The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-01-20

- ID udue up VI SlOrleS OIL famous dogs and
cats and Birds and shows how faithfully they
live up to all they know when kindly treated
Inc stories will educate in kindness to all
dumb animal life. and they are important
lessons to learn. The text is aboundingly in
terestlng, and the illustrations are excellent
The Private Stable"-By "Jorrocks.
Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, send out
a porlly, well-illustrated volume upon the
establishment. management, and appoint
menus OF the stable. There is scarcely fam
Ivy IN the land able-to keep a carriage and @
team that does not have an affection for the
noble animals that serve them. They will
not willingly allow them abused or neglected.
and yet, as rule. the ow7ers of the stabieS
know little or nothing of the horse, or tie
proper means for his care, and are wholly
dependent upon the hired help. What is true
OF the horses is true of all the belongings OF
the stable. The author says:
The Indifference of owners regarding thei1
staoles has one very general effect that OF
engineering carelessness, varying in degree
according to the characters of the stable serv-
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-
Bile personal comment. This apprehension
Goes not always exist, and cannot therefore
be depended upon to keep Indifferent serv-
ants UP to even a superficial performance OF
their duties. At home the coachman has toc
frequently no incentive offered to exert him
self; the owner seldom enters the stable, and
When he does so the chances are that, through
his silence, enforced by ignorance, he unwit-
tngly 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
con care whether it's done or not or gittin
up atore the crack of dawn to have the stable
clean and tidy when nobody never sees it,
FROM which characteristic 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
the STABLE Ii person is not at the moment
iona OF horses, the natural love of animals
gradually develops, and the owner then be-
comes DESTROYS OF making his stable mode:
one, and OF maintaining it in good form b1
having the very best of all that is required"
FROM general lack of Intelligent super.
vision, Jehus, recruited from every walk OF
NE, nave been given the liberty to run riot
with their theories, remedies, and individual.
methods of accomplishing, or appearing to &C.
co1nplsh, their vocations with the result thai
to the majority of the public the MANAGEMENT
of the stable is shrouded in mystery. People
nave a vague impression that the horse is.
Kept alive by magic art, indispensable DOW.
GERS, or other unknown connections of the sta.
Die magician. In reality the work should be
OF the simplest order, and the very com.
plex1ties which confront the owner are tho
products Of ignorance and mismanagement
just as dlSF ass dust are of slovenliness. The
-1eaT1tlessneAs or bad Judgment which char.
dcCer1zes the blind confidence of many who in.
trust the care OF innumerable costly posses.
s1ons to servants of unknown ability is with
out parallel. Hundreds and often tbousanf1s
of dollars worth of property are needlessl7
destroyed by few acts of neglect or i'm.
proper care. 5000 watch can only be regu-
lated by such and such man, but it's owner
turns 1000 pair of horses over to the care
OF drunkard. A $40 check is carefully locked
up, while 81 500 carriage IS allowed to rat /,
"a damp carriage-ho house."
The volume does not teach men tn he f.r.
rlers, or experts in mending, but it cIear1,
teaches duty, and common sense, as demand
ed more. 1mperatively for the stable than even
the counting-room. It is a good book for
lnultitudes to study.
I'm Cap and Bells''-By Owen Seaman,
FROM TINS collection of poems from Punch"
sent out by the Bodley Head press, we clip the
following, as appropriate for the time:
>, TO AN OLD FoGY,
tWho contends that Christmas is played outl
o, frankly bald and obviously stout!
"a; Ana SO you find that Christmas, as fete
Olspdsslonately viewed, is getting out
Inc StuQle0 feStal air is OVeTdOne:
The humor of it grows little thin:
YOU 1all' IN TACT, to gather where the fun
Comes in.
Visions of very heavy meals arise
mat tend to make your organism SILVER:
Roast beef that inks, and pies that agonize
The liver.
Those pies at which you annually vince,
Hearing the tale how happy months will follow
Froportloned TO the total mass of mince
You swallow.
Visions Of youth whose reverence is scant,
Who, with the brutal nerve of boyhood's prime
Insist on being 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.
This takes your faultless trousers at the knees
The other hurts them rather more behind;
And Doth effect fracture in your ease
OF mind.
My good dyspeptic, this will never do;
Your weary withers must be sadly wrung!
Yet once will believe that even you
Were young.
Plum pudding sequent on a turkey-hen;
With c1acker-mottots mining OF the joys
Of men.
Time was when mid the ma ;ders you would Dul
The fiery raisin with profound delight;
When sprigs of mistletoe seemed beautiful
And right.
Old Christmas changes not! Long, long ago
He won the treasure of eternal youth;
Yours is the dotage-if you want to know
The truth.
Come, now, I'll cure your case, and ask no fee
Make others happiness this once your own
All else may pass; that joy can never be
Outgrown!
A second delightful book Of fairy storie:
by the same publishers is "The Other Sidt
of the Sum-" by Evelyn Sharp. The pleasin,
little book contains eight fairy stories, an.
one Of which will Danish sleep from the tiree
eyes of little folks. (Jonn Lane London apt
New York; .-
"Wotan, siegfried and Brunhilde"-B.
Anna Alice Chaplin. Miss Chaplin has befor'
written volume, 1.-THE Story of the Rhine
t'The Wonder Tales from Wagner''-both TO-
young readers This third volume of the
music series is highly symp athletic study
the three principal characters of the Nibelun
genlied. While the stories are written to tn.
full understanding of young readers, the!
will equally interest those who are older. TIL,
author catches the spirit Of the great com
poser, and interprets both from musical ant
literary standpoint, gracefully and elegantly
(New York: Harper & Bros.)
"Heidi"-By Frau Johanna spysi This is
a translation from the thirteenth German
edition and is wholly worthy Of its German
popularity. It is story for children, ant
will equally interest all who love children
Heidi Cor Adelheid) was little Swiss cir
who lived upon the mountain side in a hu
with no one for associates except her oil
grandfather, little Peter; her good, old blin
grandmother, her goats, and the birds AM
the trees and flowers. There came a tim
when busybodies who had some control ove
the little girl took her from her mountail
he.ae to city residence to become the asso.