Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-05-15
ABOUT CHILDREN.

/ A Young pastor was amusing his Sund ~
school scholars with magic liant ,rn, on on,
| of the glasses of which was picture of .
poor sinner clinging to the cross amid tn
waves of the stormy ocean. "What
| that ?" he added. "Robinson Crnsoe,' wa
the prompt reply.
A little boy fell asleep in one of the Troy
| churches on Sunday evening, and created
quite sensation by rolling off the seat and
| calling ont, "Knuckle down tight"
A boy was put into boiler in Dubuque
Iowa, to hold hamm,r against the riyet:
| that were being driven from the outside
When the boiler was done the hole was
found to be too small to let the boy ont
Three hours cutting with cold chisels BY six
men, finally released him-nearly spelling a
good boiler.
A little girl of eight or ten summers be-
ing asked what dust was, replied that it was
mud with the juice squeezed out.
ssDo bats ever hy in the daytime ," asked
a teacher of his class in natural history
" Yes, sir" SAID the boys confidently
"What kind of bats?" exclaimed the aston
ished teacher Brick :" yelled the
triumphant boys.
''If a man bequeathed you a hundred
pounds, would yOu pray for him." said a
Sunday school teacher to pupil. "No," "
said he; 81 would pray for another like
him."
A little Troy boy. who was worrying over
a piece of shad at dinner lately, demoral-
lied his mother by asking, Mamma, where
did God find all the bones To make the first
shad off,
As two children were playing together,
little June got angry and pouted. Johnny
seat up there on your lips" Then" re
piled Jane, quite cured of her pouts, "Il
laugh, and you'll fall off"
\ school teacher in Dewitt county, H.,
has introduced new method of punishment
into his school When one of the girls mis-
ses word the lad who spells it has permis-
sion to kiss her The Clinton Public says /:
''The result is that the girls are fast forget
ting all they ever knew about spelling.
while the boys are improving with wonder
ful rapidity."
A ten years old boy at Austin, ILL.,, died
last week fum the effect of chill caused by
pailful of cold water thrown over him on
the 7th inst, by another hoy.
A girl only twelve years of age, belonging
in Wapello, Iowa. has passed an examina-
ton before the County Superintendent of
Schools, and has received a license to
teach.
Don't tell child you Will do anything for
it unless you intend to keep your promise.
A strict observance of this rule may save
you the agony of seeing your child become
a liar. If you say, "l'll skin YOU alive -
20 and skin it, though it bring tears to your
eyes.
Little girl" Mamma | don't think the
people who make dolls are very pious peo-
pie" Mamma-"Why not, my ehild?'
Little girl" Because you can never make
them kneel always have to lay my doll
down on her stomach to say her prayers,
Pity and love the little children Toler-
ate their pets. Comfort Nellie over her
dead bird, and don't call Molly'> little
white kitty cat" IL is enough 10
break a juvenile heart to hear ones dar-
ligs snub5ed. How would you like to hear
your own Frederick Augustus called "a
dirty young one?" The little ones have
their tragedies and comedies, and laugh and
weep more sincerely than you do at Fal>tati
or Lear. They love, marry, keep house,
have children, nave weddings and funerals,
and dig little graves for dead mice in the
garden, and mourn into small, white hand
kerchiefs, and get brother Jim TO write an
inscription for its tiny head
board Is not this human nature in little,
and in its small way, as deserving Of a GER
tain respect? You do not despise your own
reflections in a concaye mirror, you know.
Cherish the children mend the frocks
don't scold them for broken toys-for man
is not more inevitably mortal than play
things. Don't strip their fat shoulders in
winter, nor roast them IN hannels in dog
days, because somebody told YOU to. Don't
drug them; don't yard them don't stuff
them with pastry, or starye them on cold
chippy bread don't send them to infant
schools at three, or fancy balls at ten, nor
teach then the commandments earlier than
they can remember Mother Goose. Let
them have Christmas and Fairy stories
grandpa's horse-cane, rather than Mr..
Birch ierule Little Bo-peep. not English
Rhetoric. Give them Wilson's Readers
when they want them, not before.-Aflm-
nc Monthly.
A little six year old boy on hearing it
thunder wanted to know what made that
noise His mother explained it, bnt not to
his satisfaction, for presently he frightened
up and said he knew what it was. said
he, "God was cleaning honse and was slid
ing the beds over the door
\ little boy in one of our public schools
got off good one, the other day. The
teacher was speaking of ourforefathers hand
ing their names down to posterity, when be
looked up at her and with great emotion
asked, Nv here is that?
A little boy in Concord, n. H., got bot
tie in play and poured the contents over his
legs. The flnid was yitriol, and be was -
burned ns to be crippled for life.