The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-05
YOUTHS, DEPARTMENT.
aIseth Was IlI-Cat Routed by
a Bird--Seven SIeepers.

a Bird--Seven Sleepers.
There is in nature king that rules
great part of this fair earth with
pitiless sway. Have you ever seen his
work? If not, think of this: What is
it that brings the bird tribes in au-
tumn. host upon host, from their north
ern summer haunts? 1t is the frost
king He lifts his hand in the far
north, and the grass and the leaves
are withered. He waves his wand
and fakes and crystals of the snow
as beautiful as any created forms upon
earth, come falling in myriads, to cover
the food of the birds froA sight.
But winter has beauty all it's own.
You have often caught the first crisp
flakes of snow in early winter upon the
cool. dark sleeve of your coat and have
wondered at the perfect beauty of the
many shapes / know your teacher has
with artistic skill drawn for you frost
patterns on paper till you have seen
that he who makes the blossom and
the leaf so beautiful bestows no less
of honor upon the crystals of the frost.
And the frost on the windows, have
you never admired it's patterning?
sJust bristly glaze of white,' that
grumbler thought it. But look you
closer and better. and look again. Will
it surprise you greatly to be told that
frost patterns like leaf patterns, have
both settled and definite formations?
They may combine indeed into end
less variations, but the simple patterns
remain the same. Where most of you
live, in what are called the temperate
parts of the United States, there is
little variation in window frost forms.
But farther north, where our own
country meets the British possessions,
there are many frost patterns of rare
beauty. Yet even in the more northern
chimes these forms are seldom seen
save in the coolest weather, when the
thermometer stands 20 to 40 degrees
below zero.-P. B. Peabody in ST.
Nicholas,
When Elizabeth Was Ill.
A physician, like soldier, must re-
spond to the call of duty without al
ways waiting to discover the why and
wherefore. A doctor. who is evidently
the soul of devotion to his profession.
was recently put to the test and much
to his subsequent irritation was not
found wanting. 1t befell in this wise,
according to the doctors report:
One day last week | was just sitting
down to dinner when | received a call
from a little 5-year-old girl whose fla
! Their lives in the adjoining block. She
was out of breath, but she managed
to gasp out for me to come up to the
house right away.
Thinking it must be something seri-
GUS that should cause the little girl to
be sent for me, | seized my medicine
case and hurried off.
who is sick?'' | asked, picking heI
up in my arms and carrying her so
that | might get along faster.
Elizabeth she answered.
is she very sickY | asked.
Il think it is typhoid fever" she re
piled
This gave me scare and quickened
my steps We were not long in arriy
ing at the house, and | was surprised
that no one met u.s.
This wayr cried the little girl, seiz-
ing my hand.
Allowing myself to be led along. |
soon found myself in bedroom by the
side of dolls cradle, in which reposed
a doll with a red rag tied round it's
throat.
| was dazed for moment and came
to only when | heard the little girl in
curing anxiously if | thought Eliza
beth was going to die.
assured her that she wasn't and oil
that she needed was a spanking. |
meant the little girl, not Elizabeth.
But from what | heard as | came away
l am afraid that my advice was no
understood and that Elizabeth got the
spanking. -Philadelphia Times.