The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-08-29

pulled to pieces. I presume to use parts OF
1t for some other invention.
Don't Let 40 whine ever broken toys, OK
TOYS pulled TO pieces. 'What il the chief
end Of mani" says the oateohism. I be
spanked," says one whose experience
guides his answer. But The chief end OF q
toy, lot ma tell you, il not TO be kept nor
even 10 be merely played with; but to oe
disseotsd. analysed, taken apart, looked
into, comprshendea, and used for con-
structivs purposes. Don't you see how thss
Girl studies the pieces. There il not =
whole toy in the lot; or If there Is she mas
taken small interest in il. What squeaks
come from that mouth organ! II has not nvs
keys in order! / hope she will not strike that
bunRsd drum! No. she will not, for her
best attention IL given to scraps and parts.
She sings in total bliss among tho rains OF
a dozen Ronss. Don't you suppose Nero,
vhsn he dddled over burning Rome. was in
: etate Of niad like that? A hne fellow,
wholly unit to be IN emperor, only ut to
be ! nov. They set him to keep . world In
order. and he couldn't, and BY and BY he
grow backward rather than forward, and
wanted to pull society in pieces, just to ses
how II wss put together. l an so'ry ior
HQo AAAk0 "A0A
That is p~hilosophizing, whom I meant
nothing of ths sort. writes Mary 4. Spen-
Ger in the st. Louis Globe.Demoorat. !
only mean to accept 4 fact, that = hushsl
basket of broken toys 10 nicer than q whole
lot OF new oAes. Every house should havela
little bsdlan, Z room given over to misrule;
a place whore the young ones MAY 60 and
not be compelled TO take care Of other
folks notions, and play other folks ideas.
That is what W older folks do. We don't
own it up, but We pull things to pieces a
great deal; and hon We don't do shat VI
pull people to pieces-snd cali it criticism.
Just now the greatest stir of the intellect
ual world il Tho Higher Criticism Of the
Bible and of theology and old-fashioned
systsms of faith. Don't lou worry. my
little Gladys, We are all of us at the same
job, pulling things into pieces. h do
you make of a chemical laboratory? or .
o%arpsnter's shop? or sven of the kitchen of
a good housekssper? Pulling things to
pieces, I assure you. That il about what it
comes to in the hrst instance. Then BY
and by an inspiration comes, and
We put pieces togssher. and 10.
a new combination. The telegraph 10
made of a lot Of pieces and scraps. SO IL a
pumpkin pie. or a plum pudding. You may
not get an inspiration, and then the putting
together ends in nothing.havinR been made
worth the while; = Ruby motor perhaps, or
q tough shortoake.
Whew! Ny little Buzz Fuzz has flown;
with n shout she has run up stairs TO her
brothers with some old envelopes. Tho
and flung down 4 bunch of French and Ger
man and Italian lstters--and the young
ones arc, In a moment, wild over the stamps.
Tho stamp craze 10 Of the same sort AZ the
broken toys. They are pasted together in
rows. and finally, perhaps, m idea gets
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much OF what is don ends in the toy state
or the broken toy state. But suppose
Miss GLADYS does no moro than truly en-
JOY herself with her bric-a-brac-I beg
your pardon for tho oomparisou-is that
not Just about what the rest of us do? l
am sure we need a deeper sympathy for
this toy rage, and love Of "worthlessness."
Il il the ohildren's brio-a-brao; and we are
all children; n in some shape We love our
miserable good-for-nothinRs.
know 4 man, one OF those little fellows
Of arrested development, who never will
be anything but a baby. He il \ curious
study TO me, because he forms in some
and age. I have laughed often at his
efforts at architecture, horticulture, bust
ness, and other manly smployments. Hit
yard looks like . toy yard; his garden has 3
funny look Of \ baby's house. His nost
has never lost the nib that belongs te
D6pynooo. Dos 10 you tes!iy tnlnk oul
world hasn't . sort of Toy or baby hous.
look to = very big mind? How big rela.
lively are the biggest minds We ever have
on our globe? ! am quite sure on tn,
Whole that my laughing has been quite
foolish; for am convinced that my OWE
work also il not beyond the toy period
saw an astronomer coms down from hit
verbenas and p~etunias in his small garden.
What was great to him-ths starry uni
verse? or the tiny flowers on a tiny globe:
Which were the toys2 Which were thu
real thinRs2
Where shall Va draw the line in our liv-
simplicity. The sim plest is most beautiful.
There are more golden rules than one; and
one of tho best is that w do what oul
hands find TO do will all our hearts. | be.
lteve our very best plan is to keep up the
spirit of childhood, 10 make fun of oul
work. to DO ohildlike always. Don's gel
lover after all. Nearly all you do is insig
nitioant from one side view. My little cir
10 quite as much in earnest as l am-bu
she sings.
I think We may or will keep all the OLE
toys and piscea Of toys-that is. If ws ca,
make room for them. Ididn't use to thin]
SO, but made An nnual or semi
olear-up. At last l noticed that an oil,
broker baby's chair had served three boys
one after another, TO push about and get u
end of occupation with; then old toys beQsl
to have a saeredness in my eyes. Dolls
heads with q hole in the top and laokin
one eye are as acceptable, when dresse
over, as the best perfect doll Just out of tn
shop. A child has something more than
fancy for bright, new things. She has syu
patLies, and n battered doll as poo
SUSIE" calls out the child's tenderest emo
tons. The very best part OF the educatlo
of my John. Jr., has come from old whee.
and springs and all sorts of rubbish-rut
bish to me-but which he had the GIFT
put together with new pul poses. No,
from these scraps he has caused to e1i
a dozen valuable machines. Really, VIII,
10 a man good for but TO put ideaa in
things that lie around purposeless?
There are two periods in life and educ
ton. The first is the era of obseryatie
and analysis: the second of constructic
and application. In the first the Chi
learns merely to pick up facts, in the Sc
ond she learns to put them togethe
Really, nay darling, what do You see
wonderful about that wheel from an o
olock2 Down that 10 thrown with a sig
At last. and a few spools and blocks a
built into Z toy house. Pussy comes alol
and il shut inside. She pokes her nose o
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