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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/14101-0.txt b/14101-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..283ebc3 --- /dev/null +++ b/14101-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,755 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14101 *** + +DEW DROPS + +[Illustration] + +VOL. 37. No. 10. WEEKLY. + +DAVID C. COOK PUBLISHING CO., ELGIN, ILLINOIS. +GEORGE E. COOK. EDITOR. + +MARCH 8, 1914. + + +FRANCIE FISHER'S FISH + +[Illustration] + +By Marion Mallette Thornton + + +On the Primary Room wall was a beautiful picture of a shining river. +Francie loved to count the fish that were swimming in it. Just +fourteen there were, and every one stood for a new scholar someone had +brought into the Primary Class. + +How Francie wished he could bring one and have Miss Florence pin a +fish in the river and a red tag on his blouse to show that he had +caught it. + +"How you s'pose I can get a fish, mother?" he asked earnestly. "I +should think a Fisher-boy ought to be able to catch just one." + +Mother shook her head. "I don't know, I'm sure. There isn't a child on +this street who doesn't go to Sunday-school." + +"P'r'aps one will move on," said Francie hopefully. + +But when a new family did move to that street there were no children +in it. + +One day Francie came flying into the house. "Oh. mother, the ash-man's +here and I b'lieve he's got a fish with him!" + +"What?" exclaimed mother, but when she looked out she understood. +Sitting in the ash-man's cart was a pretty little boy, with black eyes +and tight curly hair. + +"Is he yours. Mr. Lugi?" mother asked, and the ash-man smiled and +nodded: + +"Yes. mine--my Rafael." + +"Does he go to Sunday-school?" put in Francie eagerly. + +"No, no school--too little, him." + +"Oh, but it's just Sundays and we sing and there's pictures. Couldn't +he please go with me. Mr. Lugi?" begged Francie, "I'll take awful good +care of him." + +Mother explained a little more, and at last Mr. Lugi said Rafael might +go, only--"No dress up, no clothes," he said sadly. + +But that did not trouble Francie. "Why, he can have my brown suit, +can't he, mother? I'd just as soon." + +The next day mother took Francie down to see Mrs. Lugi. Little Rafael +was shy at first, but he soon got over it and was friendly as could +be. The little black-eyed Italian mother was very glad to see them. + +"I like Rafael go the Christ-church," she said. "I use go myself, +home--Italy." + +The brown suit, too small for Francie, was just right for Rafael, and +it would have been hard to find two happier little boys than Francie +and his fish when they walked into the Primary class together. + +Rafael clapped his hands with the rest when Miss Florence pinned the +fish in the river and the red tag on Francie's blouse. + +[Illustration: Miss Florence pinned the fish in the river and the red +tag on Francie's blouse.] + +And what do you think? Out in the big room there were two more new +fish, one in Mother Fisher's class and one in Father Fisher's. They +were Mr. Lugi and the little Italian mother, come to Sunday-school +with their little boy. + +"Really and truly," Francie said, "seem's if I caught three fish +'stead of one." + +"Really and truly," said Mother Fisher, "I think you did." + + * * * * * + +"ALL BY HERSELF." + + +The older children were gone out for the day: mamma was busy in the +sewing room with Miss Fay: Molly was doing the Saturday baking. "What +could Alice do all by herself?" + +This was the very question that popped into the wee girl's own head, +and she trotted off to ask mamma. + +"Here's I," she said, at the sewing room door. "Here's I, all by +myself. What's I goin' do, mamma?" + +"Going to be mamma's good little daughter and amuse yourself this +morning without help from anybody. See how busy I am." + +"Everybody's busy that isn't gone way off," said Alice dolefully. + +"Well, then," said mamma. "Alice must be busy, too, taking care of +herself and making her own good times. See how well she can do it. + +"But first of all," mamma went on, "think what you would like to do or +to have me get for you, and I'll stop a minute now for that, so as to +start you." + +This was an important thing to decide, so Alice went into the next +room and sat down in her kindergarten chair before her table, to think +it out. She folded her arms and sat still about a minute: then she ran +to mamma, exclaiming. "I know now, please get me my snub scissors" (of +course she meant round-pointed) "and some bright paper, and I'll cut +and cut ever so long." + +Mamma dropped her work and got the things. "Now, dear," she said, "see +if you can't get along the rest of the morning by yourself. Dolly and +the picture books are in the dining room. Don't ask me for anything if +you can help it, but keep out of mischief and be as happy as you can." + +Alice went back to her little table and soon had it covered with queer +things. There were the oddest dolls you ever saw, with arms sticking +out like stems: and there were horses with as many legs as could be +put along the whole length of the body. It was great fun to cut them. + +But by and by Alice grew tired of this, and jumped up quickly. Over +went the little table, scattering things everywhere. Such a litter! +"I'll just leave it all," thought Alice. Then a little voice inside +said. "Pick it all up and help mamma." After a minute, the little girl +obeyed this pleasant voice, and picked up every scrap. Then she ran +downstairs without stopping at the sewing room door, though she wanted +to. + +"Peggy Morlinda," she said, taking dolly from her cradle, "is you all +by yourself, too? Isn't it lonesome? Come, I'll put you to sleep." + +Peggy was soon asleep, or supposed to be, though her eyes were still +staring. + +"Now I will go take one little peek at mamma." said Alice, starting +upstairs, but stopping next step. "No. I won't neiver," she said +bravely. "I won't 'sturb mamma one bit." + +After this the little girl found amusement for awhile at the library +window. Next, she went back to the picture books, and read a long +story, all made up out of her own head, to Peggy Morlinda, who woke +up to listen. But what a long morning it was! She did not enjoy it +much, but she made up her mind about one thing--she wouldn't "'sturb +mamma." + +At last papa came home and Alice ran to him to be tossed up and down, +and they had a fine frolic. + +"Have you gotten along nicely with your work?" asked papa of mamma at +dinner. + +"Very nicely, thank you," said mamma. "Alice helped me a great deal!" + +"Alice!" exclaimed papa, looking as surprised as possible. "Can Alice +sew?" + +Mamma laughed. "Oh, no, indeed, not yet," she said, "but she gave me a +fine chance to do it. She amused herself all morning and did not ask +me to do anything for her, so we got on beautifully with the work in +the sewing room." + +[Illustration: "Peggy Morlinda, is you all by yourself, too?"] + +"Good girl," said papa, and Alice looked as happy as she felt. Oh, how +glad she was that she had not left those scraps of paper for mamma to +pick up! It is always safe to listen to the little inward voice that +says, "Do right." + +"Do tell me a story," "What can I play?" "What shall I do next?" the +little folks cry to the grown-ups, and all these things take time to +attend to. If the children who are too small to do any work to "help +mamma," would oftener amuse themselves, as Alice did, they would help +much more than perhaps they think.--_Written for Dew Drops by Mary +Harris_. + + * * * * * + +OUR SKATING RINK. + + The wind blew shrill, the sky was gray: + "Oh, dear," sighed Molly, "how it rains! + Let's think of some new game to play, + I'm getting very tired of trains." + + "I know," said Jack: "it will be fun!" + And seized some paper, pen and ink; + "Look, look," cried Susie, "what he's done: + He's written, 'To the Skating Rink!'" + + The children thought it strange of him + To pin it up upon the wall; + "We haven't any skates," said Jim; + "It isn't any good at all." + + But Jack looked wise. "Oh, yes," said he, + "I've thought of just the very thing; + These railway trucks do splendidly-- + We'll tie them on our feet with string." + + They did, and all began to skate. + But Jack, I fear, was rather rash; + He _would_ start off at such a rate + That down he tumbled with a crash! + + He wasn't hurt. "I'm quite all right," + He cried, and scrambled up again; + And on they skated with delight, + Forgetting all about the rain! + --_Selected_. + + * * * * * + +Why Betty Changed Her Mind + +By Marie Deacon Hanson + +[Illustration] + + +Each day, on her way to school, Betty called for Robbie Porter. There +were two reasons why she did this. One was that she had promised Mrs. +Porter she would, the other was that the little boy's mother always +gave Betty a cooky, or a piece of candy, or sometimes a penny. Betty +never wanted anyone to know about this second reason, which made her +feel ashamed of herself, whenever she thought of it. + +"Just as if you couldn't do a kind thing for your neighbor without +expecting to get something for doing it," she would say scornfully to +herself. + +One afternoon, Mrs. Porter met Betty in the grocery, and said to her: +"Deary, shall you mind calling for Robbie about ten minutes earlier in +the morning? I want to go to the city on the eight-thirty train." And +before Betty could answer, she added. "Of course, Robbie could go by +himself now that he has learned the way, but he does so enjoy going +with you." + +"And I don't mind one bit calling for him," Betty hastened to assure +Mrs. Porter. "I'll come early in the morning." + +On the way home from the store. Betty saw her cousin, Julia Norton, +coming eagerly to meet her. + +"Betty," Julia cried, "mother sent me to ask you to stay all night. +Cousin Lottie has come, and mother says we can pop corn and have a +good time. And you must be sure to bring your books so you can go +right to school in the morning from our house." + +"That will be lovely," Betty exclaimed delightedly. There were few +treats she enjoyed more than going to her aunt's home. + +Julia ran off to speak to another girl, and Betty following, suddenly +remembered Robbie. How could she call for him if she were at her +aunt's? + +The latter lived on the other side of the village, and it would be far +out of Betty's way to call for Robbie. + +[Illustration: "I'm sorry I can't call for Robbie in the morning."] + +"I just won't bother about him," she decided. + +But even as she did so, she remembered that she had not only promised +to call for Robbie in the morning, but to call for him earlier than +usual and his mother would depend upon her. + +"Oh, dear! What shall I do?" Betty cried impatiently. + +A small voice seemed to answer in her ear, and it sounded so real that +Betty actually turned to see if the owner were near: "Do as you would +be done by." + +"Why, that's the Golden Rule," Betty quickly exclaimed. "And mother +says if you do as the Golden Rule tells you, you'll never be unhappy. +What does it tell me to do now?" She stood in thought for a moment, +and the next, she ran to overtake her cousin. + +"Julia, please give this sugar to mother," Betty said, placing the +bag in her cousin's band. "And tell her that I've gone to Mrs. +Porter's and I'll be right back." + +Betty flew down the street to Mrs. Porter's and knocked hurriedly on +the door. + +"Why, Betty, what is it, dear?" Mrs. Porter asked in surprise, as the +former rushed into the room, in response to the invitation to enter. + +"I'm sorry I can't call for Robbie in the morning. I'm going to Aunt +Fanny's to stay all night," Betty explained breathlessly. + +"It is thoughtful of you to come and tell me now, dear," Mrs. Porter +replied. "I'll ask Jennie Lee to stop for Robbie in the morning. I +hope you will have a nice visit at your aunt's." + +"I know I shall," Betty answered happily. "I'll call for Robbie the +next day, Mrs. Porter." And away the little girl tripped, +light-hearted as could be. That is the way it makes one feel to follow +the Golden Rule. + + * * * * * + +JACK'S MASTER. + + +Jack's most delightful present last Christmas was a red wooden gun, +with arrows that would shoot very hard indeed. At least Jack thought +it was delightful, but his mamma did not; those little pointed wooden +arrows that flew so far and hit so hard made her very uneasy, for fear +her little boy would presently hurt somebody. + +But mammas hate to spoil their little boys' fun, and Jack's mamma made +an arrangement by which it was agreed that he was to have his gun, +provided that he never pointed it at anybody, even in play. + +Jack was quick enough to promise; he meant to keep his promise, too; +and I think would have kept it if it hadn't been for his master. You +didn't know Jack had a master? No more did he know it till the day he +had to give up his gun. + +You see, Jack had a little brother, two years younger than himself, +who was a very spirit of mischief, and loved above all things to tease +big Jack. One day, when the two boys were playing together, pretending +to be wild Indians out in the woods. Will began to tease Jack by +saying: "There was a little man, and he had a little gun," and all the +rest of that little song. I don't know why this teased Jack, but he +got madder and madder, until, alas! in spite of his promise, he +pointed his gun--not at the "duck--duck--duck," but at Will, and +struck him on the cheek. + +Now it was not the wooden arrow with which his gun was loaded this +time, but one leg of a sharp steel hairpin, and it went into the cheek +and stuck there like a little dagger. + +Half an hour later the red gun was in ashes on mamma's hearth, while +mamma herself and both boys sat sorrowfully by its grave. + +"Mamma," said Jack, "I didn't mean to shoot Will, but somehow I +couldn't help it." + +"No," said mamma, shaking her head: "I forgot when I let you keep the +gun that you had a master." + +"A master?" asked Jack, in surprise. + +"Yes," said mamma, "you obey Bad Temper's orders, though you don't +always obey mine." + +"Mamma," said Jack, presently, "I think I'll leave Bad Temper's +service. He gets me into a heap of trouble." + +"Do, Jack," she said, smiling brightly at him. "And while you are +getting rid of a bad master, remember that you have a good one, the +Lord Jesus, on whose banner is written, 'Putting away all wrath and +clamor.'" + +Little Will listened very soberly to all this, with a red hole in his +cheek, and both chubby hands resting on his bare knees. I hope he made +up his mind, too, to choose the good Master.--_Selected_. + + * * * * * + +WHAT MAKES MEN? + + What care I for cold or snow? + School bell rings, and off I go! + I am ready for the storm, + And my heart is light and gay; + Mother's hand has wrapped me warm, + As I trudge along the way. + + Mother says, "Learn all you can, + Then you'll be a better man." + So I pack my books and go. + Through the rain or wind or snow; + For I hope some day to be + Just the man she'd like to see. + + Well I know that boys must learn + To be ready for each turn, + Never idle nor afraid. + By rough struggles men are made. + So each morning, off I start. + With a merry, willing heart. + --_Selected_. + + + * * * * * + +LUCILE'S SURPRISE. + + +It was a bitter cold day in January, so cold that the children ran all +the way to school. It was snowing, too, and blowing as hard as it +could. A very small crowd was in the classroom that morning, and +everyone began to wonder why. + +"Not on account of the cold, surely," declared Edith Watts. "Why, it's +just fine to be out to-day. And I know Lucile would never stay away +because it was cold. She has too much spunk for that." + +But still Lucile didn't come, and everyone wondered: for she never was +sick, and had said nothing the day before about staying away. + +[Illustration: "I want her to awaken from a nap and find the kittens +swinging in the basket."] + +At the last moment Polly Dalton came hurrying in, saying, "Girls' +there's a scarlet fever sign on Dayres' door, so Lucile must be sick. +The nun was putting the sign up as I came by." + +Later in the day it was found that several other children had fever, +or were afraid to come out lest they should get it, so the Hill School +was closed for a week. Edith Watts was very lonely without her little +friend, and spent much of her time writing letters to her, or in +thinking of nice things to do for her. + +"I wish I could think of something very, _very_ sweet to do for her, +something that would make her happy all the time," she said. "It must +be so lonely and stupid for her to stay in the same room all the time, +never seeing any other children." + +"Keep thinking about it and the right thought will come to you," mamma +told her, and mamma's advice turned out to be right, as usual. + +Two days later, Edith came downstairs, her face shining. + +"I know, mamma. I know what will make Lucile happy every day in the +whole six weeks she must stay in the house. The kittens! I will give +her my kittens. It has been nearly two weeks since she has seen them, +and they have grown so much and their fur has fluffed out so +beautifully she will hardly know them." + +And the kittens were lovely. Who wouldn't want a present like that? +Edith loved them with all her heart, but she didn't for one minute +want to keep them for herself when she knew they would make Lucile +happy. She put them carefully in a basket, covering them well to keep +out the cold. A nice Indian hanging-basket that she had used for a +swing for the pets was packed, too, and then papa took the "happy +thought," as mamma called it, to Lucile's home. + +"Remember, it must be a surprise for her," his small daughter reminded +him as he left the house. "I want her to awaken from a nap and find +the kittens swinging in the basket just where she can see them." + +And that is the way Lucile saw them. If they ever had looked sweet to +Edith's eyes, they looked a thousand times more so to Lucile's poor, +tired ones. + +"Oh-h-h!" she exclaimed, with a long-drawn, happy sigh. "You darling +darlings! Have you come to stay, or are you only visitors?" + +The basket with its dainty load hung from a picture-hook near by, and +the new-comers looked quite contented to stay. They jumped into the +bed and did all they knew to cure the little girl. And they really +helped.--_Written for Dew Drops by Elizabeth Roberts Burton_. + + * * * * * + +Knowledge Box + +When Lapland Babies Go to Church. + + +When Sunday morning comes, the Lapland father harnesses his reindeer +to the sleigh. Father and mother wrap themselves in fur coats and put +a fur coat on the baby, and away they go over the snow to church, it +may be ten or even fifteen miles, for the reindeer can go a good deal +faster than a horse. + +But the old Lapland custom of caring for the babies while the grown +people are in church, you never would guess. For as soon as the +reindeer is made secure, the father Lapp shovels out a snug little bed +in the snow, and when it is ready the mother Lapp wraps the baby snug +and warm in skins and lays it down there. Then the father Lapp piles +the snow around and over the baby, when they go into the church and +leave the baby in the snow. So common is this that sometimes there are +twenty or thirty babies, down to the little wee-est ones, buried in +snow around the church. + +You might think the babies would suffocate, but they do not, nor do +they freeze. In fact, the snow does not make them cold. For when it +covers anyone all over, if they have clothes enough on, so the snow +will not melt and wet them, it will keep them warm. And as the little +Lapland babies are not strong enough to knock the snow away and let in +the cold, they just lie there safe and warm and go to sleep. + +When church is out the father Lapp goes to the spot where his baby is, +puts his hands down into the snow, pulls the baby our and shakes the +snow off it; then the reindeer is unfastened, father and mother tuck +themselves and the baby in the sleigh, and over the snow away they +trot home again.--_Written for Dew Drops by Adele E. Thompson._ + + * * * * * + +MOTHER HULDA'S FEATHER BED. + + +How many children know what the boys and girls of far-off Norway +sometimes think when they see the dainty, feathery snowflakes flying +softly and silently through the air? I don't think there are many of +you who do know, so I will tell you the story. + +If we were there when they have the first snowstorm of the season we +could hear them shouting gleefully to each other: "See! oh, see! +Mother Hulda is shaking her feather bed." + +There is a story about this Mother Hulda and her feather bed that is +told to the little ones there. She lives, it is said, far, far above +this busy world, with the clouds for her home, the sun for a lamp and +fire. + +She is always very busy, and especially so at the beginning of the +winter, for then she has to unpack her great feather bed, and after +that is done she spends all of her time shaking it. Indeed she shakes +it so much that she wears many holes in it, through which the feathers +fly in all directions. The wind catches them up and carries them +gently to the earth, where they cover the bare limbs of the trees, +making them beautiful, and where they spread lightly on the ground and +protect the roots of the flowers from the cold winter winds. + +Mother Hulda does not tire of shaking her bed until the warmer spring +winds begin to blow; then she packs it away until she sees Jack Frost +traveling again over the world below, and finds traces of the +mischievous fellow even in her lofty home.--_Selected_. + + * * * * * + +OUR LESSON.--March 8. + + * * * * * + +PREPARED BY MARGUERITE COOK. + + * * * * * + +Title.--Watchfulness (Temperance Lesson).--Luke 12:35-48. + +Golden Text.--Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh +shall find watching.--Luke 12:37. + +_Golden Text for Beginners_.--_Even a child maketh himself known by +his doings_.--Prov. 20:11. + +Truth.--Be always ready. + +1. Jesus told his disciples that they must be always ready and +watching for his coming. + +[Illustration] + +2. He told them to be like faithful servants, who, with their lights +burning, wait for the return of their absent master. + +3. He said that the master who should come home and find his servants +watching for him would be pleased. + +[Illustration] + +4. He would invite them to sit down at his table, and he would serve +them himself. + +5. Those faithful servants would receive a blessing. + +6. Jesus warns us all to watch and be faithful about our work, so that +when he comes again we will be ready. + +7. He says that no one knows the day nor the hour when he will return. + +8. The master chooses the faithful servants to rule over his house. + +9. The unfaithful servant will not be found watching when his master +shall come. + +10. He will spend his time in eating and drinking and abusing his +fellow-servants. + +[Illustration] + +11. The master will come when he is not expected, and will see these +evil deeds and punish the servant for his unfaithfulness. + + * * * * * + +QUESTIONS. + +What is the Golden Text? + +What is the Truth? + +1. For what did Jesus tell his disciples to watch? + +2. Like whom did he tell them to be? + +3. Who would be pleased to find his servants watching? + +4. What would he invite them to do? + +5. What would they receive if found faithful? + +6. What does Jesus warn us all to do? + +7. Who knows when Jesus will return? + +8. Who will be made ruler over his master's house? + +9. Who will not be found watching? + +10. How will he spend his time? + +11. Who will come when he is not expected? + + * * * * * + +LESSON HYMN. + +_Tune_--"Jesus loves me, this I know," omitting chorus (E flat). + + When our work on earth is done, + Jesus calls us, every one; + Let us work, and watch, and pray, + For his coming, every day. + + * * * * * + +Title of Lesson for March 15. + +The Lawful Use of the Sabbath.--Luke 13:10-17; 14:1-6. + + * * * * * + +Golden Text for March 15. + +The sabbath was made for man.--Mark 2:27. + + * * * * * + +Beginners Golden Text for March 15. + +_Even a child maketh himself known by his doings_.--Prov. 20:11. + + * * * * * + +Advice to Boys and Girls + +The Difference it Made. + + +"What a sweet voice that little child in the red cloak has!" said a +visitor in Sunday-school to a teacher, as together they listened to +the children raising their song of praise. + +"Yes, isn't it sweet? And she always sings just so heartily," was the +reply. + +A little later, the school closed and, the children on their way +home, the visitor chanced to pass by the child in the red cloak, just +in time to hear her say angrily to her nurse, who had called for her: + +"I don't want to go this way--I want to go through the park. I won't! +I won't go through that horrid old street!" + +"But, Miss Mazie, your mamma said we were to go straight home and not +stay in the park to-day." + +Upon this, the little lady marched away, with pouting lips and injured +mien. + +"Ah," thought the lady, "what a difference it makes in the voice when +one speaks angrily! No matter how sweet it may be, how harsh and +unloving angry words make it!" + +What a pity that Mazie did not keep her voice as musical and birdlike +as it was when she was singing her morning song of praise! Think of +this, little readers, and when you are tempted to be angry and speak +in cross tones, instead of making your voice unpleasant to hear, +endeavor to make it sweet and loving. + + * * * * * + +Thoughts for Mothers + +The Earnest Mother. + + +Mothers seldom realize the influence they exert in molding the lives +of their children. It is the faithful teaching, as well as the +consistent practicing of an earnest mother which results in forming +characters of nobility and uprightness in the sons and daughters. The +work cannot be begun too early. From their very birth, our children +receive impressions. What the character of these impressions is +depends upon surrounding influences. A true mother's influence should +last long after she is at rest. Said Thomas H. Benton: "My mother +asked me never to use tobacco; I have never touched it from that time +to the present day. She asked me not to gamble, and I have never +gambled, and I cannot tell who is losing in games that are being +played. She admonished me, too, against hard drinking, and whatever +capacity for endurance I have at present, and whatever usefulness I +may have attained in life, I have attributed to having complied with +her pious and correct wishes. When I was seven years of age she asked +me not to drink, and then I made a resolution of total abstinence; and +that I have adhered to it through all time, I owe to my mother." + +Mothers, do not think your little ones are too young to receive +advice; it is true they may not act upon it for many years, but they +will remember it and follow it sometime. + + * * * * * + +HURRAH FOR THE BOY THAT WHISTLES. + + Hurrah for the boy that whistles! + Just now he passed by here. + The rain dripped down from his sodden crown, + But his whistle sounded clear; + And it made my task seem easier, + And my heart grew brave and strong, + Hurrah for the boy that whistles! + He helps the world along. + --_Written for Dew Drops by Bertha E. Bush._ + + * * * * * + +[Entered at the Post Office at Elgin, Ill., as Second Class Mail Matter.] + +Price of Dew Drops.--In lots of five or more, to one address, 20 cents +per copy per year, or 5-1/2 cents per copy per quarter. Address, + +DAVID C. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 10, March 8, 1914 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: November 20, 2004 [EBook #14101] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEW DROPS, VOL. 37, NO. 10, *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Ronald Holder, John Hagerson, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<!-- Autogenerated TOC. Modify or delete as required. --> +<p></p> +<!-- End Autogenerated TOC. --> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/p1_title.jpg" width="770" height="153" alt="DEW-DROPS" /> +</div> + +<h4>VOL. 37. No. 10. WEEKLY.<br /> +DAVID C. COOK PUBLISHING CO., ELGIN, ILLINOIS.<br /> +GEORGE E. COOK. EDITOR.<br /> +MARCH 8, 1914.</h4> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/p1_fish.jpg" width="600" height="164" +alt="FRANCIE FISHER'S FISH By Marion Malette Thornton" /> +</div> + +<p>On the Primary Room wall was a beautiful picture of a shining river. +Francie loved to count the fish that were swimming in it. Just +fourteen there were, and every one stood for a new scholar someone had +brought into the Primary Class.</p> + +<p>How Francie wished he could bring one and have Miss Florence pin a +fish in the river and a red tag on his blouse to show that he had +caught it.</p> + +<p>“How you s'pose I can get a fish, mother?” he asked earnestly. “I +should think a Fisher-boy ought to be able to catch just one.”</p> + +<p>Mother shook her head. “I don't know, I'm sure. There isn't a child on +this street who doesn't go to Sunday-school.”</p> + +<p>“P'r'aps one will move on,” said Francie hopefully.</p> + +<p>But when a new family did move to that street there were no children +in it.</p> + +<p>One day Francie came flying into the house. “Oh. mother, the ash-man's +here and I b'lieve he's got a fish with him!”</p> + +<p>“What?” exclaimed mother, but when she looked out she understood. +Sitting in the ash-man's cart was a pretty little boy, with black eyes +and tight curly hair.</p> + +<p>“Is he yours. Mr. Lugi?” mother asked, and the ash-man smiled and +nodded:</p> + +<p>“Yes. mine—my Rafael.”</p> + +<p>“Does he go to Sunday-school?” put in Francie eagerly.</p> + +<p>“No, no school—too little, him.”</p> + +<p>“Oh, but it's just Sundays and we sing and there's pictures. Couldn't +he please go with me. Mr. Lugi?” begged Francie, “I'll take awful good +care of him.”</p> + +<p>Mother explained a little more, and at last Mr. Lugi said Rafael might +go, only—“No dress up, no clothes,” he said sadly.</p> + +<p>But that did not trouble Francie. “Why, he can have my brown suit, +can't he, mother? I'd just as soon.”</p> + +<p>The next day mother took Francie down to see Mrs. Lugi. Little Rafael +was shy at first, but he soon got over it and was friendly as could +be. The little black-eyed Italian mother was very glad to see them.</p> + +<p>“I like Rafael go the Christ-church,” she said. “I use go myself, +home—Italy.”</p> + +<p>The brown suit, too small for Francie, was just right for Rafael, and +it would have been hard to find two happier little boys than Francie +and his fish when they walked into the Primary class together.</p> + +<p>Rafael clapped his hands with the rest when Miss Florence pinned the +fish in the river and the red tag on Francie's blouse.</p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/p1_florence.jpg" width="488" height="600" +alt="Illustration: Miss Florence pinned the fish in the river and the red tag on Francie's blouse" /> +</div> + +<p>And what do you think? Out in the big room there were two more new +fish, one in Mother Fisher's class and one in Father Fisher's. They +were Mr. Lugi and the little Italian mother, come to Sunday-school +with their little boy.</p> + +<p>“Really and truly,” Francie said, “seem's if I caught three fish +'stead of one.”</p> + +<p>“Really and truly,” said Mother Fisher, “I think you did.”</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>“ALL BY HERSELF.”</h3> + + +<p>The older children were gone out for the day: mamma was busy in the +sewing room with Miss Fay: Molly was doing the Saturday baking. “What +could Alice do all by herself?”</p> + +<p>This was the very question that popped into the wee girl's own head, +and she trotted off to ask mamma.</p> + +<p>“Here's I,” she said, at the sewing room door. “Here's I, all by +myself. What's I goin' do, mamma?”</p> + +<p>“Going to be mamma's good little daughter and amuse yourself this +morning without help from anybody. See how busy I am.”</p> + +<p>“Everybody's busy that isn't gone way off,” said Alice dolefully.</p> + +<p>“Well, then,” said mamma. “Alice must be busy, too, taking care of +herself and making her own good times. See how well she can do it.</p> + +<p>“But first of all,” mamma went on, “think what you would like to do or +to have me get for you, and I'll stop a minute now for that, so as to +start you.”</p> + +<p>This was an important thing to decide, so Alice went into the next +room and sat down in her kindergarten chair before her table, to think +it out. She folded her arms and sat still about a minute: then she ran +to mamma, exclaiming. “I know now, please get me my snub scissors” (of +course she meant round-pointed) “and some bright paper, and I'll cut +and cut ever so long.”</p> + +<p>Mamma dropped her work and got the things. “Now, dear,” she said, “see +if you can't get along the rest of the morning by yourself. Dolly and +the picture books are in the dining room. Don't ask me for anything if +you can help it, but keep out of mischief and be as happy as you can.”</p> + +<p>Alice went back to her little table and soon had it covered with queer +things. There were the oddest dolls you ever saw, with arms sticking +out like stems: and there were horses with as many legs as could be +put along the whole length of the body. It was great fun to cut them.</p> + +<p>But by and by Alice grew tired of this, and jumped up quickly. Over +went the little table, scattering things everywhere. Such a litter! +“I'll just leave it all,” thought Alice. Then a little voice inside +said. “Pick it all up and help mamma.” After a minute, the little girl +obeyed this pleasant voice, and picked up every scrap. Then she ran +downstairs without stopping at the sewing room door, though she wanted +to.</p> + +<p>“Peggy Morlinda,” she said, taking dolly from her cradle, “is you all +by yourself, too? Isn't it lonesome? Come, I'll put you to sleep.”</p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/p2_peggy.gif" width="450" height="378" +alt="Illustration: “Peggy Morlinda, is you all by yourself, too?”" /> +</div> + +<p>Peggy was soon asleep, or supposed to be, though her eyes were still +staring.</p> + +<p>“Now I will go take one little peek at mamma.” said Alice, starting +upstairs, but stopping next step. “No. I won't neiver,” she said +bravely. “I won't 'sturb mamma one bit.”</p> + +<p>After this the little girl found amusement for awhile at the library +window. Next, she went back to the picture books, and read a long +story, all made up out of her own head, to Peggy Morlinda, who woke +up to listen. But what a long morning it was! She did not enjoy it +much, but she made up her mind about one thing—she wouldn't “'sturb +mamma.”</p> + +<p>At last papa came home and Alice ran to him to be tossed up and down, +and they had a fine frolic.</p> + +<p>“Have you gotten along nicely with your work?” asked papa of mamma at +dinner.</p> + +<p>“Very nicely, thank you,” said mamma. “Alice helped me a great deal!”</p> + +<p>“Alice!” exclaimed papa, looking as surprised as possible. “Can Alice +sew?”</p> + +<p>Mamma laughed. “Oh, no, indeed, not yet,” she said, “but she gave me a +fine chance to do it. She amused herself all morning and did not ask +me to do anything for her, so we got on beautifully with the work in +the sewing room.”</p> + +<p>“Good girl,” said papa, and Alice looked as happy as she felt. Oh, how +glad she was that she had not left those scraps of paper for mamma to +pick up! It is always safe to listen to the little inward voice that +says, “Do right.”</p> + +<p>“Do tell me a story,” “What can I play?” “What shall I do next?” the +little folks cry to the grown-ups, and all these things take time to +attend to. If the children who are too small to do any work to “help +mamma,” would oftener amuse themselves, as Alice did, they would help +much more than perhaps they think.—<i>Written for Dew Drops by Mary +Harris</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>OUR SKATING RINK.</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span>The wind blew shrill, the sky was gray:<br /></span> +<span class="i2">“Oh, dear,” sighed Molly, “how it rains!<br /></span> +<span>Let's think of some new game to play,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">I'm getting very tired of trains.”<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>“I know,” said Jack: “it will be fun!”<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And seized some pa per, pen and ink;<br /></span> +<span>“Look, look,” cried Susie, “what he's done:<br /></span> +<span class="i2">He's written, ‘To the Skating Rink!’”<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>The children thought it strange of him<br /></span> +<span class="i2">To pin it up upon the wall;<br /></span> +<span>“We haven't any skates,” said Jim;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">“It isn't any good at all.”