Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-01-16

could not have had more OF the life
which he drank as eagerly as il il were
the finest burgundy. But the book? 1t
is none of the learned ones, it's none
of the tales of adventure and yet il is
the one like. 1t is called "a Child's
Garden of Verses and it is quite as
good for grown up children as for little
people. The lines themselves are most
wonderful; the pictures are joys, and,
well, if you want TO know exactly how
good it is, | will quote you one whole
poem called "a Thought"
1t is very nice to think
The world is full of meat and drink
With little children saving grace
In every kind Of Christian place.
Then here's another. Short and
sweet 1t is called. "The Whole Duty
of Children and il more children
were raised on it there would be more
better behaved ones in the world.
child should always say what's true
And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave mannerly at table
At least us far as he is able.
These verses are so much better than
those horrd books about the angel
children who trot around and say i'm
pudent things to their elders under tho
guise of religion. There's Fauntleroy
He was lovely in a book, but | should
like to be preserved from living with
children who know such an awful lot
and who are SO beautiful, 80 meek, and
mild, and so very ready and willing to
run the affairs, not only of the earth
below, but the heaven above.
DREARY BOARDING HOUSE LIFE.
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
lltany in the American prayerbook,
that would read, From the living in
boarding house, good Lord deliver
us. " | know there are different kinds
OF boarding houses. There arc board
ing houses that are worse; but what |
cannot understand is why women who
Kept homes of their own comfortably
seem TO loose 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 as if there was money
to be made in keeping 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 II they were men and women. and
not merely bOartlers. The better a
house IS kept, the more money woman
can make through it; but the average
boarding house keeper does not look
at 1t in that light. If the unfortunats
boarder happens TO be woman, sne is
credited with desire to do something
wrong from the moment of her arrival.
II she wishes to retain particle of
character, she mustn't take even her
own father, aged 10, into her bedroom.
II she happens to possess number Of
books, she must submit to their being
ameared 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 lent Il
few Of your books to Mr.. Robinson,
who don't feel well. " The few lent
are certain to he first editions that she
specially priced and as weeks go by
and they are not returned. she sum
mons up courage and asks the landlady
about them. She doesn't romember
over having touched them. Mr. Rob
lnHon moved away that morning, and
5he - surprised at your making such u
inss about books, cheap as they are. ~
II she happens To dress well the other
boarderB are doubtful az to where she
gets the money to pay her bills If she
don't dress we'll, they feel sure that
she ls saving money and is too stingy
to make herself look decent, and then
the landlady hints that she has always
! had stylish people in her house before
| now.
OF her, it must be said that she is
not born a boarding house Keeper, but
she drifts into it.
sllE SPEAKS OF HER HUSBAND.
if he is tho dead, as zone Of the best Of
men, who was nuhody's enemy but his
own, and who ii he did take drink,
was always ready and glad To share il
With a friend. If he happens TO be-
| living, she never refers 10 him except
~ a scornful way, and when YOU first
know her You feel sorry for her as she
talks about how lazy mcn are and hints
that sac would be in the poorhnuse if
IT WASH for herself. and then she adj.
vises You, with culver in her voice.
never T. marry. After awhile you dis
cover that the little man who carves is
the one she promised to love honor
and obey, that he has good situation
and IL so steady that the town clock ia
sot by him, but that She keeps boarders
hceause she likes what she calls "A
iively house. If yon happen to have a
large mail, she utilzes her husband
by getting him 10 INQUIRE at the post
office as to whether there il ANYTHING
against you, and she has pleasant
way of conyerslng with your friends
about you, pending your arrival in the
parlnr, ana though YOU never know
what she docs say, you fear it is not
pleasant as you discover that tho peo-
pie she cultivatcs don't seem to cult
yatc you after that,
GIVE CuTLDREE \ CHANGE.
But the childrcn! Poor little
wretehes Double price ia paid for
them, and if they drop bail over the
staircase they are complained o.. If
they happen to laugh because they are
gong out INTO the fresh air, they are
too noisy, If they skip;once or twice
instead of walking with great regu.
larlty, they are rough. And if by anv
chance they should be taken sick, then
the ldndlary does give her opinion of
them. Bithersome, nasty things. nat
twice as much as anybody else and
always in the way, and thon go and get
sick and make people gloomy, Tho
only child that is fixed in boarding
house is one that il deaf and dumb and
unahIn 10 walk. And yet most Of us
were children once. We trundlrd haops
and t4rew bells and skipped rope, and
played bhttlsdora and shuttlecocll, and
were experts IL iackstraws; ana va
laughed tnl We skipped, and fomo-
times we srr,amed. and screamed very
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