The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-02-02
FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS,
VARIOUS MATTERS OF INTER
EST TO THE YOUNG.
Uncle Roberts Lesson--An Exer-
else in Proverbs--T The Appoint
nent Was Cancelled--A Lion
Abroad in ToWn--Men ending
a Suspension Bridge.
Uncle Roberts Lesson.

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g. q man Of science" which means he
knows a great deal. Aunt Annie says
ne: = is also very absent-minded; for one
day he set the baby on the parlor
;;mantel during a romp, and came
very near leaving her there < b
s.: We love to have Uncle Robert visit
JUS; for he always. takes us long walks
into the woods, and tells us all sorts
OF curious things on the way He has
told us how the leaves are rolled in
their little brown blankets until the
winter is over; and how the stem of
the dandelion is shut together like a
CLOSED telescope, causing the leaves to
grow in a bunch close to the ground;
how the stem OF the May-apple grows
under the ground; and how the snow
drops push their little blossoms,
Through heground before the snow
lis all gone; and how the sap runs in
1.-THE trees, lust as the blood circulates
lin our bodies.
| Walter and Patty and I always go
lon these trips. Walter is our big
brother; he is thirteen. Papa says he
Eis question mark in knee pants, be-
cause he is always asking questions.
Uncle Robert says he has "an inquir-
ing mind" -
One bright morning we all walked
out to 3ensips woods, back of the
hill. 1t made us lau,h to see Uncle
Robert climb the high rail fence; and
tumble into the grass and weeds.
'What bent that tree in that
shape?" Walter asked, as we came
to a great oak, with it's trunk bent
out OF shape. ,...
"Ah!" said Uncle Robert, "when
that oak was a saping, broken limb
or a rotten trunk of tree fell across
it and bent it down until it became
the unshapely thing you see. It will
thesother noble trees about it. Do
you remember hearing; AS the twig
is bent the tree inclines?' ,"
eyes," spoke up Patty, ''J heard
papa say that very thing to mamma
when he was telling her about Jim
Burns being sent to prison for shoot
ing a man."
Poor Jim Burns!' said Uncle
Robert; II remember when he was a
boy. He went to the same school
with your father and myself He let
bad habits ruin him then. He
drowned his sisters pet kitten in the
creek below their house, and he loved
to kill birds with stones from his sling.
L have seen him jerk off a smaller
boys hat and toss it up into tree,
in. spite of the little fellow tears. : He
would push two boys together, and
thus cause g. fight, which he enjoyed
more than anything else. So, instead
of growing up straight like the fine
trees, he became bent and out of shape
like this poor crippled oak. Twas not
surprised to find that the cruel boy
had grown into the more cruel man,
who must spend the rest of his life in
prison. Bad habits are the weights
that spoil characters"
We were all thinking of some bad
habit of our own AS we walked through
the woods gathering Johnny-jum pups
and spring beauties.
81 am going to let you nurse Reset
TIA whenever you want to-" said Pat
ty to me that night after we had said
our prayers and crawled into bed. -
Rosetta is Patty's first doll, and
she never lets any one touch her.
II have tried my very best not to
scream and stamp when my hair is
combed, even though the knots hurt
dreadfully. 4s
Walter never calls me 'sturned-up.
nose" any more, and he don't pinch
my ears or pull tho ribbon off my
hair, or crook his finger at me as he
used to do. We all want to grow
straight. '-
: An Exercise in Proverbs.
A New England school-ma am OBJ
tanned a situation out in Arkansas,
and became so Successful that she de-
termined to give an exhibition of her
pupils progress, and invited all their
parents to be presentson Friday even
ing The entertainment moved salts
factorily to all concerned.
Now said the teacher, toward
the close, II want every boy to repeat
some proverb that he has heard.
This is entirely impromptu,' the
teacher explained to the parents. "but
feel sure that the boys will do them
selves credit, although they did not
know IN advance that they were to
be called upon. Now, Johnnie, can
you give an example of some old say
{ ing that you have found helped your
can is not gold that glitters, re-
piled Johnnie.
Every good. Very good indeed
BE virtuons and you'll be hap
py,' said Jimmie.
That's splendid. Why, you boys
remind me so much of a school I once
taught in Boston, responded the
fair teacher.
The germ OF ambition is the chry-
sails Of wisdom" said Willie.
And SO on down the class she went,
until she got to Peck Smith. He
wasn't very bright, and she intended
to skip him, but he seemed anxious
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