The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-01-06

do every boy and girl a world of good to read
| II is made up of stories of famous dogs and
cats and birds, and shows how faithfully they
live up to all they know when kindly treated
me stories Will educate in kindness to all
dumb animal life, and they are important
lessons to learn. The texts is aboundingIy IN
teresslng, and the illustrations are excellent
The Private Stable'-By "Jorrockg, .
Messrs., Little Brown G. Co., Boston, send ou1
a portly, Well-illustrated volume upon the
estaDllsnment management, and appoint
inents OF the stable. There is scarcely fam
lily IN the land able to keep a carriage and G
team that does not have an affection for the
noble animals that serve them. They wiz
not willingly allow them abused or neglected
and yet. as rule. the owcers of the stables
know little OR nothing of the horse or TIE
proper means for his care, and are who'll!
dependent upon the hired help. What is true
of the 'hQrses is true of all the BELONGINGS OF
the stable. The author says:
Inc lndl1ference of owners regarding tfeil
stables has one very general effect, that OF
enge Gderlng carelessress, varying in degree
according to the characters of the stable sery.
ants. The carriages and horses may look
we'll on the road due not to any respect for the
owner, but to the SERVANTS fear of unfavora-
Die personal comment. This apprehension
GOES not always exist, and cannot therefore
pc depended upon to keep Indifferent serv-
ants UP to even superficial performance O,
tnelr duties. At home the coachman has toe
frequently no incentive offered to exert him
sell; the owner seldom enters the stable, and
when be does SO the chances are that. through
his silence, enforced by Ignorance he unwit-
tlngly sanctions much that is wrong The
author once asked man why he was not do.
ing better work for his employer, to which he
replied: We'll, sir, there amt no use sittin'
up all night cleaning harness when the folks
Io,, --:Lx -.
up afore the crack Of dawn to have the stable
Clean and tidy when nobody never sees it,
FROM Which character tic argument an ex-
PLANTATION may be found for many instances OF
bad workmanship. Much good and no little
pleasure can be derived from daily visits tc
me Staple. IL person is not at the moment
iona OF horses, the natural love of animals
gradually develops, and the owner then be.
comes d1sirous of making his stable a mode.
one, and OF maintaining it in good form BIZ
having the very best of all that is required'
FROM general lack of intelligent super.
vision, Jehus, recruited from every walk OF
life, have been given the liberty to run riot
with their theories, remedies, and individual
methods of accomplishing, or appearing to &C.
co1npllsh, their vocations, with the result tina:
to the majority of the public the management
OF the stable is shrouded in mystery. People
nave vague impression that the horse is
Kept alive by magic art indispensable DOW
BILE magician. In reality the work should bt
OF the simplest ORDER and the very com.
pleXltles which confront the owner are thu
PRODUCTS Oh ignorance and mismanageme
JUST as dir 49, dust are of slovenliness. The
-a"aL1rfessi1e~s or bad judgment which char.
dccerlzes the blind confidence of many who in.
trust the care OF innumerable costly posses.
sloHs to servants of unknown ability is with.
out parallel. Hundreds and often thousands
OF dollars worth of property are needlessly
destroyed by few acts of neglect or i'm
proper care. 5000 watch can only be regu-
iated by such and such man, but it's owner
turns $1,000 pair of horses over to the care
OF drunkard. A $40 check is carefully locked
up, while $1,000 carriage is allowed to rot il
damp carriage-hcuse'
The volume does not teach men to be far.
rlers, or experts in mending, but it clearl,
teaches duty, and common sense as demand.
ed more lmperatively for the stable than even
multltudes to study.
In Cap and Bells''-By Owen Seaman
FROM this collection Of poems from punch. !"
sent out by the Bodley Head press, we clip tbs
following, as appropriate fer the time:
TO AN OLD FOGY,
t"no contends that Christmas is played out)
Q, frankly bald and obviously stout!
And so you find that Christmas, as a fete
Dispassionately viewed, is getting out
Of date.
The studied festal air is overdone:
The hunor of it grows little thin:
You fall in fact, to gather where the fun
Comes in.
Visions of very heavy meals arise
, That tend to make your organism SILVER;
Roast peer that inks and pies that agonize
The liver.
Those pies at which you annually vince,
Hearing the tale how happy months will follow
Proportional to the total mass of mince
You swallow.
Visions of youth whose reverence is scant,
Who, with the brutal nerve of boyhood' prime
lnslst on belng taken to the pant
Omime.
Of Infants, sitting up extremely late,
Who run you on toboggans down the stair:
Or make you fetch rug and simulate
bear.
The other hurts them rather more behind;
And both effect fracture in your ease
OF mind
My. good dyspeptic, this will never do;
~ Your weary withers must be sadly wrung!
Were young.
Time was when you devoured, like other boys,
Plum pudding seqUent on a turkey hen;
" Ith clacker-mottoes n1ntlng OF the joys
Of men.
Time was when mid the ma :dens you would pull
The fiery raisin with profound delight;
Whsn sprigs of mistletoe seemed beautiful
And right.
Old Christmas changes not! Long, long ago
\ He won the treasure of eternal youth;
Yours is the dotagezif you want to know
The truth.
Come now, IN cure your case, and ask no fee
. N Make Others happiness this once your own;
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Outgrown
A second delightful book of fairy storie!
by the same publishers is 1.-THE Other Side
of the Sum- by Evelyn Sharp. The pleasin.
little book contains eight fairy stories, an!
one'of which will Danish sleep from the tiret
eyes of little folks. (Jonn Lane, London ant
New York;
"Wotan, Siegfried, and Brunhilde 3.
Anna Alice Chaplin Miss Chaplin has before
written volume, 1.-THE Story of the Rhine.
goid' CIDER Ring des Nibelungen'D and
young readers. This third volume of thu
music series is a highly sympathetic study o
the three principal characters Of the Nibelun
genlied. While the stories are written to the
full understanding of young readers, the!
will equally interest those who are older. The
author catches the spirit CT the great COM
poser, and interprets, both from a musical ant
literary standpoint, gracefully and elegantly
New York: Harper & Bros.)
"Heidi"-By Frau Johanna Spysi. This il
translation from the thirteenth German
edition and is wholly worthy Of it's German
popularity. It is a story for children, ant
will equally interest all who love children
Heidi Cor Adelheid) was a little Swiss cir:
who lived upon the mountain side in hui
with no one for associates except her oil
IS andfather, little Peter; her good, old blint
gfandmother, her goats, and the birds ans
|4he trees and flowers. There came tim,
sinGslfny hIlsyhodieS WIN had Soma CONTROL nva,