<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>But Jack looked wise. “Oh, yes,” said he,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">“I've thought of just the very thing;<br /></span> +<span>These railway trucks do splendidly—<br /></span> +<span class="i2">We'll tie them on our feet with string.”<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>They did, and all began to skate.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">But Jack, I fear, was rather rash;<br /></span> +<span>He <i>would</i> start off at such a rate<br /></span> +<span class="i2">That down he tumbled with a crash!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>He wasn't hurt. “I'm quite all right,”<br /></span> +<span class="i2">He cried, and scrambled up again;<br /></span> +<span>And on they skated with delight,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Forgetting all about the rain!<br /></span> +<span class="i12">—<i>Selected</i>.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/p2_betty.gif" width="700" height="138" +alt="Why Betty Changed Her Mind By Marie Deacon Hanson" /> +</div> + +<p>Each day, on her way to school, Betty called for Robbie Porter. There +were two reasons why she did this. One was that she had promised Mrs. +Porter she would, the other was that the little boy's mother always +gave Betty a cooky, or a piece of candy, or sometimes a penny. Betty +never wanted anyone to know about this second reason, which made her +feel ashamed of herself, whenever she thought of it.</p> + +<p>“Just as if you couldn't do a kind thing for your neighbor without +expecting to get something for doing it,” she would say scornfully to +herself.</p> + +<p>One afternoon, Mrs. Porter met Betty in the grocery, and said to her: +“Deary, shall you mind calling for Robbie about ten minutes earlier in +the morning? I want to go to the city on the eight-thirty train.” And +before Betty could answer, she added. “Of course, Robbie could go by +himself now that he has learned the way, but he does so enjoy going +with you.”</p> + +<p>“And I don't mind one bit calling for him,” Betty hastened to assure +Mrs. Porter. “I'll come early in the morning.”</p> + +<p>On the way home from the store. Betty saw her cousin, Julia Norton, +coming eagerly to meet her.</p> + +<p>“Betty,” Julia cried, “mother sent me to ask you to stay all night. +Cousin Lottie has come, and mother says we can pop corn and have a +good time. And you must be sure to bring your books so you can go +right to school in the morning from our house.”</p> + +<p>“That will be lovely,” Betty exclaimed delightedly. There were few +treats she enjoyed more than going to her aunt's home.</p> + +<p>Julia ran off to speak to another girl, and Betty following, suddenly +remembered Robbie. Mow could she call for him if she were at her +aunt's?</p> + +<p>The latter lived on the other side of the village, and it would be far +out of Betty's way to call for Robbie.</p> + +<p>“I just won't bother about him,” she decided.</p> + +<p>But even as she did so, she remembered that she had not only promised +to call for Robbie in the morning, but to call for him earlier than +usual and his mother would depend upon her.</p> + +<p>“Oh, dear! What shall I do?” Betty cried impatiently.</p> + +<p>A small voice seemed to answer in her ear, and it sounded so real that +Betty actually turned to see if the owner were near: “Do as you would +be done by.”</p> + +<p>“Why, that's the Golden Rule,” Betty quickly exclaimed. “And mother +says if you do as the Golden Rule tells you, you'll never be unhappy. +What does it tell me to do now?” She stood in thought for a moment, +and the next, she ran to overtake her cousin.</p> + +<p>“Julia, please give this sugar to mother,” Betty said, placing the +bag in her cousin's band. “And tell her that I've gone to Mrs. +Porter's and I'll be right back.”</p> + +<p>Betty flew down the street to Mrs. Porter's and knocked hurriedly on +the door.</p> + +<p>“Why, Betty, what is it, dear?” Mrs. Porter asked in surprise, as the +former rushed into the room, in response to the invitation to enter.</p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/p2_robbie.gif" width="468" height="600" +alt="Illustration: “I'm sorry I can't call for Robbie in the morning.”" /> +</div> + +<p>“I'm sorry I can't call for Robbie in the morning. I'm going to Aunt +Fanny's to stay all night,” Betty explained breathlessly.</p> + +<p>“It is thoughtful of you to come and tell me now, dear,” Mrs. Porter +replied. “I'll ask Jennie Lee to stop for Robbie in the morning. I +hope you will have a nice visit at your aunt's.”</p> + +<p>“I know I shall,” Betty answered happily. “I'll call for Robbie the +next day, Mrs. Porter.” And away the little girl tripped, +light-hearted as could be. That is the way it makes one feel to follow +the Golden Rule.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>JACK'S MASTER.</h3> + + +<p>Jack's most delightful present last Christmas was a red wooden gun, +with arrows that would shoot very hard indeed. At least Jack thought +it was delightful, but his mamma did not; those little pointed wooden +arrows that flew so far and hit so hard made her very uneasy, for fear +her little boy would presently hurt somebody.</p> + +<p>But mammas hate to spoil their little boys' fun, and Jack's mamma made +an arrangement by which it was agreed that he was to have his gun, +provided that he never pointed it at anybody, even in play.</p> + +<p>Jack was quick enough to promise; he meant to keep his promise, too; +and I think would have kept it if it hadn't been for his master. You +didn't know Jack had a master? No more did he know it till the day he +had to give up his gun.</p> + +<p>You see, Jack had a little brother, two years younger than himself, +who was a very spirit of mischief, and loved above all things to tease +big Jack. One day, when the two boys were playing together, pretending +to be wild Indians out in the woods. Will began to tease Jack by +saying: “There was a little man, and he had a little gun,” and all the +rest of that little song. I don't know why this teased Jack, but he +got madder and madder, until, alas! in spite of his promise, he +pointed his gun—not at the “duck—duck—duck,” but at Will, and +struck him on the cheek.</p> + +<p>Now it was not the wooden arrow with which his gun was loaded this +time, but one leg of a sharp steel hairpin, and it went into the cheek +and stuck there like a little dagger.</p> + +<p>Half an hour later the red gun was in ashes on mamma's hearth, while +mamma herself and both boys sat sorrowfully by its grave.</p> + +<p>“Mamma,” said Jack, “I didn't mean to shoot Will, but somehow I +couldn't help it.”</p> + +<p>“No,” said mamma, shaking her head: “I forgot when I let you keep the +gun that you had a master.”</p> + +<p>“A master?” asked Jack, in surprise.</p> + +<p>“Yes,” said mamma, “you obey Bad Temper's orders, though you don't +always obey mine.”</p> + +<p>“Mamma,” said Jack, presently, “I think I'll leave Bad Temper's +service. He gets me into a heap of trouble.”</p> + +<p>“Do, Jack,” she said, smiling brightly at him. “And while you are +getting rid of a bad master, remember that you have a good one, the +Lord Jesus, on whose banner is written, ‘Putting away all wrath and +clamor.’”</p> + +<p>Little Will listened very soberly to all this, with a red hole in his +cheek, and both chubby hands resting on his bare knees. I hope he made +up his mind, too, to choose the good Master.—<i>Selected</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>WHAT MAKES MEN?</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span>What care I for cold or snow?<br /></span> +<span>School bell rings, and off I go!<br /></span> +<span>I am ready for the storm,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And my heart is light and gay;<br /></span> +<span>Mother's hand has wrapped me warm,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">As I trudge along the way.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>Mother says, “Learn all you can,<br /></span> +<span>Then you'll be a better man.”<br /></span> +<span>So I pack my books and go.<br /></span> +<span>Through the rain or wind or snow;<br /></span> +<span>For I hope some day to be<br /></span> +<span>Just the man she'd like to see.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>Well I know that boys must learn<br /></span> +<span>To be ready for each turn,<br /></span> +<span>Never idle nor afraid.<br /></span> +<span>By rough struggles men are made.<br /></span> +<span>So each morning, off I start.<br /></span> +<span>With a merry, willing heart.<br /></span> +<span class="i12">—<i>Selected</i>.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<hr /> + +<h3>LUCILE'S SURPRISE.</h3> + + +<p>It was a bitter cold day in January, so cold that the children ran all +the way to school. It was snowing, too, and blowing as hard as it +could. A very small crowd was in the classroom that morning, and +everyone began to wonder why.</p> + +<p>“Not on account of the cold, surely,” declared Edith Watts. “Why, it's +just fine to be out to-day. And I know Lucile would never stay away +because it was cold. She has too much spunk for that.”</p> + +<p>But still Lucile didn't come, and everyone wondered: for she never was +sick, and had said nothing the day before about staying away.</p> + +<p>At the last moment Polly Dalton came hurrying in, saying, “Girls' +there's a scarlet fever sign on Dayres' door, so Lucile must be sick. +The nun was putting the sign up as I came by.”</p> + +<p>Later in the day it was found that several other children had fever, +or were afraid to come out lest they should get it, so the Hill School +was closed for a week. Edith Watts was very lonely without her little +friend, and spent much of her time writing letters to her, or in +thinking of nice things to do for her.</p> + +<p>“I wish I could think of something very, <i>very</i> sweet to do for her, +something that would make her happy all the time,” she said. “It must +be so lonely and stupid for her to stay in the same room all the time, +never seeing any other children.”</p> + +<p>“Keep thinking about it and the right thought will come to you,” mamma +told her, and mamma's advice turned out to be right, as usual.</p> + +<p>Two days later, Edith came downstairs, her face shining.</p> + +<p>“I know, mamma. I know what will make Lucile happy every day in the +whole six weeks she must stay in the house. The kittens! I will give +her my kittens. It has been nearly two weeks since she has seen them, +and they have grown so much and their fur has fluffed out so +beautifully she will hardly know them.”</p> + +<p>And the kittens were lovely. Who wouldn't want a present like that? +Edith loved them with all her heart, but she didn't for one minute +want to keep them for herself when she knew they would make Lucile +happy. She put them carefully in a basket, covering them well to keep +out the cold. A nice Indian hanging-basket that she had used for a +swing for the pets was packed, too, and then papa took the “happy +thought,” as mamma called it, to Lucile's home.</p> + +<p>“Remember, it must be a surprise for her,” his small daughter reminded +him as he left the house. “I want her to awaken from a nap and find +the kittens swinging in the basket just where she can see them.”</p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/p3_kittens.gif" width="264" height="550" alt="Illustration: kittens" /> +</div> + +<h4>“I want her to awaken from a nap and find the kittens +swinging in the basket.”</h4> + +<p>And that is the way Lucile saw them. If they ever had looked sweet to +Edith's eyes, they looked a thousand times more so to Lucile's poor, +tired ones.</p> + +<p>“Oh-h-h!” she exclaimed, with a long-drawn, happy sigh. “You darling +darlings! Have you come to stay, or are you only visitors?”</p> + +<p>The basket with its dainty load hung from a picture-hook near by, and +the new-comers looked quite contented to stay. They jumped into the +bed and did all they knew to cure the little girl. And they really +helped.—<i>Written for Dew Drops by Elizabeth Roberts Burton</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/p3_knowbox.gif" width="500" height="103" alt="Knowledge Box" /> +</div> + +<h3>When Lapland Babies Go to Church.</h3> + +<p>When Sunday morning comes, the Lapland father harnesses his reindeer +to the sleigh. Father and mother wrap themselves in fur coats and put +a fur coat on the baby, and away they go over the snow to church, it +may be ten or even fifteen miles, for the reindeer can go a good deal +faster than a horse.</p> + +<p>But the old Lapland custom of caring for the babies while the grown +people are in church, you never would guess. For as soon as the +reindeer is made secure, the father Lapp shovels out a snug little bed +in the snow, and when it is ready the mother Lapp wraps the baby snug +and warm in skins and lays it down there. Then the father Lapp piles +the snow around and over the baby, when they go into the church and +leave the baby in the snow. So common is this that sometimes there are +twenty or thirty babies, down to the little wee-est ones, buried in +snow around the church.</p> + +<p>You might think the babies would suffocate, but they do not, nor do +they freeze. In fact, the snow does not make them cold. For when it +covers anyone all over, if they have clothes enough on, so the snow +will not melt and wet them, it will keep them warm. And as the little +Lapland babies are not strong enough to knock the snow away and let in +the cold, they just lie there safe and warm and go to sleep.</p> + +<p>When church is out the father Lapp goes to the spot where his baby is, +puts his hands down into the snow, pulls the baby our and shakes the +snow off it; then the reindeer is unfastened, father and mother tuck +themselves and the baby in the sleigh, and over the snow away they +trot home again.—<i>Written for Dew Drops by Adele E. Thompson.</i></p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>MOTHER HULDA'S FEATHER BED.</h3> + + +<p>How many children know what the boys and girls of far-off Norway +sometimes think when they see the dainty, feathery snowflakes flying +softly and silently through the air? I don't think there are many of +you who do know, so I will tell you the story.</p> + +<p>If we were there when they have the first snowstorm of the season we +could hear them shouting gleefully to each other: “See! oh, see! +Mother Hulda is shaking her feather bed.”</p> + +<p>There is a story about this Mother Hulda and her feather bed that is +told to the little ones there. She lives, it is said, far, far above +this busy world, with the clouds for her home, the sun for a lamp and +fire.</p> + +<p>She is always very busy, and especially so at the beginning of the +winter, for then she has to unpack her great feather bed, and after +that is done she spends all of her time shaking it. Indeed she shakes +it so much that she wears many holes in it, through which the feathers +fly in all directions. The wind catches them up and carries them +gently to the earth, where they cover the bare limbs of the trees, +making them beautiful, and where they spread lightly on the ground and +protect the roots of the flowers from the cold winter winds.</p> + +<p>Mother Hulda does not tire of shaking her bed until the warmer spring +winds begin to blow; then she packs it away until she sees Jack Frost +traveling again over the world below, and finds traces of the +mischievous fellow even in her lofty home.—<i>Selected</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>OUR LESSON.—March 8.</h3> + +<hr /> + +<h4>PREPARED BY MARGUERITE COOK.</h4> + +<hr /> + +<p>Title.—Watchfulness (Temperance Lesson).—Luke 12:35-48.</p> + +<p>Golden Text.—Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh +shall find watching.—Luke 12:37.</p> + +<p><i>Golden Text for Beginners</i>.—<i>Even a child maketh himself known by +his doings</i>.—Prov. 20:11.</p> + +<p>Truth.—Be always ready.</p> + +<div class="figcenter"> + +<p>1. Jesus told his disciples that they must be always ready and +watching for his coming.</p> + +<img src="images/p4_lesson1.gif" width="378" height="350" alt="Illustration" /> + +<p>2. He told them to be like faithful servants, who, with their lights +burning, wait for the return of their absent master.</p> + +<p>3. He said that the master who should come home and find his servants +watching for him would be pleased.</p> + +<img src="images/p4_lesson2.gif" width="350" height="314" alt="Illustration" /> + +<p>4. He would invite them to sit down at his table, and he would serve +them himself.</p> + +<p>5. Those faithful servants would receive a blessing.</p> + +<p>6. Jesus warns us all to watch and be faithful about our work, so that +when he comes again we will be ready.</p> + +<p>7. He says that no one knows the day nor the hour when he will return.</p> + +<p>8. The master chooses the faithful servants to rule over his house.</p> + +<p>9. The unfaithful servant will not be found watching when his master +shall come.</p> + +<p>10. He will spend his time in eating and drinking and abusing his +fellow-servants.</p> + +<img src="images/p4_lesson3.gif" width="359" height="350" alt="Illustration" /> + +<p>11. The master will come when he is not expected, and will see these +evil deeds and punish the servant for his unfaithfulness.</p> + +</div> + +<hr /> + +<h4>QUESTIONS.</h4> + +<p>What is the Golden Text?</p> + +<p>What is the Truth?</p> + +<p>1. For what did Jesus tell his disciples to watch?</p> + +<p>2. Like whom did he tell them to be?</p> + +<p>3. Who would be pleased to find his servants watching?</p> + +<p>4. What would he invite them to do?</p> + +<p>5. What would they receive if found faithful?</p> + +<p>6. What does Jesus warn us all to do?</p> + +<p>7. Who knows when Jesus will return?</p> + +<p>8. Who will be made ruler over his master's house?</p> + +<p>9. Who will not be found watching?</p> + +<p>10. How will he spend his time?</p> + +<p>11. Who will come when he is not expected?</p> + +<hr /> + +<h4>LESSON HYMN.</h4> + +<p><i>Tune</i>—“Jesus loves me, this I know,” omitting chorus (E flat).</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span>When our work on earth is done,<br /></span> +<span>Jesus calls us, every one;<br /></span> +<span>Let us work, and watch, and pray,<br /></span> +<span>For his coming, every day.