Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-01-20

''Whsn PHa a Ma1l GIid BGby's Is WOHIaIl.''
when I'm a man and baby's q wo-
man, said little Horace, as he faced
about and Strengthened up his back,
plunged his hands into his pockets and
planted his bare feet firmly on the rug
before the sitting-room door, while his
8-year-old "baby" sister peeped from
behind him, proud of him as her
champion
well, said mamma, laughing, "and
what viii happen then?"
ave viii have goOder times than
now" asserted Horace. Baby and me
Will have candy and cake and go a-visit-
ing every day. and we won't learn any
lessen then either. Oh, won't we have
good times. baby?"
Il am sorry my dear little children
have such an unkind mamma. Sup
pose we trade with the Cakes family.
/ viii take Willie and Bessie Cakes
for my children, and Mrs. Oakes can
have Horace and Gertrude for her chill
dren. Then you can go wEsre you like;
you need not learn lessons, and you can
eat anything you like, when you ike
you may go down there now and tell
Mrs. Cakes that you want to trade
mammas.
"Oh, what a tempest arose at once.
Horace pulled his hands out Of his
pockets and rushed at mamma, crying:
"No. no, oh, no; you's the bestest
mamma ever was. His wide-rimmed
hat tangled mammals hair, and barely
escaped her soft brown eyes Gertrude
climbed into mamma's lap, sobbing out,
"Pitty mamma, dood mamma, Willy,
Cakes, mamma toss.
ooh, thought my little ones did
love me and were willing to do as
mamma thought best
ayes, mamma, from both little
voices, and Horace added, AZ won't be
cross and naughty again, mamma
when you see something is not good
for US
There's Tuzzen Dotterp p exclaimed
Gertrude. as a gray horse and open
buggy stopped at the gate and a lady
stepped down. "TuzZen Dotter" meant
Cousin Doctor, but Gertrude's little
tongue refused to say the works cor
reetly. That the lady was popular
with the family was evident, for the
brother and sister We're greeting her
warmly in another moment, and
mamma came smiling to add her vel
come.
~Oh, my boy" said Gertrude, that
being her favorite name for Horace,
I'VE viii tell Tuzzen Dotter if gums is
not good"
what is this hear, asked the lady.
@Are gums good to chew? Well, did
you ever see Nose Pickereu, down by
the mill?"
"Yes, oh, yes. lots of times; he is a
queer black man, said Horace. do
you want to look like him with your
jaws always moving and your mouth
all spread out and your cheeks all
wrinkled?"
@No. Tuzzen Dotter, not at all, not
pity builder. said Gertrude, for she
loved her brother deeply, and thought
him, as he was, lovely boy.
IF you chew gum it will make you
look old, like little old grandpa and
grandma 1t viii make you have very
unpleasant manners, too, You will for
get and be chewing while you are look
ing at people and he disagreeable to
them You viii even take gum that
somebody else has hal in their mouth
and put it into yours; that is very vul-
gar. You would not take a piece of
bread that some one else had chewed
and spit out. and chew it, would you ?"
"No, that would be drefful nasty,
said Horace. making up q face ex-
pressive Of extreme disgust.
II saw a papa one day who had read
what some man said who had gum to
sell, and so allowed his little girl to use
it, because he thought it did her good.
When she is a young lady she viii be
6dgety and feel almost unhappy if she
has not a piece Of gum OF something in
her mouth to chew; her cheeks viii be
hollow, and she will wonder why they
are not plump, like her mammals"
and candies, Tuzzen Dotter?" said
Gertrude. Candies spoils your ap-
petites, so that you do not eat enough
good food, then you cannot have blood
enough to make your cheeks red and
your skin bright, and to give you the
feeling that You wish to run and play
and have fun. They make you nervous
so that you do not sleep good, and next
day you are cross"
"See that, baby, when you eat up all
that big lot Of candies you were as cross
As two sticks all that nice Sunday
after"
Mamma. wasn't my boy 80 cross as
II" asked Gertrude.
"Two fretful little people you were
for three days after your candy feast, {"
added mamma
"You see, little people. if you want
to have pleasant manners and be happy,
as well as make others happy. you must
do As the brides and cattle do, eat the
food that suits your little bodies"
And they thought it q good way after
that to be guided by mamma and Cousin
Doctor. Child Culture
FsasAsrea IFightsrs.
The biggest boys are not always the
best fighters. And so it is with birds.