The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-17
Conducted By
 1artba Ycui1a

datton stone to highest gilded dome of lies and half truths all cemented with | that adamantine substance-self- de- ception.
 Our Little Boy will not build and in = | habit any such house. His wise Father VIII give him an inheritance worth ] more than all the worlds millions, but i intangible, invisible. Our Little Boy | will grow up one of the Happy Few | who winning no great success is yet | greater than all the army of success | full ones.
 | Our little boy learns with Petrines | penny the lesson of common honesty, a | decent thing which must be added to honor os shoes are to feet when the worlds ways are to be walked. With fifteen pennies in a box he | learns further the lesson of acquiring | boasting of enjoying and spending of an income. He learns also of borrow | Ing and spending in advance a sure I income and of long deaf days of pow ! erty" that follow. --t Mother and father unite in striving | to keep our little boy from acquiring 'all those second-rate virtues-preach- ed from cellar to garret, in church and | in school"
 Will they succeed? If they do they will make of him lonely man. Off, ten lonely, but oftener happy, .ez...
 One little boy experiences love and rivalry. He learns of the native flick | leness of mans heart when he, too. loves another. Cannot one have two sweethearts?" he asks.
 | He learns that all men love battle, | and bustle, and booty. But he Is brought into Fathers stludy "the lab | oratory where one soul is crystaIliZed out of the big events of our little life" to learn that lfe's best battles won mean oftentimes selfs defeat That | father Is teaching that Little Boy to be one "of the glorious company of the l Apostles. one of the goodly fellowship | of the Prophets, one of the noble army or Martyrs" one of the great army of | Simple Folks and Failures, the mighty company that alone keep our great world fresh and fine and fit to live in.
 What Apostle ever won at the hust- ings? What Prophet ever sat on a throne? What Martyr ever made his millions?
 What World Winner what King. What Rider of the Judgment ever did the deed but sweetens all the world. the neighborly kindness. the homely talk next at hand, the actual giving of self
 Such tasks as these simple but po- Christ for Buddha. for their humble followers
 Our Little Boy is early placed with the "goodly fellowship"
 It Is not the rising generation who are taught by us. We are taught by the living generation. It is today as always the child in the midst" who is the worlds greatest teacher.
 This little book. the true story of child will teach its wise lessons to many Not the lesson of the schools but the lesson of the primrose. It lesson is not for all. To many, "a primrose by the princes being prim- rose only is to him" But those who see and those who know will read alright this truly unique booklet.
 Where Pussies Grow, by Harriet w. Grove bewitching book of Songs of Childhood and of Nature, The words and music are by Harriet Lee Grove, the drawings by Ella poipear | Lee.
 The song that give the title to the song book Is a littling of the spring the earliest spring. "Adown in the glen the buds burst | forth.
 The stream ripples cool and clear | And there are the willows9'
 The gray pussy willowsI