The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-06-26
JUVENILE CoIUnN.

j JUVENILE COLUMN.
A MISSIONARY SIX YEARS OLD.-I new,
read any missionary story that impresse
60 tell It TO you, my dear children, just 3
heard 1t: In voyage Of exploration an
discovery on the coast of Africa. landin
on little island, near that which is men
TONED on the charts by the name of Fer
nando 70 ana AnnObon, some missionarie
cross rudely CONSTRUCTED, and all aronnd
ia the attitude of prayer, q group Of neer.
children, directed BY white child
They were nearly all Of the same ACE. and
we're resting in bad Spanish the Ancelica]
sanitation or Hail Mary. Great was til
sulprise or tbe Catholic missionaries to
=. aleet IN those regions, where they Thought
the idea of the cross was unknown. an Altar
raised to the cross. On seeing those good
priests wearing their soutanes, the Child
cried out in Spanish: Pyiestsi here are
priests! and all the little negroes turned
towards the missionaries. The latter sp.
preached the child aud asked him to con-
duct them to the hduse of his parents. %
nave none," answered the child saflv
ihen ne told how, being cast on that shore
oy shipwreck, he was separated from hisl
parents, whom he never saw again. Picked
up ~ some negroes, who had brought him1
up with their children, he had taught theI
latter the prayer his mother taught him to|
say morning and night on his knees. apdI
chey came all together to kneel before that
cross: They are, then, Christians,n de-
handed the missionasies. Christians ~
repeated the child, much amazed; 81 can
.ha, ee a. you they see me kneel down and
|Ieey 90 the same. They repeat the words
Iof the prayer have taught them but do
mot understand their language. Still have
Taught them to make the sign of the cross
|and they never fail to do it when they pass
|oeiore the Cross "And the cross-who
.ans Ut IT was I; remembered
place to place." Finishing his recital, the
poor child could not restrain his tears and
signs. The missionaries asked his name
ne remembered neither his own name norI
mat OF his country neither did he know
~. me name OF the shipwrecked vessel. One
Nary. Well, my dear friends, when will
y oe tnat little missionaries such as this
charming little child of which l have told
you may be found amongst youf
TWO PIcTUREs.-A little boy brought me
wo pictures which he thought were very
unny. One was round face, with openl
mouth, wrinkled cheeks, and eyes so full
u run, you could not look at it without4
angling. The other was as cross and
cowling as face could be, and I read t.1
he little boy what the man who nut tbemH
q THIS book said about the two faces. The
aces were just alike, only in one theH
1ughing muscles had pulled up the corners
l the mouth, and puckered up the cheeks
nu eyes IN all sorts OF funny dimpes, while
own the mouth, pouted out the under lin. !,
nd wrinkled up the eyebrows. And every :,
ice In the world has these two sets al p
luscles; the ugly, little, cross ones, thai
IN spoli the pleasantest face in a twinl<lipp p,
III the laughing ones, that we all like to1
10 Il
i'd that is, that after while our faces get N
avn into one shape or the other, so that1
metimes people that would really like toI
OK Pheasant, have to carry cross faces u
lth them all their lives. When I was al
lid there was an old man who used to be#
tt our play and ran to hide if we saw him D
ming AND once, when the pig got out of
pen and Went racing through the gar 8T'
u, in spite of all that could DO done 'to|
i've him back, little girl, not six years&
!, said eagerly: Hse,
~ know how to make him 90 back sfs
u him old Mr.. Smith is coming" aan'
how should you like that, little folks ii tbr
DC cross enough to Brighten the pip 3spo
OK into their pens. Look out sharp fO,M Ma
'se little, cross muscles then, and don'tb sey
them get control of your faces. .nd
4 WORD TO BoYs.-My young friend iar
you ever know-can' you cali to mindf pre-
lnSle case OF person, who, having his E%Hchil
n way to make in the world, spent his %"
e in the streets, In billiard saloons. n A
und hotels, or in any form of dissipationH a.
dleness, to succeed in nm eminent e-HSD
e in any enterprise? Look over yourNr
OF friends and aLquaintances and noteM Ho
lr course. Do you find upon examina -M TT
l that those who to-day are men of in Es md
nee and honor were not the youths whoSSAa ,n =
de the most valuable time, turning it toE T,
d account, and on the other hand do youI Mac &C,
find those who stood at the corners@ A;
h a cigar or pipe in their mouths went@ ~.
n bad to worse, from worse to rnin Phi VI
ly must the answer be made-oh. thatE-
ere not so-they have failed. viii you@
profit by the experience of others ? CO.
that way. Never be idle. Every mo- A .
It of your time is a golden one, use it as 81 "A
!; improve the mind; fix your eyes on
g noble object; be men. The call isl
men, will you not be one of that mum Der
can say 81 am a man." H
HE BOYS AND THE NUT.-Two bovsE nj,
> once playing under tree, when a Brs
fell from it on the grass. One of them Rrc
ed it up. The other boy said, CIT isl 81,
nut, for I saw it fall.E ono. if id .na
>" said the other, ''for picked it up. 81
then large boy came along and said j
nat are you disputing about 2" The
boys told lAm. "Give it to me, Boo,
he, :" will decide your quarrel for
So he cracked the nut, and gave one
to one boy, saying, "This is for you, on &C
use you saw the nut fall" He thenH
the other half shell to the second boy,