The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-04-25
Our young Folks.

A young st. Paul girl visiting some
relatives in Duluth, picked up st.
Paul paper and noticed the head lines,
<"Tom Lowry Toasted" she rushed ex-
citedly to her aunt, saying: "Oh,
aunty, there was a big fire in st. Paul
and Tom Lowry was burned" This
was some years. ago, and now the lit
tie girl is married. She is visiting
here now with the same relatives, and
Of course they have lots of sport re-
m1nd1ng her of the occasion.
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Another little girl was reading of a
banquet. She was just learning to
read, and she pronounced the word
bankrupt" rather than *banquet,"
Proba bly, the little girl was right. Ban
quets have bankrupted many a man.
A teacher in a southern school was
very much interested in little negro
boy. She gave him the word ''delight''
to spell. He spelled it correctly, and
in order that he might have a correct
idea of the meaning she asked him to
bring a sentence on the next morning
with the word delight in it. The lit
tie negro boy was puzzled for some
time, and finally he asked his mama
for sentence containing the word.
lob course, boy, "she said, here is one !:
opened de door and de light went
OUT
Jokes are nice things for little folks
but life is more serious. While you
have an opportunity get all there is
in childhood. This old world is cold
and chilly after you leave home. The
worlds work of today wants men and
women of ability. The uneducated
have little chance for advancement
nowadays. Wherever you are it
makes little difference what course you
may pursue in life; the person with
little knowledge stands a poor show in
the work of the world. So while you
have an opportunity take advantage
of the opportunities offered in our
grand public system. An education is
not hard to carry, and it will serve a
good purpose all through life.
Children should be carefully in
structed and have it early impressed
upon their minds to give and receive
kisses only to and from those they love
and who love them.
Even then some restraint is obliga-
tory upon adults who are not perfectly
we'll, and in the case of a man who
uses tobacco.
Children and adults are alike SUBJ
ject to contagious and infectious dis
eases from kissing, and this possibility
should be a caution against the fashion
of promiscuous kissing.
Several cases of small pos resulted
from this indiscriminate kissing Of a
lady who was thought to be only
slightly ailing.
Do not express your sympathy for
the sick by kissing. Parents should
never allow their children to be kissed
by strangers, and children should be
prohibited from kissing each other. ;:.=
Influenza or the epidemic form on
catarrhal fever isl undoubtedly trans
ferred from one child to another often
times by the contact of kissing. Scar
let fever, measles, chicken pox, whoop-
ing cough, mumps and dyptheria are
often communicated in this way.
A story is going the rounds Of a
youthful minister who, when he
preached his first funeral sermon over
a woman in a small Maine town.
praised her so highly that the poor
bereaved husband, sitting there lis
tening, could not recognize her by the
description. Finally, in a glowing per-
grafton, he pictured God and the arch
angles and the angles and all the hosts
of the redeemed joyously forming a
parade to welcome to heaven this lone
Of the very best of all women" The
patient husband, who had never been
able to rule his own household, could
stand it no longer and, leaping up, in
terupted the preacher with a beckon-
ing hand, gasping out: mo, no, Ed
err not quite that. San Francisco Ar
gonaut.