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diff --git a/old/14138.txt b/old/14138.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8036191 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/14138.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1218 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Dew Drops, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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 + Volume 37, No. 18, May 3, 1914 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: November 24, 2004 [EBook #14138] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEW DROPS *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Suzanne Lybarger and the PG Online +Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + + + + + +DEW DROPS + + +VOL. 37. No. 18. WEEKLY. + + +DAVID C. COOK PUBLISHING CO., ELGIN, ILLINOIS. + +GEORGE E. COOK. EDITOR. + +MAY 3, 1914. + + + + +THE SINGING HEART + +By ELIZABETH NOYES + + +It was a warm May afternoon: all the little flowers were stretching up +their heads to catch the rain that was falling patter-spatter +everywhere. Francis stood by the window pouting. He had been playing +lovely games outside, and now the rain had spoiled his fun. + +Mother was at her sewing machine. She felt sorry for Francis, he was +such a little boy and he had no playmates, but she was too busy to +invent games for him. But he began to make up one for himself. He came +and stood by the machine and hummed as it hummed, louder and louder. +Then the humming almost died away, as mother ran the wheel slower. + +[Illustration: Mother was at her sewing machine.] + +"Oh, dear." Francis said. "I want something to do." Just then he heard a +robin singing in the rain. He tried to sing with the bird, as he had +hummed with the machine, and was surprised that he couldn't. + +"Why can't I, mamma?" he asked. + +"Because you are Francis, and the robin is robin, I suspect," said +mother, laughing. "You can do many things that the robin can't, you +know." + +Francis threw himself down on the sofa and watched the bird as it swung +back and forth in the apple tree, and by and by he dropped asleep. When +he woke up he ran to the window to find the robin. + +"Oh, he's gone," he said, very disappointed. "Did you hear what he told +me, mamma?" + +Mother shook her head. + +"Why, he said to me that little boys can't sing with their lips as +sweetly as birds can, but they can sing with their hearts: are you sure +you didn't hear him, mother?" + +"I'm sure as sure," said mother. "But I know that's what you heard him +say in your dream for it's true as can be." + +"What did he mean, mother?" + +"He meant that in spite of rain, little boys can be happy, just as the +birds are, and can carry smiling faces to show they have singing +hearts." + +Francis laughed happily. "I'll try to have a singing heart. Oh, the +sun's out, and I'm going out to find the robin." + + + + +THREADING NEEDLES. + + +Mrs. Sargent's sunny sitting room was a very busy place that Wednesday +afternoon. + +Four long sticks with their corners fastened together by wooden pegs, +and placed on the backs of chairs, made a large frame in the center of +the apartment. On this frame there were basted, first, some strips of +pale blue cheesecloth sewed together, then cotton wadding was arranged +evenly over this, and over all another large square of cheesecloth of +dainty pink, was placed. + +Now, I dare say that all you little readers know what this meant. It was +a quilting-frame, of course, and the half-dozen ladies gathered around +it were busily engaged in tying a comfortable; and, more-over, that same +comfortable was to be sent to a good missionary out on our Western +frontier. + +There was a big box of other things to be sent, too--but never mind +about them now; it is the pink and blue comfortable in which we are most +interested. + +Little Ruth Sargent was also interested in it. She wished that she were +tall enough and nimble enough with her fingers to help fasten the pretty +little tufts of white Saxony yarn that tied the comfortable. The work +must be very pleasant to do, for the ladies seemed so happy. + +How nice it was to think of making a sensible gift like that, to keep +the dear missionary lady warm during the long, cold winter nights in far +North Dakota! + +Presently, a round, fluffy, white something tumbled off the +quilting-frame and rolled along on the carpet beneath. + +"Oh, there goes my ball of Saxony!" exclaimed Mrs. Dalton. "I was trying +to thread my needle--my eyes aren't as good as they used to be--and the +yarn slipped out of my hand." + +Now, Mrs. Sargent didn't have to tell her daughter to pick up the +worsted ball, for Ruth was a polite little thing, and the ball had +hardly