Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-12-19
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BFcome NOwards aud Liars.
Tommy. YOU have disobeyed me,
and am going 10 punish you, so walk
right into TINS dark closetw
The voice was cold aud stern, and
the manner was equally unyieIdiug.
/ Tommy, crying and struggling with
all his might, was pushed aud dragged
! into the closet which was certainly
/ dark enough for all practical purposes.
/ aud the key was turned in the lock.
Mamma, it's so dark! I'm afraid.
Please let me OVER pleaded the abiect
/ Tommy But he was not vet subdued.
| The mother, stealing noiselesSly up to
the door groaned in a most horrible
manner, and ratified piece Of chain.
oh, mamma shrieked the frighten-
4 ed child, please let me out! I'll never
be bad any moreW
Then the door was opened and the
/ little prisoner came out, white-faced
and wild-eyed.
This was Tommy's first lesson.
Here, Tommy, dear; take this nice
medicine the doctor left for You. Come,
now open your mouth, pet and take
voar good medicine"
Il thought you said it was good"
/ ehrieked Tommy when he had gulped
/ down the nauseOus mixture
so it is. dear-good for sick BOYS,
was the calm reply as the mother put
away the spoon and bottle.
! That was Tommy's second lesson.
/ Tommy had been standing at the
/ gate for more than an hour. watching
/ for his mother. The day was cold and
the wind blew upon him meroilessly,
/ but still he waited, his eager little face
pressed against the bars of the gate.
Al last he saw her coming away down
the street, and then how he went rush
ing out to meet her his cheeks glowing
and his eyes shining
Give it to me, mamma! Oh, give
it to me-" be cried, holding up both
hands
Give you what, Tommy asked the
mother, pushing past him.
why, my candy, mammal The
candy you promised to get me-"
Il forgot it. Tommy. You'll have to
do without this evening
But, mamma you promised it,
cried Tommy, in the midst of copious
tears, as though that was reason
enough.
But didn't you hear me say | for
got itP' asked the mother MS though
that also, were reason enough. And
then Tommy was sent to bed supper
less because he cried.
There were several lessons for Tom
my in this-I really can not tell how
many.
Mary" said Tommy's father one
day in a gricyed voice, how does it
come that Tommy is growing to be
such coward? | wanted to send him
upstairs after my slippers last night,
aud nothing could induce him to 90
because il was dark The idea of a
boy being afraid of the dark! He's 60
ing to be perfect miiksop and | was
so anxious for him TO be fearless,
manly boy
And then the mother said she
couldn't account for it any way in the
world. She was sure there had never
been any coWardjce In Ter family.
She had never dreamed of such thing
as being afraid in the dark when she
was Il child, and it was a mystery to
her how Tommy got such notions into
his head.
Mary, said Tommy's father again,
few days LATER, twice lately / nave
caught Tommy IN deliberate lie, and
/ have suspected him Of lying half
dozen times i'm as many days. Now,
lying is one thing l positively can't
stand have tried so hard to teach
the boy to be perfectly frank and
honest and to tell the truth at whatever
risk"
And Tommy's mother said that she
really couldn't understand it, that
Tommy's training had been Of tine
most careful kind; but She thought
! Tommy must have learned to tell false
hoods from that last seryuut-girl. As
for herself. she had never told lie in
her life.
Whercupon Tommy was called up
and was lectured aud talked to and
talked at until his brain was in whirl
He did not say anything in his own
defense. He might have said a great
deal, but he was no orator, and be-
l.sidcs he did not understand the whole
situation himself Even if he did I'M
dprstand it all it would not have been
very polite. would it, for Tommy TO
say that his first lessons in cowardice
and meauness, aud seidshness, and
faIsehood aud deceit, were taught him
1 by his mother?
/ The above is merely a little series of
/ pictures. says "a writer in the ST. Louis
/ Globe Democrat They were not taken
with Il kodak, but the camera was
very good one aud has taken vast
number OF such pictures. Have you
/ ever seen anything like them?
ROPES OF HUMAN HAIR.