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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14148 ***
+
+Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this
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+
+
+
+DEW DROPS
+
+VOL. 37, No. 8. Weekly
+
+David C. Cook Publishing Co., Elgin, Illinois
+
+George E. Cook, Editor
+
+February 22, 1914
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+DOING AND BEING
+
+By Julia H. Johnston
+
+
+"We're all such little girls, Miss Lee. We can't do things for people.
+They have to do things for us, all the time, don't you see? How can we
+do much helping?"
+
+Little Grace Mayne looked into her teacher's face with earnest eyes as
+she said this. The girls in the class nodded their heads and some of
+them added, "I don't see how," and "Of course we can't do anything,"
+while they waited for Miss Lee to answer Gracie. The teacher had been
+talking to them about doing things for others, and had tried to show
+them how much help was needed in this world, and how much there was for
+all to do. Sunday-school teachers feel this so much, that no wonder they
+talk to their classes about it.
+
+"Well," said Miss Lee, as if she were thinking very deeply, indeed,
+"perhaps there is really nothing that you can do to help others. Doing,
+seems to be a hard word with you little maids. Suppose we drop that word
+and take another. A very great man once said that when we could do
+nothing, we could still be something, for the sake of other people. I
+would like to have you all see what you can be. That comes first,
+anyhow. You have to be alive before you can talk, and walk, and think,
+and act. You have to be willing before you can do anything, you know,
+and so we will see what we can do with ourselves, before we try to do
+much for others. Shall we?"
+
+"Yes, but I don't understand just what you mean," said Lucie Ray.
+
+"Then listen," said Miss Lee. "When anyone does anything for you,
+suppose you try to be truly thankful. When anyone teases you, see if you
+can be patient. If others are cross, see how kind you can be. When
+others are sour, you must be sweet. I really think you will have enough
+to do."
+
+"We'll try," said Grace.
+
+"That is right. Try, and keep on trying. There's one thing more: If you
+are thankful, say so. If you are sorry for anyone, say so, and if you
+feel kindly, speak kindly. These things ought to come out. But as you
+try to be patient and sweet, don't go about telling it. Let other people
+find it out. They will, easily enough."
+
+"How will they?" asked one.
+
+"The other day," said Miss Lee, "someone gave me a rose. It was an
+American Beauty. I put it in a vase in the parlor. There it stood, tall
+and straight, with its green leaves like lovely garments around it, and
+the crimson flower, like a beautiful crown above. Yes, there it stood,
+and never said a word. It never said, 'I am sweet.' or 'How fragrant my
+breath is!' not once. But everyone who came into the room, even when it
+happened to be dark, knew that the rose was there. Why?"
+
+"It was so sweet. They smelled it," cried the class in chorus.
+
+"Yes, that was it. By being sweet--not by saying, 'I am sweet'--it made
+itself known in the room. Now, see how sweet and loving and thankful and
+patient and thoughtful you can be this week. Think about being, instead
+of doing."
+
+The next Sunday they talked over the week.
+
+"I tried to be thankful and to say 'thank you,' when I ought," said
+Margie, "'cause mamma says so much to me about that. It was hard to
+remember always, but I tried."
+
+"I tried not to be cross with Rex," said Ruth. "He gets my things and I
+don't want him to. Sometimes I kept from being cross and sometimes I
+didn't. Once I slapped him, but I was sorry right away, and kissed him.
+Then he didn't cry."
+
+"To be sorry the minute we do wrong is one way to grow better," said
+Miss Lee. "Don't be discouraged."
+
+"Mamma said yesterday when she took Jack in the carriage and left me,"
+said Grace, "that if I would make Nettie contented and happy, it would
+be better than anything I could do for her. So I played tea party with
+her, and was happy after a little minute, and mamma said 'Thank you!'
+when she came back. Then I was gladder still."
+
+"I seemed to have a chance to be sorry for people," said Fanny. "Mrs.
+Bailey, next door, had lots of trouble, and I went in and said softly,
+'I'm so sorry. Mrs. Bailey!' and she said, 'That helps a great deal.'"
+
+After all this talk, and more words from Miss Lee, the girls made up
+their minds to keep on trying to please by being right, and being
+bright, and they found, as others may, that there is no surer way to
+give help and to do right.
+
+
+
+
+SCHOOLTIME ANYTIME.
+
+
+When you have a hard lesson what do you do with it? Fret and complain
+over it? Look for someone to help you with it? Or do you brace up and
+tackle it bravely, bringing all your best effort to it.
+
+
+
+
+When the School Yard was White
+
+Ellen D. Masters
+
+
+Snow did not cover the school yard at Hamlet so often as not to cause a
+great deal of excitement among the boys and girls, especially a deep
+snow--deep enough for making snowballs and forts and snowmen.
+
+So the day after the big snow that fell there one night, Mr. Newman, who
+had charge of the third grade boys of the Hamlet School, found it a hard
+day to keep order in his room; and a good many of the boys got low marks
+for the first time that term.
+
+How they did hate to leave the white school yard when the bell would put
+an end to the short recesses!
+
+[Illustration: How they did hate to leave the white school yard.]
+
+"I think it's a pity we have to be shut up in the schoolhouse all the
+time and not get any good of it--when it doesn't snow here like this
+more than once till you're grownup," Mr. Newman heard one little fellow
+complain.
+
+Their teacher had liked to play in the snow as well as any of them when
+he was a boy, and he wished that he had not been obliged to ring the
+school bell and spoil their fun so soon.
+
+When it was time to dismiss school that day, Mr. Newman looked very
+solemn and said: "I think everyone of you boys deserves to be kept an
+hour more."
+
+The thirty young faces that looked up into his grew very solemn, too.
+
+Then their teacher smiled and said: "But instead of keeping you in, this
+time, I will keep you out. I give every boy in the room permission to
+stay one hour after school and play in the snow."
+
+Thirty happy small boys went bounding out into the white school yard.
+
+While they were building a snow fort and storming it with cannon-balls
+of snow, their teacher wrote their "excuses"--one to be carried by each
+boy when he went home from school an hour late.
+
+When the joyous hour was over, Mr. Newman rang the bell and the boys
+came up to the schoolhouse and were given their excuses. They thought it
+very funny to be kept "out" an hour after school, instead of being kept
+"in," and to carry an excuse home instead of to school.
+
+"We will have poor lessons every day, if you will punish us this way,
+Mr. Newman," said one of the biggest boys.
+
+"This kind of punishment is given only when a six-inch snow covers the
+school yard at Hamlet," said the teacher.
+
+The boys all went happily home with cold noses and fingers and toes, but
+warm hearts for their teacher, whom they were beginning to think was the
+greatest man they knew.
+
+"I tell you I'm going to be up on that geography and grammar to-morrow,"
+said Fred Walton.
+
+"And I'm going to know how to do those examples to-morrow," said Leonard
+King.
+
+And the next day the boys all had extra good lessons, if the school yard
+was covered with trampled snow and the battered snow fort still under
+the trees.
+
+
+
+
+ELSIE'S ADVICE.
+
+
+"Now, Maud Anna Belinda," said Elsie, "I want you to sit up straight and
+listen to me. I have something to say to you; something you should be
+glad to hear."
+
+It was hardly worth while to ask Maud Anna Belinda to sit up straight,
+for she was already straight, indeed, with her hands hanging down
+stiffly at her sides, and her eyes right out in front of her.
+
+"I have some good advice to give you," Elsie went on, "for your manners.
+There's company manners and there's home-folks manners. Some people have
+very fine company manners, but their home-folks manners are horrid. They
+make all their smiles in company, and just have frowns and pouts and
+frets for the family; which of course, you know, is very unfair and not
+nice at all. Some people don't divide theirs up; they have manners that
+are just the same all the time. And this is a much better way,
+especially if they are a pleasant kind, my dear.
