Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-12
has prudently had great plantations of
this tree set out in order to keep up the
SUNNY
Make the Children Happy.

1t takes but very little to make a child
happy. A little time, little pains. a
little money, or a little effort is all that
lsrequlslte. And On the other hand it
Iakes but little TO make child very I'M
happy. A little neglect. little unkind
WORD, little hur:, or little disappoint-
ment are to the child as great a trial and
as bitter grief as its heart can bear.
Why do we so often hear children crv-
ing and fretting? Why SO often see sad
gloomy looks in place of the bright smile
and laughing eye? Is it that mothers do
not love their childrens Are they care
less or Indifferent to their happiness2
Not at all. Crying children often have
'ondest mothers. No; it is partly be-
cause mothers do not realize that chill
dren are SO sensitive, so easily made hap
Ply, or unhappy; and partly because they
90 not know how to make their children
happy, or rather they do not know how
t. keep them happy, to cultivate within
them habit of cheerfulness.
we all know how delighted a child is
with new toy; but how soon he tires Of
II! Ihns fond parent who has spent
great deal ct money in buying a va.
rlety of toys for his child is Surprised to
ind that In a very short time the very
toys that at first seemed to afford such
delight, are all thrown aside with disgust,
while the child relapses into listlcssness
or 1rettulness, saying by its manner, II
have nothing to do or in other words, Il
have nothing to interest me-"
The young mother feels discouraged;
She feels as if she had no more money to
spend IN playthings, and probably feels
as 1t she had no time to spend from more
necessary employments to devise for it
new amusements. The child grows DAY by
day more fretful and demands more fine
and attention.
What is to be done? Have YOU ever
neard OF minister's turning over a bar-
rel OF OF q sermons and beginning to
preach from the other end? The people
think them as good as new. Just so with
piaythlngs. Suppose child has forty
picture books and plavthings: more or
loss pack them all up in box and put
them away out of sight. upon some high
shelf in closet where the child cannot
see or get at them; leaving out the child
only two or three of its newest and favor
lite toys; then as soon as you see he be-
gins to grow weary of these, pack them
away, and take from the closet, one
at time, those long ago hidden away
and almost forgotten BY the child, and
they will be found just as good as new.
"0ne plaything at time is enough.
One IS just as good as dozen to make
child happy" SO said nv bright, sun
nyfaced friend, Mrs Ely, to me, lust
before Christmas, and on trying the ex-
pertinent, | find it true. My little three
year old Charlie was growing tired of his
playthings when Mrs Eley gave him
Noah's ark full Of animals, that her chill.
dren had long discarded. True some of
the legs of the animals were broken,
but what cared Charley for that? It was
to his happy little imagination priceless
treasure worth its weight in GOLD. For
weeks it was to him an Intimate source of
delight.
A child who looks with utter ind1f-
ference upon box Of blocks feels sud
denly inspired with new interest when
he sees his mother plling them up into
a tower. He exclaims, "Lct me do itr
and amuses himself long time trying to
initiate mother. The box of dominoes
seem to the little three years ola useless
till he sees his father arranging them on
the table: Or standing them up in a row
and giving a push to the last with his
finger, sending the whole line tumbling
over each other. The penny IS valueless
till mother spins it upon the table; the
little tin tub is 90 source of pleasure till
mother ties string into one Of the han
dies and draws the little doll or dog to
ride upon it about the room; then 1t is
very different m"tter; with eager en-
| thusiasm the child enters into the play
and amuses himself with zest, irving
| TO do what he has seen mother do, for
several days, perhaps; then mother must
take few minutes to devise something
new.-An1aa Holyohe IN Household.