The age-herald., 1899-09-17

5 tou Is past. We've all had a good time. We were glad when it began and now. no doubt most of us are glad it's over and we can begin school again.
 But if some of us feel eneined to look back regretfully and wish that life could be just one long vacation, let Us remember things are not always just as they seem. once knew a little boy who was so fond of sugar that it seemed he could never get enough Once he went to the grocer for his mamma. It chanced that the grocer had heard the little boys papa speak of his fondness for sugar. and that he be- lieved he could never get as much as he could eat. So thinking to have some fun over it. the grocer told him he could go to a barrel jus topened and eat all the sugar he wanted.
 How he thought to feast. He began to eat and twas pretty good, but that was d lot of sugar, and somehow it did not seem So tempting as that in the sugar bowl in the ehinI<press at home. However, he bravely ate away. Presently some one called out to know how he liked it.
 Fine" he replied, and, fearing that he would be stepped. he began to eat Heartily.
 All right, eat as much as you want, said the grocer. He continued to eat, and kept it up as long as he could stand it.; but he began to think this the biggest bar rel of sugar on earth, and he felt as if he had a great deal more sugar in his stomach than the barrel contained, though, in fact. 1t looked almost as if he had not taken any at all He thought at first he would surely eat one-fourth of it, but now he could swallow no more. Really he telt that there was some danger of being un- able to keep what he had swallowed.
 What" exclaimed his friend the grocer. as he walked away from the barrel in dis gust You haven't eaten al lthat sugar.. "No." he answered, but have eaten all that's good.'
 Now. that is just the way with a vaca- ton. It is fine to have one come just once a year and last al lthe hot weather, so that you can read, go in swimming, picnic or play with your dolls from morning tlil night, but if it continued always it would grow tiresome. There would be no novelty and 10 fun in it. You would get all that was good' in a very short time.
 Let us go back to school and, by the way let us go to do our best; for. to tell the truth, it is just about as easy to GO that as it is to try to shirk. Really To De exact, it is easier for us, for try as we may to get out of work by avoiding the lessons, there is much difficulty in doing so, and when we manage to evade what is expected of us we do not feel nearly so well satls- fled with ourselves as we would like, do we?
 Then there is a good deal of pleasure in school after all. Just think ot-Weu, am
  It won't do, for some grown folks read our page sometimes. I have heard, and they might object to some of our fun.
 Thanksgiving Day, Christmas, George washngtons birthday, (maybe the fur- mace will get out of order and we can have a few unexpected holidays) are all ahead. Last winter that cold weather brought about a cure of a very sick boy. Let me tell you about it. It was done as quickly as Shlatery, or any one. ever performed cure He had been feeling very bad Tor several days and complained SO much that his mamma thought he must stay at home for a while and get we'll He was sick, too, sure enough, but 1t turned so cold that pr Phillips said there would De no school for a week. Well, sir would you belieye it, that boy was well in less than a day and half and had more fun lh the snow than any boy in town.
 Of course this is a talk between you anu me When I go to a school and talk to the children I tell them (have to do l7 to be like-you know all about all those model boys who grew up into statement etc, but now this Is for your eyes ana IS just a talk that you like. So you must not mind the ones that grown folks nave to hear It is good for them to hear serm mons and sometimes the talks to children uo them good.