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MAY, 1903,
proach to any man or woman. The world owes no one a living unless
the means of livelihood are earned, and the man or woman who thinks
otherwise will usually be found very indifferent of obligations due to
other persons.
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r ARIOUS excuses may be advanced by those persons who are in
clined to indolence, but back of all of them is that ever-recurring
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reproach to our kind—selfishness! It is deeply implanted in pervert
ed human nature, and in one form or another it makesitsappearance
in all sin, all error, all unworthiness. Not long since I heard a lady
remark that almost every distinguished writer, speaker and thinker
of the present day seems to enter public protest against selfishness.
The cause of this is not far to seek and find: selfishness is marring
almost every human character, and if it were possible for it to be en
tirely eradicated, very nearly if not all the faults and the weaknesses
of humanity would be overcome. I bow in reverence to the patient,
faithful, honest, unselfish toiler: would that every boy and girl, every
man and woman in America might know him for his true worth and
his usefulness to all mankind.
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For Woman’s Work.
MY D®(S CTRWo
TQ)OOR CARLO, my dear dog, is dead! We'd been companions many a day,
Ip I’ll hear iris bark no more. When time oi evil came;
a trusty friend, I know his like They said he had a malady—
Was seldom seen before. A thing 1 hate to name.
My slightest wish he would obey, They told me he could not go free;
It he could understand; For, poor dog, he was mad;
Dear Carlo, ever ready, he, And then I knew that Carlo’s days
To go at my command. Would soon be o’er—how sad!
And so, that friend is dead and gone;
No Carlo now have I;
Sadly to his lone grave I go,
And there I think and sigh. Frank Monroe Beverly.
For Woman’s Work.
The Lesson Flash Tauqht.
’ WAS walking, one day, along a most
beautiful country road. The branch
es of the trees were thick overhead,
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making a grateful shade, for it was the
time of day when the sun shone with great- i
est warmth. The pet dog of the house- <
hold was trotting joyously behind me; she i
was quite young, and had never been in
the woods before, so she looked well about
her to see if she could find anything of in
terest.
Pretty soon she espied a little gray
squirrel sitting upon a low fence that en
closed a country grave-yard. His tail was
curled prettily over his back, while a little
brown nut he tried to crack; he held it
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tightly in both of his paws, and opened
the tough shell with his two cutting teeth.
He enjoyed it, too, as you could tell by the
brightness of his eyes. He looked with
timidity and surprise to see Flash and her
mistress coming so near.
Tne dog quickly made a dash at the poor
squirrel, which was much frightened, for
dogs and squirrels are never very good
iriends; so the little animal quickly jump
ed from its nice perch into a tree just back
of the church. Flash did not see him there,
as the woods were dense and the trees
so tall. But at last the dear little dog
treed him The little squirrel kept very
still, but Flash lilted her head and barked
with a wiii; she paused just a moment,then
barked more loudly yet, for she thought
that by barking the squirrel she’d get. She
had never seen a squirrel before, and dogs
like to bark, as all oi us know. But bark
ing didn’t bring what wasoutof her reach,
and this act, on her part, hath a lesson to
teach. It is very unwise for children to
fret, to cry, or act ugly for things they
can’t get. Julia.
For Woman’s Work.
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aERHAPS, dear children, you are
" better acquainted with oak and
hickory, than you are with the
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birch, so lam going to tell you some
thing about this interesting and valuable
tree, which is found in the cold regions
of the North as well as in the warm cli
mate of the South.
You have different talents, and so
there are many different kinds of birch
trees, each having its peculiar uses. In
our country the common birch wood is
white, being a small, graceful tree, with
leaves shining like the orange or lemon;
its bark is lasting, and is used for tan
ningand other purposes.
Would you not think it queer if you
had to wear a hat, or shoe, made of
wood? Yet, iu some places little boys
and girls wear these ai tides made from
the bark of the birch, because it is so firm
and tough; shoes made from it will last
longer than those made of leather such as
you are accustomed to wear.
Europe has a birch-tree which grows
sixty feet high, and whose branches are
long and drooping, hence it is called
the “weeping birch.” The bark of a cer
tain species of birch is fragrant and con
tains an oil; its timber is fine-grained,
and valuable for making tables, chairs,
bureaus, bedsteads, aud other useful ar
ticles of furniture. Another kind of
birch, which grows in the Northern
States, has a white,d ui able bark that may
be easily split into thin layers tobeusecl
as paper. The Indians, who are quite
ingenious, make canoes of this bark.
Some of the Scotch people drink as a
beverage, the sap .Yom a certain species
of birch-tree. This drink is also much
liked in Russia and bweden. Many
beautiful books are bou*d in Russia
leather, which is tanned with birch bark.
This leather has a peculiar odor due
to the oil oi the birch tree, which
prevents insects eating the leather;
for they do not like the taste of this
oil, just as you find unpleasant certain
kinds of food. This same oil is useful in
skin eruptions.
A long time ago, in England, rods
from the birch tree were used to punish
children who 'behaved badly ft school.
We do not know if it was because this
species of tree grew more plentifully
around the school houses than any
others, or if there was really virtue in
this wonderful tree to sweeten bad tem
pers and cause unruly children to be
come obedient. Be that as it may, we
trust our Woman’s Work childien will
never behave in such away as to need a
birch rod, or be so dishonest as to make
nutmegs from the white bark of the
birch, as some persons have been ac
cused of doing in the “Nutmeg State.”
Now, I am going to tell you a legend
about the birch trees. Many, many
years ago there lived in a country
called Thrace, a musician by the name
of Orpheus, who played so skillfully on
the lyre that he was not only surrounded
by people and beasts of the forest, but
rocks and trees left their resting places
to hear sweet music. Did you know
that birch trees have white trunks?
This is how they got their white dress
es: when all the trees ran quickly to
enjoy, in the dance, the lovely notes of
the lyre, the birch trees were just as
eager to go as the rest, but they were so
vain they waited to put on their pretty,
white dresses, so they might outshine
all the other trees. When they came
looking so happy, but O, so haughty,
Orpheus had gone far away, but every
day in the year they kept on their white
dresses, so they will be ready to hear
the sweet sounds of the flute when Or-
pheus comes again. We sincerely
hope, dear children, that you will nev
er cultivate vain thoughts, or be tardy
like the birch trees, for by procrastina
tion you may miss some of the sweetest
pleasures of life. J. M. C.
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