The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-30

SI-raEN i FOR CHILDREN.
The new kind Of toys, reaction
against the rather foolish Teddy bear,
promise well, both as to the enter.
tainment they furnish the child and
their educational value. Indeed, In
the eyes Or the progressive-minde.i,
1t is the. educational side of the mat
Ter only that Is looked att But that
does not matter as long as d good
time II insured. Children are always
willing to have what they want, If
they don't know 1t. The ordinary
child does not indeed need induce
ments to learn its Mother Goose
rhymes, but surely nursery whose
wall are adorned with pretty-colored
prints, depicting the adventures Of
The Wise Man of Gotham" The
Man Clothed All In Leather or Lit
tie Jack Homer each with its ex-
planatory verse beneath Is made more
attractive. How delightful on
stormy day are the books where chill
dren can point to their hearts con-
tent or copy pictures by cutting out
colored papers to make pictures eth
er tout of ones head" IL one has
imagination or like simple illustra-
lions ins books. There are also card
board furniture, colored most delight
fully, that can be cut out Of or put
together by small fingers. BY the
way, are the paper dolls quite out Of
fashion? They once were very dear
to the hearts Of little girls; now
they are never mentioned Arts and
crafts come into play in the way Of
diversions for little folk. There are
little looms now to be had, which
cost but trifle, and are yet large
enough to make 1t POSSIBLE to weave
rugs, covers, spreads and carpets for
Lighthouses, and it is more fun than
strlnging beads. And stringing beads
has by no means gone out of fash
ion, neither have the old-fashioned
amusements, such as mud-pies, make
believe tea-parties and other diver
sions. Springfield Republican.
THE. LADY OF THE SUITCASE.
Mrs. McAllister, of Florida, going
through a two months tour OF Eli
rope with only a small suitcase for
luggage, furnishes q fresh and per-
tlnent example of what woman can
do when she will. She has beaten all
the guide-books on point of prac-
tical, personal interest. Content is
justly hers, with satisfaction at her
feat eli turning custom-house sceptic-
ism to admiration.
This Florida traveller set about
her purpose without ostentation. She
offered to the women's club Of Miami
no preliminary resolutions favoring
the one-skirt-and-one-ha idea in con-
nection with "the grand tour" She
brought before the State Federation
of Women's Clubs no trumpet-sound-
ing declaration of equal rights with
men to the comforts of trunkless trip
ping. In her own determined way
she set out as the woman going
to see, not to be seen, and the globe
trotting honors OF the hour are hers
There are thirteen items in the
table of contents of Mrs. McAllister's
suitcase A lucky number the re-
sultant of a rational process of elimi-
nation. "What shall I wear?" asks
the ordinary woman, planning for
Europe. What can / do without ?"
asked the tourist from Florida. and
everything she omitted was gain save
10 the luggage-transfer companies
This single-suit-case tour OF Europe
is a longer step toward the enamel
patton Of a sex than is the mobbing
Of Commons or clamor from cart in
Union Square Courage to defy the
unwritten canons Of first-cabin society
Is in itself almost a qualification for
the suffrage. New York World