Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-08-02
A FEW OBSERVATIONS.

haps he is means OF grace Contact with him
develops trait which predominates in the martyr
endurance, patience and sacrifice. have been
watching from my windows one small boy for up
wards of an hour, and this is what he did, First,
he searched carefully in a refuse barrel till he
found two tin cans, then he secured stout stick,
and with it he has been batting these two tortuous
articles over the stones with zeal and persever.
ance that were better devoted to another and
worthier cause. At last, having worn out the nov
city of the diversion and the nerves of the neigh
borhood, before he had time to sigh for fresh
worlds to conquer, he conceived the brilliant idea
of emptying two ash barrels of their contents, and
after aboring diligently for twenty minutes, he
succeeded in tumbling them to the top of flight
of stone steps, then mounting the step back of
them he laid them neatly on their side in military
precision, and stood patiently awaiting an oppor-
tunity to perpetrate his fendish trick. Soon
poor, old, lame and lank horse came along with
burden, driven by an expressman, and then down
went the barrels roaring, seraping, crashing upon
the poor BEAST who, too old to run and too terri
fed to stand fell on his launches in a ptiable
condition. And the boy, where was he? The
earth may have opened and swallowed him, or he
may have vanished, iny mid-air, complete was his
disappearance.
question whether this exhuberance of spirit is
brain or lack of brain. / incline toward the lat
ter idea.
Notice the difference in the diversions of a boy
and girl. Turn them both into ten-acre lot.
Observe your boy look about him. In less than
an hour he will have constructed see-saw, bon
fire, WE'LL lost dozen household tools in the
nd Rpa 1lx,n off loft 70 ,,;ol~
them up.
Search for your girl, and she is nowhere to be
found-but by and by you will come to fence
corner and hear piping voice humming little
tune and catch glimpse of pink gown, and
there she is with few broken pieces of china and a
doll baby keeping house in the quietest, most ap-
proved fashion There will she play by herself for
six hours at time, or until you call her away to
help the. boy gather up the see-saw and the tools
and the bonfire and fill up the well-in fact 10
clean up the cyclone generally.
Why is this? Will some gentle observant tell
The CHRONICLE "Why"
The family skeleton of our Nation is out again
for holiday. He was out for an airing on deco
ration day and was 10th to be imprisoned again.
puV ~" W VIC June vi Uue rOrce Dill ne Is dancing
the merrlest kind of can-can. He is exhibiting
his articular construction to interested observers
and ntruding his uncAnuy presence upon disinter-
ested ones. He whispers in the Northern ear that
the South is "sold," and nothing so excites
Northern frenzy, and then he turns about and
whispers in the Southern ear that the North is
well somethlngvery uncomplmentary to the North,
you may be sure, because that is the business Of
the family skeleton-and then he orders the Ratchet
aug up and he puts new edge on it, and alto
gether has the merriest sort of a time.
lhere are many antagonictic politicians who are
more lily up the creeks" than statesmen, who are
charmed to entertain this individual with the
bloody shirt sentiments; but it is to be hoped
there are also wise arbiters on both sides. who nv
peaceful arbitration will settle this affair to the