The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-06-07

being most economical and at the same
time able to prepare delicious dishes.
They have learned how to use the
cheaper foods and also to make use
of the left-overs.
Let each of us do our share to keep
down the high cost of living by being
a producer, by buying economically
and intelligently, by studying food
values, and by conserving all foods
and allowing no waste in our kitchens.
Jennie Engle, Clas of 1917.
Boys Cruel Joke.
Two children, boy and girl aged
about seven and nine, were standing
near the fence busily engaged in ar
guing. The girl, dressed in a little
pink apron, and her black curls topped
by pink sun-bonnet, occasionally
stamped one of her little feet impa-
tiently and wrinkled up her small
nose. Her brother, boy somewhat
taller than she, held little gray cat
in his left hand and string with a
large stone at the end Of it in the
| other.
'Now, Bet, you know very we'll we
can't have whole colony of cats
around this house. Why not let us
fellows have little fun drowning this
one? You'll still have the other one,'
he said.
mo, you can't have my cat. In the
first place, you never asked my per-
mission to use her and you shouldn't
take other peoples things without
asking permission. It's just the same
as stealing" she said.
"Don't you dare call me thief" he
declared emphatically.
81 didn't" she answered back.
"Well, you said I stole and that's
just the same. Just for that, I will
drown your old cat" answered he.
"Oh, you don't need to put the blame
on me now"
"Well all tn eother fellows are going
to have a cat to drown and we're all
going down to Kirby's pond to do it
and Wei have loads of fun," he re-
piled.
81 don't care what the other boys do.
l don't want my kitty drowned"
Jaw Bet, you wouldn't deny a fell
low little fun, would you?"
"No, Sam, but I want the cat very
much. Please don't drown her. I'll let
you use my tennis racket tomorrow if
you let me have my kittne. Please,
Sam"
Just then the two other boys came
around the corner carrying cats. She
argued with them but to no avail. Just
before they left, she proudly lifted her
head and said to Sam: "Sam Elson,
if you drown my cat, I'll never speak
to you again. So there! Do as you
choose"
The boys went to the pond and had
their little fun. Betty played with her
dolls all afternoon. She didn't think
they really would drown the cats, but
about five o'clock, she saw the boys
returning empty handed; and then she
heard the door slam as Sam entered
the house.
She could restrain her tears no long
er. No one was near, so she sat down
on the front steps and cried softly to
herself. Sam came around the corner
of the house at the moment, bat in
hand, on his way to join the other
boys on the play grounds. He real
lied at once the cause Of his sisters
grief. He hesitated a bit, and then
stepping up to her side said, earnest
ly, "Betty, indeed Pm very sorry. l
wish I hadn't done it."
Florence Hennemann, Class of 10
Corrupt Society as a Character De-
mOralizer.
The court room was crowded. 1t was
the day of the trial of young boy OF
scarcely eighteen years. He had been
accused of attempt at murder of an
other boy in a drunken revelry and
enough evidence had been gathered to
send him to the state prison, but the
defendant for the prisoner was yet to
be heard from. The defendant was
young lawyer just out of college and
this was his first case.
A great hush swept the audience as
the attorney took possession OF the
floor and began to speak. Honorable
judge, worthy men of the jury, ladies
and gentlemen. You behold my client,
a mere boy, thin and haggard for want
of proper nourishment, frierd!ess ana
unkempt, a wandering wreck on the
sea of life. You call him murderer?
So he is in the eyes of the world but in
the eyes Of God, his guilt is rightly
placed on other people. This shiverlng
homeless prisoner was once a happy
smiling child, the son of rich New
York banker. He had all that boy
could wish for-toys, a carriage, a
private tutor, in fact everything to