Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-12-03

Our little sister Mary Prather is
good at keeping promise. She sends
us this week the letter about her
grandpa's dog, just as she said she
would.
Dear Brothers and Sisters
will now tell you about Grandpas little
dog Boo. He got him at Hermesitto State.
De Sonona, Mexico and took him to
Topolobampo
lie was all the dog in the colony. He
taught him to sit up and to walk on his hind
legs and to pat-a-cake with his two hands. |
tell you, he will make his toes rattle.
When Grandpa camps out. if Boo hears
anything in the night he will come and pat
Grandpa on his cheek to wake him up.
He is pet wherever he goes.
If Grandpa says: Boo. | am going to- any
place. he will sit up and BEG like child to
90: and if Grandpa does not let him go. Boo
will talk to him when he comes home. and
growl at him, and act as mad as can be.
If he is in town, he runs into the meat
market and sits up and makes his feet rattle,
till he gets his meat.
If Grandpa sells out here. he is going to
Washington, and OF course old Boo will have
to 90 along with him. Well Grandpa likes
Boo, and you can just believe Boo likes him.
will close now, hoping to hear from all
the little brothers and sisters.
From your little sister.
Tempe, a. I. MARY PRATHER.
How many of the other children
have pets that they can tell us about?
think there is hardly anything that
will give a boy or girl more happiness
than to have some pet to think of and
make happy all the time. If it seems
bOthersOme sometimes to have to re-
member to feed them regularly every
day, it is much more than worth the
trouble to see how eager and grateful
they are, and to see them grow plump
and well and happy with such good
care.
l have sometimes seen little girls
dress their kittens up in dolls clothes,
and little boys and girls too, harness
their dog to a cart on a hot day and
make him drag them about, and |
have thought then that neither the
pets nor the boys and girls were doing
much good to each other because the
boys and girls were showing that
lhey cared more for their own fun
than they did for the comfort of their
pets, and the poor little pets were be
ing made very uncomfortable.
No doubt YOU children sometimes
hear your fathers and mothers speak
of the big corporations and the rich
and powerful men who take away
from the poor man 50 much of what
he earns, so that they may have more
for themselves. There are three rea-
sons why they do this: First because
they like to please themselves; second,
because they are more powerful and
can do it, and third because they
don't put themselvesi in thepoor mans
place to know how he feels.
Now we all think this is not very
kind and good, and we all love better
the people who are too kind to do
these things, and of course we all
think we should be too kind to do
things like that even if we could
But did YOU ever think that when
a little boy or girl is using pet in
such way as to have fun with it no
matter if the pet isn't very comfort
able or happy-did YOU ever think
that this boy or girl is doing Just ex-
actly what the big corporation is do
ing? Suppose it is a little girl who
dresses her kitten up in dolls clothes,
whether the kitten likes it or not.
The little girl does it, just like the big
corporation, because she likes todoit,
because she can do it. and because
she doesn't think that she herself
wouldn't like to be made uucomtort-
able by somebody bigger than she is.
Wouldn't it be nice if little BOYS and
girls-and big ones too, could always
think how they would like a thing
themselves before they do it to other
people?
| didn't mean to preach such long
sermon; | can only promise not to do
it very often. Let me make it mp by
closing with this beautiful poem by
James Russell Lowell, which some of
YOU may like to learn to rccite.
Where is the true mans iatherand:
Is il where he, by chance, was born:
Doth not the yearuug spirit Scorn
In such scaut borders to De spanned?
Oh, yes, his fathorand must b.
As the blue heavens wide and free.
Where'er human heart doth wear
Joy myrtle wreath or SORROWS gives;
Where FER human spirit strives
After life more true and fair,
There rs the true mans birthplace grand,
His Is a Worldwide fathcrand
Where'er % single slave doth pine
Where'er one man may help another
Thank God for such "a birthright, brother
That spot of earth is thine and mine;
'Tbapa is tho trtfa lu. as nfrtRpl4Fp opHUI.