The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-17

{ But here is the Spartan, the unflinchng
patriot, in this message to 'Bilr': Cor
dial greetings to Bill, and pray God with
zme and your mother that he may unite
gus again happy and we'll; above all, how
Sever, that he may graciously grant us
FVictOrS. 49, Victory tho the family circle
he broken. 49, .'..s..
Z Showing .BiSnlarc s sense of hu1nor, we
find this Of i fowl that had been caught
at a farmhouse to make meal for the
imam of iron: My good teeth We're I'M
Fable to do its corpse any HARM And
I then comes this of the way the French
t;ooked upon himself:
+ The people must take me for a blood
ibound. The old women, when they hear
my name, fall upon their knees and beg
Fme for. their lives. Attila WIS a lamb
compared with me-.
I Immediately following this come the af-
Efectionate words, Farewell. my heart"
and the letter closes
I Not such q bad fellow-tfe blood and
kjron. princc--aftcr all.
Z Every book which is of any real as
distance in the serious process Of training
boys is valuable. OF girls too. this may
tbe said. Training children is, in these days,
Eusually left by fathers to the mothers
land it is depressing to observe that
ismany of the latter do not know how
TO train their own children. Mrs. Davids,
Fin her Note Book of an Adopted Mother,
gives some very coed suggestions from her
Gown experience in training an adopted SON
She went to a state institution with the
object of selecting a .2-year- old girl. and
INSTEAD. took a 5-Eear-OlG boy and brought
him homo. His record showed good hered-
ity and husband and wife (Wife chiefly
started out to educate the child to rig mt =
|'eousnesS and usefulness in the world The
story is written in diary form. each day S
! incidents and progress, if any, being re-
corded. The boy. shy and quiet and lamb
like at first ere long developed hot tenn
Fper and defiant dischedience. and the
real training had to be introduced and
the battle for discipline fought. The boy
ultimately came under discipline and he
!, was so much liked that the father and
! mother adopted another boy. A reculiar
feature of the discipline was the en-
%couras cement the mother gave to the BOYS
to play with dolls, after girls fashion.
The letters of Rev. Gilbert White. written
in the latter half of the eighteenth cen
T fury. TO distinguished nj tulalists from
quaint. out-of- the-way Selborne. in the
| county of Hampshire. England continue
Ito be widely read. new editions having
Ebeen published in England and in this
! country in the last quarter of century
two having appeared in the United States
III the last few Years. The Natural His.
tory OF Selborne, rs the collection is en-
titled, reveals the intelligent industry OF
the genial naturalist who was one of the
closest observers of animated nature in the
world. His observations We're limited tt
Selborne and Hampshire. but they were
OF the intensive sort and command the
respectful attention of natlIralists to-day
|, The reverend naturalist is full of ullain
humor The book is profusely illustra ted
Rider tIaggards Stella Freue,jus is n
the flavor of that book of shadowy tales
Mrs. Crows might Side of Nature'' Nor
rIS Monk. a successful inventor in aeria
! telegrap ply. is introduced during the ne
Rod Of his experiments as a dreamy
ldeallst, who had never known the pulsins
OF love for a woman. His father is on tn,
verge of bankruptcy. The estate by tn,
sea is mortgaged and there are no asset
1 available. He gets Morris to consent un
Willingly to marry Mary Person, his ricl
young cousin. Morris does not love her
and, before his marriage with Mary.
i sh1pwreck on the coast leads to the res
cue from death by him Of Stella Frecelius
q daughter Of a clergyman, who is also res
cued by him. the girls rescue being &C
companied by very romantic incidents
Morris and Stella fall in love and, befor
the marriage of Morris to his cousin, h
goes thru the form Of a spiritual mar
r1age with the beautiful Stella. before tn
old stone altar of a ruined abbey near hi
home. Afterward Mr.. .Haggard exhaust
his powers to portray denouement as full
of deadly horror as he can cram into hi
J, pages 1t is only left to the reader t
, conjecture which of the three-Morris
, Mary and Stella-suffered the most acute
ly. A weirder more depressing move
never was written.
/ Miss Mary Phillips has produced one O
: the most exuuisitely illustrated hooks ia