The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-24

proposition" suggested Mrs. Newly-Wed. Tt certainly makes a child less destruc
 tive. Why, I've seen fond parents buy
 the loveliest and most expensive toys at Christmas time for their children, and
 before the day was over half of them would be broken to pieces
 '"The very idea l at first suggested"
 said MT. Newly Wed For instance, you
 take boy with his kite. Did you ever
 see one who liked a bought one half as
 well as he did the paper and paste affair
 he concocted himself?'
 q must aekno wedge that all the boys
 I have ever known seemed to prefer work
 ing and finlcking over their own kites,
 even though they didn't always fly, and
 very frequently were the cause of great
 disturbances in the family" confessed.
 "The kind of daughter I want mine to
 grow up to be is like this, said MT.
 Newly-Wed as he took from his pocket a letter and unfoded it for Mrs. Newly Weds and my own inspection. Read this from the daughter of a
 friend of mine in Spokane and see if you do not consider her wonderful little girl. She is in the sixth grade of the public schools there, and is just bit of a tot, but she has been reared right. This patriotic little miss is greatly inter ested thus early in life in civic affairs and knowing that easterners will spend a great deal of time at the Alaska Yukon exposition, she has written circular let
 ter and sent it to friends all over the United States. setting forth the advan- tages, which are afforded by her native town.
 read the letter and this is what the little girl wrote with the pithy straight forwardness of a veteran composer of ad- | vertisements:
 T wish to give you a few pointers by which you will be able to see the best of our city, Spokane, in the least time. We have very clean city, both mor- ally and literally, as our city has 109 church and church orga nzations. Each year the mayor issues a proca- nation for cleaning days, on which day l the entire population turns out to beau | tify the city, cleaning everything, in-
 oiudng vacant lots planting trees. roses, | etc. . We have S4 public schools, averaging 15 rooms to the building, Each school vies with the other for a~prlze of s1O0 q year for the school having the finest lawn "Of course, you know by this time what a wonderful exposition you must expect to see at Seattle, with its exhibits from l every country bordering the Pacific ocean, | We shall see wonders of Asia Australia and the islands of the Pacific, along with the resources of our wonderful Alaska" Our Spokane falls are the admiration of visitors, who stand in awe and won der at the grandeur They furnish power for the great Occur d'Alene mining re- zion. from which s4O.o00OOO worth of mineral was mined in 1908, and the in- dustry is still in its youth
 Our production of wheat was the greatest in the United States in 1908, covering the entire eastern and southern portions of the state.
 "If you are lumberng people, Wash ington is the place for your mills, as last year the numbering output was 5O,O00 cars.
 If you are interested In electricity ] then we can surprise you with our 453 l miles of electric roads running to sub | urban towns"
 Capital" I exclaimed as handed the letter to its owner. Tt certainly sets l forth model city, doesn't it?' l And model child" said Mr. Newly l Wed, as I made my adeu, wondering if he
 and his anxious wife would carry out the hundreds of plans that they were figuring on for the two little Newly Weds.