Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-17
THAT NAUGHTY BOY.
He Gives His Mother Lots of Troub1. ,

He Gives His Mother Lots Of Trouble, But
Some Day It's = Sweet Recollection.
Looking over an old box the other
day, came upon q handful of Tony's
buttons, writes Florence Alden. call
them Tony's buttons, for they are
relics of past shirt-waists and little
pants long since worn out or laid aside
that Tony used to wear. Reverently I
picked them out from the collection in
the box, and holding them in my hand,
looked long and earnestly at those sim
pie reminders of my little curly -headed
boy. Nearly every button was pulled
out with piece of the garment from
with it came sewed fast to it. Well I
remember how annoyed I often felt
with Tony because his buttons were al
ways off.
One waist in particular recall. a
dark blue with Kate Greenaway figures
Several buttons in my hand brought
wildly to mind the last time Tony wore
that waist. The image of nv pretty
little boy came back to me as I looked
at those well worn buttons, his bright,
animated face, eyes sparkling in antici-
patton of the fun he would have at the
picnic he was going to attend; his long,
beautiful curls floating around as
sweet face as God ever gave a child.
The little blue pants and waist, broad
collar. finished at the neck with blue
and white tie. Surely Tony was sweet
that day.
AS kissed him good-by said, (what
made me do so?): "Now, Tony, don't
pull off your buttons
mo mamma and he was gone.
He didn't mean to. I knew it then.
I know it better now, but. the unrelia-
BILE buttons came of in spite of boyish
resolutions, and at night Tony came
home looking quite demoralized. I did
not scold him. am glad I didn't. I
only said: Naughty boy, your buttons
are gone"
'No, mamma, have got them all"
And out from tho little pocket came re-
bellious buttons, with unfortunate Kate
Greenaway figures hanging to them in
doleful tatters
sighed as looked at the wreck, and
Tony said, Mamma, I can't help it,
they will come off, but some day I'll
grow big and shan't wear shirt waists
Then you won't have to sew on the but
tons. Won't that be nice?"
Nice! Oh, Tony, Tony, if you could
only come back and pull off the buttons
once more. would not ask for greater
happiness. Mothers, don't scold the
little fellows because they get the but
tons off and bits of garments with them
At best the time is short that you will
have the privilege of sewing them on,
for our little boys soon grow up and go
away from us; then some one besides
mamma has the buttons to sew on.
And some, ali! some only use the but
tons a few years. Then the Father who
gave their sweet faces to us for little
time takes them back again, and we
we only wait, hoping some day to see
them once more.-Detroit Free Press.
ooh, That Day Would Comet"
Is the prayer of many sleepless invalid
who losses the night Outupon couch whose
comfort might well induce slumber. The
finest inductive of health-yielding, refresh
ing sleep is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
since it invigorates the nerves, allays their
super sensitiveness, and renovates failing
digestion. 1t is Incompatible also in ma
laria, constipation, rheumatism, neuralgia,
liver and kidney complaint
A THIEF died in an Iowa poorhouse, and
local paper solemnly declares that ia thief
can't make an honest living in that state"
Columbus Post