The Arizona sentinel., 1888-03-03

My teacher says every body should do as they would be done by"
 What did she say about children obeying their parents?" asked the father.
 'She said that to the other little boys"
 Harry, you should not ask Cousin John how much money he is worth; that is not polite"
 'I wasn't trying to be polite. Ijust wanted to know"
 Baby must not say won't to man. ma."
 What sal he say when he wants to won 't?"
 But it is the unconscious wit of chil- dren which most abounds Every home is full of if. If the bright say ings of all the homes could bs emp tied out upon the world. just as the mother tells them 10 the father when he comes home at night, in all their charm of childish individ uality and the choice setting of home and family lifa. the world itself would shake its round old sides with great ha! ha' s! and go laughing on it's circling way. Wherever there are baby lips, there, be sure, is continual dropping of the pearls and diamonds of wit. The funny column of the daily newspaper glistens with children s wit; the week ly furbishes up its dullness with it, the stately monthly lays hold upon it, Illustrates the already luminous, and shines up its last page with it to give kind of whip-lash snap to its pom derous send of. It is the children who keep wit alive; it would have been lost art long ago but for them. Abrogate the children and you abro- gate wit.
 T guess we have so many things to learn at our school that we don't have any room to unders. and them in," said little girl, patheGcally.
 Please, teacher, if the star is big ger than the earth, why doesn't it keep the rain off?''
 Hush! Little boys should not ask questions. Next boy, go above Tom my, for speaking when he wasn't spoken to-"
 How is the earth divided?"
 By earthquakes. ma am."
 If these be the fore quarters of the earth, where be the hind quarters?" asked the butcher son.
 "GuesS they make the hind quarters up into mules and other folks that kick; common dirt wouldn't do for them," said a child of clay, who knew what the dust of the earth was good for
 What made the tower of Pisa iean?"
 Because of the famine in the land" said boy who had got the tower con- fused with Joseph's brethren.
 What does it mean when the King rent his clothes?"
 q s'pose he hired them out, ma am"
 Do you doubt my word, Mary?"
 "Oh, no, mo- ma am; I never thought you were liable"
 What kind of soldiers graves are those at Gettysburg?"
 Dead soldiers graves, sir"
 Not only are bright minds dulled by the sleeping potion of a wrong edu- cation. but child's mind is quicker, more vital, and essential in action than the same mind. even when carefully developed, in maturity. Consider the growing point of plant stalk; what warmth, vitality, energy, centers itself just there! The spear-points of new grass. seemingly unfibcred and unbraccd, will in twcnty-four hours push themselves One-fourth of an inch through thick tab.e-line laid out to bleach. and will make darning-needle holes all over the close fabric. Snow drops in March will burn a hole in the ice over their roots, and force their slender flower up into the air and light, and hang their delicate heads in perfect bloom, while the earth at their feet is a mere skating rink for snow-drops. Is there any such burning energy, such daring push, in the hardened oak twig that has reached its stolid and majestic maturity? Not at all.
 The child's mind is the growing point, the mans the stolid twig. A child can think ten thoughts, take ten measurements or observations, while a man does one. Children are smarter than adults, and always manage them. You will deny it, O reader, especially if you are managed so perfectly that you do not know you are managed at all. Children do not govern their parents in your household? Oh no; they never do in any particular household, but they do it in neighborhoods; they do it in your own neighborhood, as you know to your sorrow, and in your neighbOr- hoods neigh hborhOod, and in your neighborhood's neighborhood' neigh borhood, and so on, this state of gov ernance circling the world like the equator or the famons English drum beat
 A child's m1nd being quick, fear less. drrc', is continually revealing queer & . Uisuspccted relationships. This roCm looks as if it hadn't