ceased rolling, before she had scrambled under the quilting-frame +and picked it up. Then she thought of another polite thing to do. + +"Please let me thread your needle, Mrs. Dalton," she said sweetly. + +"Oh, thank you, deary, that will be such a help!" the lady replied. + +"My! my!" laughed the other ladies. "Now, Mrs. Dalton, you will beat us +all in tying, for you've got a fine assistant!" + +"Why, I can thread all the needles," Ruth said, her eyes shining. And so +she did. Needle after needle was threaded with the white yarn, and it +really was surprising to see how much faster the ladies could work. It +wasn't long before all the surface of the comfortable was filled with +rows of neat, white tufts and was ready to be ripped from the frame and +have its edges finished with herringbone stitches. + +And Ruth felt very happy, for though she was only seven years old, she +had helped in the making of the pretty comfortable for the dear +missionary lady away out in Dakota. + +--_Written for Dew Drops by Mary E.Q. Brush_. + + + + +THE SANDMAN. + + + The Sandman comes at set of sun, + Just when the happy day is done, + And when the quiet night's begun. + + You hear him softly, softly creep, + And if you turn around to peep + He throws the sand that makes you sleep! + + But don't be frightened--he is kind: + His sand will never make you blind, + But only close your eyes, you'll find. + + He's like a dear and gentle friend: + His pleasant task it is to send + Sweet dreams to follow playtime's end. + + I've stayed up late, and tried to see + The Sandman passing close to me-- + I've been as still as still could be. + + But he is quicker than a wink! + He didn't give me time to think, + But made me yawn and stretch and blink. + + He buried me so deep in sand + I dropped right into Slumberland-- + Though _how_ I cannot understand! + + +--_Written for Dew Drops by Rose Ralph._ + + + + +The Eastern Mail + +By MAY G. MOOAR + + +For a long time Teddy had wanted a cart, and when his seventh birthday +came, there by the back door stood the "Eastern Mail" with a birthday +letter from grandpa on the seat: + +"Dear Teddy," it said, "I know you've wanted a cart for a long time so I +hope you will like my birthday present. Have a good time with it, and +give somebody else a good time with it, too." + + "Your loving, + "Grandpa." + + +Teddy played nearly all day with his new present, and for a week he +cared for very little else. One day he raced up the walk, dragging his +cart behind him, and dropped down on the piazza steps near where mother +was sitting. + +"That's a dandy cart, mother," he exclaimed. "Jack Hoyt says it's the +best one on the street. It's awfully strong, and it can go just as fast +as anything. I tell you grandpa got a great bargain when he got the +Eastern Mail." + +[Illustration: Teddy played nearly every day with his cart.] + +"Then you're doing just what grandpa wrote you to do with the cart?" +mother asked. + +"What's that? Have a good time with it?" Teddy answered. "I guess I am. +I just wish grandpa could see how many miles that cart goes a day." + +"But grandpa wanted you to do something else with it, too," mother +added. "Do you remember about that?" + +"No, I don't," Teddy replied slowly. Then after a minute's thought he +exclaimed, "Oh! He said to give somebody else a good time, too, didn't +he, mother?" + +Mother nodded. + +"But I don't see how I can give anybody else a good time with it except +Mary and Ned, for all the boys have either a cart or a bicycle or +something, so they don't care about playing with mine." + +"Well, dear, keep watch and see what else you can do. There may be some +chances to make somebody else happy. Will you take this jelly over to +old Mrs. Atwood, now? She's been sick again." + +Teddy started off with the jelly, and in half an hour he came rushing +back with his face beaming. + +"Oh, mother," he called. "Mrs. Atwood says that Mrs. Carter will give +her a stove for her sitting room, but she thinks it's going to cost a +lot to get it moved. It's only a little one, and do you s'pose I could +take it over from Mrs. Carter's in my cart?" + +"I'm sure you could, if it's not very big," mother answered heartily. "I +guess Mrs. Carter's son would lift it in for you, and we could find some +man to get it out at Mrs. Atwood's." + +Teddy ran to the cellar for the Eastern Mail and in a few minutes it was +rattling down the street towards Mrs. Carter's. + +"I've come to move that stove over to Mrs. Atwood's," he explained +politely, when Mrs. Carter opened the door. + +"Do you think it will go in your cart?" the lady asked in surprise. +"Wait just a minute, and I'll get my son to see if he thinks it can go +in that way." + +Rob Carter was as sure as Teddy