St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01
CHILDREN's BRIGHT TALK.
Pithy Ideas and Humorous Infer
ences of the Little Ones.
UNTIAIELY ENTHUSIASM.

UNTIMELY ENTHUSIASM.
Boston Times.
That company in the country is great
event is well known. This was fully
illustrated by the experience of GER
tain Bostonian who was snow-bound in
small town last week. He was i'll
vited to take supper at the house of a
well-tO-do farmer whom he knew, where
there was small boy not yet beyond
the high-chair stage of existence. OF
course preparations had been made to
give the visitor good repaSt and an en-
joyable evening, and these did not pass
unn0ticed by the small boy. When the
family and guest were seated at the
table the yOungSter looked at the feast
with glistening eyes, then rose in his
high chair, waved his arms frantically
and exclaimed 'Hullo, pies! Hullo,
cake! Haven't seen You for a hundred
years"
A STARTLING THOUGHT.
Boston Commonwealth.
Miss Blank is teacher in the Girls.
Latin school. In teaching anatomy she.
uses the articulated skeleton of a girl,
and beginners in the study of anatomy.
in Miss Blanks class are usually very
much impressed by her familiarity with
the to them aWeSome object. Not long
ago new girl in the class sat through,
the lesson in sort of stupefied silence!
gazing fearfully at the grinning skeleI
ton and amaZedly at the teacher who!
handled it with such serene cOmpOSure.
When the lesson was over the new girl,
making frightened detOur around the
skeleton, approached Miss Blank, and
in a Mortified, thrilling whisper in
CURED:
is that the skeleton of Latin school
girl or high school girl?'
Miss Blank was obliged to confess
ignorance on that vital point.
THANKS AT BOTH ENDS.
Boston Globe
Little Fred D. and his father and
mother were going to board with a
neighbOr for two weeks while the house
was undergoing repairs. Fred was de-
lighted at the prospect.
Mamma" he said, didn't you say
must thank God for every good thing?"
eyes, Fred"
"Shall thank him because we are
going to b0ard?
Eyes, if you like"
When the two weeks had expired and
the last dinner at the boarding house
had been eaten, Fred leaned back in
said, in the hearing of the hostess:
"Now, let's thank God we've got
through boarding."
PEACE BY CONFUSION.
Boston Globe.
Fred D.. five years old, had to
learn verse to recite at Sunday-sch0Ol.
His verse was, BLESSED are the peace
| makers" He did not exactly under
stand what it meant, and his mother ex-
planned it to him, telling him that when
ever he saw two boys quarreling or
fighting he must be little peacemaker
and try to stop them.
The next night as he was being un-
dressed he said: Mamma, 1 was lit
tie peacemaker today"
''Were your said his mother; ''how?"
81 saw two little boys fighting in the
street, and l stopped them"
''That's good boy" said the mother,
giving him kiss; ''and how did you
part them?"
"Why, | just ran up and fired stones
at them till they stopped fighting and
ran away"
THE REMEDY.
Philadelphia News.
Little four-year-old Cora did not want
to learn to read, and her mother asked
her what she would do if she were UNI
able to read when she grew up.
'I'll get my husband to read to me-"
was the reply.
A NEW TRANSLATION.
Washington Critic
A little boy up town who has just
learned to say his prayers, and, we re-
greet to state. with considerable Opposi-
| ton, was at breakfast the other morning
| and the waiter was putting Jumps of
sugar in his coffee. When the fourth
lump went in the boy put his hand on
| the walters arm.
"Amen," he said briefly.
"Why, Tommie, what do you mean
by that?" inquired his mother, greatly
| shocked.
"That means I've got enough, replied
| the youngster with his mind on his de-
vo tional exercises.