El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-04

Ell Paso has her full quota, If not
more than her share of clever, incor.
rigible children, and an exchange OF
their philosophizings and comments
on the older world ia regular part OF
afternoon and dinner table conVersa-
tions.
s.Did you hear what Jane said the
"No, what was it?" everyone asks,
for Jane is much more entertaining
| than the average grownup.
"During the day she had been very
| naughty. She called her little brother
| q fool She was promptly spanked
and her iniquity explained to her with
| strong arguments against Its repe-
tition. That night when her mother
was putting her to bed, she said, NOW
jamie, when you say your prayer, you
must ask God to forgive you for calling
your brother such naughty Ia'"e.
Jane ignored the suggestion entifeiy
and said her prayers through with ab-
solutely no reference to the days sim
ming. Jane, why have you not done
as told you and asked God to forgive
you for calling your brother such q
naughty name,' asked her mother
sternly. oh 1 didn't want to bother
Him tonight she replied lofsily, as
one who knew best what to do under the
circumstances, He must have lots of
such things to tend to and I'll just wait
till go to heaven and tell Him about
| it then.''
Itw the same little girl who in
her delight at receiving a birthday
gift from her father, looked up into
her mothers face and said, mamma,
amt you glad you and me married that
man?'
Mary was found one day very much
| absorbed in digging q hole in the lawn.
When she was asked what she was so
busy about, she promptly replied:
81 am digging hole to he'll"
"Msry, that is a very bad, wicked
| word. You must never say it again."
said her mother shocked at her four
year old's choice of language.
"No,it isn't bad, it is insCurfew," ar
| eued the small one who had heard her
cousin read the poem.
The mother tried to explain that
nevertheless the word was not for the
use of little girls, when her daughter
broke in-in q tone that showed she
felt wronged, "You mean big folks and
books may use it, but little girls
meyn't, 1 suppose" and the moth r
|
m y be, it was as her daughter said.
| The best little girl in the world asked
her mother one day: "Why didn't you
name me Horace 90 1 would have been
q boy?''
| The same best little girl in the world
10 very earnest mother to her dolls
and often repeats the events of the
lives of the grown up world around
shows up many of the f0.oles and in
consistencies of big folks ideas, though
of course che does not know what q
quaint little moralist she Is when she
plays with her dollies. Her mother
always takes doll troubles and Joys
very seriously aud is always ready to
edvise in any emergency in the doll
household. One day the best little
girl came into the library and ANNOUNCE
ed plaintively that her doll Henrietta
had the measles and was all alone in the
nursery. Henrietta's mothers moth er
was sympathetic and asked, "Where
| is the nurse?"
| "Nurse fell down and broke her arm
and can't take care of Henrietta to-
day." said Henrietta mother.
well, why don't you go back and
| tdhc CerS VI your SICK CullQ! dSkSQ
Henrietta's mothers mother.
| cause 1 hsva to go to the club TO-
day and can't" said Henrietta
mother, plaintively, with evident re-
greet that her club duties should call
her away from her sick child. The
dolls mothers mother, being herself
q reasonably conscientious clu b woman,
understood. AS she WAS fret of all q
| conscientious mother, she was not re-
| buked, only amused at tie way her
daughter .mirrored the big world in
her little one.
| Another irrepressible said of her
tiny baby cousin, ooh Mary Elizabeth
can say almost anything papa and
mamma and dog and all; that is," she
continued upon her assertion being
questioned, "she makes the cutest lit
| tie gOo-gOo noise that sounds like lot
of different things.'
| This same six year old understands
more than her years warrant and per-
| haps often speaks more wisely than
the understands. She never is enti g.
| y without reason. She wanted to ride
her bicycle on Sunday and when her
mother objected because of the day,
| her dauR h ter broke out Indignantly 20
you're a regular Presby terian."
| "Whst do you mean?' asked her
mo her, surprised at the child g evident
determination between the two creed,
| a "a IA family -hnla