New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-29

there are few who played withbrothers ana sisters
60 many and so merry who have grown TO be anxious |
men aud carewors women now, in whose hearts tSese
verses viii not touch some chord Of memesy
TO Five.
SIX OF rs once. my GarlngS played together
Nade taesry i'm the golden Summer weather,
Pcited each Other with new-fallen snow.
Did the sun alvays slinel I can't remember
sirrle cloud mat dirnmed tho happy blue
A single llgntuIug-hOit. peal Of thunder
no dauut our Oright unfearng lives: cans ouf
We guarreled often, but made PEACE as quickly,
Had cur small woes, cur childish bumps aud bruises
Bat Mother always Kissed ana made Them weN'
Isitlong since - seems moment only
Yer a ire we are ~ bOnuess and tal-fOatS,
Grave men OF business M t2bcrs OF committees
Our piay-timc egood; cvcn Baby votes!
And star-sycd clal1ren, - whose iTsocent aces
Kaales ihc glG 3ncss which was 'cuce our own,
Crowd round our knees wit sweet aud cOaNihS voices,
ASKING for stories % chat oiG-thse home
Were you orec li;;le too a. they say, 9stoPshed;
'Did you TOO playa how funBy tell us lOW,'
Almost we answer be We arelitte noe
Dear friend and lortr. whom To-Day" christen,
Forgive such orici ewllaerment-thystrue
And lIlly maud We bold; ne own thee iairest-
Eat all, cur e~teI,iay VS. precious tao
S. dar.ugs, take this little childish stery,
l. which some cleans ~ the old sunshine play,
And. as with -Iess hands yOu turn she pages
l.y0s back aar smile, as here sinue, to-day
We au look hJc and smile, fancy, at the old trS3s;
yet wo sl too ana aud laughter are close to-
rcher for most OF us when We turn backward and Tleet
the ghosts o. t1e dead days But am forgetting 60 tell
you what Katr did. Keys name was Katy Carr. She
lived 10 tie town Of .Burnet with her three sisters
and two brothers, and her father the Doctor, and her
aunt lzz.c. IIz had been tidy little thing when
sic was a child ana - worder that katy twelve
years old cut lumeIsey tail OF her age worried her.
KATY tore Aer dress every day. hated sewng and didn't
care autou about being called good" or having her
head pafed Our FIST Introduction TO the little Cars Is
Tey arc perched on the top Ofthe cCrhouse
lft-s9gf .0s3 fher aud
they hSe also to tho rdgepole aud then, still
keeping their sitting position let 90, and scrape slow
IN down over fo shingles 10 the around. IL was
bad er their shoes ana owes OF course but that fact
they d.srcgarded ma Cnifce1ty. Shoes and trousers
were AUNT 5I'es aGa5r-jheirs % slideand enjoy
theiaseves There they werc-Katy, and ClOy ~, and
uretty little Id. and Dorry, pase, pudgy boy az six,
wih-aiGcr o solemn GAGE, and jeanne, whom the chill
dren called Johnnie add no had tgTeat brave eyes and
looked i flc mIgh bc hoy with bis sisters clothes
on and beside tho sc, there was elsie dark-eYed
GIN who vas the lone one" among the children, too
old for the lite onss and old enough for Katy and
Cover auC their friend and nextdOOr neghbOr,
Cecy Hal These Weretle characters IN This stery and
in their ricks and manners j confess that have
feuud more eUzerGinment than in the mee-
Dramatic pages of Hiss Braddon or Mrs. Henry
y ,od. The plays which they play are
M eenu no poins-tabtnc plays,'which make the solemn
Business OF ch6hood one CT them, for instance, was
90 "ps.' grow1 mp, end tell what they meant 10 do
There is se7sas simplicity IL these straightforward
confess ous wbc would be amusing were IL not touch
~ 3ng Instead. Cecy Han, who rather nisssh
a gcHtee youns lslrsoI, Is the frsl speaker.
