The Household Terror.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 166, 24 January 1888, Page 3

The Household Terror.

Little shoestrings, all united. That makes the tiny shoes go (lop, A lmt with half the rim torn off, A hole that shows the curls on top. But then beneath it such a face, All roguishnosa aiul babv glee. Ami dimples that play hide and seek Around the crimson mouth so wee. And fingers—hut why try to tell Of all the mischief they contrive— The doggie "could a tale unfold," And kitty now is not alive. And is he wicked when he swims Small eliirkens in the place of ducks ? Or when he sees the buds unfold, Before the (lower conies he plucks ? Or when he takes his sister’s dolls And pulls the “ criers" in them out? Or runs a pin in papa’s watch To see what little “ tick’s” about ? Oh, mother hearts, you’ll take him in. Tins naughty "terror," household joy; Because in him you will hut see The piciure of y our own small boy. —l'hiladelphia Press.

A Scolding Woman. —The barbarities of the ducking-stool for the cure of scolding women, though abolished by law. are now oftentimes practiced by a kind of social barbarity none the less reprensible. Women scold only when they are ill. Instead of blaming them w e should prescribe Am. Co's Hop Bitters. The entire system will undergo a genial, pleasant change. The nerves will he quieted and acerbity of word and thought will give place to amiability and efiection. Healthy women do not scold or fret. Read