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<hr /> + +<h4>Title of Lesson for March 15.</h4> + +<p>The Lawful Use of the Sabbath.—Luke 13:10-17; 14:1-6.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h4>Golden Text for March 15.</h4> + +<p>The sabbath was made for man.—Mark 2:27.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h4>Beginners Golden Text for March 15.</h4> + +<p><i>Even a child maketh himself known by his doings</i>.—Prov. 20:11.</p> + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/pg4_advice.gif" width="525" height="139" alt="Advice to Boys and Girls" /> +</div> + +<h3>The Difference it Made.</h3> + + +<p>“What a sweet voice that little child in the red cloak has!” said a +visitor in Sunday-school to a teacher, as together they listened to +the children raising their song of praise.</p> + +<p>“Yes, isn't it sweet? And she always sings just so heartily,” was the +reply.</p> + +<p>A little later, the school closed and, the children on their way +home, the visitor chanced to pass by the child in the red cloak, just +in time to hear her say angrily to her nurse, who had called for her:</p> + +<p>“I don't want to go this way—I want to go through the park. I won't! +I won't go through that horrid old street!”</p> + +<p>“But, Miss Mazie, your mamma said we were to go straight home and not +stay in the park to-day.”</p> + +<p>Upon this, the little lady marched away, with pouting lips and injured +mien.</p> + +<p>“Ah,” thought the lady, “what a difference it makes in the voice when +one speaks angrily! No matter how sweet it may be, how harsh and +unloving angry words make it!”</p> + +<p>What a pity that Mazie did not keep her voice as musical and birdlike +as it was when she was singing her morning song of praise! Think of +this, little readers, and when you are tempted to be angry and speak +in cross tones, instead of making your voice unpleasant to hear, +endeavor to make it sweet and loving.</p> + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/p4_mothers.gif" width="500" height="102" alt="Thoughts for Mothers" /> +</div> + +<h3>The Earnest Mother.</h3> + +<p>Mothers seldom realize the influence they exert in molding the lives +of their children. It is the faithful teaching, as well as the +consistent practicing of an earnest mother which results in forming +characters of nobility and uprightness in the sons and daughters. The +work cannot be begun too early. From their very birth, our children +receive impressions. What the character of these impressions is +depends upon surrounding influences. A true mother's influence should +last long after she is at rest. Said Thomas H. Benton: “My mother +asked me never to use tobacco; I have never touched it from that time +to the present day. She asked me not to gamble, and I have never +gambled, and I cannot tell who is losing in games that are being +played. She admonished me, too, against hard drinking, and whatever +capacity for endurance I have at present, and whatever usefulness I +may have attained in life, I have attributed to having complied with +her pious and correct wishes. When I was seven years of age she asked +me not to drink, and then I made a resolution of total abstinence; and +that I have adhered to it through all time, I owe to my mother.”</p> + +<p>Mothers, do not think your little ones are too young to receive +advice; it is true they may not act upon it for many years, but they +will remember it and follow it sometime.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>HURRAH FOR THE BOY THAT WHISTLES.</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span>Hurrah for the boy that whistles!<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Just now he passed by here.<br /></span> +<span>The rain dripped down from his sodden crown,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">But his whistle sounded clear;<br /></span> +<span>And it made my task seem easier,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And my heart grew brave and strong,<br /></span> +<span>Hurrah for the boy that whistles!<br /></span> +<span class="i2">He helps the world along.<br /></span> +<span>—<i>Written for Dew Drops by Bertha E. Bush.</i><br /></span> +</div></div> + +<hr /> + +<p>[Entered at the Post Office at Elgin, Ill., as Second Class Mail Matter.]</p> + +<p>Price of Dew Drops.—In lots of five or more, to one address, 20 cents +per copy per year, or 5½ cents per copy per quarter. Address,</p> + +<p>DAVID C. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 10, March 8, 1914 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: November 20, 2004 [EBook #14101] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEW DROPS, VOL. 37, NO. 10, *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Ronald Holder, John Hagerson, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + +DEW DROPS + +[Illustration] + +VOL. 37. No. 10. WEEKLY. + +DAVID C. COOK PUBLISHING CO., ELGIN, ILLINOIS. +GEORGE E. COOK. EDITOR. + +MARCH 8, 1914. + + +FRANCIE FISHER'S FISH + +[Illustration] + +By Marion Mallette Thornton + + +On the Primary Room wall was a beautiful picture of a shining river. +Francie loved to count the fish that were swimming in it. Just +fourteen there were, and every one stood for a new scholar someone had +brought into the Primary Class. + +How Francie wished he could bring one and have Miss Florence pin a +fish in the river and a red tag on his blouse to show that he had +caught it. + +"How you s'pose I can get a fish, mother?" he asked earnestly. "I +should think a Fisher-boy ought to be able to catch just one." + +Mother shook her head. "I don't know, I'm sure. There isn't a child on +this street who doesn't go to Sunday-school." + +"P'r'aps one will move on," said Francie hopefully. + +But when a new family did move to that street there were no children +in it. + +One day Francie came flying into the house. "Oh. mother, the ash-man's +here and I b'lieve he's got a fish with him!" + +"What?" exclaimed mother, but when she looked out she understood. +Sitting in the ash-man's cart was a pretty little boy, with black eyes +and tight curly hair. + +"Is he yours. Mr. Lugi?" mother asked, and the ash-man smiled and +nodded: + +"Yes. mine--my Rafael." + +"Does he go to Sunday-school?" put in Francie eagerly. + +"No, no school--too little, him." + +"Oh, but it's just Sundays and we sing and there's pictures. Couldn't +he please go with me. Mr. Lugi?" begged Francie, "I'll take awful good +care of him." + +Mother explained a little more, and at last Mr. Lugi said Rafael might +go, only--"No dress up, no clothes," he said sadly. + +But that did not trouble Francie. "Why, he can have my brown suit, +can't he, mother? I'd just as soon." + +The next day mother took Francie down to see Mrs. Lugi. Little Rafael +was shy at first, but he soon got over it and was friendly as could +be. The little black-eyed Italian mother was very glad to see them. + +"I like Rafael go the Christ-church," she said. "I use go myself, +home--Italy." + +The brown suit, too small for Francie, was just right for Rafael, and +it would have been hard to find two happier little boys than Francie +and his fish when they walked into the Primary class together. + +Rafael clapped his hands with the rest when Miss Florence pinned the +fish in the river and the red tag on Francie's blouse. + +[Illustration: Miss Florence pinned the fish in the river and the red +tag on Francie's blouse.] + +And what do you think? Out in the big room there were two more new +fish, one in Mother Fisher's class and one in Father Fisher's. They +were Mr. Lugi and the little Italian mother, come to Sunday-school +with their little boy. + +"Really and truly," Francie said, "seem's if I caught three fish +'stead of one." + +"Really and truly," said Mother Fisher, "I think you did." + + * * * * * + +"ALL BY HERSELF." + + +The older children were gone out for the day: mamma was busy in the +sewing room with Miss Fay: Molly was doing the Saturday baking. "What +could Alice do all by herself?" + +This was the very question that popped into the wee girl's own head, +and she trotted off to ask mamma. + +"Here's I," she said, at the sewing room door. "Here's I, all by +myself. What's I goin' do, mamma?" + +"Going to be mamma's good little daughter and amuse yourself this +morning without help from anybody. See how busy I am." + +"Everybody's busy that isn't gone way off," said Alice dolefully. + +"Well, then," said mamma. "Alice must be busy, too, taking care of +herself and making her own good times. See how well she can do it. + +"But first of all," mamma went on, "think what you would like to do or +to have me get for you, and I'll stop a minute now for that, so as to +start you." + +This was an important thing to decide, so Alice went into the next +room and sat down in her kindergarten chair before her table, to think +it out. She folded her arms and sat still about a minute: then she ran +to mamma, exclaiming. "I know now, please get me my snub scissors" (of +course she meant round-pointed) "and some bright paper, and I'll cut +and cut ever so long." + +Mamma dropped her work and got the things. "Now, dear," she said, "see +if you can't get along the rest of the morning by yourself. Dolly and +the picture books are in the dining room. Don't ask me for anything if +you can help it, but keep out of mischief and be as happy as you can." + +Alice went back to her little table and soon had it covered with queer +things. There were the oddest dolls you ever saw, with arms sticking +out like stems: and there were horses with as many legs as could be +put along the whole length of the body. It was great fun to cut them. + +But by and by Alice grew tired of this, and jumped up quickly. Over +went the little table, scattering things everywhere. Such a litter! +"I'll just leave it all," thought Alice. Then a little voice inside +said. "Pick it all up and help mamma." After a minute, the little girl +obeyed this pleasant voice, and picked up every scrap. Then she ran +downstairs without stopping at the sewing room door, though she wanted +to. + +"Peggy Morlinda," she said, taking dolly from her cradle, "is you all +by yourself, too? Isn't it lonesome? Come, I'll put you to sleep." + +Peggy was soon asleep, or supposed to be, though her eyes were still +staring. + +"Now I will go take one little peek at mamma." said Alice, starting +upstairs, but stopping next step. "No. I won't neiver," she said +bravely. "I won't 'sturb mamma one bit." + +After this the little girl found amusement for awhile at the library +window. Next, she went back to the picture books, and read a long +story, all made up out of her own head, to Peggy Morlinda, who woke +up to listen. But what a long morning it was! She did not enjoy it +much, but she made up her mind about one thing--she wouldn't "'sturb +mamma." + +At last papa came home and Alice ran to him to be tossed up and down, +and they had a fine frolic. + +"Have you gotten along nicely with your work?" asked papa of mamma at +dinner. + +"Very nicely, thank you," said mamma. "Alice helped me a great deal!" + +"Alice!" exclaimed papa, looking as surprised as possible. "Can Alice +sew?" + +Mamma laughed. "Oh, no, indeed, not yet," she said, "but she gave me a +fine chance to do it. She amused herself all morning and did not ask +me to do anything for her, so we got on beautifully with the work in +the sewing room." + +[Illustration: "Peggy Morlinda, is you all by yourself, too?"] + +"Good girl," said papa, and Alice looked as happy as she felt. Oh, how +glad she was that she had not left those scraps of paper for mamma to +pick up! It is always safe to listen to the little inward voice that +says, "Do right." + +"Do tell me a story," "What can I play?" "What shall I do next?" the +little folks cry to the grown-ups, and all these things take time to +attend to. If the children who are too small to do any work to "help +mamma," would oftener amuse themselves, as Alice did, they would help +much more than perhaps they think.--_Written for Dew Drops by Mary +Harris_. + + * * * * * + +OUR SKATING RINK. + + The wind blew shrill, the sky was gray: + "Oh, dear," sighed Molly, "how it rains! + Let's think of some new game to play, + I'm getting very tired of trains." + + "I know," said Jack: "it will be fun!" + And seized some paper, pen and ink; + "Look, look," cried Susie, "what he's done: + He's written, 'To the Skating Rink!'" + + The children thought it strange of him + To pin it up upon the wall; + "We haven't any skates," said Jim; + "It isn't any good at all." + + But Jack looked wise. "Oh, yes," said he, + "I've thought of just the very thing; + These railway trucks do splendidly-- + We'll tie them on our feet with string." + + They did, and all began to skate. + But Jack, I fear, was rather rash; + He _would_ start off at such a rate + That down he tumbled with a crash! + + He wasn't hurt. "I'm quite all right," + He cried, and scrambled up again; + And on they skated with delight, + Forgetting all about the rain! + --_Selected_. + + * * * * * + +Why Betty Changed Her Mind + +By Marie Deacon Hanson + +[Illustration] + + +Each day, on her way to school, Betty called for Robbie Porter. There +were two reasons why she did this. One was that she had promised Mrs. +Porter she would, the other was that the little boy's mother always +gave Betty a cooky, or a piece of candy, or sometimes a penny. Betty +never wanted anyone to know about this second reason, which made her +feel ashamed of herself, whenever she thought of it. + +"Just as if you couldn't do a kind thing for your neighbor without +expecting to get something for doing it," she would say scornfully to +herself. + +One afternoon, Mrs. Porter met Betty in the grocery, and said to her: +"Deary, shall you mind calling for Robbie about ten minutes earlier in +the morning? I want to go to the city on the eight-thirty train." And +before Betty could answer, she added. "Of course, Robbie could go by +himself now that he has learned the way, but he does so enjoy going +with you." + +"And I don't mind one bit calling for him," Betty hastened to assure +Mrs. Porter. "I'll come early in the morning." + +On the way home from the store. Betty saw her cousin, Julia Norton, +coming eagerly to meet her. + +"Betty," Julia cried, "mother sent me to ask you to stay all night. +Cousin Lottie has come, and mother says we can pop corn and have a +good time. And you must be sure to bring your books so you can go +right to school in the morning from our house." + +"That will be lovely," Betty exclaimed delightedly. There were few +treats she enjoyed more than going to her aunt's home. + +Julia ran off to speak to another girl, and Betty following, suddenly +remembered Robbie. How could she call for him if she were at her +aunt's? + +The latter lived on the other side of the village, and it would be far +out of Betty's way to call for Robbie. + +[Illustration: "I'm sorry I can't call for Robbie in the morning."] + +"I just won't bother about him," she decided. + +But even as she did so, she remembered that she had not only promised +to call for Robbie in the morning, but to call for him earlier than +usual and his mother would depend upon her. + +"Oh, dear! What shall I do?" Betty cried impatiently. + +A small voice seemed to answer in her ear, and it sounded so real that +Betty actually turned to see if the owner were near: "Do as you would +be done by." + +"Why, that's the Golden Rule," Betty quickly exclaimed. "And mother +says if you do as the Golden Rule tells you, you'll never be unhappy. +What does it tell me to do now?" She stood in thought for a moment, +and the next, she ran to overtake her cousin. + +"Julia, please give this sugar to mother," Betty said, placing the +bag in her cousin's band. "And tell her that I've gone to Mrs. +Porter's and I'll be right back." + +Betty flew down the street to Mrs. Porter's and knocked hurriedly on +the door. + +"Why, Betty, what is it, dear?" Mrs. Porter asked in surprise, as the +former rushed into the room, in response to the invitation to enter. + +"I'm sorry I can't call for Robbie in the morning. I'm going to Aunt +Fanny's to stay all night," Betty explained breathlessly. + +"It is thoughtful of you to come and tell me now, dear," Mrs. Porter +replied. "I'll ask Jennie Lee to stop for Robbie in the morning. I +hope you will have a nice visit at your aunt's." + +"I know I shall," Betty answered happily. "I'll call for Robbie the +next day, Mrs. Porter." And away the little girl tripped, +light-hearted as could be. That is the way it makes one feel to follow +the Golden Rule. + + * * * * * + +JACK'S MASTER. + + +Jack's most delightful present last Christmas was a red wooden gun, +with arrows that would shoot very hard indeed. At least Jack thought +it was delightful, but his mamma did not; those little pointed wooden +arrows that flew so far and hit so hard made her very uneasy, for fear +her little boy would presently hurt somebody. + +But mammas hate to spoil their little boys' fun, and Jack's mamma made +an arrangement by which it was agreed that he was to have his gun, +provided that he never pointed it at anybody, even in play. + +Jack was quick enough to promise; he meant to keep his promise, too; +and I think would have kept it if it hadn't been for his master. You +didn't know Jack had a master? No more did he know it till the day he +had to give up his gun. + +You see, Jack had a little brother, two years younger than himself, +who was a very spirit of mischief, and loved above all things to tease +big Jack. One day, when the two boys were playing together, pretending +to be wild Indians out in the woods. Will began to tease Jack by +saying: "There was a little man, and he had a little gun," and all the +rest of that little song. I don't know why this teased Jack, but he +got madder and madder, until, alas! in spite of his promise, he +pointed his gun--not at the "duck--duck--duck," but at Will, and +struck him on the cheek. + +Now it was not the wooden arrow with which his gun was loaded this +time, but one leg of a sharp steel hairpin, and it went into the cheek +and stuck there like a little dagger. + +Half an hour later the red gun was in ashes on mamma's hearth, while +mamma herself and both boys sat sorrowfully by its grave. + +"Mamma," said Jack, "I didn't mean to shoot Will, but somehow I +couldn't help it." + +"No," said mamma, shaking her head: "I forgot when I let you keep the +gun that you had a master." + +"A master?" asked Jack, in surprise. + +"Yes," said mamma, "you obey Bad Temper's orders, though you don't +always obey mine." + +"Mamma," said Jack, presently, "I think I'll leave Bad Temper's +service. He gets me into a heap of trouble." + +"Do, Jack," she said, smiling brightly at him. "And while you are +getting rid of a bad master, remember that you have a good one, the +Lord Jesus, on whose banner is written, 'Putting away all wrath and +clamor.'" + +Little Will listened very soberly to all this, with a red hole in his +cheek, and both chubby hands resting on his bare knees. I hope he made +up his mind, too, to choose the good Master.