Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-07
sonar BoOEs ron CHILDREN.
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People aud Young.

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People aud Young,
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whiIcthc evenings are still long and favor
able for the work, | want to say "A few words
To mothers about scrap books. These have In
the last year or two become very common,
Nand are now to hc found in almost every
household where there are growing girls aud
boys Were vou tn spend some pleasant
evenings going from house to house, YOU
would doubtless find, both IN country aud
town, many little hands busy with paste
brush and scissors You would too think,
find the books glanced over, in your eve
ning'S ramhc a trife monOtonouS, with
similar bright pictures and cards arranged
I'm much the same fashion in ALL a. II Susy
and Mary aud Charley aud John had all pat
termed after the sclisame model ITO anuse
and entertain is the mission OF the scrap
book" you will perhaps say ana mat each
or any should possess II distinct tndiNidnallty
is not important" For the little ones, this
to amusc-- l., 10 he sure, sufficient hut Tor
those little older, 1t seems TO me the scrap
book might bc made means of education,
and nj the same time I've none the less de-
light | have In mind, ~ ! write, scrap
book which u little boy Ot l. has worked nt,
off and ON, for the last year or more, aided
occasionally by suggestions by his mother,
and all the time by her interest and pride III
his work
In the first place Willio's book il a large
one and Possesses q due proportion of the
conventional bright picture pages pretty ana
comic advertising cards, emhellshed name
cards, ,Sc, with now and then q little poem
or crap Of prose but the pages ] had in mind
to tell YOU Of are these: There ~ one which
Willie calls his shakespeare page and
though he has only read few ui the great
poets plays (and those Of his mothers
Choosing, and with her supervision and help);
vet he takes great pleasure and pride in II,
picking out, again and again, from the page
those pictures which illustrate the characters
with which he his familiar But am anticl-
pating, First, in the left hand upper corner
of the double page il the picture of the poet
himself and following this are some sixty or
more small pictures, each representative OF
some character, tragic or comic, in one or
other of the plays. Willie and Willie
mamma considered themselves exceedingly
fortunate In happening upon these Tor this
special page. The remainder Of the double
page il iillod with eNtracts--about hftS IN all
from the poet. Most ot these are ol wv"
and four lines each, though there are ic"
longer ones.
Then there are i've pages (doublo one ,
which are very much alike in their arrange
ment These are devoted to five American
poets viz: Bryant, Longtollow, Emerson,
Whittier aud Holmes rs III the Shakespeare
page, the picture of the poet occupies the left
hand upper corner of the double page; next
comes his autograph, then picture of ms
birthplace or lllnnOoh : Shphlek NhiChoN " was
obtainablc), also some other picture oi inter
est connected with his life Gas, In the case OF
BRYANT the Bryant vase), after which the ro-
mainder of the page i filled with poems OF
or prose selections from the author.
There is also page devoted to miscellane-
Gus authors. Hawthorne, Scott, Dickens
Hans Christian Andersen, &c, with other
pages planned, but not yet underway, save
that the cleaning for the same Is going on
slowly. One of these is page OF the presi-
sents another. page of political men. But
this is, think, sufficient to show my idea,
which is that scrap book may be made to
serve as a brief study or an object lesson in
literature, while the child's interest and lea
sure will not be lessened hut rather increased
thereby.