, ana tea-
snnon flour, one beaten tgg. Cook un
til thickens. Open a can of salmon,
arrange on dish and pour ths over
LOST WORD WAGER
Writer Thought He Could Pro
duce 5,000 Offhand.
Test Showed He Was Able to Write
Only 3,818 In Five Hours and
He Lost a Hat Bet on
the Issue.
By ADAM C. HASELBARTH.
New York. How large is your vo
cabulary? How many different words
can you summon to mind and write in
one hour, two hours or five hours, with
only your memory to guide you? Mil
ton's vocabulary is said to have been
9,000 words; Shakespeare's 15,000. It
has been estimated that an illiterate
person uses from 500 to 1,000 words
and that a well-educated person to-day
knows perhaps as many as 25,000 and
uses 15,000 to 20,000 in conversation.
Even a person who cannot read may
command 5,000 words, according to
writers. Yet, only seven years ago,
Prof. William Swinton said that for
the ordinary English conversation of
adults 4.000 words is a liberal esti
mate. The Century dictionary is said
to contain about 225,000 words and the
Standard lays claim to more than 300,
000. How many of these words do you
know?
Sitting one day with some literary
friends who were discussing the vo
cabulary question, one of them in
quired how many words I thought I
knew. Rashly and with nothing defi
nite on which to base such a conclu
sion, I made a wager that I could
write 5,000 different words in five
hours. A howl of derision greeted my
statement. That fixed my determina
tion to try it. I volunteered to go to
a desk, write for the prescribed period,
trust only to my memory and submit
the papers to them for decision with
out counting the words myself. The
afternoon of the next day was appoint
ed for the self-imposed ordeal.
Armed with plenty of paper and
pencils, I retired to my den at one
o'clock p. m. From that time until
6:00 p. m., with only three minutes'
break for a glass of water, I wrote
words, words, words. As to how many
I was writing I had no conception. Ai
the end of each hour I tossed asid
by themselves the result of the hour's
work.
The physical results of the strain
were to me novel and remarkable. At
the end of the first hour my brain
throbbed and I felt feverish. At the
end of the second I was mentally and
physically weary and my right arm
ached with a dull pain akin to that of
rheumatism. The conclusion of the
third hour found me about "all in." I
trembled and just knew that I looked
pale. It was then that I paused for a
drink. My wife, obviously startled by
my appearance, remarked rather caus
tically, but not without real concern:
"I think it would be wise to stop now.
What's a hat compared with a col
lapse?" I smiled a wan smile and
went back to the job. I returned con
siderably refreshed to my desk and for
the next hour wrote -apparently as
rapidly as during the first. That water
seemed to have given a new exhilara
tion. It was really water. Thus when
I entered my last hour's round with
my vocabulary brain cells I was was
certain of victory. I even imagined
I had already exceeded 5,000 words.
So I pegged away until the last tick
of the three hundredth minute, giving
a whoop of satisfaction when all was
over.
The five bundles of sheets, each rep
resenting an hour's effort, were turned
over to one of my friends and he elim
inated all duplicate words. The next
day he approached me with a grin and
said: "Well, old man, you lost, but you
did so well that we'll call the bet off!"
Here was the result: First hour, 981
words; second hour, 811; third hour,
684; fourth hour, 775, fifth hour, 713;
total, 3,970. From these the censor
eliminated 152 duplicates, leaving me
Just 3,818 different words to my credit.
Unusual Bookmarks.
The finding of a long lost will be
tween the pages of a neglected Bible
was a favorite incident in old-fashioned
novels. Nor are books yet an
tiquated as repositories.
At the Carnegie library in Washing
ton bookmarks found in returned vol
umes included an insurance policy, let
ters containing business secrets,
signed love letters, grocers' bills, pho
tographs, postal orders, matches, spec
tacles and false teeth.
Separate markers are a distinct ad
vance over thumb prints or turned
down leaves, but, like old stockings
and stovepipes, books are not to be
recommended as safety deposit va ilta.
COULDN'T SPEAK.
B3
They never speak as they pass by.
They both keep mum;
No need to ask the reason why
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"Yes," said the musician in a remi
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with me and married me when I was
learning to play the cornet."
"Are you sure," asked his friend,
"that she married you because she
loved you, or to make you stop prac
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. feasily Explained. '
"Strange," murmured the editor,
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al contributor. "I only thought of it
last night."
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