Evening star., 1904-02-27

AuOWt "A new HcdEL Will i give YOU 1naS
is what 1t says. How will He get this one
I've got now out and put the other In?
Won't 1t hurt me?'-
Dear little Blossom. it is not the heart
you hear beating that God means: it is the
part of you that thinks and loves people
or hates anything. That is what God prom
ises to change
Have l two hearts, mammal think
heart and a beat hearth
mo. darling. not just that. 1t is hard
for you to understand. When God says He
will give you new heart it means that
he will give you power to do good and
keep you from doing naughty things
"Oh," said Blossom. Il thought my heart
would have to be cut out, and I didn't like
that one bit: but l guess 1 see how it is
all new. Mammay has he made a new heart
for you yet?"-Wrftten by Florence Kid
well, aged u years.
PEARLS
Pearls come from shell fish or water mol
lusks. Under the shell of the fish are
smooth mother-of-pearl tissues. and when
a pebble or grain of sand gets inside the
fish covers it to protect itself Each year
it gets a fresh covering, and soon gets
quite large.
The Chinese knoWrthis, and insert small
image of Buddhab their god. under the
shell, and in few yeaIs they find beau
tiful pearl image. X
The ancients believed that pearls were
drops of water which had fallen from
heaven and changed to pearls when they
touched the water.
One of the greatest pearl fisheries in the
world is off of the coast of CeyIon. Here
the diving is done at night by a large
party of divers, who go out in a large
boat Each diver has a long rope which
viii reach to the bottom of the water: at
one end is tied large stone and at the
other is a loop. The diver puts his foot
in the loop and takes q large net basket
to put the shell fish in and jumps over
board. When he has filled his basket he
comes to the surface and in about ten
minutes is ready to go down again.
THE TRAVELS OF A RAIN DROP.
1t was rainy day, and Edna sat at the
window. She was cross because her mother
would not let her go out.
Presently she saw little rain drop rolling
down the window pane.
Then it said to her. Would you like to
hear my story?"
1 was once part of a spring. but the sun
dried me up and changed into vapor and
ascended far up into the heavens.
Then / changed into cloud; I 1oated
about in the sky for many years.
Then cold air struck me and changed
into rain.-Age nine and a half.
MAURICE.
Once there was a little boy whose name
was Maurice, and one day his father sent
him to town to purchase some garden seeds
for him. When Maurice got to the little
shop it was full Of people. He stood and
waited long time before the clerk waited
on him, but at last the clerk asked him
what he wanted, and he answered like a lit
tie gentleman, IF you please sir, would
like some seeds for my father" handing
him a paper with the names of what kind
he wanted. The clerk was wrapping the
seeds up in paper when a bad-looking man
came in and said: Hurry and wait on me ;
amt got all day to stand here. While he
YVES saying this the, man was angry and
knocked the seeds from the little boys
hand. but Maurice never said one word
only. Wait on that man and I can wait"
Maurice tried to- catch them. but failed to
do So but he picked them up and then went
home to his father. -,
Another time when he was in town he
met the same man that was so mean to
him at the seed store They were in
china store where the man was buying
he could not wait for the clerk to wait on
him. but helped himself In a few minutes
he found vase that suited him, and as he
was getting 1t his hand slipped and would
have broken it, mad not Maurice been in the
store and caught II. The man thanked him
very much and said in a kindly way. You
are not like some boys, my little man. you
have saved the vase which would have cost
me at least 81. and am very sorry / was
so rude with you tlie, last time, we met.
. "Oh, have forgotten YOU and forgot it, So
Maurice went home with happy heart,
and the man never forgot him.
NJ. GRAHAM. Alexandria, Va.