The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-10-24
THE FIRST STRAWBERRIES.

"Yes, think So"
THE FIRST STRAWBERRIES.
A little girl once had bed of straw berries.
Very anxious was she that they should ripen,
and be TT to eat. The time came, ''Now
for feast" said her brother to her one
morning, as he picked some beautiful ones
for her to eat.
''I cannot eat these" said she, "for they
are the FIRST ripe fruit"
"Well," said her brother, "all the more
reason for our making feast, for they are
the greater treat" 4H
Eyes; but they are the first ripe fruit"
'Well, what of that?"
E" "Dear father told US that he used to give
God the first out of the money he made, and
that then he always felt happier in spending
the rest and wish to give God the first of
my strawber too"
"Ah! but" said her brother, chow can
You give strawberries to God. And even if
you could, he would not care for them"
"Ohl I have found cut a way" she said.
"Jesus said, Inasmuch as ye have done it
unto one of the least of these my bre thren,
We have done it unto me, and mean to go
with them to Mrs. Perkins dying child, who
never sees strawberry. they are so poor"
Away went the children to give them to
the dying child, and when they saw her put
out her thin hands, and take the ripe, round
fruit in her little shriveled fingers, and when
they saw her eyes gIisten, and her faded lips
smile, they felt as if they had a far richer
treat than if they had kept the ripe fruit
themselves; and something within them told
them that God had accepted their little offer
ing.-Sumday at Home.
THE SWAN AND THE RAVEN.
You have read the fable of the raven who
admired the whiteness Of tn swans feath-
er8, and thought it was because she lived so
much in the water. He therefore fors ok
the field where he was accustomed to get his
food, and betook himself to the river, where
h bathed and trimmed his feathers, and
looked at himself from day to day. But not a
single white feather appeared. Worse than
this the silly raven could not live on swans
food. His neck was too short to dive torlt.
SO he starved to death in his effort to beauti-
fy himself. A change Of place cannot
change our nature.
know boy who looks with longing eyes
towards place in o store, which another
lad fills with profit and credit to himself. he
wishes to throw off his farmers blouse and
wear a trim jacket, and move &bout with such
o,5 oil
ally acceptable. Above all, he covets Har-
RVS wages, and thinks ifhe could only get
place in store he could enjoy all these ad
vantages.
Now George makes the great mistake o.
supposing hat a change of place would make
all this change in him. He is rough and
cownisb in his manners, untidy about his
dress &c sits down wittAhis hat slouched
over his eyes, just where his poor tired moth
err will have to walk around him again and
again as she goes about her cooking. tie
night make double Harry's wages cultiva:-
ing his Lawton blackberrcs, or taking care
of his poultry. But a place in store is his
ambition. That is what will make gentle
man Of him That would start him on the
high road to fortune.
Now he best thing for George to do is, ia
make the best of the fine opportunities be
does enjoy. Let him first of all cultivate his
heart and soften his manners, without this
passport he viii never be welcomed among
refined, cultivated people II he has, after
due consideration, decided on trademark
life, then let him do his best to qualify him
self for rapid advancement in it. Let hin
study arithmetic more thoroughly than nc is
now doing, and write in his copy-book with
amore careful hand. Everything he has tC
do let him do IL thoroughly; no sinking, OF
he win become one of the great army OF IN
capables" in the world. The right way fol
any boy or girl TO improve their CONDITION IL
the world, is 10 begin by improving them
selves Presbyterian.
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