+
+"Some people get their manners at Paris, and some people's mothers tell
+them to them when they are young. But my dear Maud Anna Belinda, if you
+want yours to be good and lovely through and through, you must have a
+good and lovely heart that's full of kindness and best wishes to
+everybody. Those are the sort they have in heaven, and heaven's a better
+place to get them from than Paris, I guess.
+
+"So now I'm done. And I will give you a kiss to remember it by."
+
+If Maud Anna Belinda did not need Elsie's advice, that is not saying
+that some of us may not.
+
+--_Selected._
+
+
+
+
+"That boy looks like a gentleman," said poor little Harry, looking at
+that boy's nice clothes and then at his own poor ones.
+
+He got on a street car. Soon he gave up his seat to a woman, and picked
+up her gloves.
+
+"You're a little gentleman," she said.
+
+You can be a gentleman, no matter how shabby your clothes.
+
+
+
+
+HOW THE DAY WAS CHANGED
+
+By MARY E. BAMFORD
+
+
+Ralph and Emma and little Paul were sitting in a big circle. There were
+others in the circle, too. There were the eight dolls, and the little
+wooden dog that squeaked, and the fuzzy little rabbit that squeaked, and
+the lop-eared toy donkey, and the tiny elephant that stood alone. So
+many toys, and yet nobody seemed happy but baby Paul, who was trying to
+swallow his two little thumbs.
+
+[Illustration: _So many toys and yet nobody seemed happy but baby
+Paul._]
+
+In the middle of the circle was a tray with little dishes, and Emma held
+a tiny cup in her hand, for the children were just finishing a
+make-believe dinner party that had water and two apples for
+refreshments.
+
+"Winter parties, when its raining outdoors, aren't much fun," grumbled
+Emma.
+
+"It'd be lots nicer if we could have our party outdoors, and pick apples
+off trees," grumbled Ralph.
+
+"Twees," echoed baby Paul, trying to swallow his thumbs.
+
+"It just rains and rains," said Emma dolefully.
+
+"Wains," echoed baby Paul.
+
+Baby Paul had stopped swallowing his thumbs. What was it he saw in
+Emma's face? Was everything so bad?
+
+"Yes, it just rains and rains," complained Ralph dolefully.
+
+Baby Paul looked at Ralph, and saw the same thing he had seen in Emma's
+face. Oh, thing's must be very bad when big brother and sister looked so
+sad! It must be nearly time to cry!
+
+Back of the children was a nice warm fire in the grate. The room was
+comfortable, but baby Paul missed something from the atmosphere. He
+could not have told what it was, but he began to whimper.
+
+"Don't you go to crying!" said Emma crossly. "It's bad enough to be shut
+in by the rain without your crying."
+
+Baby Paul cried softly to himself. Thumbs were no comfort now.
+
+Emma went over to the window. She looked dolefully out at the rain. By
+and by she saw a man going into a house on the corner. The man had a
+case with him.
+
+"Oh," said Emma to herself, "that's the doctor who went there yesterday!
+The Brown baby must be real sick."
+
+The doctor stayed a good while. By and by he came out again into the
+rain. Emma ran to the telephone in the next room, and telephoned to the
+Browns. Yes, the baby was very, very sick.
+
+Emma came back softly into the room where the fire burned so
+comfortably. Baby Paul was still crying softly to himself.
+
+"The Brown baby is dreadfully sick," said Emma softly. "Oh, dreadfully!
+Lizzie Brown was crying when I telephoned to her. They don't know
+whether the baby will live."
+
+Ralph and Emma looked at baby Paul. Both children had the same thought.
+Emma ran to baby Paul, and hugged him.
+
+"Oh, baby darling!" cried Emma. "Baby darling, I couldn't stand it if
+you were sick!"
+
+"Goo!" said baby Paul, looking at Emma's face. That ugly something that
+was in her face awhile ago was not there now. Baby Paul smiled. If big
+sister's face was all right what was there to cry about?
+
+Ralph went to the window and looked toward the Browns. Then Ralph went
+to baby Paul and hugged him. Baby Paul crowed for joy. Big brother's and
+sister's faces were all right!
+
+"You darling!" cried Emma. "Let's play menagerie for him, Ralph."
+
+So pretty soon the little elephant and the fuzzy rabbit and the wooden
+dog and the lop-eared donkey were being hurried about at so lively a
+rate that baby Paul crowed and shouted for joy. What fun it was to be a
+well baby, when big sister and big brother smiled at him! And the rain
+just poured outdoors! But everybody was happy.
+
+
+
+
+LIKE WASHINGTON.
+
+
+ "I wish that I could be as great
+ As Washington," said Joe.
+ "You can, my dear," his mother said,
+ "If you but will it so."
+
+ "But how?" urged Joe. "I cannot do
+ The things he did--to be
+ As great as he was would just mean
+ A General, you see."
+
+ "A General, my little lad,
+ You can be if you will.
+ A climbing boy can always reach
+ The summit of tho hill.
+
+ "But to be great, we first must be
+ Brave, kind and good and true;
+ And Washington was all of these,
+ Though but a boy like you."
+
+ "Perhaps," said Joe. "I'd better try
+ To be just good, and when
+ I am as old as Washington
+ I may be like him then."
+
+--_Written for Dew Drops by Helen M. Richardson._
+
+
+
+
+A SCHOOLROOM SWEEP.
+
+
+The girls at Dorothy's school--the little ones as well as the big
+ones--had to do something that very few schoolgirls have to do nowadays,
+and that is to sweep the schoolroom--a large room that had to be swept
+every day after the closing hour.
+
+Do you think that you would like such a task? Well, some of the big
+girls at Dorothy's school didn't like it either; but little Dorothy and
+most of her little mates thought it was a great honor, and they liked
+to have their turn come to sweep.
+
+Dorothy had not been to school for quite one year, and the teacher had
+never appointed her to be one of the sweepers. Dorothy wondered why. She
+swept the porches at home, and mother said she did it well, too. She did
+so want to sweep the schoolroom when Amy Brown did, for there were
+always two of the small girls, each sweeping half of the room.
+
+Day after day the teacher called the names of those who were to perform
+the task. Day after day Dorothy listened with a fast-beating heart and
+was disappointed.
+
+One day Lena swept almost the entire floor alone. She was younger than
+Dorothy, too, but she did her work so poorly that the teacher had to do
+it over after Lena had gone. Dorothy knew, for she watched, hoping the
+teacher would tell her to do it.
+
+At last one rainy day there were but a few at school, and those who were
+there had recently swept the floor. As the teacher glanced around before
+making the usual appointment, she looked at Dorothy, and Dorothy turned
+red in the face with excitement. Perhaps the teacher thought the shy
+little girl was afraid to be called on; anyway, she passed her by and
+called on Lena Webb--Lena Webb and Amy Brown.
+
+Oh, oh! Dorothy could hardly keep from crying with disappointment, and
+Lena came near crying because she was asked again so soon.
+
+Dorothy stayed, waiting for Amy to walk home with her, and of course she
+watched the work.
+
+She looked with disapproval at the streaks of dust that Lena was
+leaving, and finally she pointed them out to Lena. She was astonished
+when Lena threw down her broom, and cried out, "You just sweep it
+yourself, Dorothy Wenning!"
+
+Before the teacher could interfere Dorothy snatched the broom,
+exclaiming--"All right--I just _love_ to sweep!"
+
+The teacher said nothing, but she noticed how evenly and clean Dorothy
+was doing her work, and when the task was done she said to Dorothy, "My
+dear, you have done so very well to-day that I am going to appoint you
+and Amy to sweep again to-morrow."
+
+How happily and eagerly Dorothy skipped home to tell her mother that at
+last she had been allowed to sweep the schoolroom floor.
