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August <, igcg. THE TARD Little Bessie Berry was school. She was almost a It wasn't because she hadbaby, but because she was 44Pretty-soon" and an "Aft liked to dilly-dally better world. There were some other who were often tardy, too wonder what she could do. something. She went to 1 some seeds. They were as1 "Listen, - children!" said of you ever had a flower ga Then the teacher said a are for you?one little pa< room." Here Bessie raised her h 'em ?" But the teacher shook het in thf? room " shp iwnt on time this month." That wasn't all. They \ after while have flowers, would give a prize to the b< finest flowers. It was reall So the children looked a promised that they wouldn' And some weren't. But B< The next month was Apr again. Bessie was tardy t once more in May. "Try, try, again," said B< again. And mamma helpec ternoon she said "Seeds!" girl good-bye. Bessie said the way to school, and didi And on the last day of ] seeds home. Bessie and 1 right off. They didn't dilly sie hoped she might win the But it was late and dry, up very quickly. Only o called it a dilly-dally Howe up with Clara Bell's across had won her seeds in Mat When the day for the flov some of Bessie's friends had in their gardens, and Bessi< with hard green knobs at tli Every morning she count until at last a bit of white si But then there was only 01 So everybody, even Bessi< tardy aster, just as Bessie h When at last the day for j was a verv. verv sad back garden looking down of her little friends, with hai went to the flower show. Wasn't it too bad? But lesson for Bessie, for she did Little Folks. THE PRESBY TERI/ ?Y ASTER. almost always late for lways late for everything, to run errands or mind the s an "In-a-minute" and a er-a-while"' little girl who than anything else in the children in Bessie's room <:n t1lf? tparhpr hporan tn And soon she thought of the seedsman and bought ter seeds, in paper packets, the teacher. "How many rden?" nice thing. "These seeds :ket for each one in this and. "Please, may I pass * head. "One for each one "who isn't tardy a single vould plant the seeds and And then the seedsman Dy or the girl who had the y two prizes. t the seeds longingly and t be tardy one single time. ;ssie was?four times! il, and the tardy ones tried wice. They were to try essie's papa. So she tried I. Every morning and afwlien she kissed her little "Seeds" over and over; all l't dilly-dally once. May she took a packet of ler mamma planted them -dally about it at all. Bes : seedsman's prize, and the seeds didn't come ne seedling grew. Papa r. It just wouldn't catch the street. But Clara Bell -ch. i'er show was nearly come, 1 big blue and white asters t had one fine aster plant, le top. ed the days that were left, lowed in one of the knobs. ie day left. e. knew that it wmiW > ad been a tardy little girl, iwarding the prize came, it e Berry who stood in the at a tardy aster, while all nds full of punctual asters, it must have been a good In't dilly-dally any more.? tN OF THE SOUTH. A GAME WITH 1 One evening the missionai island station were complai know what to play. "Can't you teil us sometl nine-year-old Virginia. "Let me think a moment, game we can all play. If you us, we will go out to the din table and begin at once." "Oh, goody!" and Yirgini pencils. When she came hack fa game. During the next two i the first lines of as many In letter A as we could think of. and it seemed as if we had he said, "Time's up!" Then she had written. She had on "A charge to keep I have." "Abide with me, fast falls 1 "Angels voices ever singin "Awake, my soul, and witl It happened that we all 1 hymn she had, so we drew a not count. All but one of u: that only counted one for the was, however, the only one of "Ang6ls voices ever singing" us playing, that hymn cou as all but two had the last b thus giving Virginia seven ci The rest of us read off the of, then going on to those b on through the whole alphab The evening went very qui before we had realized it. game" has been one of our f we snouia like to share it wil Naha, Loo Choo Islands, jaj; A WISE MOTI That we should keep up ; for our children are watchful That what are trifles to u? # our children, and that we shoi That if you say, "No," you less you have a good reason f hold it. That we should take an i amusements, for mother's sh? is a great delight. That we should be honest v things as well as great; and what they wish to know, we s deceive them. That many a child goes asl want of care and training at li the home lacks sunshine; tha much as flowers need the sunl That children look little 1 ment; that if a thing pleases that if home is a place where are harsh and fault-finding, t hours as possible elsewhere.? > 13 'HE HYMNAL. y's children in a far off ning that they did not ling to do, papa?" said Yes, I know of a tine get paper and pencils for ing room, sit around the Q ri n r* ? 1 u tun iv papci ciuu ther explained the new minutes we were to write rmns beginning with the Father was timekeeper just gotten started when the youngest read what ly the following four: the eventide." S-" ti the sun." ia<l thought of the first line through it and it did 5 had the next hymn, so ise who had it. Virginia us who had remembered ; so as there were five of nted four for her; and ivmn we counted it two, edits thus far. ! hymns we had thought eginning with B and so >et. ickly and it was bedtime Since then the "hymn avorites and we thought :h a wider circle. >an.Anna Dale Schwartz. JT7-D O A irn ii^j\ Ort X O. a standard of principles, judges. > are often mountains to uld respect their feelings, should mean "Xo." Unor changing a command, nterest in our children's ire in what pleases them vith the children in small if we can not tell them .U 1 J .iiuuici say so rather than tray not because there is lome, but simply because t a child needs smiles as beams. jeyond the present mo1 they are quick to see it-; faces are sour, the words hey will spend as many -Philadelphia Record.