The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-12

one 1 like. 1t is called "a Chlld's Gar
den OF Verses ana It Is quite as good
for grown up children as for little peo-
pie. The lines themselves are most won
derful; the pictures are joys, and, well,
If you want to known exactly how good
1t IS, / will quote you one whole poem
called "a Thought"
''It is very nice to think
The world is full of meat and drink
With little children saying grace
In every kind of Christian place"
Then there's another. Short and sweet
It is called The Whole Duty of Chill
dren," and if more children were raised
on II there would be more better behaved
ones in the world
"A child should always say what's true
And speak when he is spoken to,
ana behave mannerly at table
At least, as far as he is able"
These verses are so much better than
those horrid books about the angel chill
dren who trot around and say impudent
things to their elders under the guise
OF religion. There's Fauntleroy. He was
lovely in book, but l should like to be
preserved from living with children who
know such an awful lot land who are so
beautiful, so meek and mild, and so very
ready and willing to run the affairs, not
only of the earth below, but the heaven
above.
Speaking of children brings to my mind
those that live in boarding houses. /
often wonder why there hasn't been an
addition made to the litany in the Amer
the living in a boarding house, good Lord
deliver us" 1 know there are different
kinds of boarding houses There are
boarding houses that are worse; but what
l cannot understand is why women who
kept homes Of their own comfortably seem
to lose all knowledge of how to live when
they keep boarding houses. They seem
to think that everybody is to be treated
with suspicion, and that children and
dogs are to be regarded as cumberers of
the earth. 1t has always appeared TO me
a lTnnn-
| ing a boarding house properly; that is,
giving good rooms, neatly cared for; good
food, properly cooked and served, with
an additional treatment of human beings,
as if they were men and women, and not
merely boarders. The better a house is
kept, the more money woman can make
boarding house keeper does not
look at it in that light. If the I'M
fortunate boarder happens to be a woman,
she is credited with a desire to do some
thing wrong from the moment of her
arrival If she wishes to retain a parti-
Gle of character, she mustn't take even her
| own father. aged 70, into her bedroom.
If she hapens to possess a number of
books, she must submit to their being
| smeared by the young woman who pre-
| tends to dust them, and by having this
| said to her about them: Miss Brown,
| knew you wouldn't mind, so l lent
| few of your books to Mr. Robinson, who
| didn't feel we'll" The few lent are certain
| to be first editions that she specially
! priced, and as weeks go by and they
are not returned, she summons up courage
and asks the landlady about them She
/ doesn't remember ever having touched
| them. Mr.. Robinson moved away that
morning, and she is surprised lat your
making such a fuss about books, cheap
/ as they are" If she happens to dress well
| the other boarders are doubtful as to
| where she gets the money to pay her
| bills. If she don't dress WELL they feel
sure that she is saving money and is too
/ stingy to make herself look decent and
then the landlady hints that she has al
ways had stylish people in her house be-
OF her, it must be said that she is not
| born a clearinghouse keeper, but she
! drifts into it. She speaks of her husband
| if he is dead, as lone of the best of men,
who was nobodys enemy but his own
| and who, if he did take a drink, was al
ways ready and glad to share it with a
| friend" If he happens to be living, she
| way, and when you first know her you
! feel sorry for her as she talks about how
! lazy men are and hints that she would be
| in the poorhouse if it wasn't for herself
| and then she advises you, with culver
! in her voice. never to marry. After a
| while you discover that the little man
who carves is the one she promised to love,
| honor and obey, that he has good situa-
/ ton and is so steady that the town clock
is set by him, but that she keeps boarders
| because she likes what she calls lively
! house. If you happen to have a large mall
she utilities her husband by getting him
to inquire at the postoffice as to whether
| has a pleasant way of conversing with
! your friends about you, pending your ar
! rival in the parlor, and though you never
| know what she does say, you rear II IS
| not pleasant as you discover that the
people she cultivates, don't seem to culti-
/ Vate you after that.
But the children! Poor little wretches!
Double price is paid for them, and if they
drop a ball over the stair case they are
| complained of. If they happen to laugh
because they are going out into the fresn
air, they are too noisy. If they skip once
| or twice instead of walking with great
regularity, they are rough. And II by
| any chance they should be taken SICK,
| then the landlady does give her opinion
! of them "Bothersome, nasty things, eat
twise as much as anybody else and al
| ways in the way, and then go ana get
| sick and make people gloomy. The only
! child that is liked in boarding house IS
| one that is deaf and dumb and unable
| to walk. And yet most of us were chill
| dren once. We trundled hoops and threw
| balls and skipped rope, and played battle
dore and shuttlecock ana were eXpeTts at
! jack-straws; and we laughed and we
/ skipped and sometimes we screamed, and
| screamed very loudly, but we had good
| time. And that is the right of every child.
| Fancy having to sit in one room all day
| and look at a book when you were boy :
Fancy having to sit in one room all DAY
| learning to sew, when you are girl! And
fancy, even if you are twins, having your
| mother say to you, Now, darlings, walk
as softly as you can, else the lady who
has the room below viii Complain Hor-
| rors! Suppose that had been your child
! hood If it had been mine, the result
/ would have been terrible. From sheer
perverseness ! should hare developed into
| a pirate with pistols stuck in my belt,
| knife between my teeth and a sword at
nv side. That would have been dreadful.
1 What?' You say it is bad enough as IL
/ is. simply because am Bah.
80 e-lf-
In Bavaria a complete church has been
built of paper-walls, roofs, columns, al
tar and spire all being of the same mater
ial. In Breslau there is a chimney-shaft
! over fifty feet high made of paper pulp,
II -.I to mi nf1frcf lion