himself, and in a little while the stove +was aboard, and Teddy was carefully drawing the Eastern Mail to Mrs. +Atwood's, and Rob Carter went along to steady the stove and lift it out +when they got there. + +"I can't thank you enough," Mrs. Atwood said when the stove was in +place. "It's helped me a lot to get the stove brought over." + +And as the Eastern Mail turned toward home she slipped a couple of +lovely cookies into its owner's hand. + + + + +WHY MINNIE COULD NOT SLEEP. + + +She sat up in bed. The curtain was drawn up and she saw the moon, and it +looked as if it were laughing at her. + +"You need not look at me, moon," she said. "You don't know about it; you +can't see in the daytime. Besides, I am going to sleep." + +She lay down and tried to go to sleep. Her clock on the mantel went +"tick-tock, tick-tock." She generally liked to hear it, but to-night it +sounded just as if it said, "I know, I know, I know." + +"You don't know, either," said Minnie, opening her eyes wide. "You +weren't there, you old thing! You were upstairs." + +Her loud noise awoke the parrot. He took his head from under his wing +and cried out, "Polly did!" + +"That's a wicked story, you naughty bird," said Minnie. "You were in +grandma's room; so now!" + +Then Minnie tried to go to sleep again. She lay down and counted white +sheep, just as grandma said she did when she couldn't sleep. But there +was a big lump in her throat. "Oh, I wish I hadn't!" + +Pretty soon there came a very soft patter of four little feet, and her +pussy jumped upon the bed, kissed Minnie's cheek, and then began to +"pur-r-r-r, pur-r-r." It was very queer, but that, too, sounded as if +pussy said, "I know, I know." + +"Yes, you do know, kitty," said Minnie, and then she threw her arms +around kitty's neck and cried bitterly. "And--I guess--I +want--to--see--my--mamma!" + +Mamma opened her eyes when she saw the little weeping girl coming, and +then Minnie told her the miserable story. + +"I was awfully naughty, mamma, but I did want the custard pie so bad, +and so I ate it up, 'most a whole pie, and then--I--I--I--Oh, I don't +want to tell, but I 'spect I must; I shut kitty in the pantry to make +you think she did it. But I'm truly sorry, mamma." + +Then mamma told Minnie that she had known all about it. But she had +hoped that the little daughter would be brave enough to tell her all +about it herself. + +"But mamma," she asked, "how did you know it wasn't kitty?" + +"Because kitty would never have left a spoon in the pie," replied mamma, +smiling. + +--_Selected._ + + + + +HOW ROBBIE HELPED. + + +Little Robbie Denham was a good boy, though very active and full of +play. + +Aunt Abbie Peyton had been spending a few days with the Denhams, and one +afternoon as she sat talking with Robbie, she said: + +"Do you do something to help someone each day, Robbie?" + +Robbie laid Nab, the kitten, down and sat in deep thought for a moment, +after which he answered: + +"I pick up kindlings for mamma and run errands for her. Is that what you +mean, Aunt Abbie?" + +"It is a part of what I mean. You should be very kind and helpful to the +dear ones at home. But I was hoping you could find some way to help +someone outside of your own home. Of course, you are a little boy, but +you can do some small thing for an aged or helpless one." + +"I don't know of anything now, auntie; but I'll keep on the watch to +see." + +"That is right. We should be on the lookout to see what work there is +for as to do." + +The next morning as Robbie was having a fine run with his dog Rover, he +saw Granny Dorn, who was lame, hobbling along to get her cow, which had +gone down the lane to eat grass. + +[Illustration: Robbie was playing with Rover.] + +"I could do that kind of work for granny," said Robbie, "but it's such a +pretty morning, and Rover does play so nice!" Then he walked along +slowly for a moment, until a bright thought came to him. "Why, I can run +with Rover after the cow, and come back slower, so as to be rested for +another run." Away he went until he overtook granny, and said: + +"I'll get your cow every night and morning, if you wish. Just see how +fast I can go! But I'll be careful and not run the cow, 'cause my papa +says they will not give so much milk if you do." + +"That is a good boy," said the old woman. "I'm going to bake some +seed-cakes, to-day, and I'll give you a couple." + +"But I do not ask anything. I just wanted to help you a little. Auntie +Peyton told me to try to do something to help folks, 'cause that's +right." + +When Robbie had driven granny's cow into the yard, he ran home and told +Aunt Abbie: + +"It's 'most as good as just running with Rover; and getting the cow +helps granny, you know. Is that the kind of work you wanted me