FOR THE CHILDREN

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 23, 28 January 1922, Page 20

FOR THE CHILDREN

SARAH JANE. Sarah lane is the plainest cat. Her ■ yes are classily green, and her tail of ■•he poker variety. She is a kitchen cat, lint she resides in the fame house as a iiedipive Persian named Pippa, who occasionally has a family of Ui-autiful kitlens. Pippa is an affectionate mother, but. her aristocratic descent makes her nervous and highly-strung, and quite unable to manage her offspring when they have. piiMicri the helpless state and become tnir.'blinjr, mischievous kittens. It is ihen that plebeian Sarah Jane is summoned from the kitchen and ordered to take on the duties of a nursemaid. A more devoted slave never lived. Sarah lakes the naughty babies from their cushioned b/Tket up to her nursery—a clipboard in the spare bedroom. There she washes them, plays with them, cuffs them occasionally, and when they are old enough she tajces the whole family out on the lawn in the sunshine, where she sees that they do not annoy their bean-

t If ill mamma, nor jrn away on a iiiminvhunting pxiK'dition bi-fon iln-y .-in- uld enotiph. l'ippa visits the nursrrv several times a day tv RW that Sarah is iloiii" her duty, and to Ici-turo lu-r cliildreu on'tlio importance ot pooil manners. •Always wash i-nrs. fair. iio.U. iind paws tliurntiplily after ciirli mOiil." sa>> Mamma to lui'row of wunili'ring liliicpyivl kiltpn?. "And koo)! your p;uvs oIT tlic plate, even if it Ls ii.-h." "Xovcr sharpen your claws on (lie drawinjr-room chairs'."" adnionisli,>~ -;iraii Jane. "And never steal." The result of all this training is that there are always a si-ore of admirora wishing to n;i Vp homes to Pippa's hal>ics. lor their morals and manners are as perfect as their beauty. One happy day Sarah Jane had a kitten of h< r o'vti, a nMserablo little object us uply a_s poor Sarah her*>]f. She liid it in tlii' tihil-shed for two whole days, and tlipn the aristocratic Pippa found it out, and, having

I no ehiklren nt lirr own at the moment. I .--In , took ii fancy to it and carried it in j her basket. Sarali fetched it bark again. j and so did Pijipa. and for three days I they disputed the question, till the poor little kitten settled it by weakly dying. THE THINGS THAT MATTER. ■fust tv ho tender, just to be true: Just to be glad the whole day through: Just to he men-iful, just tn lie mild; Just to be trustful as a rhild: •liiM to be iron tie and kind and sweet: Just to bo helpful with willing feet; Just to he cheery when things j;o wrong: Just to drive sadness away with a son;, , ; Whether the hour is .lark or bright, ■lust to be loyal to Ciod ajul right. THE LOST TOY. A wily fox on<v said, "I never saw ,i bimiiv Quite so siill — he niusl !>» dead. "If* not Their iisu.il liahir Tn l> ,, so ealni." said he: 'Tin very fnnr! of rnhhii - I shitll irip across iind see." H<. mily fmiiirt disaster. And :i paiu Inside hi* <hcr< — A bunny m:ide or plaster Isn't easy to aigest: