CHILDREN’S CORNER.

Evening Star, Issue 14529, 3 December 1910, Page 11

CHILDREN’S CORNER.

MORE “HOWLERS.”

There are some striking “ howlers ’’ in essay writing by haveroool children on the occasion of the recent Itoyal Show. The following are some examples : “ Cat draws its claws in at night, and walks about and changes its eye.” “ The horse is as tall as a middle-aged man. “If we cure to wander into the wild parts of Ireland we find that pigs are there treated as members of the family. They sit before the fire, walk in and out of the house like persons, and occupy the few chairs that are there.” “The pig is a native of China, and it can go into houses and sit down likfe a Christian.” “ The pig has been the goose that lays the golden eggs to many people.” “ Many Americans would not bo millionaires without the falsely-blamed pig.” “The horse consists of fetlocks, joints, flank, upper arm, and hock. Without these the graceful animal could not live.” “ St. Bernard dogs are known to be very intelligent, having rescued many travellers by pouring spirits down the throats of the patients.” “ One may see huge sides of beef in a butcher’s shop that were once the property of cows.’ “ Wo might think it fun to be a cow, but it isn’t.” “ A cow is very like a bull, but a bull hurts more than a cow.”

A BABY’S CONFIDENCES. —WHAT HE THINKS OF HIS PARENTS.

An ;imusin'; article by E. F. Emmet, in the ‘Baby’s World,’ gives a three-months-old baby’s impressions of his parents. “Both of them at times,” he is made to say, “make themselves,equally ridiculous. A great difference which I have noticed, however, is that while mother will behave in this way at all times and in all places, and even by preference when there is a gallery to applaud, father likes to do it in private, and scarcely cares even to let mother see him at it. It is sometimes to see mother trying to egg him on. The more she does so the more staid and solemn father becomes. I really think I enjoy these occasions most of all. “6n the whole, I get plenty of amusement. Mother nearly every day tries to talk to me, but does it in such a barbarous way that I find it difficult to follow her. Father does not often talk, but when he does he is decidedly more intelligible. Some day I shall try and make them see themselves as they really are. I shall not mind doing this with mother, as she has a fairly keen eeuso of humor, and will quickly" appreciate the incongruity. Father is, however, inclined to be touchy, and will require more careful management. One day, soon after the nurse had gone, there was a great ado. I was taken to a large and strange but impressive building, and afterwards a lot of people came back home with us and pestered me witlr unwelcome attentions. I do not quite understand what took place in the big building, which I heard called a church, but from what father and mother said to one another I know they attached great importance to it, and thought it a very solemn occasion. I heard somebody promise to explain it to mo when I grew up. Let mo tell you of something that tickled me very much. I soon found that father was immensely proud it I sloped crying when he took mo up. He thought it redounded greatly to his own credit. It seems to me rather a cheap sort of pride, lie might just a.s well give himself airs when he gives mother a ku-s if she asks for one. However, one day 1 determined his pride should have it fall, and so, after ho had taken mo up and I had been quiet for some lime, I began to howl as Joi:d as I could. Mother quickly snatched me away, and gave father such a look that he was quite crestfallen for half an hour afterwards. Meanwhile, 1 enjoyed a little laugh (o myself. I do not think father would really mind if ho knew.”

THE "RAISIN' DAY" POST CARD. Deference was made by Mr Castella during his recent visit to a “ Raisin Day ” post curd issued in America (says the ‘.Miklura Cultivator’)• On the face is a picture of children holding up a big bunch of grapes, over which is the legend: ‘•Resolved —‘That wo will out raisins and preach raisins and boost for those who am raisin’ raisins.—Busier Brown.” At the foot is subscribed : “ With sincerest good wishes.” Ono-haJf of the address side of the card is occupied by the following: “ Raisins are a Splendid Everyday Food. A toir.e,nr from Pneno (the Sun-kissed Land o’ Raisins). The extreme price of meat and bread stuffs is giving California raisins their innings. The raisin is the finest food that grows. It cannot be adulterated. Confectionery has its disadvantages, but your children will find raisins a natural, heaven-prepared food.” ADVICE TO BOYS. Work was the subject of a little sermon preaebed at Winchester College, on a recent •aturday, by tho Earl of Sol borne, who, a.? a ftjllow of the school, was received “ ad povias” at the college by the scholars ami commoners. Lord Si*!’borne spoke from his own experience to Ins brother Wykehamists who wore going to he the future workers for the King and Empire. He said workers, because they had really too uauy loafers in England of every class, and Winchester College was not going to Mini out loafers. Between tho rich man who did nothing himself and the tramp .hero was really no moral distinction, -xcepling that one, was presumably dean and the other certainly dirty. —Tho Artistic Sort of Loafer.— Work fell roughly into two divisions—thinking, and thinking and doing. Tho former was a very limited class, and a man who only thought old thoughts iu worse language than was previously lift’d was only an artistic kind of loafer. Thinking and doing comprised tho great majority of honest work in the world, and all his experience had been with that class. When he wauled a mon to help him, the first question he asked was : Couid ho trust him to obey his orders 1 A man who could not was a nuisance to be eliminated at tho first opportunity. Then ha aekd : Could ho trust hint to command and to rely upon himself and not go to other people for support or advice in an emergency? Gould ho trust him to Mvo tho whole of his strength in tho work entrusted to him ? If ho could not command he was a brokon roed; if he could not rely upon himself ho was only fit to hold an inferior position; if ho could not give tho whole of his strength he was playing Tiim false. If he found a man who answered to his teste he inquired about his intellect, his education, and his nhysical qualifications. —jicocl Boys Who Turn Out Well.— There was a permanent danger at our public schools of some boys with very valuable qualifications passing comparatively unnoticed by both dons and men, and often earning disapproval because of wnat are considered their eccentricities. Public schools wanted to train up leaders as well as lieutenants. Independence of character and defiance of public opinion were in themselves good things, but not that which arose from obstinacy or sullenness of temperament, but that which came from the reasonable use of intelligence. They never got a leader of men worth having who did not, as a boy, defy public opinion, and it was because ho leamt to do that wisely and at the light time that he afterwards was not a follower but a leader.

DOLLS UP TO DATE. The doll is in a state of evolution, and none can foresee to wnat heights it may yet attain. Superior persons who have been in the habit of expressing their contempt for the pretty but characterless woman by comparing her to a doll will soon have to give up the use of this convenient simile, for the really up-to-dat-dollies are distinguished more by their expressive faces and the various lovalih' qualities that make them tho dearest of companions to their child owners than by mere outward beauty. Like everything else connected with the infant generation, dolls have of late been considered worthy of the attention of the most profound minds, and that is how it happened that Marion Kaulitz. a portrait painter of Munich, thought it not beneath bar dignity to try to make some improvements in them. It was in her studio that lire character dolls first grew. They represent (he little boys and girls of all nations, and are known by the names they have brought from their foreign homes. JUVENILE WIT. Boy; “Why did you let Dorothy wear her red cloak when you knew tint old billy go it’s loose in the* field?” Governess : “Gracious! Quick! What has happened?” Boy : “ Happened ! Why, the goat turned to butt-’er,’ and she was transformed into a ‘ scarlet runner.’ Ha! ha 1” “Johnny,” said the hoy’s mother, “1 hope you have been a nice quiet hoy at school this afternoon?” “That's what I was.” answered Johnny. “I went to sleep after dinner, and the teacher said she’d whip any boy in the room who waked me up.”