+
+--_Written for Dew Drops by Mary A. Spaulding Hatch._
+
+
+
+
+LITTLE WHITE RIDING-HOOD.
+
+
+In the New Year's box from Aunt Jo there was an unusually lovely present
+for Leslie. It was really two presents: a beautiful warm white coat and
+a black velvet hood, both trimmed with soft, white fur around the edges.
+
+Leslie was very happy, and hurried to put them on.
+
+"Oh, mother," she cried, looking at herself in the mirror, "I'm a Little
+White Riding-Hood instead of a red one!"
+
+"So you are!" said mother laughing. "I hope Granny Wolf will not eat you
+up."
+
+Leslie laughed, too, and clapped her hands. "Oh, I'll go and see Granny
+Graham and play she is the wolf, only she is ever so much too kind to
+eat anybody. I ought to have something nice to take her, mother, you
+know Red Riding-Hood did."
+
+[Illustration: _"Oh, I'll go and see Granny Graham and play she is the
+wolf."_]
+
+Mother gladly packed a basket with doughnuts and red apples, but Leslie
+was not satisfied. "I can take doughnuts any time, I'd like to take
+some of the oranges from Aunt Jo's box."
+
+Mother looked a little surprised. "Are you quite sure you can spare
+them, dear? You do not have oranges very often."
+
+"I'd like to," Leslie insisted earnestly. "I don't believe Red
+Riding-Hood was selfish, and I'm sure White Riding-Hood doesn't want to
+be."
+
+So mother put in three big yellow oranges, and Leslie ran down the hill
+with her basket. Granny Graham was a tiny, sweet old lady who lived in a
+tiny cottage at the foot of the hill.
+
+Leslie knocked at the door and a pleasant voice called, "Come in."
+Leslie opened the door and stood inside in her pretty furry things,
+feeling quite nice and shivery over even playing that Granny was a wolf.
+
+"Good-morning, Granny," she said, "I'm Little White Riding-Hood."
+
+"Good-morning, my dear," said Granny, smiling, "how nice you look."
+
+"Oh, Granny," cried Leslie, "'what bright eyes you've got!'"
+
+Granny's bright eyes twinkled with fun as she answered, "'The better to
+see you with'."
+
+Leslie giggled; that was just the way it went in the story. "'Oh.
+Granny,'" she went on playing, "'what long ears you have!'"
+
+"'The better to hear you with,'" answered Granny; which was all very
+funny because the ears peeping out from under Granny's cap were tiny
+like the rest of her, and did not hear any too well at best.
+
+After that, Leslie held her basket a bit tighter and said, "'Oh, Granny,
+what sharp teeth you've got!'"
+
+"'The better to eat you with,'" laughed Granny, "I'm sure you look quite
+sweet enough."
+
+Leslie ran over and put the basket in her lap. "The oranges are
+sweeter," she said, "please eat those instead."
+
+"All right," Granny agreed, "if you will give me a kiss with them, that
+will be next best to eating you."
+
+In her heart, Leslie thought it was much better, and while Granny Graham
+ate one of the oranges they both decided that the story of Little White
+Riding-Hood had a much pleasanter ending than the old one in Leslie's
+book.
+
+--_Written for Dew Drops by Marion Mallette Thornton._
+
+
+
+
++---------------+
+| |
+| Knowledge Box |
+| |
++---------------+
+
+Musical Hespie and Her Play.
+
+
+Little Hespie, the wood mouse, sang sometimes as long as nine minutes.
+Her song usually came forth when she was at play, or exercising in some
+way. One time she became especially delighted because her wheel squeaked
+when she turned it. You know how pleased a boy is when his hobbyhorse
+creaks. So Hespie, too, enjoyed the new noise; but it so drowned her
+pretty little warble that a drop of oil was put in the wheel to stop the
+creaky sound.
+
+Poor Hespie became quite excited over this change, and bit the wires of
+her wheel. So a plan was made to soothe poor mousie's feelings. A small
+strip of stiff paper was placed in such a way that it hit the wheel
+every time it turned and so made a nice little noise. Hespie forgot her
+trouble and worked at the wheel joyously, making the paper noise and
+singing her pretty song at the same time.
+
+If Hespie had not had her wheel to play with, her life would have been
+quite dull. One time her wheel was corked up so that she could not go
+inside. She became quite angry and ran in and out of her bed-box, hardly
+knowing what to do. Her rage did not last long, however, and she was
+soon frolicking about the cage and singing. The song sounded at first
+like the cooing of a dove; then it changed to quick notes more like the
+cuckoo; and, after that, the noise was like the tapping of Mr.
+Woodpecker on a tree.
+
+One of Hespie's favorite games, which she played with the children, they
+called "hauling in the lines." She seemed never to grow tired of it. The
+children would hold a long cotton cord, while Hespie sat upon her hind
+legs and pulled it in like a sailor, hand over hand. Then the children
+would pull it out again just to see her pull it in.
+
+Happy little Hespie often sang when she ate. One day a small twig with
+insects' eggs on it was handed to her. She sat up straight in her
+cunning way, took the twig in her hands, and held it in her mouth. While
+she nibbled, she sang; so that she looked very much like a little
+musician playing a fife.
+
+--_Written for Dew Drops by Susanne C. Umlauf._
+
+
+
+
+When we wish to help others, it is wonderful how many ways open before
+us.
+
+
+
+
+OUR LESSON.--For Feb. 22.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+PREPARED BY MARGUERITE COOK.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Title.--Faith Destroying Fear.--Luke 12:1-12.
+
+Golden Text.--Every one who shall confess me before men, him shall the
+Son of man also confess before the angels of God.--Luke 12: 8.
+
+_Beginners Golden Text._--_He careth for you._--1 Peter 5: 7.
+
+Truth.--Jesus claims as friends before the angels of God those who claim
+him before men.
+
+1. The people loved to listen to Jesus as he taught them.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+2. Sometimes they crowded so closely around him that they trod upon one
+another.
+
+3. One day in a crowd like this Jesus spoke to his disciples quietly.
+
+4. He warned them to beware of some of those in the crowd who would like
+to teach them things that were not true.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+5. Jesus said people who tried to hide their evil ways and pretend to be
+good were hypocrites.
+
+6. He warned them that nothing can be hidden from God.
+
+7. In the end those who try to deceive are found out.
+
+[Illustration: Be Sure Your SIN Will FIND YOU OUT]
+
+8. Jesus said God knows and loves us.
+
+9. He loves even the little birds and all things that he has made.
+
+10. Jesus said five sparrows are sold for two farthings, yet God does
+not forget one of them.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+11. God loves and cares for us his own dear children, and Jesus said
+that even the hairs of our head are numbered.
+
+12. Jesus told his friends to fear no one but do right and trust God.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+QUESTIONS.
+
+What is the Golden Text?
+
+What is the Truth?
+
+1. To whom did the people love to listen?
+
+2. How closely did they sometimes crowd around him?
+
+3. What did Jesus do one day in a crowd?
+
+4. Of whom did he warn them to beware?
+
+5. Who did Jesus say were hypocrites?
+
+6. What can be hidden from God?
+
+7. Who are found out?
+
+8. Who knows and loves us?
+
+9. What else does he love?
+
+10. What does God not forget?
+
+11. Who loves and cares for us, and what did Jesus say about the hairs
+of our head?
+
+12. What did Jesus tell his friends to do?
+
+ * * * * *
+
+LESSON HYMN.
+
+_Tune_--"Jesus loves me, this I know," omitting chorus (E flat).
+
+ Love and honor God will give
+ Unto all who try to live
+ True and faithful to their Lord,
+ Keeping his most holy Word.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Title of Lesson for March 1.
+
+Trusting in Riches and Trusting in God.--Luke 12:13-34.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Golden Text for March 1.
+
+Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.--Luke 12:34.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Beginners Golden Text for March 1.
