CHILDREN'S CORNER

Evening Star, Issue 14535, 10 December 1910, Page 12

CHILDREN'S CORNER

TWIN SCHOLARS. There is a scholastic romanco in the career of the Worcester twins, Frank and Alexander. VVoodlicad, who, in addition to being similar in their personal appearance, have an equally brilliant capacity for gaining scholarships. They ran a neck-and-nock race through the elementary and grammar schools at Worcester. Neither could get ahead of the other, and time after time, when the results of examinations were read, it was seen that Frank had scored as many marks as Alexander. For years this friendly brain battle between the twins wont on. At last, bowever, the- time came for them to go to Oxford, and here Frank won an open scholarship of £IOO, at Hertford College, and Alexander £9O for five years at Queen's College, those scholarships—in spite of the slight discrepancy in their money value—being of equal standing. The ten years' struggle has at l:sst had a definite result, and Frank differs from Alexander now in that he has taken a first clas3 in Mathematical Mods, while Alexander has secured a second.

kaiser entertains schoolgirls. The correspondent of the ' Lokala.nzc.igcr ' at Odde, in Norway, sends a pleasing story ot tho Emperor William, in holiday mood. At- Lofthus. near Oddo, is a summer school of culture for German girks. On the arrival of the Hohenzollorn in the FLardangcr Fiord tho pupils of tho establisltment sent a message asking to bo allowed to bring gifts of fruit and ilowers for His Majesty out to the yiw.ht. Tho answer was an invitation to the mistress and twenty girls to tako tea on the JI ohenzollern on the following day. The girls came on hoard and were received by the Emperor with charming hospitality. His Majesty accepted each one's flora! tribute, separately eonversed with all of thein, and remembered

all their names for the rest, of the afternoon. Chocolate was served in German fashion instead of tea. and tho visitors, after a girlishly enthusiastic farewell of the Emperor, returned on shore. Next day the ladies sent to the Emperor a poem thanking him for his hospitality, and they received by telegraph an amusing little rhymed quatrain, signed "William 11. and companions," expressing (he hopo that the fair guests' lives would be as sweet as tho chocolate they drank on board tho Hohenzollern. FIVE HI'XDRED BABIES. At the Crystal Palace on July 23 nearly 500 infants, ranging from six months to two years and a-half. were on view at a baby ehow. They came from all parts of London and its environs. Competition was very keen. There was scarcely a baby there whieli might not have been awarded a prize on its merits. They were fat and psy. and one was glad to notioo that most of them were not dependent, upon the cow for their nourishment. South London skeins to be particularly favorable to the birth of twins. Most of the nineteen entries in this class had an address on the south side of the river. Only two lots of triplets could be collected to grace the show. One. lot w;is four and a-half years of age, luight and healthy children, so much alike that it is difficult to identify the l>oy from his sisters. They were awarded the iiist prize in competition with another t;io who were l>oni on St. Patrick's Day this year, and were tho hist set to receive the King's bounty in King Edward's reign. The heaviest baby was a youngster lising two, «f 2st lljlb. The heaviest girl was lighter.—English CHILDREN IN THE SCHOOLS. Tho - Lancet' is anxious that English children shoidd be taught, "street rules'' to save them from being run over by motor t-ars. This is done in Berlin, it seems, and the ' Lancet' quotes tho rules taught to the children in the tleruian capital. Thev are:

1. Never jilay in a road where there are tramways or many carriages passing bv.

2. When you are going to cross a roaxl always look out for approaching tramcars, motors, and other carriages. Mover run across a road just in front or just behind it tramcar, motor, or other carriage. Wait until the road is clear, and then cross over quickly by tho shot lest wav.

o. When you aro getting down from a tramcar never go round close behind, to cross the road, but wait until tho car lu.s gone on. Then you can see whether a tramcar, motor, or other carriage is coming up i,\,<i..

4. JJo not nm after any carriage or cart, nor Jiang on to it, for this is very dangerous, and is strictly forbidden. 5. Never get on or off a tramcar or omnibus whilst it. is moving, but wait until it stops. The getting up and down whilst it is moving is dangerous to life, and forbidden by tho police.

6. Do not cross the road where there are manv carriages, but find out a place where there are fewer carriages going nasi.

A M IIOOidSOY'N "HAPPIEST DAY." This account of 'My Happiest Day' has been written by a ten-J*car-old Lancashire lx>y as a school essay. We give it ;is written (says the ' Manchester Guardian') quite unedited: —".My happiest day was last Saturday, when 1 was at X. When I got there I went to the canal to Jiave a bathe. Mo and my cousin went. Then we went to the wet pits where my uncle works. He works at tlio boilers. We went through the place where the boilers were, and then we went to the top of the pit shaft, and when wo looked down it seined to go narrower. Thej] we saw a. tap, and my cousin turned it on, and it went on niy stockings and boots. Then we made a boy Scout tent. We went out Scouting, and when I wa£ running I fell in a good lot of mud. Then T rolled on tho grass to make it dry. Then when it was dry I brushed it with a brush. 1 did not go back till we had finished. When we got back wo made a firo at the front of the te.nfc. Then I camo at homo at half-pas-t six. After tea I had a fight with another boy, and I won. They went and fetched hie mother to pull me off. When I got home I had some Southport rock. Then I went to bed. I liked that day because there was plenty of something to do and wo did it all." In shoTt, a.s tho poet says, one crowded hour of glorious life. KING GEOIiGE IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. A surprise visit was recently paid bv the Kinfi; ami Queen to tho infant school in Sti'uhopo Lines, Aldershot. There wore 250 infants scattered throughout the building, arid it was only natural that they should stand up and sing ' God save the King.' Thero are five class rooms, and their Majesties visited thorn all. 'lhe Queen went up to a chubby-faced little girl and picket! no her copybook. " How mcely you write, 1 ' sho said. "And you haven't made many blots, have you?" She. patted the little mite on the bead. The King addressed several of the teachers, -and then asked ono of the boys how old ho was. The other little boys and girls were, very eager to tell their ages. " I nm four." whispered one. " T am eight," yellod another. " I am five," cried a third. Ono tiny boy stood up in tho class room and enuled boldly. The Kiny noticed this smile, and tho lad was ordered to tho front of the class, while their Majesties spoke to him. Beforo leaving the school, His Majesty conversed again with the head mistress, and asked that the boys and girls should bo granted a day's holiday.