The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-02-26
YOUTHS DEPARTMENT..
Ruth and Her ssTater' Baby-A Boys
Push and a Boys Pound-His
Mothers Valentine.

Push and u Boys Pound-His
Mothers Valentine.
There was once a little girl named
Ruth who had a great many, dolls.
One day her father brought her a new
one, the funniest of them all. .a
1t was a big potato that had a head,
q neck and a body. In the head were
two eyes and a little hump between for
q nose.
Wasn't Ruth delighted? She began
right away to dress her ''tater baby"
First she stuck in sticks for arms; then
she put on a blue check dress and tied
on a blue knit cape and a blue bonnet.
She found a shoe box. and brother
Ned helped her make a carriage out Of
1t. He tied u string to it and put
spOols underneath. Then the new dolly
went to ride. ... +
Every night Ruth put her baby into
the closet in her bedroom.
sometimes she put 1t out on the piaz-
"a roof to get an airing and tied the
string to a blind, so that the carriage
could not slip down.
Once she forgot and left her baby out
on the roof all night. When morning
came, she went to the window and
looked out, but there was no carriage
and no dolly.
Then she ran down stairs and out of
doors as quickly as she could. There
on the ground lay the poor baby. but
its head was broken quite off.
Ruth caught it up and ran in crying.
She did not stop crying until Ned stuck
the head on with a stick and tied 1t
with Il string to hold it on tight; then
1.-THE later baby" looked almost as good
as new.
But one day a still worse thing hap.
pened. Ruth was taken sick, and the
new dolly was put into the closet and
left there a long, long time. When
Ruth got better, she thought Of her ba-
by and went to get it.
Her mother heard a loud scream and
hurried up stairs to see what was the
matter. There stood Ruth. sobbing as
II her heart would break.
"What has happened. my child?" said
her mother.
"Oh, OH" sobbed Ruth. Ned has
spoiled my baby!!"
"Where is it? And what has he
doney'
I'm the closet. He's stuck sticks all
over it. and it is spoiled"
: Her mother went to the closet, took
up the dolly. and at the funny sight
nat met her eyes she could not help
laughing.
Ruth looked at her in wonder and
stopped crying.
"Why, Ruthie, Ned has not touched
your dolly! 1t has sproutedv said her
mother.
And. sure enough, it had. There was
a long sprout OF the end of it's lose
and two were coming out Of the eyes.
They were sticking out of the holes in
the bonnet and the cape and hanging
down below the dress.
Ruth did moi like it at all. She de-
clared that she did not want a dolly
that would do like that, so one day
1.-THE later BABY was taken out Of
doors and put into the ground, where
1t grew and in time became a big green
potato plant.-Favorite.
A Boys Push and . Boys Pound.
A boy at the launching of a ship n
surprised every one by his quick wit
and energy. If you have witnessed
such a very interesting operation you
will remember that the vessel is ex-
pected to run along so called ways"
into the water. but this particular ves-
sci stuck on the ways. People were
disappointed. The boy ran up to the
vessel and began to push. People
looking on laughed at him. The boy
was indignant. II can push my
pound!" he said. To the surprise of
everybody the vessel moved off.
A boys push and a boys pound!
There is q world of meaning In it..
Everybody has an influence and the
Everybody" includes all boys, and
there are many movements in this
world which. stuck on the ways" only
a little help, a kindly push. a push
of q pounds force. to insure success.
1t is SO at home. There ia a new car
pet to be bought. there are new chairs
to be purchased. there is a summer
holiday to be given to mother, and the
money for these things might be had,
but is not Forthcoming, because a little
more enthusiasm is needed in the rails
ing Of it. A boys spirit, a boys push,
will come in here powerfully. Many
ships get ''stuck on the ways at home
all because the enthusiasm of some one
is not in the last push.
Room at the Top.
When Tom. Dick or Harry is leaving
his teens he has to think very seri-
ously of what he is going to be. In
most cases he turns from the learned
professions because, he says, they are
already overstocked. A young lawyer
once made this complaint about the
law to Daniel Webster, the famous