+
+_He careth for you._--1 Peter 5:7.
+
+
+
+
++----------------------+
+| |
+| Thoughts for Mothers |
+| |
++----------------------+
+
+Encourage Your Child to Read.
+
+
+As early as possible let your children be encouraged to read, and see
+that they are provided with books and papers adapted to their capacity
+of mind. Some parents, be it said to their shame, consider money spent
+in this way as unnecessary or even wasted. A more erroneous idea of
+economy never existed. Books are great educators. A mother should be
+more careful to provide her children with good books than fine clothes;
+should spend more time in teaching and training them than in decking
+their bodies for show and display. Mothers, if you are obliged to
+practice economy, do not commence to save in your children's books and
+papers; let it be in something else first. While, however, the mind is
+being trained and improved, care should be taken that the spiritual part
+is not neglected. While your children are reading books by various
+authors, have a care that they do not neglect the reading of the Bible,
+the Book of books.
+
+
+
+
++--------------------------+
+| |
+| Advice to Boys and Girls |
+| |
++--------------------------+
+
+Treat Them Kindly.
+
+
+Most of us are fond of pets, and it would be hard to find the boy or
+girl who didn't want either a dog or a kitten. It is small wonder, for a
+dog is a very faithful friend, and anything more delightful than a tiny,
+fluffy kitten, full of fun and spirits, it would be hard to find. But
+sometimes these pets do not have a very easy time of it. Only a few days
+ago we saw a little boy out on the sidewalk with his kitten. He was
+enjoying himself, but the kitten wasn't, for he would pick it up and
+throw it across the yard, till poor pussy mewed pitifully. Now, if our
+boys and girls are going to have pets, they ought to learn to treat them
+very kindly, just as they would wish to be treated themselves.
+
+You may think, perhaps, that your dog belongs to you, and for that
+reason you can do with him just as you please. But do you ever stop to
+consider that Rover or Don may not enjoy being kicked and beaten and
+pulled about any more than you would if you were in his place? That is
+something that we must think about. We might have been born helpless, in
+the power of other and larger creatures. But it has pleased our Father
+to make us what we are, and to give us the power over his other
+creatures, and for that reason we should be very kind and gentle with
+them. He wishes us to be merciful, and so we have his promise that those
+who are merciful shall have mercy shown them, if ever they come to be in
+need of it. And then, that it may be very plain to us, he tells us that
+"the merciful man is merciful to his beast." That means that he is kind
+and gentle to all the creatures that he has anything to do with, to his
+horse and his cow, to his dog, and even to the tiny kitten that ties
+itself up into a ball, chasing its own tail. Isn't this promise worth
+trying for?
+
+
+
+
+[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. Cook Publishing Co., Elgin, Ill.
+
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+<h1>The Project Gutenberg eBook, Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 8, February 22, 1914,
+by Various, Edited by George E. Cook</h1>
+ <hr class="full" />
+ <p>&nbsp;</p>
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus01.jpg' width='100%' alt='DEW DROPS' />
+ </center>
+ <br />
+
+ <center>
+ <b>VOL. 37. NO. 8 WEEKLY.<br />
+ DAVID C. COOK PUBLISHING CO., ELGIN, ILLINOIS.<br />
+ GEORGE E. COOK. EDITOR.<br />
+ FEBRUARY 22, 1914.<br />
+ </b>
+ </center>
+ <br />
+ <br />
+ <br />
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus02.jpg' width='350' height='151'
+ alt='DOING AND BEING by Julia H. Johnston' />
+ </center>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>"We're all such little girls, Miss Lee. We can't do things for people. They have
+ to do things for us, all the time, don't you see? How can we do much helping?"</p>
+ <p>Little Grace Mayne looked into her teacher's face with earnest eyes as she said
+ this. The girls in the class nodded their heads and some of them added, "I don't see
+ how," and "Of course we can't do anything," while they waited for Miss Lee to answer
+ Gracie. The teacher had been talking to them about doing things for others, and had
+ tried to show them how much help was needed in this world, and how much there was for
+ all to do. Sunday-school teachers feel this so much, that no wonder they talk to
+ their classes about it.</p>
+ <p>"Well," said Miss Lee, as if she were thinking very deeply, indeed, "perhaps there
+ is really nothing that you can do to help others. Doing, seems to be a hard word with
+ you little maids. Suppose we drop that word and take another. A very great man once
+ said that when we could do nothing, we could still be something, for the sake of
+ other people. I would like to have you all see what you can be. That comes first,
+ anyhow. You have to be alive before you can talk, and walk, and think, and act. You
+ have to be willing before you can do anything, you know, and so we will see what we
+ can do with ourselves, before we try to do much for others. Shall we?"</p>
+ <p>"Yes, but I don't understand just what you mean," said Lucie Ray.</p>
+ <p>"Then listen," said Miss Lee. "When anyone does anything for you, suppose you try
+ to be truly thankful. When anyone teases you, see if you can be patient. If others
+ are cross, see how kind you can be. When others are sour, you must be sweet. I really
+ think you will have enough to do."</p>
+ <p>"We'll try," said Grace.</p>
+ <p>"That is right. Try, and keep on trying. There's one thing more: If you are
+ thankful, say so. If you are sorry for anyone, say so, and if you feel kindly, speak
+ kindly. These things ought to come out. But as you try to be patient and sweet, don't
+ go about telling it. Let other people find it out. They will, easily enough."</p>
+ <p>"How will they?" asked one.</p>
+ <p>"The other day," said Miss Lee, "someone gave me a rose. It was an American
+ Beauty. I put it in a vase in the parlor. There it stood, tall and straight, with its
+ green leaves like lovely garments around it, and the crimson flower, like a beautiful
+ crown above. Yes, there it stood, and never said a word. It never said, 'I am sweet.'
+ or 'How fragrant my breath is!' not once. But everyone who came into the room, even
+ when it happened to be dark, knew that the rose was there. Why?"</p>
+ <p>"It was so sweet. They smelled it," cried the class in chorus.</p>
+ <p>"Yes, that was it. By being sweet&mdash;not by saying, 'I am sweet'&mdash;it made
+ itself known in the room. Now, see how sweet and loving and thankful and patient and
+ thoughtful you can be this week. Think about being, instead of doing."</p>
+ <p>The next Sunday they talked over the week.</p>
+ <p>"I tried to be thankful and to say 'thank you,' when I ought," said Margie,
+ "'cause mamma says so much to me about that. It was hard to remember always, but I
+ tried."</p>
+ <p>"I tried not to be cross with Rex," said Ruth. "He gets my things and I don't want
+ him to. Sometimes I kept from being cross and sometimes I didn't. Once I slapped him,
+ but I was sorry right away, and kissed him. Then he didn't cry."</p>
+ <p>"To be sorry the minute we do wrong is one way to grow better," said Miss Lee.
+ "Don't be discouraged."</p>
+ <p>"Mamma said yesterday when she took Jack in the carriage and left me," said Grace,
+ "that if I would make Nettie contented and happy, it would be better than anything I
+ could do for her. So I played tea party with her, and was happy after a little
+ minute, and mamma said 'Thank you!' when she came back. Then I was gladder
+ still."</p>
+ <p>"I seemed to have a chance to be sorry for people," said Fanny. "Mrs. Bailey, next
+ door, had lots of trouble, and I went in and said softly, 'I'm so sorry. Mrs.
+ Bailey!' and she said, 'That helps a great deal.'"</p>
+ <p>After all this talk, and more words from Miss Lee, the girls made up their minds
+ to keep on trying to please by being right, and being bright, and they found, as
+ others may, that there is no surer way to give help and to do right.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <h3>SCHOOLTIME ANYTIME.</h3>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>When you have a hard lesson what do you do with it? Fret and complain over it?
