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116 BURKE’S WEEKLY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. z —— “ 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. ’ 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.