The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-11-25
How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hourl
About Getting UP i'm the Morning,

There are TWO Things tnat all the boys
and girls are fully agreed upon. One is
that bedtime always comes too soon, and
the other, that Bridget rings the rising
bell shamefully early. Getting up in the
morning is great trial to many of us.
We feel so rested and comfortable, and
yet so uncommonly sleepy. 1t seems as
though our eyes would never come real
ly wide open. and as for dressing, it is
labor that is appalling. Oh for a good
fairy to touch us with her wand, and set
us, bright and resolute, right out into
the middle of the morning.
The way to get up in the morning is
just to do it promptly. The moment
you are called decide at once to rise.
Do not wait until mothers gentle voice
is tired, and Sister Lucy has determined
that she will not call sou again, and
father comes TO the foot of the stair and
calls, very seriously, civilian 7" "Ebe-
nezer !' Rebecca % and you feel that
you must rise in hurry. Do not put
off getting up until you can hardly take
time to match buttons and hooks, and
you cannot find which strings belong to
each other, and suspenders snap, and
buttons fly off boots, and things are
generally crooked.
When first you rise, let your thoughts
go to God in thankfulness that you are
alive and well, and ready to begin an
other day. Then wash from head to
foot, with sponge and cold water, and
dry yourself with q rough crash towel,
or take a rub with a stiff hesh-brush. You
will feel quite warm and glowing after
this exercise, which is the better for
being rapidly performed. Dress SO
neatly and entirely, to the last touch of
shoe polish and the last flourish of the
hair brush, that you need think no more
about your dress all day. Be sure to
attend to your teeth. They are good
servants, and have SO much work to do
that they deserve to be carefully looked
after, not with irritating powders, but
with a clean brush, pure water, and
occasionally dash of white CASTLE soap.
-Harper's Young People.
Jimmy's story.
My little boy Jimmy is 6 years old,
and went to school for the first time last
summer. The school house is close to
the woods, and ut noon the children
have nice time playing among the
trees. One afternoon Jimmy came run
ming into my room, where sat tending
the baby. 90, mother said he, 81
got to school just in time this morning"
Well" said /, that is right; 1 like
to have my little boy always get to
school in time"
ooh said he, CT did not mean that.
I meant that got to school just in time
to see that poor little squirrel"
What little squirrel ?" I asked.
"I will tell you. You know there is
a cistern near the school, where we get
water, and there is chain-pump in the
cistern. Well, little squirrel had run
into the nose of the pump, and, when
Arthur Mason came along, the squirrel
was frightened, and ran further in and
the first thing Arthur heard was splash
the poor little thing had fallen into
the cistern.
"Soon there was crowd of children
around the pump. In short time we
heard the chain rattle; the squirrel was
climbing up to the spout again. Up.
up, he came, and looked out through
the spout, but he saw so many little girls
and boys that he turned back. and down
he went again to the bottom of the cist-
ern. think he felt very bad, don't you,
mother?"
eyes, think he did, but how did you