+ Look for someone to help you with it? Or do you brace up and tackle it bravely,
+ bringing all your best effort to it.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus03.jpg' width='400' height='162'
+ alt='When the School Yard Was White by Ellen D. Masters' />
+ </center>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>Snow did not cover the school yard at Hamlet so often as not to cause a great deal
+ of excitement among the boys and girls, especially a deep snow&mdash;deep enough for
+ making snowballs and forts and snowmen.</p>
+ <p>So the day after the big snow that fell there one night, Mr. Newman, who had
+ charge of the third grade boys of the Hamlet School, found it a hard day to keep
+ order in his room; and a good many of the boys got low marks for the first time that
+ term.</p>
+ <p>How they did hate to leave the white school yard when the bell would put an end to
+ the short recesses!</p>
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus04.jpg' width='650'
+ alt='How they did hate to leave the white school yard.' />
+ </center>
+ <p>"I think it's a pity we have to be shut up in the schoolhouse all the time and not
+ get any good of it&mdash;when it doesn't snow here like this more than once till
+ you're grownup," Mr. Newman heard one little fellow complain.</p>
+ <p>Their teacher had liked to play in the snow as well as any of them when he was a
+ boy, and he wished that he had not been obliged to ring the school bell and spoil
+ their fun so soon.</p>
+ <p>When it was time to dismiss school that day, Mr. Newman looked very solemn and
+ said: "I think everyone of you boys deserves to be kept an hour more."</p>
+ <p>The thirty young faces that looked up into his grew very solemn, too.</p>
+ <p>Then their teacher smiled and said: "But instead of keeping you in, this time, I
+ will keep you out. I give every boy in the room permission to stay one hour after
+ school and play in the snow."</p>
+ <p>Thirty happy small boys went bounding out into the white school yard.</p>
+ <p>While they were building a snow fort and storming it with cannon-balls of snow,
+ their teacher wrote their "excuses"&mdash;one to be carried by each boy when he went
+ home from school an hour late.</p>
+ <p>When the joyous hour was over, Mr. Newman rang the bell and the boys came up to
+ the schoolhouse and were given their excuses. They thought it very funny to be kept
+ "out" an hour after school, instead of being kept "in," and to carry an excuse home
+ instead of to school.</p>
+ <p>"We will have poor lessons every day, if you will punish us this way, Mr. Newman,"
+ said one of the biggest boys.</p>
+ <p>"This kind of punishment is given only when a six-inch snow covers the school yard
+ at Hamlet," said the teacher.</p>
+ <p>The boys all went happily home with cold noses and fingers and toes, but warm
+ hearts for their teacher, whom they were beginning to think was the greatest man they
+ knew.</p>
+ <p>"I tell you I'm going to be up on that geography and grammar to-morrow," said Fred
+ Walton.</p>
+ <p>"And I'm going to know how to do those examples to-morrow," said Leonard King.</p>
+ <p>And the next day the boys all had extra good lessons, if the school yard was
+ covered with trampled snow and the battered snow fort still under the trees.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <h3>ELSIE'S ADVICE.</h3>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>"Now, Maud Anna Belinda," said Elsie, "I want you to sit up straight and listen to
+ me. I have something to say to you; something you should be glad to hear."</p>
+ <p>It was hardly worth while to ask Maud Anna Belinda to sit up straight, for she was
+ already straight, indeed, with her hands hanging down stiffly at her sides, and her
+ eyes right out in front of her.</p>
+ <p>"I have some good advice to give you," Elsie went on, "for your manners. There's
+ company manners and there's home-folks manners. Some people have very fine company
+ manners, but their home-folks manners are horrid. They make all their smiles in
+ company, and just have frowns and pouts and frets for the family; which of course,
+ you know, is very unfair and not nice at all. Some people don't divide theirs up;
+ they have manners that are just the same all the time. And this is a much better way,
+ especially if they are a pleasant kind, my dear.</p>
+ <p>"Some people get their manners at Paris, and some people's mothers tell them to
+ them when they are young. But my dear Maud Anna Belinda, if you want yours to be good
+ and lovely through and through, you must have a good and lovely heart that's full of
+ kindness and best wishes to everybody. Those are the sort they have in heaven, and
+ heaven's a better place to get them from than Paris, I guess.</p>
+ <p>"So now I'm done. And I will give you a kiss to remember it by."</p>
+ <p>If Maud Anna Belinda did not need Elsie's advice, that is not saying that some of
+ us may not.</p>
+ <p>&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <p>"That boy looks like a gentleman," said poor little Harry, looking at that boy's
+ nice clothes and then at his own poor ones.</p>
+ <p>He got on a street car. Soon he gave up his seat to a woman, and picked up her
+ gloves.</p>
+ <p>"You're a little gentleman," she said.</p>
+ <p>You can be a gentleman, no matter how shabby your clothes.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus06.jpg' width='550' height='133'
+ alt='HOW THE DAY WAS CHANGED By MARY E. BAMFORD' />
+ </center>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>Ralph and Emma and little Paul were sitting in a big circle. There were others in
+ the circle, too. There were the eight dolls, and the little wooden dog that squeaked,
+ and the fuzzy little rabbit that squeaked, and the lop-eared toy donkey, and the tiny
+ elephant that stood alone. So many toys, and yet nobody seemed happy but baby Paul,
+ who was trying to swallow his two little thumbs.</p>
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus05.jpg' width='474' height='300'
+ alt='So many toys and yet nobody seemed happy but baby Paul.' /><br />
+ <b><i>So many toys and yet nobody seemed happy but baby Paul.</i></b>
+ </center>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>In the middle of the circle was a tray with little dishes, and Emma held a tiny
+ cup in her hand, for the children were just finishing a make-believe dinner party
+ that had water and two apples for refreshments.</p>
+ <p>"Winter parties, when its raining outdoors, aren't much fun," grumbled Emma.</p>
+ <p>"It'd be lots nicer if we could have our party outdoors, and pick apples off
+ trees," grumbled Ralph.</p>
+ <p>"Twees," echoed baby Paul, trying to swallow his thumbs.</p>
+ <p>"It just rains and rains," said Emma dolefully.</p>
+ <p>"Wains," echoed baby Paul.</p>
+ <p>Baby Paul had stopped swallowing his thumbs. What was it he saw in Emma's face?
