Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-26
For the Little Ones.

questions. Soon they had their own hens and
ducks and turkeys, which they learned to manage
very skillfully In fact Daisy set one of her hens
in the kitchen corner one winter. | let her. just
because it was Daisy, and when the little chicks
hatched she put them in the warm sunny
cellar and raised every one Of them. or
course she had the earliest spring chickens of the
season, for which her papa paid her the very
highest price. AS they grew older, Toto took to
following his father about the farm and pretty
soon he had given to him colt and l, of course,
must give to Daisy a calf, which did. She now
took interest than ever in the dairy and
when l gave directions to the dairymaid about
the careful securing of the tins and keeping them
in the sun, she was ready with the usual ques-
ton:
What you do that for?"
ITO keep the milk and cream fresh and sweet"
l would answer, and she did not forget it, for
when she became little dairymaid herself soon
after, and had her own little churn and tins
found her onefourth of the time drenched with
water, busy engaged cleansing her milk pans and
arranging them in nice little rows in the sun.
And she made nice butter, too, as yellow as gold,
and her father said the sweetest butter he ever
tasted. OF course he purchased it "Gt the highest
market price," and in addition gave her cum
ming little white pig that she might feed on the
spare buttermilk.
He gave Toto one also, and she generously di'
vided her buttermilk with Toto's pig. What
source of revenue these pigs afterward came to be-
OF course when they grew to be hogs, they were
fed with the rest from papa's corncrib but no one
counted that, and Daisy and Toto had all the
profit, through several generations of pigs. Then
their bank account began to grow in earnest OF
course Daisy's calf became fine COW long before
she grown, and Totos colt was horse long
before Toto was a man, and they too helped to
swell the bank account good many years before
these little ones were grown, papa" said to me
one day. Mamma, Daisy and Toto will own pretty
soon every thing have. We will have to ask
them to allow to live with them!" He was so
fond of them, and pleased with their thrift,
which all came from their early training wholly
unintentional upon my part at first then kept
up to encourage them
One of Daisy's cunning little tricks which
pleased me most a way she had OF following
me to the kitchen, even when she was very lit
tie, and trying to do everything which she saw
do If made pastry, she must have little
bit of the dough to work with. If l made cakes,
she would drain from all the egg shells, the egg
remaining in them, then stir up little cake with
sugar and butter and -four and bake 1t in an egg
shell. After she was older, gave to her her own
little kitchen utensils and she soon became ia
little cook.
By the time she was sixteen years of age she
easily carried off half the premiums at county
fair for her pickles and jellies and cakes These
were not her first prizes, however, for when she
was only twelve years old she received the first
prize for her dairy products butter and cheese.
After that turned all the spare milk to her
for her cheese, which soon became so noted, that
she used to cut out little white star, and paste
upon the center of it, "The Star Brand" papa
called it, and nothing pleased him so much as to
call to Daisy from a long way off, as he returned
from town, "DGiSy! Daisy! The Star Brand is all
out, and the grocer aodntS more right Giody
How her eyes would sparkle as she would run