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BURKE’S WEEKLY
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
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MAC OX, Ga., OCT. 12, 1867.
Contents of No. 15.
High and Low Life —illustrated page Ho
Don’t Care—poetry Lt
Marooner’s Island, by the llcv. F. It. Goulding
Chapter XI..— original JH
Singular Promptness Do
Cock Robin and Jeannie Wren—original—illus.... 115
Nettie’s Wish—poetry ID
Editohial—
Endless Amusement for Boys and Girls ; Post
age on the Weekly; Patience; The Live
Senses; Our New Contributor; Our Corres
pondence ID, 117
Charlie’s Pet Rabbits—illustrated 117
Letters to Eddie, No. 1 1 ! *
Jeannie Wren—poetry —original 118
Jack Dobell; or, A Boy’s Adventures in Texas,
Chapter VIII, —original 118
Duty—poetry H 9
Helen’s Improvement, and the Cause of It—ori
ginal 1D
Our Chimney Corner —illustrated 1-0
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
I | YJ RANDALL’S
1 i Lt IMPROVED
dfh BUILDING- BLOCKS
bp” "lnade from " same
f|& [■’; front, by 2 feet high, and
H i jwjrA requires but about half tho
IgyAJ Baa number of blocks in one
set.
to the variety of structures
which can be made of them: Churches, Arches, Bridges,
Castles, Turrets, etc., etc., all coining from the hands of
the skillful boy or girl like magic, assuming the most
grotesque and beautiful forms, and can be carried from
place to place without falling apart.
No rules are necessary for putting them together, al
though a large photograph (showing a complete village,)
accompanies each box. Wo would say to parents, that in
offering these Blocks for the amusement and instruction
of your children, we are literally placing the “ Lamp of
Aladdin ” in their hands, and feel we are doing you a ser
vice which cannot be fully appreciated until you have
seen them in their wonderful combinations, affording a
beautiful and lasting toy to the prattling infant, and
serving as a delightful study and pastime for the older
ones of the family.
They are put up in neat boxes, each box containing one
set, with photograph, showing a complete village. Price
Sl5O, $2 and si, according to size, etc.
To the boy or girl who will send us three subscribers to
Burke’s Weekly, and $6. we will send a set worth SI 50:
for/our subscribers, and *S, we will send a set worth $2;
and tor five subscribers, and SlO, we will send a set worth
SL Address J. W. BURKE &C 0„
Publishers, Macon, Ga.
Postage on the “Weekly.”
The postage on the Weekly, when paid quarterly or
yearly, at the office of delivery, is five cents a quarter, or
twenty cents a year.
Patience.
E * mVe a ar ® e <l uantit y material for
Ejrljl “Our Chimney Corner,” on hand, and
must k e £ our little contributors to exer
cise patience. Me are working it up
cjust as fast as possible, but as we have
an excess of some particular kinds of
enigmas, etc., our little friends must not consider
themselves neglected, or their claims lightly con
sidered, if their contributions do not appear as
promptly as they would like. We are doing our
best. In the meantime, send in your contributions,
and they will appear in their turn.
13 IT ItK E’ S W E EK L V .
The Five Senses.
OW many of our little readers can tell us
the names of the five senses? Vv e sup
pose some of you will answer that they
are, Sight, Touch, Taste, Hearing and
Smell. These senses are not, possessed
by all. Some persons are deprived of
one, some of two, and others of three of them.
We dare say all of our little readers have seen per
sons who were blind, and others who were deal
and dumb. The number ot those who are blind,
deaf and dumb is comparatively small. Some ot
you have heard of the case of Laura Bridgeman, a
little girl in one of the Northern States, who was
born without sight, hearing, or speech, and
in spite of all these infirmities, learned to read
and write. Schools for the education of the deal
and dumb, and the blind, are established in many
States now, and these poor people learn to lead
God’s word, and to do many things by which they
are enabled to earn a livelihood. 1 here is a iciy
excellent institution for the education of the blind
in Macon, where the pupils are taught to read and
write, and to make brooms, baskets, mattrasses,
and many other things. Some of them play beau
tifully on the piano and violin, and other musical
instruments.
The sense of sight comes to us through the eye.
The eyes are so constituted that you can move
them about in their places, or open and shut them.
The small, dark spot in the centre of the eye is
called the pupil. It is really the window of the
eye, through which light is admitted to the retina.
