Morning journal and courier., 1890-04-19

And with small Asylum boy
Engaged in conversation;
Bestowing freely much advice
Adapted to his station,
He told him that boy might rise
II honest and Industrious,
To gain, Of all the nations gift
| The honor most illustrious.
He talked of learning, wealth and fame,
| OF power and proud position
And strove. by force Of burning words
| To fire the lads ambition.
'And now, to make your mark, - he cried,
| And better your condition,
What are you going to be?" the boy
Held up his little cropped head,
And with a lofty air replied.
| 'I'm going to be Adopted!"
| DAUGHTERS eF THE KING" IN FOREIGN
| LANDS.
The order of Kings Daughters is exerting
a wide spreading, benefcent influence over
girls of every station and in all countries.
In the United States thousands are wearing
the significant little badge of membership,
and in Canada, England, Scotland Wales,
Germany and Australia are thousands more,
banded together as children of the king and
pledged to faithful, loving service, SIN His
Name," whenever an opportunity presents
ITSELF
But not only to children in Christian coun-
tries and in Christian homes is the work of
this order proving an inspiration and bles-
| ing, it reaches also the children in heathen
| lands, and scattered here and there are found
in mission schools Hindoo, Chinese, Persian
or Turkish girls enrolled under the same
banner, and engaged in the same gracious
ministrations.
Pundita Ramabai, that accomplished Him
doc lady who is so we'll remembered In New
York and Boston, has formed club of
| "KinR's Daughters" among her pupils in
| India, and says that she already sees the ef-
feet of it in steadying and strengthening of
character in these irresponsible and undevel-
oped maidens. She has translated into
Narathi the four notices of the Wordsworth
clubs: "Look up and not DOWN. Look for
ward and not back" sLook out and not il. ;"
| and "Lend hand"
| The Pundita has school at Bombay Of
| twenty-five pupils. Seventeen are boarders
in her home and of these eleven are child
widows. Her work is undenominational and
very successful: In Shahjehanpore at q girls
boarding school is an order Of Kings Daugh-
to be stimulating the women
and girls to ''more active benevolenoe
and more earnestness in religious life." At
the Girls Orphanage in Bareilly are several
"Tens." while at Pitoragarh last year were
twenty-four members of the order, and not
only were the characters of the members de-
veloped and established, but their example
seemed leavening influence spread through |
out the school. At Rangoon the Kings |
Daughters meet every Sunday afternoon to |
pray and talk over the work of the week, |
and are preparing themselves for service in |
native schools. All these, and more, are in |
India, while from Japan we bear that at |
Nsgasaki are two bands of ten members |
each, who render great service to |
newly arrived missionaries. They 60 |
about with them, helping in Sunday school |
aS,l S,1k r.. I'll ~ -. IL
they say, "meuth and tongue" until the |
teachers have learned the language. These |
girls hold a meeting every night in the chapel |
of the Methodist mission for Bible reading |
and prayer for unoonverted pupils, and their |
zeal has not been unrewarded.
At Scutari, a beautiful suburb of Constant
tinople, is a school called "The Home" 1t |
was founded in 1871 and is soon to be In |
corporated as Constantinople College for |
Girls. Here are three societies, and in |
private letter one of the teachers writes 1.-THE |
organization continues to do much good in |
school, and I hear from some Of the girls |
who have left how helpful It is to them"
The Kings Daughters, of Talss, Turkey,
who are preparing themselves for missionary
work, for want of regular badges wear black |
headed pins, or crosses made of beads, or |
picture cards pasted upon ribbon. This re-
calls the fact that there is Chinese "Ten" |
In Foochow who wear silver crosses sent |
them by "Ten" of American girls, members |
of school in Ohio. These girls, to make |
their gifts more valuable, earned the money
for them In various ways, principally by |
darning stockings.
This list might be easily extended but cer- |
tainly here Is enough to prove that the order |
is extending q wholesome influence every |
where and is manifestly to be a powerful |
factor in the uplifting and advancement of |
our hitherto burdened and hopeless sisters of |
the orient.
THE ETERNAL BUD.
The New Haven schoolboy has again been |
heard from. The teacher had been showing |
her pupils twig of horse chestnut, with it's |
terminal bud protected by its envelope of |
scales and viscid gum. Of this little lesson /
in botany they were required to write their /
recollections, and the urchin sparipgly pro-
duced his as follows: "The eternal bud is on /
the end of the stalk and is helled tite."
THE GAME OF PROGRESSIVE SPELLING.
The spelling class may be ranged in line
with the leader facing them. No words are
given out, the leader pronouncing only sim
gle letter, to which other letters are added /
until word is completed, the person giving
the last letter going to tho foot of the class.
For example: The leader, having his posi-
tion in mind, begins with the letter L. The
next player adds E, and the next, thinking
of "leaf," or "lean," adds the letter A, but
having unwittingly finished the word ''lea,"
must 60 to the foot. It is now the right Of
the player next in order to begin a new
word, and, for instance, the let
ter F is given, to which R and E are
Joined. The next player, seeing the danger
of adding 7, passes the word along by giving
I; the next is perplexed and hesitates while
the leader counts ten and then, being un-
able to add q letter, goes to the foot the
a6 Of avfo
sion of time, adds G and the next 81. There
is now no escape for the next player, who
must add the T or keep silence during tho
counting, and in either case goes to the
foot.
The rules of the game exclude proper
nouns. contractions and slang; the counting
should not be done too rapidly, and pass
Ing the work on Intentionally by keep
ing silence during the counting Ia not
allowed a. this might make the game only
the foot when he has finished a word, though
doing SO thoughtlessly; when unable to
think of letter during the counting, or
when he has added letter which could not
be joined to letters already given in the cor
reot spelling of word.
The game will furnish some instruction
and good deal OF amusement. Try it.
JOY FOREVER.
Apropos of the high shouldered, hump
backed style OF writing now in vogue, of
which it may be said that the uglier and
more illegible 1t is the more it seems to be
admired and praoticed. the following has a
peculiar fitness:
Ny Dear Mr.: Morse: 1t was very pleasant
to me to get letter from you the other day.
Perhaps should have found 1t pleasanter if
I had been able to decipher it. I don't think
that mastered anything beyond the date
(which knew, and the signature (Which I
guessed at.) There's singular and perpetu.
al charm in a letter of yours; it never grows
old, it never loses its novelty. One can say
to ones self every morning, "There's that
letter of Morse's. I haven't read it yet.
think I'll take another shy at 1t to-day, and
maybe I shall be able in the course of few
years to make oat what he means by those
rs that look like WIS and those i's that |
haven't any eyebrows" Other letters are
read and thrown away, and forgotten; but
yours are kept forever-unread. One Of
them will last reasonable man lifetime.
Admiringly yours, T. B. ALDRIcH.
A DIscovERY IN METEoRoLoGY.
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