The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

l better go an see about tn at right now,
dolly, an I'll sit you up on this chair,
dolly, an spread your nice silk skirt all
out pretty way, an you can stay here an
look at the bureau till I can't think of
nuthln to do but tend to you some more.
For Younger Readers.
While everybody is raving about the
novels of Beatrice Harraden, it is a shame
that nobody has written wise review,
not even what the critics call ga roast" of
the charming little story which that same,
young lady has written for children.
Things viii Take a Turn" is the CHEEKY
title of book that is bright and
CHEEKY on every page, and will be sure to
bring plenty of smiles to chase away ten
der tear or two over the passing troubles
of "Childie" and her beloved granddad.
These two lived in shabby old second
handbook store, and granddad did not
know how to make money. His neighbors
thought him silly old man and they
told him so. HE has read too much" they
said. "Of course he is silly!'
That was their way of looking at the mat
ter; but they were ignorant folks, and
knew more about Dutch cheeses and timed
sardines than about books.
Through all these troubles, and many
more, Polly Parrot goes on saying brave
ly, Things will take turn! Things will
take turn!''
And so at last they do, and somebody
comes along who does not think grand
dads lore is Stiffness" All the way
through the book are scattered the prettiest
illustrations possible, done by f. H.
ure OF the boys and girls who are fortunate
enough to get hold of the book.
Frances Hodgson Burnett's latest book
"Piccino and Other Stories" tells among
the rest "aow Fauntleroy Really Oc-
Cured"
''He had been clever enough to disguise
himself as a baby, when he first came"
powder, and bald head and a florid COM
plexion. But beneath this dis
guise there he lurked, the small individual
who, seven years later-apparently quite
artlessly and consciously-presented bis
smiling, ingenious little face to the big
world, and was smiled back upon by it
Little Lord Fauntleroy."
For those strong-minded young persons
who do not care to trifie with stories 1 have
just struck a mine of interesting books,
not quite new all of them, but all of them
too little known. First of all, there is
Frederick Schwatka's book about 'The
Children of the Cold, so interesting that
even a boy might read it all the way
through without once suspecting that he
was being stuffed with solid information
on every single page of the book. "And
now as the Eskimo dogs have been men
toned" we read, you boys who have
favorite Carlo or Nero at home will want
to know about these Arctic dogs; asking
what | mean by plenty to eat and whether,
like your own favorites, they get three
meals day and any number of inter-
mediate lunches. No doubt you will
think they should get ever so much
more on account of their hard work in
drawing the sledges through the snow.
Yet, hard as it may seem, the Eskimo dog
never gets fed oftener than every other
day, and generally about every third day,
l once had a team of nineteen fat Eskimo
dogs that went six or seven days between
meals for three consecutive weeks before
they reached their journeys end and good
food and, although they all looked very
thin, and were no doubt very weak, none
of them died, and yet they had been trav-
cling and dragging heavy sledge for a
great part of the time"
Charles Frederick Holders books for
children are both entertaining and instruc-
tive. Living Lights "Marvels of Ami
NAL Life" and "rhe Frozen Dragon are
stories or studies of natural history, ar
ranged for boys and girls.
"Home Life on an Ostrich Farm" by
Annie Martin, is wonderful book about
South Africa, intended for young people,
but quite good enough for any wise gray
head.
Edward Grey has earned the gratitude
of children of all ages for his books about
Japan, 1.-THE Wonderful City of Toxic
and several others.
Philosophy of BabyIand.
"Why, Bobby dear, have you hurt your
self?"
Bobby-Nope, not now, but burnt my
fingers on the Fourth of July and 1
couldn't stop to cry about it then.
Auntie-What is it you are embroidering
in that tidy for grandma
Little Nellie-The good die young.-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
A good little girl could not keep her
anger even when she was teased. Because
she was SO gentle the older children i'm
posed upon her, and one day the little girl
rushed to her mother, and, leaning up
against her, exclaimed: 'Oh, mamma, do
help me to keep mad at Helen all day! l
can't do it by myself. The Outlook.
Meyerbeer's little daughter after watch
ing for long time the gambols of some
ragged children in the street turned sadly
from the window and said with pathetic
resignation: "It's great misfortune to
have genteel parents"
little girls father has a round bald
spot. kissing him at bedtime not long
ago she said "Stoop down, popsy. l
want to kiss the spot where the lining
shows"
The greatest difficulty in estimating the
wealth OF the United States lies in ascer-
tanning the value of the personal property,
which constitutes very considerable item
OF our National wealth.