Morris tribune., 1907-04-20
Treatment Of Dutch Children.

fall into a canal. At all events, the
Dutch mother never appears to antici-
pate such possibility. One can mag
Inc the average English or American
mother trying to bring up family in
a house surrounded by canals. She
never would have minutes peace un-
til the children were in bed But, then,
the mere sight of canal to the Eng
fish child suggests the delights of a
sudden and unexpected bath.
An Englishman inquired of Dutch
woman. docs a Dutch child by any
chance ever fall into canal?"
eyes" she replied; leases have been
known"
''Don't you do anything for it?' con-
tinued the questioner.
"Oh, yes" she answered; 1--WE haul
them out again.
But what I mean is" explained the
Englishman, don't you do anything to
prevent them falling into save them
from falling in again?"
EYES," she answered.; 1--WE spank
them."-London World. .stss
When Children Saved HAMBURG.
In one of it's numerous sieges some
400 years ago Hamburg was reduced
to the last extremity, when it was sug-
gested that all the children should be
sent out unprotected into the camp of
the besiegers as the mute appeal for
mercy of the helpless and the innocent.
This was done. The rough soldiery of
the investing army saw, with amaze
ment and then with pity, long pro-
cession of little ones, clad in white,
come out of the city and march boldly
into their camp. The sight melted
their hearts. They threw down their
arms, and, plucking branches of fruit
from the neighboring orchards, they
gave them to the children to take back
to the city as token of peace. This
was great victory, which has ever
since been commemorated yearly at
Hamburg by a procession of boys and
girls dressed in white and carrying
cherry tree branches in their hands.
"Stngeth Like a Halter"
on the evils Of drink about $4,000 pu-
pills in the elementary schools of Hull
competed, and extracts from their
compositions were given by DR.. Eccles
in lecture before the Society For the
Study of Inebriety. He quoted the
following gems, among others:
To-day many people are in Jail for
committing suicide while under the in
fluence of drink
"Alcohol is mocker. At last 1T
biteth like a servant and stingeth like
a halter"
"Alcohol has an effect upon med
ical mans conclusions
doctors say that fatal diseases are
the worst"
Doctors say that the increase death
rate shortens lives
"Some people think that the abuse Of
drink is right. Some take it as a medi-
cine."-St. James Gazette.
Spoke Without q Tongue.
One Of the most remarkable cases on
record was that of a woman-well au-
thenticated at the beginning Of the
eighteenth century-who had no tongue
and yet spoke with perfect clearness.
She was brought to Lisbon, in Spain,
by Count d'Ericeya, from Monsary, In
the territory of Elvas, Portugal, and
the following account is given of her
by an eminent divine: she is seven
teen years old, but does not look more
than seven. She can pronounce dis
tinctly every letter in the alphabe She
has not the slightest bit of tongue, but
the teeth in both sides of her under
jaw turn very much inward and almost
meet. Her chief difficulty is in eating,
for while others move their food with
their tongue she is forced to use her
finger. She says that she tastes we'll
Her voice, though very distinct, is
little hollow and like that of old peo-
pie VINO have lost their teeth
Different Kinds of Traps.
A we'll known detective was compH-
mented on an arrest that he had made.
The arrest had been mysteriously
achieved, and the detective was asked
to explain it. This, though, he refused
to do. "There are so many ways of
catching criminals" he said. laughing.
You know what the old man told his
wife? She first said to him: Don't
talk. John. You can't say | ever ran
after you True the old man assent
ed. and you can't say the trap ever
runs after the mouse either, but 1t
gathers him in just the same. ''-Ex-
change.
A cannibaI Feast.
DR.. John Gibson Patton, the mission
airy, told in his autobiography how de-
pressed he was when he first arrived
In the New Hebrides in 1865. The ma
tives were in their war paint and ma
kedness. A fight was going on, and
five or six men had been killed. His
native servant. who went out to pro-
cure water for tea. came back without
1t. The sayages had cooked and eaten
the dead bodies at the only available
spring, had washed the blood into the
water and had bathed in it. The mis-
sionary drank cocoanut water for
good while after that.
The Adder.