Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-10

brave lights, crying out in rapture things
hardly lawful to utter in newspaper artl-
Gle for everybody's reading. He would
have STAYED out with the strange, glorious
sight all night if had left him, and indeed
it must be hard to imagine a child's first
impression of the stars. Nights now I lean
out of my town window to get a sight of the
sky, but what was it first of all? 1 think
Lorrie said that God must be beautiful if
He made such stars, and wanted to know
how long it would be before he might die
and 90 up to look close at them. but he was
not a miraculously good child, though the
sweetest.
LITTLE PRINCE CHARMING.
Last of all, came my little Prince Charm
ing, with the soft, misty dark eyes and
almond bloom, the merriest hearted baby,
that used to sleep on his mothers knees,
with her portfolio resting on his back, while
she scratched away for his bread and milk
and buttons. Life was huge lark to him,
and his mother had the keys of the world.
First, he wanted the moon, at a year old.
AT 2, his mouth opening to chatter as
nouncement was, Mother, want whale. !"
SINCE then all he wants is to possess the
earth, and free lance and knight errant, for
all intents and purposes it has been his own,
At2%, in his white frock he sailed out
on New York streets with a parcel of fresh
papers Just received under his arm, crying
"Noos, noos," Independently, and fought
desperately 10 be allowed to begin making
his fortune at that early age. AT 4, he ran
away six times week, and the police grew
used to seeing distracted mother rushing
to the station for tidings of a lost boy. The
family moved out of town to save his
mothers reason from such frights, and he
seldom wandered off more than four miles
sin line" after that. Between z In the
morning and at night his mother had to
trust in Providence pretty firmly, for the
boy was invisible, and no snake ever disap-
peared with finer celebrity. He was born
rover, and withal the blithest child that
but sudden storms of TEN per were followed
by long reaches of sunniest affectionate
mood.
HIS BIRTHDAY SURPRISE.
For wears his favorite surprise for his
mothers birthday in August was to bring
her a superb plant of cardinal flower, in
which she delighted, wandering leagues to
seek it, marking the spot weeks before, and
carrying the tall plant, root and all in per-
feet condition, miles through the blazing
sun. rev gllIS cost more InOuSnG anu Oe-
votion than that beautiful birthday plant.
Afterward his regular present was bottle
of her favorite lavender water, enough to
last the whole year, for which his pennies
were boarded months before. Mother and
child never lived more closely for each other.
One of the sweetest things in memory is the
laughing, fair-haired child saying his first
verse from the Bible. Gas one whom his
mother comforteth, so will 1 comfort you" :"
and turning his eye up full of love and elo-
quence, saying, 81 know the meaning of
thatI''
Poorly the pen can sketch the lovable
children have known, mischievous chill
dren, faulty once, but whom we love spite
of defects, perhaps as Deity loves US. The
secret of managing children and making
them lovable is to love them with intelli-
gence and with tervor. Every child is a
human anemone, either dull, inert, shrink
ing from your touch, or a blossom of deli
cate, surprising beauty as you choose to let
it develop itself. SHIRLEY DARE.