+ Was everything so bad?</p>
+ <p>"Yes, it just rains and rains," complained Ralph dolefully.</p>
+ <p>Baby Paul looked at Ralph, and saw the same thing he had seen in Emma's face. Oh,
+ thing's must be very bad when big brother and sister looked so sad! It must be nearly
+ time to cry!</p>
+ <p>Back of the children was a nice warm fire in the grate. The room was comfortable,
+ but baby Paul missed something from the atmosphere. He could not have told what it
+ was, but he began to whimper.</p>
+ <p>"Don't you go to crying!" said Emma crossly. "It's bad enough to be shut in by the
+ rain without your crying."</p>
+ <p>Baby Paul cried softly to himself. Thumbs were no comfort now.</p>
+ <p>Emma went over to the window. She looked dolefully out at the rain. By and by she
+ saw a man going into a house on the corner. The man had a case with him.</p>
+ <p>"Oh," said Emma to herself, "that's the doctor who went there yesterday! The Brown
+ baby must be real sick."</p>
+ <p>The doctor stayed a good while. By and by he came out again into the rain. Emma
+ ran to the telephone in the next room, and telephoned to the Browns. Yes, the baby
+ was very, very sick.</p>
+ <p>Emma came back softly into the room where the fire burned so comfortably. Baby
+ Paul was still crying softly to himself.</p>
+ <p>"The Brown baby is dreadfully sick," said Emma softly. "Oh, dreadfully! Lizzie
+ Brown was crying when I telephoned to her. They don't know whether the baby will
+ live."</p>
+ <p>Ralph and Emma looked at baby Paul. Both children had the same thought. Emma ran
+ to baby Paul, and hugged him.</p>
+ <p>"Oh, baby darling!" cried Emma. "Baby darling, I couldn't stand it if you were
+ sick!"</p>
+ <p>"Goo!" said baby Paul, looking at Emma's face. That ugly something that was in her
+ face awhile ago was not there now. Baby Paul smiled. If big sister's face was all
+ right what was there to cry about?</p>
+ <p>Ralph went to the window and looked toward the Browns. Then Ralph went to baby
+ Paul and hugged him. Baby Paul crowed for joy. Big brother's and sister's faces were
+ all right!</p>
+ <p>"You darling!" cried Emma. "Let's play menagerie for him, Ralph."</p>
+ <p>So pretty soon the little elephant and the fuzzy rabbit and the wooden dog and the
+ lop-eared donkey were being hurried about at so lively a rate that baby Paul crowed
+ and shouted for joy. What fun it was to be a well baby, when big sister and big
+ brother smiled at him! And the rain just poured outdoors! But everybody was
+ happy.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <h3>LIKE WASHINGTON.</h3>
+ <br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>"I wish that I could be as great</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>As Washington," said Joe.</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>"You can, my dear," his mother said,</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>"If you but will it so."</span><br />
+ <br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>"But how?" urged Joe. "I cannot do</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>The things he did&mdash;to be</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>As great as he was would just mean</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>A General, you see."</span><br />
+ <br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>"A General, my little lad,</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>You can be if you will.</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>A climbing boy can always reach</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>The summit of tho hill.</span><br />
+ <br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>"But to be great, we first must be</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>Brave, kind and good and true;</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>And Washington was all of these,</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>Though but a boy like you."</span><br />
+ <br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>"Perhaps," said Joe. "I'd better try</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>To be just good, and when</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>I am as old as Washington</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>I may be like him then."</span><br />
+
+ <p>&mdash;<i>Written for Dew Drops by Helen M. Richardson.</i></p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <h3>A SCHOOLROOM SWEEP.</h3>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>The girls at Dorothy's school&mdash;the little ones as well as the big
+ ones&mdash;had to do something that very few schoolgirls have to do nowadays, and
+ that is to sweep the schoolroom&mdash;a large room that had to be swept every day
+ after the closing hour.</p>
+ <p>Do you think that you would like such a task? Well, some of the big girls at
+ Dorothy's school didn't like it either; but little Dorothy and most of her little
+ mates thought it was a great honor, and they liked to have their turn come to
+ sweep.</p>
+ <p>Dorothy had not been to school for quite one year, and the teacher had never
+ appointed her to be one of the sweepers. Dorothy wondered why. She swept the porches
+ at home, and mother said she did it well, too. She did so want to sweep the
+ schoolroom when Amy Brown did, for there were always two of the small girls, each
+ sweeping half of the room.</p>
+ <p>Day after day the teacher called the names of those who were to perform the task.
+ Day after day Dorothy listened with a fast-beating heart and was disappointed.</p>
+ <p>One day Lena swept almost the entire floor alone. She was younger than Dorothy,
+ too, but she did her work so poorly that the teacher had to do it over after Lena had
+ gone. Dorothy knew, for she watched, hoping the teacher would tell her to do it.</p>
+ <p>At last one rainy day there were but a few at school, and those who were there had
+ recently swept the floor. As the teacher glanced around before making the usual
+ appointment, she looked at Dorothy, and Dorothy turned red in the face with
+ excitement. Perhaps the teacher thought the shy little girl was afraid to be called
+ on; anyway, she passed her by and called on Lena Webb&mdash;Lena Webb and Amy
+ Brown.</p>
+ <p>Oh, oh! Dorothy could hardly keep from crying with disappointment, and Lena came
+ near crying because she was asked again so soon.</p>
+ <p>Dorothy stayed, waiting for Amy to walk home with her, and of course she watched
+ the work.</p>
+ <p>She looked with disapproval at the streaks of dust that Lena was leaving, and
+ finally she pointed them out to Lena. She was astonished when Lena threw down her
+ broom, and cried out, "You just sweep it yourself, Dorothy Wenning!"</p>
+ <p>Before the teacher could interfere Dorothy snatched the broom,
+ exclaiming&mdash;"All right&mdash;I just <i>love</i> to sweep!"</p>
+ <p>The teacher said nothing, but she noticed how evenly and clean Dorothy was doing
+ her work, and when the task was done she said to Dorothy, "My dear, you have done so
+ very well to-day that I am going to appoint you and Amy to sweep again
+ to-morrow."</p>
+ <p>How happily and eagerly Dorothy skipped home to tell her mother that at last she
+ had been allowed to sweep the schoolroom floor.</p>
+ <p>&mdash;<i>Written for Dew Drops by Mary A. Spaulding Hatch.</i></p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <h3>LITTLE WHITE RIDING-HOOD.</h3>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>In the New Year's box from Aunt Jo there was an unusually lovely present for
+ Leslie. It was really two presents: a beautiful warm white coat and a black velvet
+ hood, both trimmed with soft, white fur around the edges.</p>
+ <p>Leslie was very happy, and hurried to put them on.</p>
+ <p>"Oh, mother," she cried, looking at herself in the mirror, "I'm a Little White
+ Riding-Hood instead of a red one!"</p>
+ <p>"So you are!" said mother laughing. "I hope Granny Wolf will not eat you up."</p>
+ <p>Leslie laughed, too, and clapped her hands. "Oh, I'll go and see Granny Graham and
+ play she is the wolf, only she is ever so much too kind to eat anybody. I ought to
+ have something nice to take her, mother, you know Red Riding-Hood did."</p>
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus07.jpg' width='344' height='456'
+ alt='"Oh, I&rsquo;ll go and see Granny Graham and play she is the wolf."' /><br />
+ <b><i>"Oh, I'll go and see Granny Graham and play she is the wolf."</i></b>
+ </center>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>Mother gladly packed a basket with doughnuts and red apples, but Leslie was not
+ satisfied. "I can take doughnuts any time, I'd like to take some of the oranges from
+ Aunt Jo's box."</p>
+ <p>Mother looked a little surprised. "Are you quite sure you can spare them, dear?
+ You do not have oranges very often."</p>
+ <p>"I'd like to," Leslie insisted earnestly. "I don't believe Red Riding-Hood was
+ selfish, and I'm sure White Riding-Hood doesn't want to be."</p>
+ <p>So mother put in three big yellow oranges, and Leslie ran down the hill with her
+ basket. Granny Graham was a tiny, sweet old lady who lived in a tiny cottage at the
+ foot of the hill.</p>
+ <p>Leslie knocked at the door and a pleasant voice called, "Come in." Leslie opened
+ the door and stood inside in her pretty furry things, feeling quite nice and shivery
+ over even playing that Granny was a wolf.</p>
+ <p>"Good-morning, Granny," she said, "I'm Little White Riding-Hood."</p>
+ <p>"Good-morning, my dear," said Granny, smiling, "how nice you look."</p>
+ <p>"Oh, Granny," cried Leslie, "'what bright eyes you've got!'"</p>
+ <p>Granny's bright eyes twinkled with fun as she answered, "'The better to see you
+ with'."</p>
+ <p>Leslie giggled; that was just the way it went in the story. "'Oh. Granny,'" she
+ went on playing, "'what long ears you have!'"</p>
+ <p>"'The better to hear you with,'" answered Granny; which was all very funny because
+ the ears peeping out from under Granny's cap were tiny like the rest of her, and did
+ not hear any too well at best.</p>
+ <p>After that, Leslie held her basket a bit tighter and said, "'Oh, Granny, what
+ sharp teeth you've got!'"</p>
+ <p>"'The better to eat you with,'" laughed Granny, "I'm sure you look quite sweet
+ enough."</p>
+ <p>Leslie ran over and put the basket in her lap. "The oranges are sweeter," she
+ said, "please eat those instead."</p>
+ <p>"All right," Granny agreed, "if you will give me a kiss with them, that will be
+ next best to eating you."</p>
+ <p>In her heart, Leslie thought it was much better, and while Granny Graham ate one
+ of the oranges they both decided that the story of Little White Riding-Hood had a
+ much pleasanter ending than the old one in Leslie's book.</p>
+ <p>&mdash;<i>Written for Dew Drops by Marion Mallette Thornton.</i></p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus08.jpg' width='500' height='102' alt='Knowledge Box' />
+ </center>
+ <h3>Musical Hespie and Her Play.</h3>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>Little Hespie, the wood mouse, sang sometimes as long as nine minutes. Her song
+ usually came forth when she was at play, or exercising in some way. One time she
+ became especially delighted because her wheel squeaked when she turned it. You know
+ how pleased a boy is when his hobbyhorse creaks. So Hespie, too, enjoyed the new
+ noise; but it so drowned her pretty little warble that a drop of oil was put in the
+ wheel to stop the creaky sound.</p>
+ <p>Poor Hespie became quite excited over this change, and bit the wires of her wheel.
