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readers, that each will be given a chance.
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No. 124. Little Lucia, two years old,
had been told when it thundered that it
was “God talking.” The impression sank
deep into the infantile mind. One day, when
the traveling thresher was stopping next
door, the steam whistle blew for dinner,
producing a most diabolical shriek. Lucia
stood trapsfixed for an instant, with eyes
wide open in amazement and awe, and as
the echoes died away, exclaimed with
great impressiveness: “God Holler !”
No. 125. Little Luta, age two and a
half, was highly delighted on the arrival of
her baby brother.
. Scene—Nursery; Mamma bathing the
squalling phenomenon and indulging in
the inebriate baby-talk common to such
occasions—Luta, who still wabbles sadly
in her enunciation of the letter “L,” stand
ing by, absorbed and breathless:
Mamma, (gushingly) “Mother’s little
treasure! Mother’s little lamb baby I”
' Luta, (with unction) “Umph! Mudder’s
yitty dam baby!”—a conversion silently,
though heartily endorsed by Papa from
behind his newspaper.
No. 126. Little three-year-old Birdie had
taken cold, and the phlegm collecting in
her throat, troubled her. After several in
effectual attempts to clear if up, she said :
“Mamma, I’segot tangles in my throat.”
No. 127. A little girl of three years be
came irritated by a refractory button
hook, and electrified the domestic circle
by an energetic wish that “she could throw
that button hook into Heaven,” seeming to
have the idea that things that were in
Heaven were sure to never return.
No. 128. Little Willie, aged four, was
walking about in the yard, and asking
about God. One question was, if God
could see him then. On being told “yes,”
he said:
“Well, how? I don’t see any holes in
Heaven for Him to look through.”
No. 129. Our aged, five, on
seeing the bed of violets covered with,
snow, exclaimed: “Oh ! rnammp, God has
put a white blanket on the flowers to keep
them warm !” *
No. 130. During the recent earthquake,
all my children were' asleep hut the eldest.
The next morning she telling them of
it, and they wanted to know what it was;
she said it was where the earth opened and
swallowed everything around. One of the
little ones exclaimed: •
“Oh, yes; I know. It is what swal
lowed Jonah.”
No. 131. Our little girl, one day, on
seeing her little sister tear a book on anat
omy, exclaimed:
“Oh, sister is tearing that geography of
bones!"
No. 132. e Two-year-old Mabin, on being
told by his mother that if he went out
doors the sun would cook him, remarked
that the sun did not have any tove (stove)
to Look (cook) him with.
No. 133. It is trouble sometimes to get
little three-year-old Victor to say “Sir” to
bis father.
On being reproved for calling his father
“man,” and told he should say “sir,” re
marked that he was going to get him a
sir eat.
For Woman’s Work.
SOME PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS
ABOUT MONEY MAKING.
The writer of this article has been asked
to give some practical suggestions to help
women who wish to earn a “ little money.”
Many women are so hedged in by circum
stances as to be almost helpless, from the
fact that they can not leave their little
children to do the many things they may
be capable of doing. It is to women thus
situated that this article is particularly
directed. Some of the suggestions may
not seem in keeping with education and cul
ture, but that is not the question to be
solved by those who are in the distressing
necessity of needing to earn money for
warm clothing and proper food; neither is
it the question for those who want the
mqney for pretty household articles.
In one of George McDonald’s stories, a
young girl asks Robert Falconer “ What
she can do to help in this world of
trouble?” He answered her, “Do the
thing next to you.”
This rule will apply not only in matters
of kindness, duty and religion, but as well
in the sterner claims upon life. So we say
to those who want to earn “a little money,” .
“Do the thing next to you.” , '
One pre‘tty lady who lives on a farm
and makes a quantity of butter, which, of
course, is sold to the grocers, found sour
milk “ the thing next to her.” She is
making “dutch cheese,” and she makes
such a superior article that there is great,
demand for it in the village. She sends a
large pan full of tempting looking, snowy
balls to the bakery every morning, where it
is retailed at ten cents a pound. It would
be better still if she had regular customers
to supply, as she could retain for herself
what she pays the baker for selling it.
Another strong, healthly woman who
lives in town found a washing “ the next
thing to her.” JShe was not in pressing
need of the money, but she wanted a new
carpet and the husband couldn’t afford to
buy it. So, like the sensible little woman
she was, she took her neighbors washing
and ironing to do, and earned a dollar and
a quarter a week. It did not hurt her
health and her friends were none the less;
if they had been it would simply have
sifted out the chaff. She could paint and
embroider, but like a great many other
ladies, couldn’t earn any money for that
sort of work, and money was what she had
to give for the carpet.
Another woman, who taught school until
she was married, found herself at her hus
band’s death with three children to sup
port, the oldest twelve and all old enough
to be in school. She had a home and that
was all she did have.
Some sensible friend said, “ try home
made baking.” She had some little cards
printed saying, on such a date she would
offer a certain line of articles for sale that
would be strictly “ home-made.” From a
small beginning she has built up a trade
that, by the help of the older children, is
proving to yield them a comfortable living
—and the children are well bred, courteous
and respected by every one. The demand
for situations as teachers, dressmakers and
milliners far exceeds the openings, and the
time is here when wonftn, as well as men,
must be content to do that for which they
are best fitted, and if they can cook better
than sew, they will certainly be able to
make more money at cooking.
A lady in the city who is well able to
prepare an elaborate dinner for guests,
perfect in every detail, will be able to earn
considerable money by making this one
thing “cooking dinners” her specialty.
Wealthy people frequently pay a cook ten
dollars to go into their kitchens to oversee
and direct the preparation .’and serving of
a dinner. This sort of work requires
knowledge of fine cooking, but a woman
who simply wants to earn a “little money”
may find a sack of flour “ the neat thing
to her.”
There are women who make, perhaps,
a dollar and a half a week selling yeast, • <
and what is called in some localities “ meal
emptings ” —the latter being used to start
salt-rising bread. Neither are they very
much trouble to make and the cost is almost
nothing. Os course this would not serve to
“ keep the wolf from the door,” but the
children soon learn to sell a penny’s worth
of the article, and it brings in a “little
money.”
One thing is essential in any of these
undertakings, that the result of whatever
is attempted be the best of its kind. Mrs.
Mason would not have found a market for
her cheese if it had not been uniformly
good.
The carpet would not have been bought
if the clothes had not been well washed
and ironed. The family could not have
built up thehome-made bakery” if the
bread had been sour part of the time.
Neither could yeast or “ emptings ” be sold
successfully if they were not good every
time. That is the element necessary for
success. “Do the thing next to you " and
do it well. Floy Sheldon.