Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-28
FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
A COLUMN OF PARTICULAR IN
TEREST TO THEM.
Something that Will Interest the Ju-
venile Members Of Every Household
Quaint Actions and Bright Sayings
of Many Cute and Cunning Children.

Margaret, Joe, Kenneth and Patty
live in the country. They haven't many
playthings, but lots and lots of plays.
Making believe" Is great fun for them,
and they make believe" so much and
SO hard, they really do believe in most
Of their plays. -.
One of their finest plays is the Dab
min and Durmin play. This can be
played all day, or only part Of the time,
but Kenneth and Patty and Joe are
Dahmins all the time. They say the
boys are Dahmins and the girl a Dur
min.
Margaret says mamma is queen OF
the Durmins, but Patty says, mo, she's
Jack Beans wife, and Jack Bean is
king of the Dahmins" Mamma is very
proud of this honor, for she knows well
what a fine man Jack Bean is. He is
the boys hero, and Kenneth says he
owns gold boat and gold engine,
and Is the strongest man in the world.
1t is ben-sen that makes him so
strong. Ben-sen is something wonder
full. You can take an iron rope as big
as strong as a thread of ben-sen. Jack
Bean eats a grain of ben-sen every
morning, and that's what makes him
80 strong, Kenneth says. All the boys
say he is the best man in the world
"'cept papa"
Sometimes papa says there is no such
man as Jack Bean, and oh, how the
oh oh Thnu a1iTnh all
over him, take off his glasses, rumple
his hair, and say he can never, never
be Dahmin any more. Papa is glad
enough to give in before such deter
mined foes, and promises to believe in
Jack Bean as long as he lives.
Patty and Kenneth have what they
call "Dahmin dinner" and that means
to save your cake and fruit from des-
sert, and all the licorice and candy
balls you can get with the pennies you
earn going errands and carrying coal
for grandma's fire. Then you take
these good things Drown sugar sand
wiches are fine for Dahmin dinners)
and set a nice little table and eat your
Dahmin dinner, and talk with a big
voice like a wOrkingman.
Dahmin men are brave. One day
mamma told Kenneth, who is Z, to go
on an errand. He was having a beau
tiful time on Jack Beams gold boat
(made of dining-room chairs), and he
didn't want to go. But Patty, who is
5, said, go on, Ken, and don't cry.
Dahmin mans don't cry"
The Dahmins have more fun than
the Durmins because there are more
of them; but when Margaret invites
two other girls to be Durmins, and they
have Dahmin and Durmin war, then
it is exciting. They make their cannon
out of drain-pipe, and build forts out
of boxes in summer and snow in win
ter, and have as big a war as Spain
and America!
But alas! mamma is no longer Jack
Beams wife and queen Of the Dahmins.
Two little boys were naughty and had
to be punished. AS they sat in chairs
on each side of the dining-room till
they could promise to be good, Patty
exclaimed, with the tears running
down his cheeks: Mamma can't be
the queen. for she has degraced the
Dahmins!'
But mamma loves the Dahmins and
Durmins, and spends many a happy
hour watching their happy play, and
when she kisses the little boys at night
she hopes they may grow up as good
men as their heroes-real and make be-
lieve-Youth's Companion.