The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-09-14
Nern,ng Star and Catholic Messenger.
JUVENILE COLUMN.
THE PEACHES.

Been. But his children saw this fruit for
the first time; and they wondered at and
down and rudy cheeks. The father d.
vided them among his four children-the
mother receiving one.
In the evening as the children went into
heir little bed chamber, the fssher asked
SNOW, children, how did the nice apples
aste Z"
.sDelicious, dear father" answered the
nch delicate flavor. I have put the
tone away carefully and will raise tree
rom IL.
"Bravo ~ exclaimed the father, "that is
economical, to provide for the future, as
becomes farmer"
Youngest, "and then threw away the stone;
Ind mother gave me half of hers. Oh, it
kastes 80 sweet and melts in ones mouth ~
Well" said the father, "you have not
scted very prudenty but yet it was very
natural and cbildlike. There lie yet time
enough for you to grow wise."
Then began the second son:
81 picked up tho stone my little brother
Threw away and broke it open there was
kernel in it that tasted as sweet as nut.
But sold my peach and got so much
money for it that can buy whole dozen
when 60 to town."
The father shook his head and said:
"Well, that was very smart, indeed, but
il was neither patural nor childlike. May
Heaven forbid that you should become a
merchant! And you. Edward Z"
Frankly and openly answered Edward ::
81 brought my peach to George, who
lives next door; and who is lying sick with
fever. He would not take it but laid
It ON the bed and ran off,"
"Now," asked the father, who has
made the best use of bis peach Z"
They all three exclaimed at once "Our
brother Edward has !" But Edward was
silent; and his mother, with tears in her
eyes, olasped him in her arms.
THE INVALID HEALED.
Rich people often have, like their cana
Fies, all sorts of troubles and sickness to
puher, of which, Heaven be praised, the
poor know nothing; for there are certain
sorts of sickness that are lodged, not in
he air but in full glasses and dishes, and
n euBhioned seats and silk couches, as a
pertain citizen of Amsterdam can testify.
The whole forenoon, except while dressing,
he sat upon an armchair and smoked to-
bsceo, or stood gaping out of the window
yet, at noon he ate like csr-msn and
khe neighbors often said:
''Is that wind, outside, or does our neigh
Dor puff 80 Z"
The whole afternoon he ate or drank
Now, something warm, and again some
khing cold. without being hungry, for
R&
t was hard to tell when the dinner was
FINISHED and the supper began.
Aftef supper he went to bed and was as
.f6igued as If he were unloading stone OF
splitting wood the whole day. By this
style Of living be became 80 corpulent that
he was No unwieldy az a large corn-sack.-
Neither eating or sleeping gave him any
D long time neither very healthy nor very
sick but If one were to believe himself,
be had during the year, three hundred and
Hixty-hv0 different complaints, viz every
day different one. All the doctors in
Amsterdam must prescribe for him. He
swallOwed whole bucket. fulls of potions
and decoctions, and shovelfulls of powders
and pills, large as buckeyes, so that peo-
pie called him, at last, the two legged apo.
thecary shop. But all the doctors did not
help him in the least, because he did not
follow their advice, saying:
"What am rich man for, if I must
live like dog-if the doctor will not cure
me for my money
At last he heard of doctor who resided
. hundred leagues distant, and who WAS 30
clever that he would surely cure nearly all
sick persons, if he were bnt to examine
them personally and d""''r fed from his
approach.
The man placed conf. zee in this doc
tor and wrote to I,ini bow he was situated.
The doctor was n"' in discovering.
that it was not dor ring he was in need
Of, bat temperance an exercise, and said
"Wait, will soon have you all right"
So he wrote in reply, the following note"
"My good friend, you have very bad
symptoms yet you may soon be relieved,
if You will but follow my advice. You
have an ugly animal in your stomach, a
dragon with seven mouths ; and with this
dragon must deal personally, aud you
must come to me. But in the first place,
you must not ride in a carriage, or on
horse. back you must take shanks mare
for it-else you would shake the dragon
and he would tear your entrails in pieces !;
aye, sever yonr intestines asunder, in one
bite. In the next place, you must not eat
more than twice a day, a dish of vegeta-
bles, with the addition of small piece
of sausage at dinner in the evening an
Egg in the morning you may take some
broth, with chives upon 1t. Any more
Ihan this that you eat will only make the
dragon larger, so that he shall press upon
Your liver; and the tailor will not have
% take your measure, but the undertaken.
This is my advice and if you do not fol-
low it, you will never hear the cuckoo
vv.rn he, al