--_Selected_. + + * * * * * + +WHAT MAKES MEN? + + What care I for cold or snow? + School bell rings, and off I go! + I am ready for the storm, + And my heart is light and gay; + Mother's hand has wrapped me warm, + As I trudge along the way. + + Mother says, "Learn all you can, + Then you'll be a better man." + So I pack my books and go. + Through the rain or wind or snow; + For I hope some day to be + Just the man she'd like to see. + + Well I know that boys must learn + To be ready for each turn, + Never idle nor afraid. + By rough struggles men are made. + So each morning, off I start. + With a merry, willing heart. + --_Selected_. + + + * * * * * + +LUCILE'S SURPRISE. + + +It was a bitter cold day in January, so cold that the children ran all +the way to school. It was snowing, too, and blowing as hard as it +could. A very small crowd was in the classroom that morning, and +everyone began to wonder why. + +"Not on account of the cold, surely," declared Edith Watts. "Why, it's +just fine to be out to-day. And I know Lucile would never stay away +because it was cold. She has too much spunk for that." + +But still Lucile didn't come, and everyone wondered: for she never was +sick, and had said nothing the day before about staying away. + +[Illustration: "I want her to awaken from a nap and find the kittens +swinging in the basket."] + +At the last moment Polly Dalton came hurrying in, saying, "Girls' +there's a scarlet fever sign on Dayres' door, so Lucile must be sick. +The nun was putting the sign up as I came by." + +Later in the day it was found that several other children had fever, +or were afraid to come out lest they should get it, so the Hill School +was closed for a week. Edith Watts was very lonely without her little +friend, and spent much of her time writing letters to her, or in +thinking of nice things to do for her. + +"I wish I could think of something very, _very_ sweet to do for her, +something that would make her happy all the time," she said. "It must +be so lonely and stupid for her to stay in the same room all the time, +never seeing any other children." + +"Keep thinking about it and the right thought will come to you," mamma +told her, and mamma's advice turned out to be right, as usual. + +Two days later, Edith came downstairs, her face shining. + +"I know, mamma. I know what will make Lucile happy every day in the +whole six weeks she must stay in the house. The kittens! I will give +her my kittens. It has been nearly two weeks since she has seen them, +and they have grown so much and their fur has fluffed out so +beautifully she will hardly know them." + +And the kittens were lovely. Who wouldn't want a present like that? +Edith loved them with all her heart, but she didn't for one minute +want to keep them for herself when she knew they would make Lucile +happy. She put them carefully in a basket, covering them well to keep +out the cold. A nice Indian hanging-basket that she had used for a +swing for the pets was packed, too, and then papa took the "happy +thought," as mamma called it, to Lucile's home. + +"Remember, it must be a surprise for her," his small daughter reminded +him as he left the house. "I want her to awaken from a nap and find +the kittens swinging in the basket just where she can see them." + +And that is the way Lucile saw them. If they ever had looked sweet to +Edith's eyes, they looked a thousand times more so to Lucile's poor, +tired ones. + +"Oh-h-h!" she exclaimed, with a long-drawn, happy sigh. "You darling +darlings! Have you come to stay, or are you only visitors?" + +The basket with its dainty load hung from a picture-hook near by, and +the new-comers looked quite contented to stay. They jumped into the +bed and did all they knew to cure the little girl. And they really +helped.--_Written for Dew Drops by Elizabeth Roberts Burton_. + + * * * * * + +Knowledge Box + +When Lapland Babies Go to Church. + + +When Sunday morning comes, the Lapland father harnesses his reindeer +to the sleigh. Father and mother wrap themselves in fur coats and put +a fur coat on the baby, and away they go over the snow to church, it +may be ten or even fifteen miles, for the reindeer can go a good deal +faster than a horse. + +But the old Lapland custom of caring for the babies while the grown +people are in church, you never would guess. For as soon as the +reindeer is made secure, the father Lapp shovels out a snug little bed +in the snow, and when it is ready the mother Lapp wraps the baby snug +and warm in skins and lays it down there. Then the father Lapp piles +the snow around and over the baby, when they go into the church and +leave the baby in the snow. So common is this that sometimes there are +twenty or thirty babies, down to the little wee-est ones, buried in +snow around the church. + +You might think the babies would suffocate, but they do not, nor do +they freeze. In fact, the snow does not make them cold. For when it +covers anyone all over, if they have clothes enough on, so the snow +will not melt and wet them, it will keep them warm. And as the little +Lapland babies are not strong enough to knock the snow away and let in +the cold, they just lie there safe and warm and go to sleep. + +When church is out the father Lapp goes to the spot where his baby is, +puts his hands down into the snow, pulls the baby our and shakes the +snow off it; then the reindeer is unfastened, father and mother tuck +themselves and the baby in the sleigh, and over the snow away they +trot home again.--_Written for Dew Drops by Adele E. Thompson._ + + * * * * * + +MOTHER HULDA'S FEATHER BED. + + +How many children know what the boys and girls of far-off Norway +sometimes think when they see the dainty, feathery snowflakes flying +softly and silently through the air? I don't think there are many of +you who do know, so I will tell you the story. + +If we were there when they have the first snowstorm of the season we +could hear them shouting gleefully to each other: "See! oh, see! +Mother Hulda is shaking her feather bed." + +There is a story about this Mother Hulda and her feather bed that is +told to the little ones there. She lives, it is said, far, far above +this busy world, with the clouds for her home, the sun for a lamp and +fire. + +She is always very busy, and especially so at the beginning of the +winter, for then she has to unpack her great feather bed, and after +that is done she spends all of her time shaking it. Indeed she shakes +it so much that she wears many holes in it, through which the feathers +fly in all directions. The wind catches them up and carries them +gently to the earth, where they cover the bare limbs of the trees, +making them beautiful, and where they spread lightly on the ground and +protect the roots of the flowers from the cold winter winds. + +Mother Hulda does not tire of shaking her bed until the warmer spring +winds begin to blow; then she packs it away until she sees Jack Frost +traveling again over the world below, and finds traces of the +mischievous fellow even in her lofty home.--_Selected_. + + * * * * * + +OUR LESSON.--March 8. + + * * * * * + +PREPARED BY MARGUERITE COOK. + + * * * * * + +Title.--Watchfulness (Temperance Lesson).--Luke 12:35-48. + +Golden Text.--Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh +shall find watching.--Luke 12:37. + +_Golden Text for Beginners_.--_Even a child maketh himself known by +his doings_.--Prov. 20:11. + +Truth.--Be always ready. + +1. Jesus told his disciples that they must be always ready and +watching for his coming. + +[Illustration] + +2. He told them to be like faithful servants, who, with their lights +burning, wait for the return of their absent master. + +3. He said that the master who should come home and find his servants +watching for him would be pleased. + +[Illustration] + +4. He would invite them to sit down at his table, and he would serve +them himself. + +5. Those faithful servants would receive a blessing. + +6. Jesus warns us all to watch and be faithful about our work, so that +when he comes again we will be ready. + +7. He says that no one knows the day nor the hour when he will return. + +8. The master chooses the faithful servants to rule over his house. + +9. The unfaithful servant will not be found watching when his master +shall come. + +10. He will spend his time in eating and drinking and abusing his +fellow-servants. + +[Illustration] + +11. The master will come when he is not expected, and will see these +evil deeds and punish the servant for his unfaithfulness. + + * * * * * + +QUESTIONS. + +What is the Golden Text? + +What is the Truth? + +1. For what did Jesus tell his disciples to watch? + +2. Like whom did he tell them to be? + +3. Who would be pleased to find his servants watching? + +4. What would he invite them to do? + +5. What would they receive if found faithful? + +6. What does Jesus warn us all to do? + +7. Who knows when Jesus will return? + +8. Who will be made ruler over his master's house? + +9. Who will not be found watching? + +10. How will he spend his time? + +11. Who will come when he is not expected? + + * * * * * + +LESSON HYMN. + +_Tune_--"Jesus loves me, this I know," omitting chorus (E flat). + + When our work on earth is done, + Jesus calls us, every one; + Let us work, and watch, and pray, + For his coming, every day. + + * * * * * + +Title of Lesson for March 15. + +The Lawful Use of the Sabbath.--Luke 13:10-17; 14:1-6. + + * * * * * + +Golden Text for March 15. + +The sabbath was made for man.--Mark 2:27. + + * * * * * + +Beginners Golden Text for March 15. + +_Even a child maketh himself known by his doings_.--Prov. 20:11. + + * * * * * + +Advice to Boys and Girls + +The Difference it Made. + + +"What a sweet voice that little child in the red cloak has!" said a +visitor in Sunday-school to a teacher, as together they listened to +the children raising their song of praise. + +"Yes, isn't it sweet? And she always sings just so heartily," was the +reply. + +A little later, the school closed and, the children on their way +home, the visitor chanced to pass by the child in the red cloak, just +in time to hear her say angrily to her nurse, who had called for her: + +"I don't want to go this way--I want to go through the park. I won't! +I won't go through that horrid old street!" + +"But, Miss Mazie, your mamma said we were to go straight home and not +stay in the park to-day." + +Upon this, the little lady marched away, with pouting lips and injured +mien. + +"Ah," thought the lady, "what a difference it makes in the voice when +one speaks angrily! No matter how sweet it may be, how harsh and +unloving angry words make it!" + +What a pity that Mazie did not keep her voice as musical and birdlike +as it was when she was singing her morning song of praise! Think of +this, little readers, and when you are tempted to be angry and speak +in cross tones, instead of making your voice unpleasant to hear, +endeavor to make it sweet and loving. + + * * * * * + +Thoughts for Mothers + +The Earnest Mother. + + +Mothers seldom realize the influence they exert in molding the lives +of their children. It is the faithful teaching, as well as the +consistent practicing of an earnest mother which results in forming +characters of nobility and uprightness in the sons and daughters. The +work cannot be begun too early. From their very birth, our children +receive impressions. What the character of these impressions is +depends upon surrounding influences. A true mother's influence should +last long after she is at rest. Said Thomas H. Benton: "My mother +asked me never to use tobacco; I have never touched it from that time +to the present day. She asked me not to gamble, and I have never +gambled, and I cannot tell who is losing in games that are being +played. She admonished me, too, against hard drinking, and whatever +capacity for endurance I have at present, and whatever usefulness I +may have attained in life, I have attributed to having complied with +her pious and correct wishes. When I was seven years of age she asked +me not to drink, and then I made a resolution of total abstinence; and +that I have adhered to it through all time, I owe to my mother." + +Mothers, do not think your little ones are too young to receive +advice; it is true they may not act upon it for many years, but they +will remember it and follow it sometime. + + * * * * * + +HURRAH FOR THE BOY THAT WHISTLES. + + Hurrah for the boy that whistles! + Just now he passed by here. + The rain dripped down from his sodden crown, + But his whistle sounded clear; + And it made my task seem easier, + And my heart grew brave and strong, + Hurrah for the boy that whistles! + He helps the world along. + --_Written for Dew Drops by Bertha E. Bush._ + + * * * * * + +[Entered at the Post Office at Elgin, Ill., as Second Class Mail Matter.] + +Price of Dew Drops.--In lots of five or more, to one address, 20 cents +per copy per year, or 5-1/2 cents per copy per quarter. Address, + +DAVID C. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 10, March 8, 1914 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: November 20, 2004 [EBook #14101] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEW DROPS, VOL. 37, NO. 10, *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Ronald Holder, John Hagerson, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<!-- Autogenerated TOC. Modify or delete as required. --> +<p></p> +<!-- End Autogenerated TOC. --> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/p1_title.jpg" width="770" height="153" alt="DEW-DROPS" /> +</div> + +<h4>VOL. 37. No. 10. WEEKLY.<br /> +DAVID C. COOK PUBLISHING CO., ELGIN, ILLINOIS.<br /> +GEORGE E. COOK. EDITOR.<br /> +MARCH 8, 1914.</h4> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/p1_fish.jpg" width="600" height="164" +alt="FRANCIE FISHER'S FISH By Marion Malette Thornton" /> +</div> + +<p>On the Primary Room wall was a beautiful picture of a shining river. +Francie loved to count the fish that were swimming in it. Just +fourteen there were, and every one stood for a new scholar someone had +brought into the Primary Class.</p> + +<p>How Francie wished he could bring one and have Miss Florence pin a +fish in the river and a red tag on his blouse to show that he had +caught it.</p> + +<p>“How you s'pose I can get a fish, mother?” he asked earnestly. “I +should think a Fisher-boy ought to be able to catch just one.”</p> + +<p>Mother shook her head. “I don't know, I'm sure. There isn't a child on +this street who doesn't go to Sunday-school.”</p> + +<p>“P'r'aps one will move on,” said Francie hopefully.</p> + +<p>But when a new family did move to that street there were no children +in it.</p> + +<p>One day Francie came flying into the house. “Oh. mother, the ash-man's +here and I b'lieve he's got a fish with him!”</p> + +<p>“What?” exclaimed mother, but when she looked out she understood. +Sitting in the ash-man's cart was a pretty little boy, with black eyes +and tight curly hair.</p> + +<p>“Is he yours. Mr. Lugi?” mother asked, and the ash-man smiled and +nodded:</p> + +<p>“Yes. mine—my Rafael.”</p> + +<p>“Does he go to Sunday-school?” put in Francie eagerly.</p> + +<p>“No, no school—too little, him.”</p> + +<p>“Oh, but it's just Sundays and we sing and there's pictures. Couldn't +he please go with me. Mr. Lugi?” begged Francie, “I'll take awful good +care of him.”</p> + +<p>Mother explained a little more, and at last Mr. Lugi said Rafael might +go, only—“No dress up, no clothes,” he said sadly.</p> + +<p>But that did not trouble Francie. “Why, he can have my brown suit, +can't he, mother? I'd just as soon.”</p> + +<p>The next day mother took Francie down to see Mrs. Lugi. Little Rafael +was shy at first, but he soon got over it and was friendly as could +be. The little black-eyed Italian mother was very glad to see them.</p> + +<p>“I like Rafael go the Christ-church,” she said. “I use go myself, +home—Italy.”</p> + +<p>The brown suit, too small for Francie, was just right for Rafael, and +it would have been hard to find two happier little boys than Francie +and his fish when they walked into the Primary class together.</p> + +<p>Rafael clapped his hands with the rest when Miss Florence pinned the +fish in the river and the red tag on Francie's blouse.</p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/p1_florence.jpg" width="488" height="600" +alt="Illustration: Miss Florence pinned the fish in the river and the red tag on Francie's blouse" /> +</div> + +<p>And what do you think? Out in the big room there were two more new +fish, one in Mother Fisher's class and one in Father Fisher's. They +were Mr. Lugi and the little Italian mother, come to Sunday-school +with their little boy.</p> + +<p>“Really and truly,” Francie said, “seem's if I caught three fish +'stead of one.”</p> + +<p>“Really and truly,” said Mother Fisher, “I think you did.”</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>“ALL BY HERSELF.”</h3> + + +<p>The older children were gone out for the day: mamma was busy in the +sewing room with Miss Fay: Molly was doing the Saturday baking. “What +could Alice do all by herself?”</p> + +<p>This was the very question that popped into the wee girl's own head, +and she trotted off to ask mamma.</p> + +<p>“Here's I,” she said, at the sewing room door. “Here's I, all by +myself. What's I goin' do, mamma?”</p> + +<p>“Going to be mamma's good little daughter and amuse yourself this +morning without help from anybody. See how busy I am.”</p> + +<p>“Everybody's busy that isn't gone way off,” said Alice dolefully.</p> + +<p>“Well, then,” said mamma. “Alice must be busy, too, taking care of +herself and making her own good times. See how well she can do it.