St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-16
CONCERNING CHILDREN.
Little Arabs-FUnny Excerpts
School Stories.

st. Nicholas.
If the little Arabs are heather they
are at least picturesque heather. In
their colOred clothing, with their dusky
skins, their black eyes and the 1.-THE, act
i've bodies, they are very picturesque.
But, it must be confessed, they appear
best at distance, for soap is not so
fashionable among them as might
Justly be expected from the people of
country which manufactures the most
cleansing soap in the world. In watch
ing the children at play one soon no
tees that the girls do not always have
good time. Arab boys are not trained
to be gentlemanly and courteous to
their sisters, although they treat their
elders with delightful Difference and
respect. Little girls in the East are
never welcome.
| G When baby is born, if it be a girl
'the threshold mOurns forty days" So,
in taking glimpse at the amusementS
of the Arab children, we must be pre-
pared to find that they are chiefly boys
games, in which the girls seldom par
ticipate. A little boy in America asked
a person who had lived in Syria if the
boys there ever played base ball, and
on learning that they did not
said: "Well they can't have much
fun there 1t is very natural for
the children of any country to imagine
|, that the children in other countries
amuse themselves in the same ways.
lQAnd the number of games that are in
reality universal among children in all
countries is really remarkable. For
example. the Arab children often play
iLblind-man,s-bluff tthey call it ghum-
maide) and biz zoWala or puss-
in-the-cOrner, and a game like
"button, button, who has the button?"
(Which they play with pebble), and
oval hOwah or leap-frOg, and gileh or
marbles. But there are other games of
which you probably have never heard
such as kurd murbOOt, ShOOa, jOOrs, taia-
ya-taia, khalim, and the greatest and
most exciting of all their games, the ma
tional game it might perhaps be called,
jereed.
Boston journal of Education.
These are excerpts from the eXamina-
ton papers and essays of original
thinkers" in grammar and high school
grades: ''Jaundice, a scandal" ''Mos-
quito, child of white and black par
ents." ''HerOdotus was a descendant
of HerOd the Great, and he was king of
the /Jews.' 1.-The Aryans spoke
the French language" Virgil
was great American author"
"DiogeneSe was great philosopher and
a successor to Alexandria the Great"
''Longfellow wrote Paradise Lost and
Paradise Regained.'" ''Hawthorne
wrote Mo es from an an Old Manse.' -
plato was the Father of Language, and
his language was so perfect that it is
said that if Jupiter were to speak he
would speak Plato"
Boston Traveller.
Miss Rowland taught school at Nor
way, Me-, and she evidently understood
how to make the boys and girls put the
best foot forward. One day she was
| putting a class through the toe-the-line
drill in the presence of two young gen
tlemen visitors from out OF town. These
| lively spectators, at some feat of the
youthful squad, INDUCED in a giggie.
''Children,"' exclaimed MISS boWland in
| her loud, clear tones, "What is it a sign
| of to see people laughing?'' "A weak
| mind" shouted every voice, and the
| young men subsidized.
| Portland Argus.
Little TObey Brown, of our house,
while at his lessons one day was asked
| what double was. He could not an
swer exactly, and after being told he
said to the teacher: ''Oh, bother; why
don't you call them jubilee and done
| with it?'' Upon another occasion he
| was asked what an exclamation point
was. Not knowing certainly he evaded
an answer by eXclaiming: ANY fool
| ought to know what mark with dot
| over it is" Marion was telling some of
| her little friends about lady who had
| died. One of her hearers asked when
| she died. She answered: "She died
| lust in time to be buried"
| Orlando Devine and his brother, of
| MonrOetOn, Penn, saw coon put its
head out of hole in big tree at &. w.
+, Kipp's saw-mill the other day. They
resolved to capture the coon by cutting
| the tree down. When the tree fell it
struck another big tree, and both trees
fell on the roof of Kipp's mill, crushing
it in and doing over 81 900 damage to
| fLn IN achinarN Hhp coon oScanpd