+ So a plan was made to soothe poor mousie's feelings. A small strip of stiff paper was
+ placed in such a way that it hit the wheel every time it turned and so made a nice
+ little noise. Hespie forgot her trouble and worked at the wheel joyously, making the
+ paper noise and singing her pretty song at the same time.</p>
+ <p>If Hespie had not had her wheel to play with, her life would have been quite dull.
+ One time her wheel was corked up so that she could not go inside. She became quite
+ angry and ran in and out of her bed-box, hardly knowing what to do. Her rage did not
+ last long, however, and she was soon frolicking about the cage and singing. The song
+ sounded at first like the cooing of a dove; then it changed to quick notes more like
+ the cuckoo; and, after that, the noise was like the tapping of Mr. Woodpecker on a
+ tree.</p>
+ <p>One of Hespie's favorite games, which she played with the children, they called
+ "hauling in the lines." She seemed never to grow tired of it. The children would hold
+ a long cotton cord, while Hespie sat upon her hind legs and pulled it in like a
+ sailor, hand over hand. Then the children would pull it out again just to see her
+ pull it in.</p>
+ <p>Happy little Hespie often sang when she ate. One day a small twig with insects'
+ eggs on it was handed to her. She sat up straight in her cunning way, took the twig
+ in her hands, and held it in her mouth. While she nibbled, she sang; so that she
+ looked very much like a little musician playing a fife.</p>
+ <p>&mdash;<i>Written for Dew Drops by Susanne C. Umlauf.</i></p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <p>When we wish to help others, it is wonderful how many ways open before us.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <h3>OUR LESSON.&mdash;For Feb. 22.</h3>
+ <hr style='width: 45%;' />
+ <h4>PREPARED BY MARGUERITE COOK.</h4>
+ <hr style='width: 45%;' />
+ <p>Title.&mdash;Faith Destroying Fear.&mdash;Luke 12:1-12.</p>
+ <p>Golden Text.&mdash;Every one who shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of
+ man also confess before the angels of God.&mdash;Luke 12: 8.</p>
+ <p><i>Beginners Golden Text.</i>&mdash;<i>He careth for you.</i>&mdash;1 Peter 5:
+ 7.</p>
+ <p>Truth.&mdash;Jesus claims as friends before the angels of God those who claim him
+ before men.</p>
+ <p>1. The people loved to listen to Jesus as he taught them.</p>
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus09.jpg' width='400' height='254' alt='Illustration' />
+ </center>
+ <p>2. Sometimes they crowded so closely around him that they trod upon one
+ another.</p>
+ <p>3. One day in a crowd like this Jesus spoke to his disciples quietly.</p>
+ <p>4. He warned them to beware of some of those in the crowd who would like to teach
+ them things that were not true.</p>
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus10.jpg' width='400' height='311' alt='Illustration' />
+ </center>
+ <p>5. Jesus said people who tried to hide their evil ways and pretend to be good were
+ hypocrites.</p>
+ <p>6. He warned them that nothing can be hidden from God.</p>
+ <p>7. In the end those who try to deceive are found out.</p>
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus11.jpg' width='400' height='336'
+ alt='Be Sure Your SIN Will FIND YOU OUT' />
+ </center>
+ <p>8. Jesus said God knows and loves us.</p>
+ <p>9. He loves even the little birds and all things that he has made.</p>
+ <p>10. Jesus said five sparrows are sold for two farthings, yet God does not forget
+ one of them.</p>
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus12.jpg' width='400' height='363' alt='Illustration' />
+ </center>
+ <p>11. God loves and cares for us his own dear children, and Jesus said that even the
+ hairs of our head are numbered.</p>
+ <p>12. Jesus told his friends to fear no one but do right and trust God.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 45%;' />
+ <h4>QUESTIONS.</h4>
+ <p>What is the Golden Text?</p>
+ <p>What is the Truth?</p>
+ <p>1. To whom did the people love to listen?</p>
+ <p>2. How closely did they sometimes crowd around him?</p>
+ <p>3. What did Jesus do one day in a crowd?</p>
+ <p>4. Of whom did he warn them to beware?</p>
+ <p>5. Who did Jesus say were hypocrites?</p>
+ <p>6. What can be hidden from God?</p>
+ <p>7. Who are found out?</p>
+ <p>8. Who knows and loves us?</p>
+ <p>9. What else does he love?</p>
+ <p>10. What does God not forget?</p>
+ <p>11. Who loves and cares for us, and what did Jesus say about the hairs of our
+ head?</p>
+ <p>12. What did Jesus tell his friends to do?</p>
+ <hr style='width: 45%;' />
+ <h4>LESSON HYMN.</h4>
+ <p><i>Tune</i>&mdash;"Jesus loves me, this I know," omitting chorus (E flat).</p>
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>Love and honor God will give</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>Unto all who try to live</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>True and faithful to their Lord,</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>Keeping his most holy Word.</span><br />
+
+ <hr style='width: 45%;' />
+ <h4>Title of Lesson for March 1.</h4>
+ <p>Trusting in Riches and Trusting in God.&mdash;Luke 12:13-34.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 45%;' />
+ <h4>Golden Text for March 1.</h4>
+ <p>Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.&mdash;Luke 12:34.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 45%;' />
+ <h4>Beginners Golden Text for March 1.</h4>
+ <p><i>He careth for you.</i>&mdash;1 Peter 5:7.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus13.jpg' width='500' height='114'
+ alt='Thoughts for Mothers' />
+ </center>
+ <h3>Encourage Your Child to Read.</h3>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>As early as possible let your children be encouraged to read, and see that they
+ are provided with books and papers adapted to their capacity of mind. Some parents,
+ be it said to their shame, consider money spent in this way as unnecessary or even
+ wasted. A more erroneous idea of economy never existed. Books are great educators. A
+ mother should be more careful to provide her children with good books than fine
+ clothes; should spend more time in teaching and training them than in decking their
+ bodies for show and display. Mothers, if you are obliged to practice economy, do not
+ commence to save in your children's books and papers; let it be in something else
+ first. While, however, the mind is being trained and improved, care should be taken
+ that the spiritual part is not neglected. While your children are reading books by
+ various authors, have a care that they do not neglect the reading of the Bible, the
+ Book of books.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus14.jpg' width='500' height='114'
+ alt='Advice to Boys and Girls' />
+ </center>
+ <h3>Treat Them Kindly.</h3>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>Most of us are fond of pets, and it would be hard to find the boy or girl who
+ didn't want either a dog or a kitten. It is small wonder, for a dog is a very
+ faithful friend, and anything more delightful than a tiny, fluffy kitten, full of fun
+ and spirits, it would be hard to find. But sometimes these pets do not have a very
+ easy time of it. Only a few days ago we saw a little boy out on the sidewalk with his
+ kitten. He was enjoying himself, but the kitten wasn't, for he would pick it up and
+ throw it across the yard, till poor pussy mewed pitifully. Now, if our boys and girls
+ are going to have pets, they ought to learn to treat them very kindly, just as they
+ would wish to be treated themselves.</p>
+ <p>You may think, perhaps, that your dog belongs to you, and for that reason you can
+ do with him just as you please. But do you ever stop to consider that Rover or Don
+ may not enjoy being kicked and beaten and pulled about any more than you would if you