</p> + +<p>“But first of all,” mamma went on, “think what you would like to do or +to have me get for you, and I'll stop a minute now for that, so as to +start you.”</p> + +<p>This was an important thing to decide, so Alice went into the next +room and sat down in her kindergarten chair before her table, to think +it out. She folded her arms and sat still about a minute: then she ran +to mamma, exclaiming. “I know now, please get me my snub scissors” (of +course she meant round-pointed) “and some bright paper, and I'll cut +and cut ever so long.”</p> + +<p>Mamma dropped her work and got the things. “Now, dear,” she said, “see +if you can't get along the rest of the morning by yourself. Dolly and +the picture books are in the dining room. Don't ask me for anything if +you can help it, but keep out of mischief and be as happy as you can.”</p> + +<p>Alice went back to her little table and soon had it covered with queer +things. There were the oddest dolls you ever saw, with arms sticking +out like stems: and there were horses with as many legs as could be +put along the whole length of the body. It was great fun to cut them.</p> + +<p>But by and by Alice grew tired of this, and jumped up quickly. Over +went the little table, scattering things everywhere. Such a litter! +“I'll just leave it all,” thought Alice. Then a little voice inside +said. “Pick it all up and help mamma.” After a minute, the little girl +obeyed this pleasant voice, and picked up every scrap. Then she ran +downstairs without stopping at the sewing room door, though she wanted +to.</p> + +<p>“Peggy Morlinda,” she said, taking dolly from her cradle, “is you all +by yourself, too? Isn't it lonesome? Come, I'll put you to sleep.”</p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/p2_peggy.gif" width="450" height="378" +alt="Illustration: “Peggy Morlinda, is you all by yourself, too?”" /> +</div> + +<p>Peggy was soon asleep, or supposed to be, though her eyes were still +staring.</p> + +<p>“Now I will go take one little peek at mamma.” said Alice, starting +upstairs, but stopping next step. “No. I won't neiver,” she said +bravely. “I won't 'sturb mamma one bit.”</p> + +<p>After this the little girl found amusement for awhile at the library +window. Next, she went back to the picture books, and read a long +story, all made up out of her own head, to Peggy Morlinda, who woke +up to listen. But what a long morning it was! She did not enjoy it +much, but she made up her mind about one thing—she wouldn't “'sturb +mamma.”</p> + +<p>At last papa came home and Alice ran to him to be tossed up and down, +and they had a fine frolic.</p> + +<p>“Have you gotten along nicely with your work?” asked papa of mamma at +dinner.</p> + +<p>“Very nicely, thank you,” said mamma. “Alice helped me a great deal!”</p> + +<p>“Alice!” exclaimed papa, looking as surprised as possible. “Can Alice +sew?”</p> + +<p>Mamma laughed. “Oh, no, indeed, not yet,” she said, “but she gave me a +fine chance to do it. She amused herself all morning and did not ask +me to do anything for her, so we got on beautifully with the work in +the sewing room.”</p> + +<p>“Good girl,” said papa, and Alice looked as happy as she felt. Oh, how +glad she was that she had not left those scraps of paper for mamma to +pick up! It is always safe to listen to the little inward voice that +says, “Do right.”</p> + +<p>“Do tell me a story,” “What can I play?” “What shall I do next?” the +little folks cry to the grown-ups, and all these things take time to +attend to. If the children who are too small to do any work to “help +mamma,” would oftener amuse themselves, as Alice did, they would help +much more than perhaps they think.—<i>Written for Dew Drops by Mary +Harris</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>OUR SKATING RINK.</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span>The wind blew shrill, the sky was gray:<br /></span> +<span class="i2">“Oh, dear,” sighed Molly, “how it rains!<br /></span> +<span>Let's think of some new game to play,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">I'm getting very tired of trains.”<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>“I know,” said Jack: “it will be fun!”<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And seized some pa per, pen and ink;<br /></span> +<span>“Look, look,” cried Susie, “what he's done:<br /></span> +<span class="i2">He's written, ‘To the Skating Rink!’”<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>The children thought it strange of him<br /></span> +<span class="i2">To pin it up upon the wall;<br /></span> +<span>“We haven't any skates,” said Jim;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">“It isn't any good at all.”<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>But Jack looked wise. “Oh, yes,” said he,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">“I've thought of just the very thing;<br /></span> +<span>These railway trucks do splendidly—<br /></span> +<span class="i2">We'll tie them on our feet with string.”<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>They did, and all began to skate.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">But Jack, I fear, was rather rash;<br /></span> +<span>He <i>would</i> start off at such a rate<br /></span> +<span class="i2">That down he tumbled with a crash!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>He wasn't hurt. “I'm quite all right,”<br /></span> +<span class="i2">He cried, and scrambled up again;<br /></span> +<span>And on they skated with delight,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Forgetting all about the rain!<br /></span> +<span class="i12">—<i>Selected</i>.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/p2_betty.gif" width="700" height="138" +alt="Why Betty Changed Her Mind By Marie Deacon Hanson" /> +</div> + +<p>Each day, on her way to school, Betty called for Robbie Porter. There +were two reasons why she did this. One was that she had promised Mrs. +Porter she would, the other was that the little boy's mother always +gave Betty a cooky, or a piece of candy, or sometimes a penny. Betty +never wanted anyone to know about this second reason, which made her +feel ashamed of herself, whenever she thought of it.</p> + +<p>“Just as if you couldn't do a kind thing for your neighbor without +expecting to get something for doing it,” she would say scornfully to +herself.</p> + +<p>One afternoon, Mrs. Porter met Betty in the grocery, and said to her: +“Deary, shall you mind calling for Robbie about ten minutes earlier in +the morning? I want to go to the city on the eight-thirty train.” And +before Betty could answer, she added. “Of course, Robbie could go by +himself now that he has learned the way, but he does so enjoy going +with you.”</p> + +<p>“And I don't mind one bit calling for him,” Betty hastened to assure +Mrs. Porter. “I'll come early in the morning.”</p> + +<p>On the way home from the store. Betty saw her cousin, Julia Norton, +coming eagerly to meet her.</p> + +<p>“Betty,” Julia cried, “mother sent me to ask you to stay all night. +Cousin Lottie has come, and mother says we can pop corn and have a +good time. And you must be sure to bring your books so you can go +right to school in the morning from our house.”</p> + +<p>“That will be lovely,” Betty exclaimed delightedly. There were few +treats she enjoyed more than going to her aunt's home.</p> + +<p>Julia ran off to speak to another girl, and Betty following, suddenly +remembered Robbie. Mow could she call for him if she were at her +aunt's?</p> + +<p>The latter lived on the other side of the village, and it would be far +out of Betty's way to call for Robbie.</p> + +<p>“I just won't bother about him,” she decided.</p> + +<p>But even as she did so, she remembered that she had not only promised +to call for Robbie in the morning, but to call for him earlier than +usual and his mother would depend upon her.</p> + +<p>“Oh, dear! What shall I do?” Betty cried impatiently.</p> + +<p>A small voice seemed to answer in her ear, and it sounded so real that +Betty actually turned to see if the owner were near: “Do as you would +be done by.”</p> + +<p>“Why, that's the Golden Rule,” Betty quickly exclaimed. “And mother +says if you do as the Golden Rule tells you, you'll never be unhappy. +What does it tell me to do now?” She stood in thought for a moment, +and the next, she ran to overtake her cousin.</p> + +<p>“Julia, please give this sugar to mother,” Betty said, placing the +bag in her cousin's band. “And tell her that I've gone to Mrs. +Porter's and I'll be right back.”</p> + +<p>Betty flew down the street to Mrs. Porter's and knocked hurriedly on +the door.</p> + +<p>“Why, Betty, what is it, dear?” Mrs. Porter asked in surprise, as the +former rushed into the room, in response to the invitation to enter.</p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/p2_robbie.gif" width="468" height="600" +alt="Illustration: “I'm sorry I can't call for Robbie in the morning.”" /> +</div> + +<p>“I'm sorry I can't call for Robbie in the morning. I'm going to Aunt +Fanny's to stay all night,” Betty explained breathlessly.</p> + +<p>“It is thoughtful of you to come and tell me now, dear,” Mrs. Porter +replied. “I'll ask Jennie Lee to stop for Robbie in the morning. I +hope you will have a nice visit at your aunt's.”</p> + +<p>“I know I shall,” Betty answered happily. “I'll call for Robbie the +next day, Mrs. Porter.” And away the little girl tripped, +light-hearted as could be. That is the way it makes one feel to follow +the Golden Rule.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>JACK'S MASTER.</h3> + + +<p>Jack's most delightful present last Christmas was a red wooden gun, +with arrows that would shoot very hard indeed. At least Jack thought +it was delightful, but his mamma did not; those little pointed wooden +arrows that flew so far and hit so hard made her very uneasy, for fear +her little boy would presently hurt somebody.</p> + +<p>But mammas hate to spoil their little boys' fun, and Jack's mamma made +an arrangement by which it was agreed that he was to have his gun, +provided that he never pointed it at anybody, even in play.</p> + +<p>Jack was quick enough to promise; he meant to keep his promise, too; +and I think would have kept it if it hadn't been for his master. You +didn't know Jack had a master? No more did he know it till the day he +had to give up his gun.</p> + +<p>You see, Jack had a little brother, two years younger than himself, +who was a very spirit of mischief, and loved above all things to tease +big Jack. One day, when the two boys were playing together, pretending +to be wild Indians out in the woods. Will began to tease Jack by +saying: “There was a little man, and he had a little gun,” and all the +rest of that little song. I don't know why this teased Jack, but he +got madder and madder, until, alas! in spite of his promise, he +pointed his gun—not at the “duck—duck—duck,” but at Will, and +struck him on the cheek.</p> + +<p>Now it was not the wooden arrow with which his gun was loaded this +time, but one leg of a sharp steel hairpin, and it went into the cheek +and stuck there like a little dagger.</p> + +<p>Half an hour later the red gun was in ashes on mamma's hearth, while +mamma herself and both boys sat sorrowfully by its grave.</p> + +<p>“Mamma,” said Jack, “I didn't mean to shoot Will, but somehow I +couldn't help it.”</p> + +<p>“No,” said mamma, shaking her head: “I forgot when I let you keep the +gun that you had a master.”</p> + +<p>“A master?” asked Jack, in surprise.</p> + +<p>“Yes,” said mamma, “you obey Bad Temper's orders, though you don't +always obey mine.”</p> + +<p>“Mamma,” said Jack, presently, “I think I'll leave Bad Temper's +service. He gets me into a heap of trouble.”</p> + +<p>“Do, Jack,” she said, smiling brightly at him. “And while you are +getting rid of a bad master, remember that you have a good one, the +Lord Jesus, on whose banner is written, ‘Putting away all wrath and +clamor.’”</p> + +<p>Little Will listened very soberly to all this, with a red hole in his +cheek, and both chubby hands resting on his bare knees. I hope he made +up his mind, too, to choose the good Master.—<i>Selected</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>WHAT MAKES MEN?</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span>What care I for cold or snow?<br /></span> +<span>School bell rings, and off I go!<br /></span> +<span>I am ready for the storm,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And my heart is light and gay;<br /></span> +<span>Mother's hand has wrapped me warm,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">As I trudge along the way.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>Mother says, “Learn all you can,<br /></span> +<span>Then you'll be a better man.”<br /></span> +<span>So I pack my books and go.<br /></span> +<span>Through the rain or wind or snow;<br /></span> +<span>For I hope some day to be<br /></span> +<span>Just the man she'd like to see.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>Well I know that boys must learn<br /></span> +<span>To be ready for each turn,<br /></span> +<span>Never idle nor afraid.<br /></span> +<span>By rough struggles men are made.<br /></span> +<span>So each morning, off I start.<br /></span> +<span>With a merry, willing heart.<br /></span> +<span class="i12">—<i>Selected</i>.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<hr /> + +<h3>LUCILE'S SURPRISE.</h3> + + +<p>It was a bitter cold day in January, so cold that the children ran all +the way to school. It was snowing, too, and blowing as hard as it +could. A very small crowd was in the classroom that morning, and +everyone began to wonder why.</p> + +<p>“Not on account of the cold, surely,” declared Edith Watts. “Why, it's +just fine to be out to-day. And I know Lucile would never stay away +because it was cold. She has too much spunk for that.”</p> + +<p>But still Lucile didn't come, and everyone wondered: for she never was +sick, and had said nothing the day before about staying away.</p> + +<p>At the last moment Polly Dalton came hurrying in, saying, “Girls' +there's a scarlet fever sign on Dayres' door, so Lucile must be sick. +The nun was putting the sign up as I came by.”</p> + +<p>Later in the day it was found that several other children had fever, +or were afraid to come out lest they should get it, so the Hill School +was closed for a week. Edith Watts was very lonely without her little +friend, and spent much of her time writing letters to her, or in +thinking of nice things to do for her.</p> + +<p>“I wish I could think of something very, <i>very</i> sweet to do for her, +something that would make her happy all the time,” she said. “It must +be so lonely and stupid for her to stay in the same room all the time, +never seeing any other children.”</p> + +<p>“Keep thinking about it and the right thought will come to you,” mamma +told her, and mamma's advice turned out to be right, as usual.</p> + +<p>Two days later, Edith came downstairs, her face shining.</p> + +<p>“I know, mamma. I know what will make Lucile happy every day in the +whole six weeks she must stay in the house. The kittens! I will give +her my kittens. It has been nearly two weeks since she has seen them, +and they have grown so much and their fur has fluffed out so +beautifully she will hardly know them.”</p> + +<p>And the kittens were lovely. Who wouldn't want a present like that? +Edith loved them with all her heart, but she didn't for one minute +want to keep them for herself when she knew they would make Lucile +happy. She put them carefully in a basket, covering them well to keep +out the cold. A nice Indian hanging-basket that she had used for a +swing for the pets was packed, too, and then papa took the “happy +thought,” as mamma called it, to Lucile's home.</p> + +<p>“Remember, it must be a surprise for her,” his small daughter reminded +him as he left the house. “I want her to awaken from a nap and find +the kittens swinging in the basket just where she can see them.”</p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/p3_kittens.gif" width="264" height="550" alt="Illustration: kittens" /> +</div> + +<h4>“I want her to awaken from a nap and find the kittens +swinging in the basket.”</h4> + +<p>And that is the way Lucile saw them. If they ever had looked sweet to +Edith's eyes, they looked a thousand times more so to Lucile's poor, +tired ones.</p> + +<p>“Oh-h-h!” she exclaimed, with a long-drawn, happy sigh. “You darling +darlings! Have you come to stay, or are you only visitors?”</p> + +<p>The basket with its dainty load hung from a picture-hook near by, and +the new-comers looked quite contented to stay. They jumped into the +bed and did all they knew to cure the little girl. And they really +helped.—<i>Written for Dew Drops by Elizabeth Roberts Burton</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/p3_knowbox.gif" width="500" height="103" alt="Knowledge Box" /> +</div> + +<h3>When Lapland Babies Go to Church.</h3> + +<p>When Sunday morning comes, the Lapland father harnesses his reindeer +to the sleigh. Father and mother wrap themselves in fur coats and put +a fur coat on the baby, and away they go over the snow to church, it +may be ten or even fifteen miles, for the reindeer can go a good deal +faster than a horse.</p> + +<p>But the old Lapland custom of caring for the babies while the grown +people are in church, you never would guess. For as soon as the +reindeer is made secure, the father Lapp shovels out a snug little bed +in the snow, and when it is ready the mother Lapp wraps the baby snug +and warm in skins and lays it down there. Then the father Lapp piles +the snow around and over the baby, when they go into the church and +leave the baby in the snow. So common is this that sometimes there are +twenty or thirty babies, down to the little wee-est ones, buried in +snow around the church.</p> + +<p>You might think the babies would suffocate, but they do not, nor do +they freeze. In fact, the snow does not make them cold. For when it +covers anyone all over, if they have clothes enough on, so the snow +will not melt and wet them, it will keep them warm. And as the little +Lapland babies are not strong enough to knock the snow away and let in +the cold, they just lie there safe and warm and go to sleep.