CHILDREN'S CORNER

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7419, 22 April 1911, Page 10

CHILDREN'S CORNER

"Zealandia” asks tho children who read this Corner to solve tho following, ana hopes someone will send in a correct answer before next Saturday. ENIGMA. . In any coward’s company you find That I have place. Cut oft* my head, and from your mind All wrong erase. THE STONE IN THE ROAD There once lived a Ring who ruled his subjects so wisely and so well that his fame spread near and far. But everything that wanted doing was loft by the people for someone else to do. and the king decided to teach them a lea* on. Now, it hap'pened that one of the roads that led to the town passed through a narrow cutting. To this spot the King w v cnt late one night, and scooped a hollow right in tho middle of tho cart-tracks. When he had got deep enough ho lined the sides and the bottom with pebbles. Then from tho folds of his cloak ho took a small bundle, and placed it in tho hole. Going to tho side of tho road, he, with no little labour and difficulty, loosened a large stone, which he carried to the hole ho hud made in tho road. Thero he dropped it. so that it completely covered tho opening. Next morning a farmer driving his cart came that way. "Ah!" ho cried, "the laziness of those people, is terrible! Here is this big stone right in tho middle of the road—a danger to man and beast by night and by day. I dare eay it has lain there lontr enough for someone to have moved it. But, no.! Everyone - is too lazy to attend to such a simple matter.” flo saying, he prilled his horses to one side, and the obstacle. Presently down the road,camo a soldier. He song gaily as he marched along; but his head was too far back for him to notice the stone, and in a| moment he was sprawling in the roadway. He picked himself up. grumbling at people'* carelessne?3, and walked on, with his sword under his arm. But ho left the etono where ho found It. . Bv-and-byo a, company of merchants, with mu-land Innck-horses 'heavily laden, po awed that way. “This Is a flno country!” said on©.- ‘7 wonder how long that big stone has! been Ivlng there.” But not one of them thought It worth while to move it out of the war. Thus ir went on week .after week, day ■aHer dav, and no one even attomnfed to nvri'O tho stone. When throe weeks h n d parsed, and it still lav ■Dsaccfn.lly in the .road, the *king pent word to his neap 1 © to jn»et him at this very spot on tho highwav. . ■ , "Ky good and faithful subjects'-” he said /'it was I who put this stone hero; aav* •for three weeks, overvono who has pas'w* Jng Ma.Tn.ed his r?*qrh.bour for not taking It out of the road.” Then, a toon-in* down, ho Il p tpd the sto n e land showed then the hollow ulaco b«in which, lav a sma.il leather bnr Attached to the bnr a babel with the Iwords: "fop him who lifts the stone.” * He u.ndld th>o rdring which fastened f v * month of the hoc-, and a Ftrwvm of bright ■g'ldeu eoir-g fell to the- .ground. "Pricnde.” cried tho king. "Jet ns nrofl'* ur"tlii« experience. Do not let .us evftwet others *o do for rn what we ,worth urouble to do for onrodlvcs.”—From "SunWay Sun.” , ' ’ . IF - If you can talk vritb. crowds and keep j your virtue. ’ I Or walk with Kings—nor lose, the comI mon touch, , if neither foes nor loving fnenda can hurt you, ■ , ■' If all men count with you, but none too much; • . It vou can fill the unforgiving nunnto ; With sixty seconds’ worth of distance is’ tho earth, and everything that’s in it, An’—what is more—you'll be a Man, my ' SOa ‘ —EUDYAED KIPLING.

ABOUT THE BOY SCOUTS From the Literary Digest wo learn that Ernest Thompson Seton had a hand in the Bov Scouts movement in England; that the idea, of it was contained in his own American organisation of tribes of "Sotor or Woodcraft Indians.” Of there there; art more than 100.000, in the United States; And Mr Seton assisted Sir Robert Baden Rowell with the beginning of hia organisation. winch has made such marvellous strides in England—their number is already 400,000. It is now announced that the two movements “have been merged” and, the Seton Indiana have adopted the name of Boy Scouts of America. Who can estimate the ulterior significance of that sort of merger? The Scout’s motto is "Bo prepared. Tho scout’s law is: A Scout's honour is to be trusted. A Scout is loyal. A Scout’s duty is 1/> be useful and to help, others, v A Scout is a friend, to oil, and a brother to every other Scout, no matter to what •social clas.3 the, o her belongs. A Scout is courteous. A Scout is a friend to animalq. A Scout obeys orders' A Scout smiles and looks pleasant. A Scout is thrifty* The editor ot the London "Daily Express” describes the movements in the ‘"Outlook”: — : "The Scout never comes to the end of Ihis leasonj. Having climbed one height, ’auorher height 'always rises before him. Before he may wear a first-class badge he must satisfy, examiners in ten matters:— First, ho must be able to swim fifty 'yards. He -must have a shilling in the savings' bank. Ho must be able to send (and receive a message.-either - in semaphore or Morse, sixteen letters per minutA As a test in self-reliance ho is sent off on a two days’ journey by himself, or with only one other scout. On returning, he must write an intelligible report of the. things seen. He must prove that he can make a damper, cook a hunter’s etew, skin and cook a rabbit or pluck and cook a bird, He must read a map and draw sketchmaps; use an axe for foiling timber, and judge distance, area; size," number, height and weight within 25 per cent, error. Final)*'.' he must bring-in a tenderfoot, trained by himself in the points required for a tenderfoot ' badge*"Christian Science Monitor” BLOATING CITY OE ICE As the big liner.Oravia passed the Falkland Islands, in the South’Atlantic, on her last trip Home to Liverpool, she passed an enormous iceberg. It'was computed to be one of the .largest bergs seen from tho track of ocean-going steamers of recent 3'ears, and was thus described by an officer of the - ship: "The. night’ was cloudy, .he said. ' "There was a, cutting wind, and the temperature of the sea was down to 33deg. when I ‘.'the great iceberg came into view—a huge mass 500 feet-high, partly covered with mist, a. long, shelving shore of ice, with the eea breaking upon it as upon a wide, desolate beach. "When the moon appeared, the sight was one never to be foxgottou. Wd gazed upon what seemed to bo a floating city of ico as large as Liverpool, with its towers, its temples, its tapering monuments shooting up in fantastic architecture shimmering in the moonlight like polished silver. It is the lot of few to see such a sight.”