The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-01
For Our Youth.


NEAR AND FAR.sIGHTEDNEss.'--
Near-sighted boys and girls are often
surprised to find how much farther their
companions can see than themselves
Some can tell the time of day indicated
by distant church-clock, where they
cannot even make out the clock itself.
but there are fine tests in the heavenly
bodies well-known to astronomers, and
with which any boy or girl may become
familiar.
The Pleiades is famous constella-
tion, with which is associated a tradi-
ton coming down from Grecian times
that one of its stars suddenly disap-
peared. An eye of ordinary power can
easily make out six stars; stronger
vision can count eleven, and some with
extraordinary powers can discern thir-
teen and fourteen. With telescope
the number visible varies from fifty to
hundred.
Everybody knows the Great Dipper.
The middle star in the handle has a
companion star, which tolerably good
eye can detect. A stronger eye can de-
tect a third and fainter star. 1t ie-
quires the best eyes to pick out the
moons of Jupiter, but this has been
done by a few. 1t is comparatively
easy to see them when two are in con-
junction, and thus larger surface TO
the eye. 1t may afford no little amuse-
ment to our readers to test their vision
by experimenting, some clear night, on
the consultations we have mentioned.
ABOUT EARNING MONEY. - Some
of the boys have written TO the post
mistress asking her to tell them how
they may earn a little money during
vacation. One bright eyed little man
George r., Jr., is his name-has
solved the problem for himself. He has
a boat called the POcdhontaS, and, as his
home is near favOrite summer resort,
visited during the season by numbers of
people from the city, he lows passen.
gers across certain little stream at
five cents trip. lie intends to buy a
pony with his money when he shall
have earned enough to pay for one.
will not tell YOU where George lives,
but it is not improbable that among my
young friends there may be "a half.duzen
who, before vacation is over, may take
seat in the pretty POcdhontas, and
have my brave little laddie for their
ferryman.
Another boy of my acquaintance,
who expected year or two ago to
spend his vacation wholly in town, asked
his fathers permission to learn some.
thing about business life in the ten
weeks before school should reopen. He
sought and found place in an Office.
pleased his employers so well by his
promptness and intelligence that when
he had been graduated they at once
gave him a permanent situation.
But | want to tell you about Hal W.
and his sister Bessie. They wanted
ever so much to go to the mountains
TINS summer, and weeks ago they asked
their mother if she would give her con-
sent. She shook her head rather sadly
where is the money to come from,
my dears ?'
Bessie knew, if Hal did not, that
There was no money to spare. Mrs. w.
paints pictures, and is sometimes paid
very well for them, and sometimes
alas the pictures do not lind pur-
chascrs.
IF you and Bessie can manage ia
earn enough to pay your expenses. Won
may go to Wildroseville in August ),
said the mother
Now some children would have said
WHAT'S the use of trying ?" Not So
Bessie and Hal, who are young Ameri-
cans, and have plenty of pluck and
persistence. They shook all their pen.
mes out of their saving banks and
counted them, and added to thrir am,
several silver pieces which had heen
gwen them, about the Fourth Of Julv
Dy ulcles and cousins to invest in tor-
pedoes. They had not wasted a pennv
On t'rpedoes, and when they footed nm
Chelr wealth it amounted to three dol.
iais' With this Bessie bought a good
many yards of strong, b9own gingham
, OF o, ae lose checked pattern. After She
E brought it home you migll have heard
3 : sewing machine singing a merry tune,
AS AS ltS little needle flew up and down
: .nG seams it seemed to say, with rs
+ quick click, click, click,
. hT, and Bessie are going guess
uJI, pune autiful mountains
where the stream let's How uL. =,
green ferns grow, tn'
+ !" 'ne spray OF the snowy fountains.
ng, Nlborl5se Tnu Bessie they mean, guess
d With their y own \" bri,St = sumner inner day,
o see that you are puzzling Won
- Drains over the wonder what me 49,.
a ey'u Bessie was making, while Ha