to do?" + +"Yes, dear. I am sure you have made a very good beginning. You can see +if there is anything else for you to do. If one learns to keep his eyes +open, he will have a chance to help a good many people." + +"I'm going to keep my eyes open, Aunt Abbie." + +--_Written for Dew Drops by Rosalie Sill._ + + + + +THE MAKING OF A BOOK. + + + Miss Fanny has a little niece who lives so far away + That she has never seen her, though she's six months old to-day. + To be an aunt, Miss Fanny said there was so much to learn + Of proper auntly methods she knew not where to turn. + She'd never been an aunt before, and knew not how to be, + And so she asked if I should mind her practicing on me? + She bought a long thick blank book bound in leather, gold and brown. + And first we did the lovely things, and then she wrote them down. + + There's chapter one, called "Going to bed, and how to make it fun"; + And chapter two "On dressing dolls, and how it should be done"; + And chapter three (the one by me), called "Things about the dark"; + And chapter four we did last week, "On going to the park." + We're working now on "Cookies" (and we find they're apt to burn), + And after that is written down, there's not much more to learn. + Now if you ever meet an aunt who's not exactly right. + Just borrow dear Miss Fanny's book, and leave it out in sight! + + +--_Selected._ + + + + +DONALD'S "FORGETTERY." + + +"Oh, I forgot!" It was Donald excusing himself for leaving the gate of +the chicken yard open, and now the pansy bed was all scratched up. +Bessie was in tears, and Don was almost crying. + +"What shall I do with a little boy who is always forgetting?" mamma +asked very gently. She had tried so many different ways to have Donald +learn to remember. + +"Mamma, let's have a forgetter, for Don, or any of us. Just a big +closet--that one upstairs with the window will do. Let's put all our +forgets in there. Anything that's spoiled because we forget it, goes in +there, for us to mend or to think of some way to make good. If we +forget, we have to go there for the very next hour--unless it's +schooltime--no matter how we want to do something else." + +"Shall we try that, Donald?" asked mamma. She knew that Uncle Rod was +coming within that hour to take the children to ride. + +Donald knew it, too, but his voice did not falter, "Yes, mamma, let's +begin now. I do want to stop forgetting." + +So up to the big closet they went, mamma, and Donald, each carrying some +of the wilted pansy plants. There was a low stool to sit on, and there +Donald spent the next hour thinking as he had never thought before. He +heard Uncle Rod come and go away again. + +[Illustration: Donald spent the next hour thinking.] + +It was a long time before Donald forgot again, then for days it seemed +as if he almost could not remember. Every day for a week, he had to +spend an hour in the "forgettery." Not one of the other children had had +to use it, so it began to be called "Donald's forgettery." He had +invented a little play with the figures on the paper and the boards in +the floor, so the time did not seem long at all. He was laughing when +mamma came to let him out, and she asked what he was doing, and so +Donald told her of his game. + +Then mamma asked Donald if it was quite right to play, when he was put +there to think. Of course it wasn't. He had not thought of it that way. +He had grown careless, because of this game, and to-day Uncle Rod had +come again and this time Donald had missed going to the city and seeing +the new steamer that was to be launched. + +"I want to stay here another hour to-day, mamma, and it'll be the very +last time I'll have to come. I'm going to think so hard I never can +forget." It was the hardest thing Donald could remember ever happening, +losing this trip with Uncle Rob. + +As he promised mamma, it was the last time he ever forgot anything he +ought to remember. + +Then the forgettery had a new use. All the children would open the door +and put in things they wanted to forget. Bessie put in her hurt +feelings, when Alice forgot to come for her on the way to Mabel's party. +Donald put in his anger, when Ben let go of the kite string and it +sailed away never to come back. Robert put in his disappointment when +papa wanted him to work in the garden instead of going fishing. + +--_Written for Dew Drops by Willametta Preston._ + + + + +A SOFT ANSWER. + + +"Oh, Emma, where are you going?" asked Kitty, as she ran after her +sister. + +"I'm not going to tell you where I'm going; so there!" replied Emma. + +"You're just the hatefulest girl I ever saw," said Kitty, beginning to +cry. + +These two little girls did not remember the verse their teacher had +given them the Sunday before. It was this: "A soft