</p> + +<p>When church is out the father Lapp goes to the spot where his baby is, +puts his hands down into the snow, pulls the baby our and shakes the +snow off it; then the reindeer is unfastened, father and mother tuck +themselves and the baby in the sleigh, and over the snow away they +trot home again.—<i>Written for Dew Drops by Adele E. Thompson.</i></p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>MOTHER HULDA'S FEATHER BED.</h3> + + +<p>How many children know what the boys and girls of far-off Norway +sometimes think when they see the dainty, feathery snowflakes flying +softly and silently through the air? I don't think there are many of +you who do know, so I will tell you the story.</p> + +<p>If we were there when they have the first snowstorm of the season we +could hear them shouting gleefully to each other: “See! oh, see! +Mother Hulda is shaking her feather bed.”</p> + +<p>There is a story about this Mother Hulda and her feather bed that is +told to the little ones there. She lives, it is said, far, far above +this busy world, with the clouds for her home, the sun for a lamp and +fire.</p> + +<p>She is always very busy, and especially so at the beginning of the +winter, for then she has to unpack her great feather bed, and after +that is done she spends all of her time shaking it. Indeed she shakes +it so much that she wears many holes in it, through which the feathers +fly in all directions. The wind catches them up and carries them +gently to the earth, where they cover the bare limbs of the trees, +making them beautiful, and where they spread lightly on the ground and +protect the roots of the flowers from the cold winter winds.</p> + +<p>Mother Hulda does not tire of shaking her bed until the warmer spring +winds begin to blow; then she packs it away until she sees Jack Frost +traveling again over the world below, and finds traces of the +mischievous fellow even in her lofty home.—<i>Selected</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>OUR LESSON.—March 8.</h3> + +<hr /> + +<h4>PREPARED BY MARGUERITE COOK.</h4> + +<hr /> + +<p>Title.—Watchfulness (Temperance Lesson).—Luke 12:35-48.</p> + +<p>Golden Text.—Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh +shall find watching.—Luke 12:37.</p> + +<p><i>Golden Text for Beginners</i>.—<i>Even a child maketh himself known by +his doings</i>.—Prov. 20:11.</p> + +<p>Truth.—Be always ready.</p> + +<div class="figcenter"> + +<p>1. Jesus told his disciples that they must be always ready and +watching for his coming.</p> + +<img src="images/p4_lesson1.gif" width="378" height="350" alt="Illustration" /> + +<p>2. He told them to be like faithful servants, who, with their lights +burning, wait for the return of their absent master.</p> + +<p>3. He said that the master who should come home and find his servants +watching for him would be pleased.</p> + +<img src="images/p4_lesson2.gif" width="350" height="314" alt="Illustration" /> + +<p>4. He would invite them to sit down at his table, and he would serve +them himself.</p> + +<p>5. Those faithful servants would receive a blessing.</p> + +<p>6. Jesus warns us all to watch and be faithful about our work, so that +when he comes again we will be ready.</p> + +<p>7. He says that no one knows the day nor the hour when he will return.</p> + +<p>8. The master chooses the faithful servants to rule over his house.</p> + +<p>9. The unfaithful servant will not be found watching when his master +shall come.</p> + +<p>10. He will spend his time in eating and drinking and abusing his +fellow-servants.</p> + +<img src="images/p4_lesson3.gif" width="359" height="350" alt="Illustration" /> + +<p>11. The master will come when he is not expected, and will see these +evil deeds and punish the servant for his unfaithfulness.</p> + +</div> + +<hr /> + +<h4>QUESTIONS.</h4> + +<p>What is the Golden Text?</p> + +<p>What is the Truth?</p> + +<p>1. For what did Jesus tell his disciples to watch?</p> + +<p>2. Like whom did he tell them to be?</p> + +<p>3. Who would be pleased to find his servants watching?</p> + +<p>4. What would he invite them to do?</p> + +<p>5. What would they receive if found faithful?</p> + +<p>6. What does Jesus warn us all to do?</p> + +<p>7. Who knows when Jesus will return?</p> + +<p>8. Who will be made ruler over his master's house?</p> + +<p>9. Who will not be found watching?</p> + +<p>10. How will he spend his time?</p> + +<p>11. Who will come when he is not expected?</p> + +<hr /> + +<h4>LESSON HYMN.</h4> + +<p><i>Tune</i>—“Jesus loves me, this I know,” omitting chorus (E flat).</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span>When our work on earth is done,<br /></span> +<span>Jesus calls us, every one;<br /></span> +<span>Let us work, and watch, and pray,<br /></span> +<span>For his coming, every day.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<hr /> + +<h4>Title of Lesson for March 15.</h4> + +<p>The Lawful Use of the Sabbath.—Luke 13:10-17; 14:1-6.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h4>Golden Text for March 15.</h4> + +<p>The sabbath was made for man.—Mark 2:27.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h4>Beginners Golden Text for March 15.</h4> + +<p><i>Even a child maketh himself known by his doings</i>.—Prov. 20:11.</p> + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/pg4_advice.gif" width="525" height="139" alt="Advice to Boys and Girls" /> +</div> + +<h3>The Difference it Made.</h3> + + +<p>“What a sweet voice that little child in the red cloak has!” said a +visitor in Sunday-school to a teacher, as together they listened to +the children raising their song of praise.</p> + +<p>“Yes, isn't it sweet? And she always sings just so heartily,” was the +reply.</p> + +<p>A little later, the school closed and, the children on their way +home, the visitor chanced to pass by the child in the red cloak, just +in time to hear her say angrily to her nurse, who had called for her:</p> + +<p>“I don't want to go this way—I want to go through the park. I won't! +I won't go through that horrid old street!”</p> + +<p>“But, Miss Mazie, your mamma said we were to go straight home and not +stay in the park to-day.”</p> + +<p>Upon this, the little lady marched away, with pouting lips and injured +mien.</p> + +<p>“Ah,” thought the lady, “what a difference it makes in the voice when +one speaks angrily! No matter how sweet it may be, how harsh and +unloving angry words make it!”</p> + +<p>What a pity that Mazie did not keep her voice as musical and birdlike +as it was when she was singing her morning song of praise! Think of +this, little readers, and when you are tempted to be angry and speak +in cross tones, instead of making your voice unpleasant to hear, +endeavor to make it sweet and loving.</p> + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/p4_mothers.gif" width="500" height="102" alt="Thoughts for Mothers" /> +</div> + +<h3>The Earnest Mother.</h3> + +<p>Mothers seldom realize the influence they exert in molding the lives +of their children. It is the faithful teaching, as well as the +consistent practicing of an earnest mother which results in forming +characters of nobility and uprightness in the sons and daughters. The +work cannot be begun too early. From their very birth, our children +receive impressions. What the character of these impressions is +depends upon surrounding influences. A true mother's influence should +last long after she is at rest. Said Thomas H. Benton: “My mother +asked me never to use tobacco; I have never touched it from that time +to the present day. She asked me not to gamble, and I have never +gambled, and I cannot tell who is losing in games that are being +played. She admonished me, too, against hard drinking, and whatever +capacity for endurance I have at present, and whatever usefulness I +may have attained in life, I have attributed to having complied with +her pious and correct wishes. When I was seven years of age she asked +me not to drink, and then I made a resolution of total abstinence; and +that I have adhered to it through all time, I owe to my mother.”</p> + +<p>Mothers, do not think your little ones are too young to receive +advice; it is true they may not act upon it for many years, but they +will remember it and follow it sometime.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>HURRAH FOR THE BOY THAT WHISTLES.</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span>Hurrah for the boy that whistles!<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Just now he passed by here.<br /></span> +<span>The rain dripped down from his sodden crown,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">But his whistle sounded clear;<br /></span> +<span>And it made my task seem easier,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And my heart grew brave and strong,<br /></span> +<span>Hurrah for the boy that whistles!<br /></span> +<span class="i2">He helps the world along.<br /></span> +<span>—<i>Written for Dew Drops by Bertha E. Bush.</i><br /></span> +</div></div> + +<hr /> + +<p>[Entered at the Post Office at Elgin, Ill., as Second Class Mail Matter.]</p> + +<p>Price of Dew Drops.—In lots of five or more, to one address, 20 cents +per copy per year, or 5½ cents per copy per quarter. Address,</p> + +<p>DAVID C. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 10, March 8, 1914 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: November 20, 2004 [EBook #14101] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEW DROPS, VOL. 37, NO. 10, *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Ronald Holder, John Hagerson, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + +DEW DROPS + +[Illustration] + +VOL. 37. No. 10. WEEKLY. + +DAVID C. COOK PUBLISHING CO., ELGIN, ILLINOIS. +GEORGE E. COOK. EDITOR. + +MARCH 8, 1914. + + +FRANCIE FISHER'S FISH + +[Illustration] + +By Marion Mallette Thornton + + +On the Primary Room wall was a beautiful picture of a shining river. +Francie loved to count the fish that were swimming in it. Just +fourteen there were, and every one stood for a new scholar someone had +brought into the Primary Class. + +How Francie wished he could bring one and have Miss Florence pin a +fish in the river and a red tag on his blouse to show that he had +caught it. + +"How you s'pose I can get a fish, mother?" he asked earnestly. "I +should think a Fisher-boy ought to be able to catch just one." + +Mother shook her head. "I don't know, I'm sure. There isn't a child on +this street who doesn't go to Sunday-school." + +"P'r'aps one will move on," said Francie hopefully. + +But when a new family did move to that street there were no children +in it. + +One day Francie came flying into the house. "Oh. mother, the ash-man's +here and I b'lieve he's got a fish with him!" + +"What?" exclaimed mother, but when she looked out she understood. +Sitting in the ash-man's cart was a pretty little boy, with black eyes +and tight curly hair. + +"Is he yours. Mr. Lugi?" mother asked, and the ash-man smiled and +nodded: + +"Yes. mine--my Rafael." + +"Does he go to Sunday-school?" put in Francie eagerly. + +"No, no school--too little, him." + +"Oh, but it's just Sundays and we sing and there's pictures. Couldn't +he please go with me. Mr. Lugi?" begged Francie, "I'll take awful good +care of him." + +Mother explained a little more, and at last Mr. Lugi said Rafael might +go, only--"No dress up, no clothes," he said sadly. + +But that did not trouble Francie. "Why, he can have my brown suit, +can't he, mother? I'd just as soon." + +The next day mother took Francie down to see Mrs. Lugi. Little Rafael +was shy at first, but he soon got over it and was friendly as could +be. The little black-eyed Italian mother was very glad to see them. + +"I like Rafael go the Christ-church," she said. "I use go myself, +home--Italy." + +The brown suit, too small for Francie, was just right for Rafael, and +it would have been hard to find two happier little boys than Francie +and his fish when they walked into the Primary class together. + +Rafael clapped his hands with the rest when Miss Florence pinned the +fish in the river and the red tag on Francie's blouse. + +[Illustration: Miss Florence pinned the fish in the river and the red +tag on Francie's blouse.] + +And what do you think? Out in the big room there were two more new +fish, one in Mother Fisher's class and one in Father Fisher's. They +were Mr. Lugi and the little Italian mother, come to Sunday-school +with their little boy. + +"Really and truly," Francie said, "seem's if I caught three fish +'stead of one." + +"Really and truly," said Mother Fisher, "I think you did." + + * * * * * + +"ALL BY HERSELF." + + +The older children were gone out for the day: mamma was busy in the +sewing room with Miss Fay: Molly was doing the Saturday baking. "What +could Alice do all by herself?" + +This was the very question that popped into the wee girl's own head, +and she trotted off to ask mamma. + +"Here's I," she said, at the sewing room door. "Here's I, all by +myself. What's I goin' do, mamma?" + +"Going to be mamma's good little daughter and amuse yourself this +morning without help from anybody. See how busy I am." + +"Everybody's busy that isn't gone way off," said Alice dolefully. + +"Well, then," said mamma. "Alice must be busy, too, taking care of +herself and making her own good times. See how well she can do it. + +"But first of all," mamma went on, "think what you would like to do or +to have me get for you, and I'll stop a minute now for that, so as to +start you." + +This was an important thing to decide, so Alice went into the next +room and sat down in her kindergarten chair before her table, to think +it out. She folded her arms and sat still about a minute: then she ran +to mamma, exclaiming. "I know now, please get me my snub scissors" (of +course she meant round-pointed) "and some bright paper, and I'll cut +and cut ever so long." + +Mamma dropped her work and got the things. "Now, dear," she said, "see +if you can't get along the rest of the morning by yourself. Dolly and +the picture books are in the dining room. Don't ask me for anything if +you can help it, but keep out of mischief and be as happy as you can." + +Alice went back to her little table and soon had it covered with queer +things. There were the oddest dolls you ever saw, with arms sticking +out like stems: and there were horses with as many legs as could be +put along the whole length of the body. It was great fun to cut them. + +But by and by Alice grew tired of this, and jumped up quickly. Over +went the little table, scattering things everywhere. Such a litter! +"I'll just leave it all," thought Alice. Then a little voice inside +said. "Pick it all up and help mamma." After a minute, the little girl +obeyed this pleasant voice, and picked up every scrap. Then she ran +downstairs without stopping at the sewing room door, though she wanted +to. + +"Peggy Morlinda," she said, taking dolly from her cradle, "is you all +by yourself, too? Isn't it lonesome? Come, I'll put you to sleep." + +Peggy was soon asleep, or supposed to be, though her eyes were still +staring. + +"Now I will go take one little peek at mamma." said Alice, starting +upstairs, but stopping next step. "No. I won't neiver," she said +bravely. "I won't 'sturb mamma one bit." + +After this the little girl found amusement for awhile at the library +window. Next, she went back to the picture books, and read a long +story, all made up out of her own head, to Peggy Morlinda, who woke +up to listen. But what a long morning it was! She did not enjoy it +much, but she made up her mind about one thing--she wouldn't "'sturb +mamma." + +At last papa came home and Alice ran to him to be tossed up and down, +and they had a fine frolic. + +"Have you gotten along nicely with your work?" asked papa of mamma at +dinner. + +"Very nicely, thank you," said mamma. "Alice helped me a great deal!" + +"Alice!" exclaimed papa, looking as surprised as possible. "Can Alice +sew?" + +Mamma laughed. "Oh, no, indeed, not yet," she said, "but she gave me a +fine chance to do it. She amused herself all morning and did not ask +me to do anything for her, so we got on beautifully with the work in +the sewing room." + +[Illustration: "Peggy Morlinda, is you all by yourself, too?"] + +"Good girl," said papa, and Alice looked as happy as she felt. Oh, how +glad she was that she had not left those scraps of paper for mamma to +pick up! It is always safe to listen to the little inward voice that +says, "Do right." + +"Do tell me a story," "What can I play?" "What shall I do next?" the +little folks cry to the grown-ups, and all these things take time to +attend to. If the children who are too small to do any work to "help +mamma," would oftener amuse themselves, as Alice did, they would help +much more than perhaps they think.