The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-28

Papa Shows That Sometimes 1t
Takes More Than a Little to
Make Children Happy.

w 0hAkNANA 40RRJ l.I
ut takes so little to make a child
happy that it is pity, in a world full
of sunshine and pleasant things, that
there should be any wistful faces,
empty hands or lonely young hearts"
/ found these words in an old news
paper the other day. They were
headed, IA Sermon in Five Lines, =
and they came home to me with all
the force of a personal appeal.
1T takes SO little to make a child
happy How many times l have
seen the most trivial incident lift my
own little boy into the very ecstasy OF
happiness.
How often some simple gift, or a
song or a story chase the tears from
his eyes and bring the bright smiles to
his face. And yet, | thought, with a
pang of regret, how many times | had
chided him needlessly-how many
times I had refused to exert myself at
all for his sake. That very night he
had gone to bed with a heavy heart
because I would not romp with him.
/ was too tired, / said.
] stepped into my boy'sroom before
l went to bed that night, and passing
my hand over his fiaxen hair as He
lay asleep / resolved that in the flu
ture I would be a better father to
him.
1T is a pity that there should be
any wistful faces. empty hands or
lonely young hearts, l thought, as |
dropped asleep. l remember that
later in the night / was dreaming of
visiting a great factory and inspecting
the machinery. BE careful, y / heard
some one say, and then to my horror
/ saw that | had approached too near
to some betting. My beard had been
caught and / was frantically trying to
extricate myself when / awoke.
"Hello, papa" said a voice beside
my bed in the darkness.
Let go of papa's whiskers, y I cried.
What on earth are you doing in here,
anyway, Dick?" I continued, sitting
up.
"Dick wants Dicks animals was
the answer.
'sD1ck wants to go back to bed,n
said /, land quick, too" and | carried
him into his little room and placed
him on the bed.
"Dick wants Dicks a-a-animals.n
"You don't want"
sit takes so little to make O. child
happy The words came to my mind
and dispelled my annoyance al once.
I lighted the gas, turned it down quite
low, fished out Noah's ark from under
the bed and placed it besides the boy.
.tAll right / said cheerfully, you
may.take them, but be very quiet and
don't wake your baby brother Then
/ kissed him and went back to my
own bed again.
l was almost asleep when | heard a
~pattering of feet and a subdued voice
saying
"Dick wants papa to find the ele-
phant.n
81 wouldn't mind about the ele-
plant now,n said /.
"Dick wants.
/ arose and found the elephant.
Now, Dick, ? / said, you must keep
quiet and let papa Sleep
Want papa to make Prancer stand
up"
He was trying to make a three
legged horse stand alone on the coun-
terpane.
"Will you go to sleep if / make him
stand up for your | asked.
Yes, papa"
Right away?"
Eyes, papa
/ made Prancer stand erect by
bracing Noah against his off hind
quarter.
There said /, ''now lie down,
Dick.n
Want papa to make all the ami
mails stand up"
Dick" said I, impressively, lit is
night. The animals are all asleep and
don't want to stand up. You must lie
down and let papa go to bed"
"Dick wants to see the moon"
"Mr. Dickey," / said coaxinglv, ssif
you will stop talking and not wake
your baby brother
Dick wants his little baby buzzer
to get up and shave.n
Not a word was spoken after that.
Quietly, but firmly, / laid him down
and drew the blanket over him. ]
turned out the gas, and, taking a
long step to clear the stray animals,
made my way back to my W room,
regular breathing that Dick was
asleep, and, if / remember rightly,
didn't are much at the time whether
lac AldN ~ WlSbAuI ldc6 d1la 6lupby
hands and a lonely young heart OF
not.-Detroit Free Press.
Jefferson Davis Family.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, in a letter tc
a friend in New York, thus writes:-
II am not surprised that you believe
that our daughter Varina ("Winnie',
is our only surviving child, as in al
most every notice of her it is stated
that she is the only daughter of tine
late Jefferson Davis But it is q
cause of constantly recurring thank
fulness to me that if we were to be de.
Hoods SarsapariIIa