The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-03
Small Critics.

AMONG CuC cVlAS W INC 1CHTcU III VIllS
life we may class small critics, and
by the term we mean observing chill
dren, who have not been taught to keep
their ideas private.
"Children and fools tell the TRUTH"
says the old saw, and most of us shrink
from the truth in many cases.
1t would seem, sometimes, as if there
were a class of small imps invented ex-
pressly to feel out our tender places
and weak spots and comment on them;
and if we have a leading wickedness,
or besetment, they are sure to bring it
to light, and prominently. too.
These small critics approach you UNI
der the. guisc of friendliness. They
love you, they want to kiss you, and Of
course, if you are woman, you cannot
resist that appeal, and you suffer them
to climb into your lap, and leave the
marks of bccandicd fingers on your
waist, and rub off their boOt-blacking
on your sidc-plaiting.
And after they have kissed you, sever
ally. for there are always two or three of
them, they will show you how observ-
ing they arc by remarking among them
selves:
"Her teeth amt the kind that
growed!''
"Ain't she got funny nose?''
"Can't she eat lot with such wide
mouth?''
Have you mole, or freckles on your
face, your small critic comments on
the facts, and wonders how they came
there. Have you incipient crows feet
at the corners of your eyes, the small
critic notices them, and asks you who
puckered you up so. The little touch
ofTrouge which you fiattered yourself
nobody in the world could detect, is
spied out by your small critic. who
wants to know if you put cranberries
on your cheeks, and what you did il
for. Have you torn your dress, and
contrived some trimming to hide the
rent, the small critic becomes in some
mysterious way possessor of the secret
and draws everybody's attention to il
by asking what you put such a funny
little patch on there for.
He will notice If ::your hands are
large, and he is interested as to thu
size of the shoe you wear, and he will
want to know how old you are, and i
you have got any more clothes at home
A bald-headed man never escape.
the small critic-all Affections or in
firmitics are 80 much stock in trade fOl
the little imp, who seems to have M
idea that people have. feeling to b.
hurt. =:
If you show any3 ill-temper YOU
small critic is amazed, and he runs ant
I -, 70 t1>nt h0v
mad because he said your nose wa
crushed or something equally as hate
full
He is fond of making comparisons
He will inquire in his sweetest tone j
you don't wish you had white ski
like sister Mary's, instead of being al
dried up like the head of papa's bas'
drum?
He wants to know if your hair grow
on your head? and where you got you
ring? and what makes you eat SO much
and who pulled out your eyebrows
and thousand and one other items o
the same general character.
Where there are lovers, a small criti
is fiend. He will be sure to let GU
everything which should be kept pri
vate; and if Sallie rouges, and put
glycerine on her hair, he will tell Henri,
Of it at once; and if Henry's whisker
are dyed, and his hair is getting thil
on the top Of his head, the small crit
will announce the fact before the Who'll
family, and then beg for five cents t
buy candy with. And the man VIII
can bestOw the nickel under such cir
cumstances is a masculine angel, SO ia
as temper is concerned.-KateT Thorn
in N. 7. Weekly.