. 81 mean 10 haFel black sik dress and pink roses in
ne "a 81 Loo exactly ike Minerva Clark shali
I've very good too as good as Mrs BedfJ only great
.firiic huf ant them at an, because you
snow i snau aWa,s be teacluug in sunday school aud
over an ana feeding her with currant Jelly
xiic po,lr about me" concluded Cecy. triumphanty.
"P1Oi /" said Glover. " don't think that would be
beau.iu lady ia roe world And FIn going 10 live
yellow castle with yellow pillars to the porteo, and
square tOB, like DR.. SaUyers My children
going to playhouse up there. There's going
'Fesr t,ld dresses and silver dresses every day and
diamond rings and have White satin aprons 70 tie
die Of my Iac5y7rG there viii be pondfun Of Lubin's
ITtracs and ,SLeneyer want any 1 shall 20 just out
aud opa uofue ia. And shant teach IN Sunday
SCHOOLS ike feoy. because don't want to- but every
,s.mday ~ 20 ai,d stand nv gate. aud when Der
go nv on their way home, IN put Lubins Ex
Tracts on tDelr iuaudGerchets."
imagination tred by this gorgeous vision, only my
Iond viii b the biggest II shall be great deal beau
.'You cau't" said Katy from overhead Clover is
going To be- Ihe most beautiful lady in the world
hut IN loo more beautiful than the most beautiful"
erred poor Lille Elsie; aud I'll he big, too and know
and never run away and hide; and there won't be any
postotces, OF anything disaueeaDle."
change the S0les Tor Elsies voice grown plant
w. Bui johnnie had no clear ideas as 10 Der future
very tight. but that was all DOrry more explicit
mean have turkey every day, >" he declared, land
-puddnss not boiled ones You know hat lttle
BAKED ones with brown slnny tops. ana great deal OF
pudding sauce 10 eat on them. and shall be so big
Iheu That nobody viii say Three helps is quite enough
on Dorr; You piglv cried Katy, while the rest
screamed win laughter Dorly was quite anronted
Peaceaker Clover sOothed him. and called on Katy IN
Ler turD, 10 tell what she would do
I'm not about what IN be-" replied Katy;
beautiful. OF course. and good can, only not 50
good you, Cec, because II would be nice 10 aud
nde with the young gentlemen sometimes. And I'd Ike
"A n.
then Jon could oil and live with me, ana we would
play n the garden and Dorry should have turkey five
tunes day If he liked And we'd have machine 10
darn stockings another machine TO put the bu-
reau drawers in OrdeT never sew or knit gar
ters, or 40 any ching we dd NJ want TO- That's what I'd
like to be But now III ten you what meau TO do"
q" IL nj IL tue same thingf' asked Ceey.
Oh, no." replied Katy. @" quite different; for you
see mean 20 do something grand. don't know what,
yet; but when I'm grown up shall find out poor Katy
always sad " when I'm grown up" forgetting how very
much sbe had grown already Perhaps" she went
on II VIII be rowing out In boats. and saving peoples
lives like tlaf girl in the book or perhaps shall
aua urse n the hospital like Miss Nightingale or
I'll head crusade and ride white horse with armor
aud AclInet my head, and carry sacred flag Or II
don't 40 that III paint pictures or sing or scalp
sculD-what b. It YOU know-inake figures in marble
Anyhow IL shall be something And when Aunt lzzle
90 re der child always knew she would turu out
ornament 10 The family People very often say |
Hfterwsrd that they always knew"
But wandering about this enchanted region OF
child life after the OF Artemus Ward when be
leetured upon the Babes Wood. forgetting
tell you what Katy really did For she neither sculped
UT scaped-she did not carry sacred flag, or write
poenns she learned, instead, to rule difficult kingdom
that Of her naturally careless. headstrong. pas
nature. One Of the OYelest characters in the
book is Cousin Helen She has been almost helpless
Dyahd for yea and yet has done good than most
of the strong healthy people one knows She made a
fonrdays visit at the Cars; when Katy was twelve.
and she somehow left behind her ideal Of livlnga
aouee Of and .ndc