answer turneth away +wrath, but grievous words stir up anger." Emma's rough answer stirred up +an angry feeling in Kitty's heart. They were grievous words and brought +a reply of the same kind. How much better it is to help each other to do +right and to be gentle. + +Miss Maggie had heard what the girls said, for she was just coming into +the house. She had a rose in her hand, and just as Emma ran away, +leaving Kitty in tears, she held out the rose, saying to Kitty: + +"Smell it, dear; is it not beautiful?" + +The sweet words and the beautiful flower calmed Kitty's angry heart. +Miss Maggie told her to keep the rose, and when Emma came home, instead +of finding a cross little sister she found Kitty very happy. + +"Come see my rose," said Kitty. Emma smelled it and said, "Oh! How sweet +it is!" and they forgot their unkind feelings. + +What power there is in a gentle word. Kind actions, too, are opposed to +anger; the good will drive out the bad. + +"Do your duty as if you enjoyed it." + +--_Selected._ + + + + +Why should soldiers be rather tired on the first of April? + +Because they have just had a march of thirty-one days. + + + + ++---------------+ +| | +| Knowledge Box | +| | ++---------------+ + +Strange Little Duckbill. + + +If you lived in Australia, you would hear the natives call the little +duckbill by three different names--Tambreet, or Tohunbuck, or +Mallangong. Are they not queer-sounding names? + +But the little duckbill is a queer animal, too. Its mouth looks like a +duck's bill. Some people name it the Water Mole, because its fur looks +like the mole's coat, and because it is fond of the water. + +When dogs first see Master Duckbill, they watch him waddle along in his +funny, awkward way and bark at him, but they will not touch him. When +cats first see this queer creature, they scamper quickly out of sight. + +Master Duckbill is a skillful burrower and makes long tunnels in the +earth with his strong claws. His round body is thickly covered, first, +with woolly fur and then with long hairs. A leathery hanging protects +his round eyes from the earth in which he burrows. + +Being fond of the water, he always builds near a stream--usually by some +quiet pond or the still, wide part of a river. He makes two doorways. +One he reaches by land; the other, by diving into the water. The land +door is always carefully hidden under weeds or bending plants, so that +no stranger can find it. Yet, often you can see the footprints of this +little worker in the wet soil. + +To look at Master Duckbill, you would not think he is so active: and he +is so strong that you could not hold him in your hands. He is a +wonderful climber; so that, if you had him in your house, you would soon +see him running up your bookshelves or clambering along some other piece +of furniture. He would put his back against the wall, his feet against +the bookcase, and thus he would travel upward to the top. Sometimes boys +try to climb up a barn that way. + +When Master Duckbill is swimming, he looks like the bunches of weeds +floating in the water. But he cannot stay there too long, for he grows +very tired trying to float. He will leave the water and travel through +his curving hallway till he comes to the end where his nest is. There, +resting on a soft bed of grasses and dry weeds, he finds his two baby +duckbills. They are only ten inches long, but Master Duckbill is proud +of them. And well he might be. Do you not think so? + +--_Written for Dew Drops by Susanne C. Umlauf._ + + + + +GOOD-NIGHT + + + Good-night, pretty sun, good-night; + I've watched your purple and golden light, + While you are sinking away. + And someone has just been telling me + You're making, over the shining sea, + Another beautiful day: + That just at the time I am going to sleep, + The children there are taking peep + At your face--beginning to say + "Good-morning!" just when I say, "Good-night!" + Now, beautiful sun, if they've told me right, + I wish you'd say good-morning for me + To all the little ones over the sea. + + +--_Sel._ + + + + +OUR LESSON.--For May 3. + + * * * * * + +PREPARED BY MARGUERITE COOK. + + * * * * * + +Title.--The Prodigal Son (Temperance Lesson).--Luke 15:11-32. + +Golden Text.--I will arise and go to my father.--Luke 15:18. + +_Golden Text for Beginners._--_God is love._--1 John 4:8. + +Truth.