The eye itself does not think, but it conveys to the
mind the pictures which are formed on the retina,
and thus enables us to tell how things before us
look. If you turn to other objects, the picture
disappears, and another takes its place, and this
happens as often as new objects come before the
eye.
The sense of touch helps the sense of sight in
various ways. When we see an object, tlie sense
of touch tells us whether it is hard or soft, cold or
hot, smooth or rough, wet or dry. It is different
from the other senses, because vvliile they are con
fined to one part of the body, all parts of the body
can feel. Through the sense of touch, we are made
to suffer from heat or cold, from wounds and sick
ness ; and by means of it. we are enabled to enjoy
the genial warmth of the fire in winter, or the re
freshing breezes of .summer. By the sense of
touch, the blind are enabled to read books with
raised letters, prepared expressly for them, and to
do many other useful things.
The sense of taste comes through the tongue.
By the use of this part of our bodies, we are ena
bled to distinguish between those things which are
pleasant and those which are unpleasant. This
sense differs in different people, and in different
animals. What is pleasant to one, is disagreeable
to another, and it is possible to cultivate the taste
so as to learn to love some things which at first
were not at all agreeable to us. Sometimes the
taste becomes depraved, or corrupted, as in the
case of the use of tobacco, and of spirituous liquors.
We trust that you will never allow your taste to
become corrupted by any such filthy and useless
practices.
The ear is the organ of hearing. Sound enters
the little openings at each side of the head, strikes
upon the tympanum , or drum of the ear, and is
conveyed to the mind precisely as the eye conveys
the picture made upon the retina. We hear the
sound of music, the singing of birds, the roar of a
waterfall, the sighing of the wind among the trees.
| The drum of the ear is so delicate that the gentlest
whisper is carried by it to the mind us readily lls
j the roar of the loudest thunder. By means of
I hearing we are enabled to avoid danger. A man
1 was walking on a railroad track; the engineer
saw him and tried to give him warning by the
shriek of his engine. But he paid no attention to
it, and in another minute he lay a mangled corpse.
The poor man was deaf, and could not hear the
whistle of the engine. We should bless God for
this sense, and open our ears to the voice of truth
and wisdom, and shut them to all words of sin
and folly.
The sense o f smell comes to us through the nose.
Without this sense, we should lose the delicate
perfume of the rose, the violet, and the thousands
of other flowers with which the Creator has bless
ed the world. It is also useful to us, in enabling
us to tell the good from the bad in matters of food.
This sense is of great use to dogs in hunting, and
is possessed, in a remarkable degree, by some
other animals. The deer has a fine sense of smell,
and often escapes his pursuers by the exercise
of it.
Some persons are bom without one or more of
these senses, and others are deprived of them by
sickness. Let us thank God if we possess them all,
j and try to use them to our own profit and to His
! glory.
*«♦
Our New Contributor,
! story in this number, entitled “ Hel
§4~ en’s Improvement,” comes to us from a
little girl in North Carolina. It is quite
creditable, and we print it as an encour
(ZJJ agement to our little contributor, aud
eJ with the hope that it may induce others
of our little readers to try their hands at writing
for the Weekly. Don’t be afraid of harsh criti
cism. Your first efforts may not be successful,
I but we promise to receive them kindly, and to
j publish them, if w r e can do so in justice to those
who send them. Our Weekly is the children s pa
per, and we want each one of our little friends to
feel that he or she has a direct interest in its suc
cess. You can help us in two ways: by extend
ing our circulation, and by sending us contribu
tions. We respectfully ask your aid, and promise
that no efforts shall be wanting on our part to
make the Weekly the best juvenile paper in the
country.
In writing for the Weekly please observe the
following rules :
Ist. Write on one side of the paper only.
2d. Be as brief as you can without destroying
the sense. Short articles are always in demand,
while longer ones, however valuable, run the risk
of being crowded out.
3d. Always send your name, and il you send
contributions to the Chimney Corner, send an
| swers with them. The editor has no time to de
j vote to the solution of puzzles, etc., and he must
have a responsible name, in every instance.
In future wo shall be compelled to reject all
communications whose writers do not conform to
th a first and third of the above rules.
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j An Apology.
WE hate apologies, but sometimes the}
are unavoidable. The present issue o
our paper has been delayed in conse
quence of the non-arrival of pap ei
the heavy rains having injured the pa
per mill so that it could not work. Gin
subscribers will see that the fault was not oui>i
1 and excuse the delay.