The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-06-14

grave, as the case may be-; and this
fact alone should create clamor for
the work, and keep the presses run
ming day and night until every family
in the civilized world is provided. with
copy of the book.
The original Mother. Goose" is wen
enough if the object is simply to
amuse the infantile intellect; but for
conveying sugar.coated, yet impress
i've, moral lessons to the young my
little booklet will be found indispensa-
Bile in every well.regulated house
hold.
IPresume there Is no boy alive and
enjoying good health who has not at
some time in his career longed to be a
pirate. But let him once read THE
Sad End of Pirate Pete" and gaze on
the accompanying Illustration, in the
Mother Goose With a Moral" and
that longing will be gone forever.
The picture will represent'the pirate
swinging from the yardiarm Of his
own vessel, having been captured and
executed for piracy on. the high seas
Il Intended to enclose a cut Of this
thrilling scene, but; the artist has not
yet succeeded IN getting the pirate.
hung to his atisfaction-tte artists
satisfaction, mean, SO 1. am not able,
to o.so) and beneath this Illustration
will be found the following; explanatory
lines:
THE. SAD END OF PIRATE PETE,
A pirate bold, In days OF ola
Did sail the raging MAIN.
His name complete was Pfrate Pete,
His ship the Mary Jane.
One day, alas! It came to pass
This pirate shed some blood:
And then It's said they killed him dead.
And changed his name to Mud!
These verses and the picture COM
bined will pretty etfectually disslpate
the youthful longing to be pirate, I
imagine, even in the most hardened:
and then on the next page Of my in
valuable publication shall turn my at
tention to inculcating a needed lesson
and warning to the gory.minded
Youngsters whose chief ambition in
life is to become a'great Indian slayer,
like Buffalo William, Kit Carson,
Daniel Boone and the rest of the long
haired and Intrepid pioneers and
scouts that we read about in the hero
besprfnkled pages of history.
The lesson and the warning will
loom up in print as follows:
THE FATE OF TOMMY TENDERFooT.
Elitle Tommy Tenderfoot, what did he
Want out west FOE to fight the sioq'
nJtio Tommy Tenderfoot met the savage
Tns's the way he looked when they got
through
Here l shall give a realistic cut Of
Tommy lying on his back, horse do
come back" or words to that effect,
punctuated with arrows and In a
mussed-up condition generally-a pic
ture well calculated to discourage even
the most ambitious and daring of
youths from going west with the idea
Of exterminating the willy aborlginals
what few we have left.
There will be many other striking
and valuable Lessons in juvenile ethics
embodied in the pages Of the revised
Mother Goose" but refrain from
giving them here. Enough has already
been printed to demonstrate that this
Is work that must indubitably prove
Of the greatest utility in DEMONSTRATING
the rising generation and teaching
them that the poet was merely stating
the frozen and irrefragable truth
when he gave utterance to the now
familiar and famous remark-"There's
no place like home"
Parents will do well to take time by
the topknot and order a copy Of this
Indispensable wade mecum and house.
hold auxiliary while their family Is
still intact-hetore the rising young
American has wrenched himself loose
from the maternal apron.strings, and
gone forth into the world to carve a
destiny for himself, with slx.shooter
and a tommy-hatchet.
TET