--_Written for Dew Drops by Mary +Harris_. + + * * * * * + +OUR SKATING RINK. + + The wind blew shrill, the sky was gray: + "Oh, dear," sighed Molly, "how it rains! + Let's think of some new game to play, + I'm getting very tired of trains." + + "I know," said Jack: "it will be fun!" + And seized some paper, pen and ink; + "Look, look," cried Susie, "what he's done: + He's written, 'To the Skating Rink!'" + + The children thought it strange of him + To pin it up upon the wall; + "We haven't any skates," said Jim; + "It isn't any good at all." + + But Jack looked wise. "Oh, yes," said he, + "I've thought of just the very thing; + These railway trucks do splendidly-- + We'll tie them on our feet with string." + + They did, and all began to skate. + But Jack, I fear, was rather rash; + He _would_ start off at such a rate + That down he tumbled with a crash! + + He wasn't hurt. "I'm quite all right," + He cried, and scrambled up again; + And on they skated with delight, + Forgetting all about the rain! + --_Selected_. + + * * * * * + +Why Betty Changed Her Mind + +By Marie Deacon Hanson + +[Illustration] + + +Each day, on her way to school, Betty called for Robbie Porter. There +were two reasons why she did this. One was that she had promised Mrs. +Porter she would, the other was that the little boy's mother always +gave Betty a cooky, or a piece of candy, or sometimes a penny. Betty +never wanted anyone to know about this second reason, which made her +feel ashamed of herself, whenever she thought of it. + +"Just as if you couldn't do a kind thing for your neighbor without +expecting to get something for doing it," she would say scornfully to +herself. + +One afternoon, Mrs. Porter met Betty in the grocery, and said to her: +"Deary, shall you mind calling for Robbie about ten minutes earlier in +the morning? I want to go to the city on the eight-thirty train." And +before Betty could answer, she added. "Of course, Robbie could go by +himself now that he has learned the way, but he does so enjoy going +with you." + +"And I don't mind one bit calling for him," Betty hastened to assure +Mrs. Porter. "I'll come early in the morning." + +On the way home from the store. Betty saw her cousin, Julia Norton, +coming eagerly to meet her. + +"Betty," Julia cried, "mother sent me to ask you to stay all night. +Cousin Lottie has come, and mother says we can pop corn and have a +good time. And you must be sure to bring your books so you can go +right to school in the morning from our house." + +"That will be lovely," Betty exclaimed delightedly. There were few +treats she enjoyed more than going to her aunt's home. + +Julia ran off to speak to another girl, and Betty following, suddenly +remembered Robbie. How could she call for him if she were at her +aunt's? + +The latter lived on the other side of the village, and it would be far +out of Betty's way to call for Robbie. + +[Illustration: "I'm sorry I can't call for Robbie in the morning."] + +"I just won't bother about him," she decided. + +But even as she did so, she remembered that she had not only promised +to call for Robbie in the morning, but to call for him earlier than +usual and his mother would depend upon her. + +"Oh, dear! What shall I do?" Betty cried impatiently. + +A small voice seemed to answer in her ear, and it sounded so real that +Betty actually turned to see if the owner were near: "Do as you would +be done by." + +"Why, that's the Golden Rule," Betty quickly exclaimed. "And mother +says if you do as the Golden Rule tells you, you'll never be unhappy. +What does it tell me to do now?" She stood in thought for a moment, +and the next, she ran to overtake her cousin. + +"Julia, please give this sugar to mother," Betty said, placing the +bag in her cousin's band. "And tell her that I've gone to Mrs. +Porter's and I'll be right back." + +Betty flew down the street to Mrs. Porter's and knocked hurriedly on +the door. + +"Why, Betty, what is it, dear?" Mrs. Porter asked in surprise, as the +former rushed into the room, in response to the invitation to enter. + +"I'm sorry I can't call for Robbie in the morning. I'm going to Aunt +Fanny's to stay all night," Betty explained breathlessly. + +"It is thoughtful of you to come and tell me now, dear," Mrs. Porter +replied. "I'll ask Jennie Lee to stop for Robbie in the morning. I +hope you will have a nice visit at your aunt's." + +"I know I shall," Betty answered happily. "I'll call for Robbie the +next day, Mrs. Porter." And away the little girl tripped, +light-hearted as could be. That is the way it makes one feel to follow +the Golden Rule. + + * * * * * + +JACK'S MASTER. + + +Jack's most delightful present last Christmas was a red wooden gun, +with arrows that would shoot very hard indeed. At least Jack thought +it was delightful, but his mamma did not; those little pointed wooden +arrows that flew so far and hit so hard made her very uneasy, for fear +her little boy would presently hurt somebody. + +But mammas hate to spoil their little boys' fun, and Jack's mamma made +an arrangement by which it was agreed that he was to have his gun, +provided that he never pointed it at anybody, even in play. + +Jack was quick enough to promise; he meant to keep his promise, too; +and I think would have kept it if it hadn't been for his master. You +didn't know Jack had a master? No more did he know it till the day he +had to give up his gun. + +You see, Jack had a little brother, two years younger than himself, +who was a very spirit of mischief, and loved above all things to tease +big Jack. One day, when the two boys were playing together, pretending +to be wild Indians out in the woods. Will began to tease Jack by +saying: "There was a little man, and he had a little gun," and all the +rest of that little song. I don't know why this teased Jack, but he +got madder and madder, until, alas! in spite of his promise, he +pointed his gun--not at the "duck--duck--duck," but at Will, and +struck him on the cheek. + +Now it was not the wooden arrow with which his gun was loaded this +time, but one leg of a sharp steel hairpin, and it went into the cheek +and stuck there like a little dagger. + +Half an hour later the red gun was in ashes on mamma's hearth, while +mamma herself and both boys sat sorrowfully by its grave. + +"Mamma," said Jack, "I didn't mean to shoot Will, but somehow I +couldn't help it." + +"No," said mamma, shaking her head: "I forgot when I let you keep the +gun that you had a master." + +"A master?" asked Jack, in surprise. + +"Yes," said mamma, "you obey Bad Temper's orders, though you don't +always obey mine." + +"Mamma," said Jack, presently, "I think I'll leave Bad Temper's +service. He gets me into a heap of trouble." + +"Do, Jack," she said, smiling brightly at him. "And while you are +getting rid of a bad master, remember that you have a good one, the +Lord Jesus, on whose banner is written, 'Putting away all wrath and +clamor.'" + +Little Will listened very soberly to all this, with a red hole in his +cheek, and both chubby hands resting on his bare knees. I hope he made +up his mind, too, to choose the good Master.--_Selected_. + + * * * * * + +WHAT MAKES MEN? + + What care I for cold or snow? + School bell rings, and off I go! + I am ready for the storm, + And my heart is light and gay; + Mother's hand has wrapped me warm, + As I trudge along the way. + + Mother says, "Learn all you can, + Then you'll be a better man." + So I pack my books and go. + Through the rain or wind or snow; + For I hope some day to be + Just the man she'd like to see. + + Well I know that boys must learn + To be ready for each turn, + Never idle nor afraid. + By rough struggles men are made. + So each morning, off I start. + With a merry, willing heart. + --_Selected_. + + + * * * * * + +LUCILE'S SURPRISE. + + +It was a bitter cold day in January, so cold that the children ran all +the way to school. It was snowing, too, and blowing as hard as it +could. A very small crowd was in the classroom that morning, and +everyone began to wonder why. + +"Not on account of the cold, surely," declared Edith Watts. "Why, it's +just fine to be out to-day. And I know Lucile would never stay away +because it was cold. She has too much spunk for that." + +But still Lucile didn't come, and everyone wondered: for she never was +sick, and had said nothing the day before about staying away. + +[Illustration: "I want her to awaken from a nap and find the kittens +swinging in the basket."] + +At the last moment Polly Dalton came hurrying in, saying, "Girls' +there's a scarlet fever sign on Dayres' door, so Lucile must be sick. +The nun was putting the sign up as I came by." + +Later in the day it was found that several other children had fever, +or were afraid to come out lest they should get it, so the Hill School +was closed for a week. Edith Watts was very lonely without her little +friend, and spent much of her time writing letters to her, or in +thinking of nice things to do for her. + +"I wish I could think of something very, _very_ sweet to do for her, +something that would make her happy all the time," she said. "It must +be so lonely and stupid for her to stay in the same room all the time, +never seeing any other children." + +"Keep thinking about it and the right thought will come to you," mamma +told her, and mamma's advice turned out to be right, as usual. + +Two days later, Edith came downstairs, her face shining. + +"I know, mamma. I know what will make Lucile happy every day in the +whole six weeks she must stay in the house. The kittens! I will give +her my kittens. It has been nearly two weeks since she has seen them, +and they have grown so much and their fur has fluffed out so +beautifully she will hardly know them." + +And the kittens were lovely. Who wouldn't want a present like that? +Edith loved them with all her heart, but she didn't for one minute +want to keep them for herself when she knew they would make Lucile +happy. She put them carefully in a basket, covering them well to keep +out the cold. A nice Indian hanging-basket that she had used for a +swing for the pets was packed, too, and then papa took the "happy +thought," as mamma called it, to Lucile's home. + +"Remember, it must be a surprise for her," his small daughter reminded +him as he left the house. "I want her to awaken from a nap and find +the kittens swinging in the basket just where she can see them." + +And that is the way Lucile saw them. If they ever had looked sweet to +Edith's eyes, they looked a thousand times more so to Lucile's poor, +tired ones. + +"Oh-h-h!" she exclaimed, with a long-drawn, happy sigh. "You darling +darlings! Have you come to stay, or are you only visitors?" + +The basket with its dainty load hung from a picture-hook near by, and +the new-comers looked quite contented to stay. They jumped into the +bed and did all they knew to cure the little girl. And they really +helped.--_Written for Dew Drops by Elizabeth Roberts Burton_. + + * * * * * + +Knowledge Box + +When Lapland Babies Go to Church. + + +When Sunday morning comes, the Lapland father harnesses his reindeer +to the sleigh. Father and mother wrap themselves in fur coats and put +a fur coat on the baby, and away they go over the snow to church, it +may be ten or even fifteen miles, for the reindeer can go a good deal +faster than a horse. + +But the old Lapland custom of caring for the babies while the grown +people are in church, you never would guess. For as soon as the +reindeer is made secure, the father Lapp shovels out a snug little bed +in the snow, and when it is ready the mother Lapp wraps the baby snug +and warm in skins and lays it down there. Then the father Lapp piles +the snow around and over the baby, when they go into the church and +leave the baby in the snow. So common is this that sometimes there are +twenty or thirty babies, down to the little wee-est ones, buried in +snow around the church. + +You might think the babies would suffocate, but they do not, nor do +they freeze. In fact, the snow does not make them cold. For when it +covers anyone all over, if they have clothes enough on, so the snow +will not melt and wet them, it will keep them warm. And as the little +Lapland babies are not strong enough to knock the snow away and let in +the cold, they just lie there safe and warm and go to sleep. + +When church is out the father Lapp goes to the spot where his baby is, +puts his hands down into the snow, pulls the baby our and shakes the +snow off it; then the reindeer is unfastened, father and mother tuck +themselves and the baby in the sleigh, and over the snow away they +trot home again.--_Written for Dew Drops by Adele E. Thompson._ + + * * * * * + +MOTHER HULDA'S FEATHER BED. + + +How many children know what the boys and girls of far-off Norway +sometimes think when they see the dainty, feathery snowflakes flying +softly and silently through the air? I don't think there are many of +you who do know, so I will tell you the story. + +If we were there when they have the first snowstorm of the season we +could hear them shouting gleefully to each other: "See! oh, see! +Mother Hulda is shaking her feather bed." + +There is a story about this Mother Hulda and her feather bed that is +told to the little ones there. She lives, it is said, far, far above +this busy world, with the clouds for her home, the sun for a lamp and +fire. + +She is always very busy, and especially so at the beginning of the +winter, for then she has to unpack her great feather bed, and after +that is done she spends all of her time shaking it. Indeed she shakes +it so much that she wears many holes in it, through which the feathers +fly in all directions. The wind catches them up and carries them +gently to the earth, where they cover the bare limbs of the trees, +making them beautiful, and where they spread lightly on the ground and +protect the roots of the flowers from the cold winter winds. + +Mother Hulda does not tire of shaking her bed until the warmer spring +winds begin to blow; then she packs it away until she sees Jack Frost +traveling again over the world below, and finds traces of the +mischievous fellow even in her lofty home.--_Selected_. + + * * * * * + +OUR LESSON.--March 8. + + * * * * * + +PREPARED BY MARGUERITE COOK. + + * * * * * + +Title.--Watchfulness (Temperance Lesson).--Luke 12:35-48. + +Golden Text.--Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh +shall find watching.--Luke 12:37. + +_Golden Text for Beginners_.--_Even a child maketh himself known by +his doings_.--Prov. 20:11. + +Truth.--Be always ready. + +1. Jesus told his disciples that they must be always ready and +watching for his coming. + +[Illustration] + +2. He told them to be like faithful servants, who, with their lights +burning, wait for the return of their absent master. + +3. He said that the master who should come home and find his servants +watching for him would be pleased. + +[Illustration] + +4. He would invite them to sit down at his table, and he would serve +them himself. + +5. Those faithful servants would receive a blessing. + +6. Jesus warns us all to watch and be faithful about our work, so that +when he comes again we will be ready. + +7. He says that no one knows the day nor the hour when he will return. + +8. The master chooses the faithful servants to rule over his house. + +9. The unfaithful servant will not be found watching when his master +shall come. + +10. He will spend his time in eating and drinking and abusing his +fellow-servants. + +[Illustration] + +11. The master will come when he is not expected, and will see these +evil deeds and punish the servant for his unfaithfulness. + + * * * * * + +QUESTIONS. + +What is the Golden Text? + +What is the Truth? + +1. For what did Jesus tell his disciples to watch? + +2. Like whom did he tell them to be? + +3. Who would be pleased to find his servants watching? + +4. What would he invite them to do? + +5. What would they receive if found faithful? + +6. What does Jesus warn us all to do? + +7. Who knows when Jesus will return? + +8. Who will be made ruler over his master's house? + +9. Who will not be found watching? + +10. How will he spend his time? + +11. Who will come when he is not expected? + + * * * * * + +LESSON HYMN. + +_Tune_--"Jesus loves me, this I know," omitting chorus (E flat). + + When our work on earth is done, + Jesus calls us, every one; + Let us work, and watch, and pray, + For his coming, every day. + + * * * * * + +Title of Lesson for March 15. + +The Lawful Use of the Sabbath.--Luke 13:10-17; 14:1-6. + + * * * * * + +Golden Text for March 15. + +The sabbath was made for man.--Mark 2:27. + + * * * * * + +Beginners Golden Text for March 15. + +_Even a child maketh himself known by his doings_.--Prov. 20:11. + + * * * * * + +Advice to Boys and Girls + +The Difference it Made. + + +"What a sweet voice that little child in the red cloak has!" said a +visitor in Sunday-school to a teacher, as together they listened to +the children raising their song of praise. + +"Yes, isn't it sweet? And she always sings just so heartily," was the +reply. + +A little later, the school closed and, the children on their way +home, the visitor chanced to pass by the child in the red cloak, just +in time to hear her say angrily to her nurse, who had called for her: + +"I don't want to go this way--I want to go through the park. I won't! +I won't go through that horrid old street!" + +"But, Miss Mazie, your mamma said we were to go straight home and not +stay in the park to-day." + +Upon this, the little lady marched away, with pouting lips and injured +mien. + +"Ah," thought the lady, "what a difference it makes in the voice when +one speaks angrily! No matter how sweet it may be, how harsh and +unloving angry words make it!" + +What a pity that Mazie did not keep her voice as musical and birdlike +as it was when she was singing her morning song of praise! Think of +this, little readers, and when you are tempted to be angry and speak +in cross tones, instead of making your voice unpleasant to hear, +endeavor to make it sweet and loving. + + * * * * * + +Thoughts for Mothers + +The Earnest Mother. + + +Mothers seldom realize the influence they exert in molding the lives +of their children. It is the faithful teaching, as well as the +consistent practicing of an earnest mother which results in forming +characters of nobility and uprightness in the sons and daughters. The +work cannot be begun too early. From their very birth, our children +receive impressions. What the character of these impressions is +depends upon surrounding influences. A true mother's influence should +last long after she is at rest. Said Thomas H. Benton: "My mother +asked me never to use tobacco; I have never touched it from that time +to the present day. She asked me not to gamble, and I have never +gambled, and I cannot tell who is losing in games that are being +played. She admonished me, too, against hard drinking, and whatever +capacity for endurance I have at present, and whatever usefulness I +may have attained in life, I have attributed to having complied with +her pious and correct wishes. When I was seven years of age she asked +me not to drink, and then I made a resolution of total abstinence; and +that I have adhered to it through all time, I owe to my mother." + +Mothers, do not think your little ones are too young to receive +advice; it is true they may not act upon it for many years, but they +will remember it and follow it sometime. + + * * * * * + +HURRAH FOR THE BOY THAT WHISTLES. + + Hurrah for the boy that whistles! + Just now he passed by here. + The rain dripped down from his sodden crown, + But his whistle sounded clear; + And it made my task seem easier, + And my heart grew brave and strong, + Hurrah for the boy that whistles! + He helps the world along. + --_Written for Dew Drops by Bertha E. Bush._ + + * * * * * + +[Entered at the Post Office at Elgin, Ill., as Second Class Mail Matter.] + +Price of Dew Drops.--In lots of five or more, to one address, 20 cents +per copy per year, or 5-1/2 cents per copy per quarter. Address, + +DAVID C. 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