The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-09
THE CH1LDREN's CORNER
PINS IN PUSsY'S TOES.
BY MRS. II. B. STOWE,

of his mortal life. Of course he doesn't
remember much what happened in the
first or the second one, as his is very
short memory. So that Fred's observe.
lions on matters and things, this Summer,
have all the freshness of first experience!
This summer, Fred's golden curls have
been sheared:--beautiful enchanted bios
SONS of infancy, they have fall en- into a
box which mamma keeps privately to re-
nina her other vanishing baby. Then,
Fred has been moved into the country,
and his round. blue eyes are growing
Tounder and bigger every hour With new
and wonderful experiences.
Most striking among them and most
puzzing to Fred, is Pussy. Not a big
cat, but kitty, of those tender years cor
responding to Fred's own. What won
der she IS, seen now for the first time, sc,
renely walking on all fours! A Maltese
kit, of pure blood and glossy mouse color,
with little white breast-pin in her BOSOM!
Evidently, Puss belongs to the celebrated
White Star Line!
Eagerly Freddy seizes her: helhugs her
very tight, and Pussy squirms in vain; he
examines the wonder; be pokes his fat,
little fingers in Pussy's bright eyes; he
opens her mouth and looks at her little,
pink tongue He tends her little while
with her head up, and then, for variety's
sake, he tends her with her heels UP and
her head down. Then it occurs to him
that Pussy's tail is a nice handle to curry
her by, and he tries that experiment. AT
last, Pussy's patience gives out, and, out
from her pretty velvet paws fly the ten
little, sharp, pearly points that have been
given her for her defense, and Fred feels
a new sensation. He throws Passy on the
floor and runs screaming to mamma. ooh,
mamma, ma NINA, Pussy's got pins in her
toes!"
Then mamma explains to Freddy why
the pins were put in Ptssy's velvet toes
Poor, soft, furry, helpless little Pussy
what could she do if she had not pins in
her toes? Does Freddy like to have PEG
pie pike their fingers in his eyes, or open
his mouth, or feel his tongue? No more
does Pussy. Would Freddy like to be
carried round, squeezed up under some
body's arm, with his head hanging down?
No more does Pussy. But Pussy cannot
speak, She cannot compain-all she can
do is to use the pins in her toes.
"Whea Freddy holds Pussy rIght-end
up. strokes her gently, and speaks loving
Iy to her, the little, sharp pins go away
clear in, where nobody can see them, and
Pussy begins to sing low, little, purring
song to show how happy she is! So Fred
dy, dear" says mamma, 'there is right
way and wrong way to handle every
thing. II you hold Pussy gently, stroke
her softly. and treat her kindly, you new
er will be troubled by the ten little pins
In her ten toes; but if you trouble and
worry and tease pussy she will scratch"
Little reds lesson is lesson also TO
our older ones.
These helpless, little dumb ones, who
form part of our family, have some rights
that we are bound to see maintained.
We have sometimes wondered to SEGA
helpless kitten or puppy given up to be
tortured in nursery without even an at
tempt to explain to the children the pain
they are infIcting, and the duties thew
owe to the helpless. Thus, what might
form the most beautiful trait in the cbild's
character is changed to detormity. In
stead OF learning. from the kitten q gener-
Gus consideration for weakness and HELM
1essness' the little one receives in the mr.
sery the lesson of brutal TYRANNY.
NO parent ought to allow child the
possession of any living creature with
whose comfort and welfare thew do ,o4
charge themselves. Child rem are NOT
naturally cruel; they are only ignorant
and incousiderate. They have no con-
ception OF the pain they often inhict,even
by their loving caresses. A boy, too, has
IN him sort of wild, unculture6 love of
domination and sense of power, which
are no sins, but may be made the founda
lions of great virtue, If he be early taught
mat his strength and power of control are