The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-26

So help your mothers about their work;
Don't wait for asking. don't Try TO shlrk.
Do just the best that you can. and she
VIII say, ''Whata nelp are my dears 10 me-!
Energetic Girls.
Youths CompaniOn.l
The story reaches us from the West of
the success of an energetic girl, the daugh-
ter of farmer in Iowa, who WAS employed
in teaching q district school, and became
tired of its small pecuniary returns for such
constant drudgery. During the vacation
of 1873 she planted in q vacant field peck
of walnuts; as many chestnuts, and several
thousand locusts.
In the next summer vacation she took
her brother, a stout lad of thirteen, and
drove in light wagon belonging to her
father to Dakota, where she 'took up" one
hundred and sixty acres, built small cabin
and fenced them in. The next summer
more land was added, and last year she set
out her young trees, which IN hfEeen years
she calculates will be worth twenty-five
thousand dollars.
Now this girl deserves all the applause
which has been given her by the press.
Her courage and innocence, it Is stated,
brought her sympathy and help from the
toughest men in the wild region which she
chose as her home. But it is not likely
that she will have many imitators. Very
few American girls of nineteen would be
physically able to fence and plough land, or
to build cabin.
Here is another story which pleases US
better. 1t comes from the mountains Of
East Tennessee. The daughter of poor
mountsineer, coming down to the hotels OF
the Warm Springs, saw the ladies with
their pretty dresses and quiet manners, and
wished to be like them.
But how? Money is necessary for educs-
ton, and money is thing almost unknown
to the mountains. She had nothing to sell,
and no trade by which to earn it. Now on
almost every height in that range, there is
a mica mine, and outside of it hesps of the
rejected silvery scale These the girl split
until they were thin as paper. Then she
curled and made them into flowers, decorat-
ing pasteboard picture-frames, boxes, etc,
with them The visitors at the Springs
bought these trifes eagerly, year after year
and with the proceeds the mica girl had
paid for her schooling.
Another young woman in Pennsylvania,
we learn, is zeslOusly trying to introduce
from Italy into this country the art of max
ing mosaics She finds difficulty in procur-
ing the smalts, or pieces of eolored glass
which are used in the manufacture, and
instead works with stone and she'll, which
she saws into squares, as in the Florentine
mosaic. Here is an art which in the coars-
er grades might give employment to thou
sands of idle or illy-paid women In the
States.
The secret of success in these instances
which we have just given, is that each
woman with nimble brain and skillful
fingers, saw and siezed upon the chance
nearest to her aad used it.
A Roguish Pet.
wide AwakeI
Having such remarkably bright eyes, it
certainly is strange that the flying
squirrel prefers being abroad by night and
taking its maps in the daytime. Zone of
them came in at the open window Of a
neighboring house, on summer evening,
and went dsshing about among the tin dip
pers and basins, making such disturbance
that at last somebody wss sent with light
to see what the matter was. By that time
the intruder had become quiet on the ledge
over the door, ard nothing was found which
could account for the clatter and din There
was no mouse, no rat, no cat-nobody; and
the search was given up. Then the
sounds began again, and the rogue was
found-so small rogue for so big noisel
At first he trembled with terror, and his
beautiful lustrous eyes dilated and looked
up as beseechingly and psthetically as the
eyes of half-grieved, half-frightened child.
Then he allowed hand to touch and fondle
his soft fur; and then he let two hands close
over his quivering self. He became the
gentle, purring, dainty darling of the house;
had a name given him and was made per-
oo&1w Aa1 kln
niest and most coaxing ways,
would answer with his queer little
twitter of q cry when he was spoken to, and
delighted in being taken notice of. In the
day time be would have long comfortable
slumber, during which his attitude was one
of most luxurious ease, half-lying, half
squatting, with his wee tail placed like a
screen, and such an absolute unbending of
himself, such perfect restfulness, that he
was the veriest picture of innocence and
peace in blissful infantile state of being
sound asleep. He was usually kept IL a
birdcsge fitted with close wires, for he could
almost slip through a crack. He could
make himself almost as thin and slight as
If he were all membrane; and he had a
mischievous enjoyment in squeezing him.
self through the smallest possible aperture,
and evading his mistress, who would go
hunting about the room Tor him, while the
tricksy elf looked roguish and amused, and
as wicked as such sweet creature could.
Once when he was sick, she sat up all
night with him and wherever hejourney-
ed she took him with her in small travel
ling Continuance something like tin pail,
pierced with many openings for air, and
having q cover which smut him in securely
On one occasion he watched his chance and
slipped out while they were waiting for q
train in the large room at a depot. and
darted across the feet Of lady, who Shrek
ed out, "a mousel a mousel No, 'tisn't q
mOusel oh, it's a ratl No, tisn't rati oh,
what is iti What is lit"
When she found from her neighbours ex-
clamation that it was 'smy dear little flying
squirrel and am afraid that 1 shall lose
him." and she laid down her bundle of bags,
gathered up her skirts, and started to help
catch him. But it was not so easy. The
next woman, and then the other one, join
ed IN the pursuit; and then the man who
came in with the coal; and then the ticket
master; aud then a boy who was hanging
about. 1t was almost train-time, when al
the doors would be set open. and crowd 81
passengers inward bound would come pour.
ing in
The people who were engaged in the