Evening star., 1907-11-09

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retoicingly They did not, indeed, know
much about what was TO happen next dav.
and some of them | thought were a little
frighten ned. because there was a chance
of their being sent to a new school where
there were examinations, but they kept
the thoughts of that out of their heads as
well as they could. and resolved to enjoy
themselves The children in the
house made themselves happy in their
manner. For them had been provided
every kind of indoor pleasure; there was
music for them to dance to, and the
library was open, with all manner of
amusing books, and there was museum,
full OF the most curious shells. and ami
mails and birds: and there was work
shop. with athes and carpenters tools for
the ingenious bows. and there were pref
ty fantastic dresses for the girls to dress
in. and there Uzre microscopes and kalesd-
oscopes. and whatever toys child could
fancy and a table. In the dining room,
loaded with everything nice 10 eat. Eu;
In the midst of all this. 1t struck two or
three of tn more practical children thct
thay would like some of the brass-Readed
nails that studded the chairs: and so they
set to work to pull them out. Presently
the others who were reading or looking
at shells. took a fancy to do the like,
and in a little wh!a. all the children.
nearly, were spra:ning their fingers IN
pulling out brass headed nails. With all
that they could pull out they were not
S3tlSueu, ana IuSn. tEeIs cttS "dIttu
some of somebody else's. And at last
the really practical and sensible ones de-
cIared that nothing was OF any real CON
sequence that afternoon except to get
plenty of brass headed nails, and that the
books and the cakes and the microscopes
were of no use al all in themselves, but
only. if they could be cxchang d for nail
heads And al last, they bosan to fight
for nail heads. Only here and there
despisod one shrank away into corner
and tried to get little quiet with
book in the midst of the noise. but all the
practical ones thought of nothing else but
counting nail heads all the afternoon
even though they knew they could not b.
allowed to carry so much as one brass
knob away with than. Eut not was
Who has most nail heads? l have hun
dred, and you have fifty: or l have a
thousand and YOU have two. l must
have as many as YOU before l leave the
house. or ! cannot possibly go home In
peace At last. they made so much
noise that / awoke and thought TO myself.
What false dream that is of children.
The child is the father of the man, and
wiser Children never do such foolish
things. Only man do
DR.. johnson was walking one day with
friend Passing a vast and beautiful
estate the friend remarked: ''One would
think the proprietor of all this must be
happy" DR.. Johnson answered. Nay,
sir. all this excludes but one evil, pow
erty."
Pythes king of Greece discovered d
gold mine and set all his subjects to dig
ging it to the neglect of everything els
At length his wife wen. to the goldsmith
and had made golden models of bread
of dainty food. Then when Pythes came
home hungry from a long journey she set
them before him. He praised the beauti-
full workmanship. but at length growing
hungrior demanded food. Then she told
him that this was all she had AT last
she made her husband understand that he
had taken all the workmen away from
planting the fields, and he consented to
divide his subjects. setting half to work
for gold. the other half at tlling the
fields. But in spite of all his gold Pythes
grew melancholy and building himself a
tomb, he gave up his throne to his wife
and lived alone in his tomb until his
death.
Moody tells of a man who spent sixty
years of his life amassing great wealth,
ard at last his mind gave way. They
took him to the insane asylum and he
threw himself into chair crying out In
agony: Millions of money and in a
madhouse"
A man was once taken by an old friend
to see his possessions. They went to a
splendid mansion filed with beautiful pc
glass, velvets. tapestries, valuable furni-
ture and books. These are all mine
said the old man. He pointed to the
town. That is mine: it is called by my
name" He pointed to a rolling prairie.
THAT is mine and the sun never shone on
a finer prairie, so rich and fertile and it's
all mine. | was once d poor boy, but |
made it all myself"
His friend looked at him and said:
We'll, you've all this on earth; but what
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