Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-05

too, ANY hoy learns how valuable it is
to TO generous whom he circuates
around, offering daintiee to the animals.
for the elephant next to the one he ia
feeding invariably opens wide his
mouth In an expansive grin that seems
TO say: "ion'fe kind boy. Don't
forget my apple
10 your youth did you have an ipti-
mate acquaintRoce with a Noah's ark?
And 10 the best populated ono did you
ever zee turkey: Thvre are ducts.
beautiful ducks, some red with blue
spots on them, some bright drbnge with
tiny purple spota on than, but never,
never, did you geo turkey. Noah
showed that be wRa a man who knew
good thing when be saw IL, and he evil
IDENTIFY thought that the uglesG ara
most tasteless beast that ever lived
wasn't worth saving. You remember
how Noah looked. In we'll regulated
arkI he has on yellow frock. while
Sham wears n green one and Ham ia
radiant in pink one. pity any child
who doesn't own Noahs ark. 1t
figured largely In my early days, and
that's the reason | love it. | have seen
mum srous brothers made sick by their
efforts to get all the sweetness possible
of q Noah family on whom the Ger
nah toymakers had put movable paint
and green mouths and blue mouths and
tongues OF lurid rcd resulted, but they
meyer seemed to hurt anybody. And,
please goodness, do give your children
real toys to play with and not those
| apominable things known as "educat-
ing toys. "
When the circus was over, we found
| We had lost three boys. We went home
without them, and they never appeared
to make happy the hearts Of their
mothers until 9 o. clock in the morning.
One Of the three was the religious boy.
| He says now that the others led him
astray. Itknow ono thing they did
| they got his watch from him and sold
it to man for 49, and with this s.
they went to the circus that night and
told The entire tale, and he ia not to he
whipped. Nasty little beast The
other two boys have had their thash
ings, like men. None OF the children
will speak TO the pious boy. Whenever
he appears even the babies scream
"Sneak ~ | see that boys future. lie
will be deacon: he will have large
class of young ladies in the Sunday
school; he will have a good position in
a bank and a nice wife and child.
Then he will embezzle and run away
with the minister's wife, and when BIZ
is caught he'll blame her, get but q
short term OF imprisonment and be par.
doned because OF his goodness. / tried
my best yesterday to induce a hungry
looking tiger to eat him, but | suppose
even the tigers stomach revolted at &
boy of that kind. He wants his mother
to go 10 the seaside. She is now read
ing a lovely letter that he has writer
to his father, in which he tells him tina
be was led astray by bad boys; blu
then, dear father, the children here art
not pious. Thare's one boy who sale
a swear word at me. What will hi
future bs?"
/ have beon told on the very strict
OF that the boys have put gravel il
the bed of this angel boy and that to
night they are going to tip bucket o
water over him in some way, but moth
ing will ever make that boy anything
but sneak. It's pity he doesn't oil
an early and an interesting death. bu
he won't. However, We went to tn
circus and were all the better for 1t
and little girl who was talking to he
doll is saying as a result OF her visit
| Lei US De BoOu ana Initiate mos
beautiful beasties, " You known VI
could initiate the beasts with yer!
good result.
Ii would be worth while to initial
the elephant in his stately quietness.
IL would be worth while to imitat
the seal in his amisbility.
1t would DO worth while to imitat
the trained dog in bis patience.
! II would be worth while to initiate
the bear in his affection.
1t would be worth while to imitat
the camel in his willingness to assum
. burdens.
1t would lie worth while to initial
the horse in his air Of good breeding.
, 1t would be worth while 10 initial
the tiger in his diplomacy.
, 1t would no worth Wilhelm, j
would not be worth while 10 initial
the monkey 10 anything. His manner
, are bad, and so are his morals, thong
do not think BIO is a sneak. And
there is one thing above all others t
, be abominated it is sneak. Dom
, you think SO? Bah.