Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-03-06
BOYS AND GIRLS.

One day lately at the breakfast table, SEN
ator Sprague said to his son, ''you must I'M
derStand, my hoy. that You are the son of 4
| poor man, and Will have your own way to
make in the world. | have fifty cents in my
pocket, not a cent more so after breakfast
| think | Il take you out and get a boot-black-
ing apparatus for you. You must learn to
black your own boots like 4 poor mans SON. -
He listened iatently then said well papa.
can't black your boots and save YOU some
thing" ''Oh, certainly. if wish. his father
| answered After breakfast the investment
was made. The next morning the enter
urising youngster rose at daylight. and be-
fore anybody was up and could interle re
had BACKED every boot and shoe in the
SpaSue mansion, including 4 pair of h.'s
mothers which had been bought recently
Tor ) ~, and which, Of course were utterly
ri ined.
y sweet little boy, only eight years old
bless his little walked into the scene
OF teachers examination at Osweeo. last
week. and bawled out. Annie. your Teller IS
down to the house -
IL. H., in her bits Of Talk" Suppressed
with the children of Nova Scotia. who are
superior in appearance, size, and health to
the children Of the New England and middle
States. There was scarcelya sickly one
among them such brilliant checks, such
merry eyes, such evident strength: broad
Shoudercd, straight, and sturdy, and their
faces wore quiet, unembarrasSed expression.
The climate has undoubtedly som ething to do
with this, the air being moist, and the mer-
curry rarely rising above 50 - offalling below
To-. There are no public sci zoos in Nova
Scotia. and in contrasting the state of the
children with similar class in the United
States ii. II. comes 10 the bro ad conclusion
that it Is better to have no sci ,ool,at alltha,l
to have such public schools are now kill
ING of our children In Mas sachusetts more
than two-hfths of all the rhn lren die before
they are twelve years old. In Nova Scotia
the proportion is less than one-third. In
Massachusetts, the mortality from diseases of
the brain and ner vous system is eleven per
cent; IN Nova Sc otia it is only eight per cent.
- It seems th'.t to have rosy, ruddy, calm
children we rlust reorganize our schools, and
taking Nova Scotia for an example, no child
should he ent to school under seven years of
age, or k ept in school more than six hours
day, wit an hours intermission, and no
learniD lessons out of school allowed.
Queen Victoria has twenty-one grand
chii' .ren. Wouldn't it be nice for b er to
nav them all home at once, each PROV, led
W 9TH new drum by their kind parents
\ New Orleans paper tells of sinai t
Louisiana boy of eighteen, named Gayden,
who rented Il farm ofiourteen acres last year.
raised on it seven bales of cotton and two
hundred bushels of corn, and pocketed S607.-
~ net profits. A still younger boy in the
same town, Norwood by name. on a rented
farm of thirty acres, made 81 ,lO9.S6 above
his expenses.
a wretcaed cynic writes a bright little
1--WE year old was looking through picture
book the other night, when she suddenly
paused gazed eagerly into her mothers face,
and while there shone in her eyes the light
OF wisdom beyond her years, said (hlamed
If we haven't forgotten what she said)"
remarkable rose bush ad,,rns the cottage
of 5. A. Kendall of Santa Kos 4. California. 1t
was planteC. in 1853, and is of The Lamarque
variety, the most beautiful of the white
roses. Imagine an immense bouquet Of |
white roses, twenty-five feet hie h. TWENTY-FIVE |
ieet across. beautifully rounded, with a
blossoming surface of four hundred square
feet, with four thousand full-blown roses
dnd twenty thousand buds
President McCosh has refuse d permission
to the Princeton students 10 enter the |
Regatta.