--The Lord will receive all who return to him. + +1. Jesus told the people a parable, or story, about a man who had two +sons. + +2. The younger one asked for his share of his father's money to spend as +he pleased. + +[Illustration] + +3. He took the money and went away, and soon wasted it in sin and rich +living. + +[Illustration] + +4. When he had spent it all, he found that he had no money or friends. + +5. He hired out to a man to feed swine. + +6. He was so hungry that he wanted to eat the swine's food. + +7. He felt very sorry that he had been so selfish and wicked. + +[Illustration] + +8. He said to himself, "I will arise and go to my father." + +[Illustration] + +9. His father saw him coming, and ran out to meet him and kissed him. + +[Illustration] + +10. He gave him new clothes and a ring. + +[Illustration] + +11. He made a great feast, and wanted everyone to rejoice because his +son had come home. + +12. God is our loving Father, and he rejoices when we turn away from sin +and come back to him. + + * * * * * + +QUESTIONS. + +What is the Golden Text? + +What is the Truth? + +1. About what did Jesus tell the people a parable? + +2. What did the younger son want? + +3. What did he do with it? + +4. What did he find when he spent it all? + +5. What did he do to earn a living? + +6. What was he willing to eat? + +7. How did he feel? + +8. What did he say to himself? + +9. What did his father do when he saw him coming? + +10. What did he give him? + +11. Why did he want everyone to rejoice? + +12. When does God rejoice? + + * * * * * + +LESSON HYMN. + +_Tune_--"Jesus loves me, this I know," omitting chorus (E flat). + + + God is Father of each one, + And he cares for every son; + If we leave him he is sad, + But when we return he's glad. + + + * * * * * + +Title of Lesson for May 10. + +The Unjust Steward.--Luke 16:1-13. + + * * * * * + +Golden Text for May 10. + +He that is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much.--Luke +16:10. + + * * * * * + +Beginners Golden Text for May 10. + +_Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another._--1 +John 4:11. + + + + ++--------------------------+ +| | +| Advice to Boys and Girls | +| | ++--------------------------+ + +For Sake of the Younger Ones. + + +"Ralph, you went down town without permission after you came home from +school to-day. Did you forget the rule about that?" + +"I did forget, mamma, but what's the use of the rule, anyhow? I'm a +pretty big fellow, it seems to me, to have to ask every time I want to +go out. And there's a lot of rules that I think I might do without that +are well enough for Archie and Bess." Ralph spoke in a fretful tone, and +looked abused. It seemed to him that his mother did not realize what a +great boy he was, or she would allow more liberty in many ways. + +"It is partly for the sake of Archie and Bess that I make the rules for +you, and I insist upon having them kept," said mamma. "The younger ones +cannot understand why you should have more privileges in these ways than +they have, and if I allowed you to do as you please, even if you should +generally please to do right, it would make it much harder for them to +obey rules laid down for them." + +"It isn't very nice for me, though," grumbled Ralph. "I don't see why it +should be made hard for me just for their sakes." + +"It ought not to be hard, when you think of the reason, my boy. The +rules are good for you, too, and even if they were needless, you should +obey cheerfully for the sake of the younger ones. It is only fair, I am +sure, that an older brother, who can help a great deal with the younger +ones if he will, should gladly set them a good example, and even deny +himself a little for their sakes." + + + + ++----------------------+ +| | +| Thoughts for Mothers | +| | ++----------------------+ + +Conquering Fear in the Child by Common Sense Methods. + + +"It is evident that the first and most important step to be taken in +fighting fear in the child is the establishment of physical health," is +the conclusion of Dr. Josiah Morse in _The Sunday Magazine_. + +"Whenever a parent finds that a child is becoming timorous, she may be +sure that the child is not enjoying perfect health. A physician should +straightway be consulted. Fear thrives upon weakness; it also aggravates +weakness. Many a child has been weakened mentally and physically by +fright or a shock, or by witnessing frequent expressions of fear in its +mother. + +"So we may say that the best way to fight fear is carefully to avoid +inducing it in children, and to be on the watch, so as to be able to nip +in the bud those fears which are more or less natural to children, and +which appear of their own accord." + +Dr. Morse holds that frequent calming and explanative conversations with +the child, analyzing things that appear to cause it fear, and showing +that grounds for fear do not exist, suppression of fearsome emotions in +the parent, and strict cultivation of the child's physical health will +take from it those mental torments which afflict so many. + + + + +[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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