CHILDREN'S COLUMN.

Evening Star, Issue 11680, 12 February 1902, Page 3

CHILDREN'S COLUMN.

JUVENILE WK. »*Wha*? Yoa don't know "what infaodnc* . ; fion means f 6a*d the teacher. "Nom." * Well, -now, r& expiaflt it to yom. Does wor mother erar lore «aCsrar "Yesm.' ± now, suppose thai two women emae to-cafl on yonr mediae. Your motherknows one of tie women, but doesnft know the , other. She has newer seen the woman, and doesn't, even know her name. Now, how wooid she become acepraJnted with this woman, and find out her namel" "She'd send me oat for a can of beer." As that was the correct ansnyerihe--4?eacher~had nofiring further to say. A Snndar school teacher in Carthage, HL, has a dbss of little girls, and ft is her eastern to teE them each Sanday of "one litife incident that has happened, in the week, and rajaest tfiV children, to quote -a verse in Scripture to iHnstrate the afcory. In this way she hopes to impressfhe TBefcmess of EbEeai knowledge -worn. the htafi ones. One Snnday die toll her: class of a croel boy who wonH eatch, <cats and cut off their little girl tefl me of 'rase£**j die a&kecL There was a pause for a larf moments, when one Jitffe girl arose and in ' a solemn vokesaidr "Whatsoever God hoi ■ let ray^naiajrafc^Btaniiec^ EXXMIEAIHIS GEMS. A budget of examination sen-ted by a writer in the *Specta*o<' ati half pathetic, because iShey are mostiy poM petrated by adnit teaehers.m England, *s%' under the new bawe to iuslraffi in history. The foflowaig- axe a tor «H amplea:—"'Godwin isas an "TiprighteOßS" man," "Henry IL, on aeeoig Bedaefc-eoo* duct, was 'rageous'; the i ~phea*antJr* taaa raider Wat Tykr at the "•fragrant* iajou tice of the poll-tax, and demanded '•iiMJinitf safferance; J the Greeks, driven oafc of Oanstantinople, sought 'nefsse' in Western Europe; when General Monk marched to London Parliament 'rwrotwd-* itself infav-a convention; Dopieix worked on the rnier "■•-■•■• of the Deccan xtntfl he became a- men 'poppy' in his hands-; after the peace of.' Paris JSapoleon was imprisoned in 'Etna 5 ; Lord George <3ordon was killed at U*e batfle of 'Cartoon."' Some of tiiese maybe mere literal slips doe to haste-; bet

there is more serious nonsense. Tbe chief eyent in the Reformation was that Martin Luther pobScly sold-indulgences.'' Daring the W3ks affair wo aze toM that "Parliament at this time debated in silence." A request to name three great Ministers of George DL is thus answered: did much work for ilie country; Lord Salisbury and the Duke (if Welfington led many battles." Finally, "Nelson is famous for his short poem, England expects every man to do his duty." "Saratoga was the seat of w;-r between Bichard I. and Surajah Dowlah.'' '"The Young Pretender said that he was one of the princes that had been murdered in the Tower." ""Clive had a simple boyhood, bat rose to be named Lord He put the Indian Mutiny to rights and relieved the people of tbe Black Hole of Calcutta." The Napoleonic wars are the subject of a whole series of monstrous essays, one of which runs;—" Waterloo-was called the Hundred Days' Fight ... What made it worse was that it had been raining the night before, and (he grass- was' wet, and many caught coid and died. By" this great victory the Duke of Wellington i received the name of 'lron Doke/ wnaeh' means .an he»> of one hundred fights.* 1 ' THE BOY ON POLITICS. view boystake-of politics. A; schoolmaster gives some examples in *"Cbam-< here's Journal' Asked to explain the cause' of the Transvaal disturbance, a'boy of ten wrote this:'—'"Krager and Kannairaism. is one. He is a man of Wad. Mr Cham-, berling has wrote to him savin* come out 1 and fite or else giro up the bfad of tbflf English yo& hare took, lie is a boardatch-1 man, and a wicked heethin. Lord Kit- ; chener has sent for his gory bind and to? bring back his sca&derma bed ded or alive."' And another boy's essay describes Mr (Sad-! stone as having * hml everybody. H& Isykti publicans and ciiraers and irishmen, bewanted the Irish to come to England andi have home rooL but Mr Chamberlain say* no, no. so alecs he got his bfard up sndi kflled Mr Parnd. Mr Gladstone died* with great rispect, and is buried in West-I minster with piecefal ashes.'" Compared with these versions of modern history, tibe following on Queen, Elizabeth is fas&fab—- " Queen Elizabeth wssa voagin <jneen r a-ad she wasTievjer married. She wa»®> iondol dresses liat she was never seen without? one on. she was beantefofi. and -eJever wititta jed head and fzeektes:"

At » school examination at Dudley ; (Eng-) <me of Har Majesty's inspectors was i mjefjficnmg a Bkfle boy in the lower stan-.' dards, and fcmnd that Iris knowledge of'! arithmetic was Yery defident. The : n- ; spector bad aafced several qaes&ats with- ' out getting a satisfactory answer, bnt, deteratHfted to arouse the little fellow's interest iu the subject, he asked.; "If your teacher gave yon tw-o rabbits, and I gave you one, how many would yon have?" "Font, ox," replied the lad. "Imposrabte," jepßed the mspeetar, j*ettinp iro- ' patient, *"tw»-and one cannot make four."' sk," said the iifcUe fellow, " I've gob a top-eared dne-aireadyr" Flossie-: ""Mamma, I want some water i» chasten my dofl, jr Mamma: ">'o, -4eat, it is nzong, you know." Flossie: *Wefl, fiwn, I want some wax to waxiijjeebo her. She's <old enoogh jkw to have liaomethmg dose to her." ! Lottie Jfedge was sitting oa the -floor, -when the son shone is her face. . "Go \ ! *vayt go Vayf* she tried, striking e-tt at it- "TEou mm r dear, and it wont ! tramfe-yon?* said Jrermotnec. *°J shan'W. ' . . ...*->:. ..-.._3>