+ were in his place? That is something that we must think about. We might have been
+ born helpless, in the power of other and larger creatures. But it has pleased our
+ Father to make us what we are, and to give us the power over his other creatures, and
+ for that reason we should be very kind and gentle with them. He wishes us to be
+ merciful, and so we have his promise that those who are merciful shall have mercy
+ shown them, if ever they come to be in need of it. And then, that it may be very
+ plain to us, he tells us that "the merciful man is merciful to his beast." That means
+ that he is kind and gentle to all the creatures that he has anything to do with, to
+ his horse and his cow, to his dog, and even to the tiny kitten that ties itself up
+ into a ball, chasing its own tail. Isn't this promise worth trying for?</p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <p>[Entered at the Post Office at Elgin, Ill., as Second Class Mail Matter.]</p>
+ <p>Price Of Dew Drops.&mdash;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,</p>
+ <p>DAVID C. COOK PUBLISHING CO., ELGIN, ILL.</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
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+<p>Title: Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 8, February 22, 1914</p>
+<p>Author: Various</p>
+<p>Release Date: November 24, 2004 [eBook #14148]</p>
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+ <p>&nbsp;</p>
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus01.jpg' width='100%' alt='DEW DROPS' />
+ </center>
+ <br />
+
+ <center>
+ <b>VOL. 37. NO. 8 WEEKLY.<br />
+ DAVID C. COOK PUBLISHING CO., ELGIN, ILLINOIS.<br />
+ GEORGE E. COOK. EDITOR.<br />
+ FEBRUARY 22, 1914.<br />
+ </b>
+ </center>
+ <br />
+ <br />
+ <br />
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus02.jpg' width='350' height='151'
+ alt='DOING AND BEING by Julia H. Johnston' />
+ </center>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>"We're all such little girls, Miss Lee. We can't do things for people. They have
+ to do things for us, all the time, don't you see? How can we do much helping?"</p>
+ <p>Little Grace Mayne looked into her teacher's face with earnest eyes as she said
+ this. The girls in the class nodded their heads and some of them added, "I don't see
+ how," and "Of course we can't do anything," while they waited for Miss Lee to answer
+ Gracie. The teacher had been talking to them about doing things for others, and had
+ tried to show them how much help was needed in this world, and how much there was for
+ all to do. Sunday-school teachers feel this so much, that no wonder they talk to
+ their classes about it.</p>
+ <p>"Well," said Miss Lee, as if she were thinking very deeply, indeed, "perhaps there
+ is really nothing that you can do to help others. Doing, seems to be a hard word with
+ you little maids. Suppose we drop that word and take another. A very great man once
+ said that when we could do nothing, we could still be something, for the sake of
+ other people. I would like to have you all see what you can be. That comes first,
+ anyhow. You have to be alive before you can talk, and walk, and think, and act. You
+ have to be willing before you can do anything, you know, and so we will see what we
+ can do with ourselves, before we try to do much for others. Shall we?"</p>
+ <p>"Yes, but I don't understand just what you mean," said Lucie Ray.</p>
+ <p>"Then listen," said Miss Lee. "When anyone does anything for you, suppose you try
+ to be truly thankful. When anyone teases you, see if you can be patient. If others
+ are cross, see how kind you can be. When others are sour, you must be sweet. I really
+ think you will have enough to do."</p>
+ <p>"We'll try," said Grace.</p>
+ <p>"That is right. Try, and keep on trying. There's one thing more: If you are
+ thankful, say so. If you are sorry for anyone, say so, and if you feel kindly, speak
+ kindly. These things ought to come out. But as you try to be patient and sweet, don't
+ go about telling it. Let other people find it out. They will, easily enough."</p>
+ <p>"How will they?" asked one.</p>
+ <p>"The other day," said Miss Lee, "someone gave me a rose. It was an American
+ Beauty. I put it in a vase in the parlor. There it stood, tall and straight, with its
+ green leaves like lovely garments around it, and the crimson flower, like a beautiful
+ crown above. Yes, there it stood, and never said a word. It never said, 'I am sweet.'
+ or 'How fragrant my breath is!' not once. But everyone who came into the room, even
+ when it happened to be dark, knew that the rose was there. Why?"</p>
+ <p>"It was so sweet. They smelled it," cried the class in chorus.</p>
+ <p>"Yes, that was it. By being sweet&mdash;not by saying, 'I am sweet'&mdash;it made
+ itself known in the room. Now, see how sweet and loving and thankful and patient and
+ thoughtful you can be this week. Think about being, instead of doing."</p>
+ <p>The next Sunday they talked over the week.</p>
+ <p>"I tried to be thankful and to say 'thank you,' when I ought," said Margie,
+ "'cause mamma says so much to me about that. It was hard to remember always, but I
+ tried."</p>
+ <p>"I tried not to be cross with Rex," said Ruth. "He gets my things and I don't want
+ him to. Sometimes I kept from being cross and sometimes I didn't. Once I slapped him,
+ but I was sorry right away, and kissed him. Then he didn't cry."</p>
+ <p>"To be sorry the minute we do wrong is one way to grow better," said Miss Lee.
+ "Don't be discouraged."</p>
+ <p>"Mamma said yesterday when she took Jack in the carriage and left me," said Grace,
+ "that if I would make Nettie contented and happy, it would be better than anything I
+ could do for her. So I played tea party with her, and was happy after a little
+ minute, and mamma said 'Thank you!' when she came back. Then I was gladder
+ still."</p>
+ <p>"I seemed to have a chance to be sorry for people," said Fanny. "Mrs. Bailey, next
+ door, had lots of trouble, and I went in and said softly, 'I'm so sorry. Mrs.
+ Bailey!' and she said, 'That helps a great deal.'"</p>
+ <p>After all this talk, and more words from Miss Lee, the girls made up their minds
+ to keep on trying to please by being right, and being bright, and they found, as
+ others may, that there is no surer way to give help and to do right.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <h3>SCHOOLTIME ANYTIME.</h3>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>When you have a hard lesson what do you do with it? Fret and complain over it?
+ Look for someone to help you with it? Or do you brace up and tackle it bravely,
+ bringing all your best effort to it.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus03.jpg' width='400' height='162'
+ alt='When the School Yard Was White by Ellen D. Masters' />
+ </center>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>Snow did not cover the school yard at Hamlet so often as not to cause a great deal
+ of excitement among the boys and girls, especially a deep snow&mdash;deep enough for
+ making snowballs and forts and snowmen.</p>
+ <p>So the day after the big snow that fell there one night, Mr. Newman, who had
+ charge of the third grade boys of the Hamlet School, found it a hard day to keep
+ order in his room; and a good many of the boys got low marks for the first time that
+ term.</p>
+ <p>How they did hate to leave the white school yard when the bell would put an end to
+ the short recesses!</p>
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus04.jpg' width='650'
+ alt='How they did hate to leave the white school yard.' />
+ </center>
+ <p>"I think it's a pity we have to be shut up in the schoolhouse all the time and not
+ get any good of it&mdash;when it doesn't snow here like this more than once till
+ you're grownup," Mr. Newman heard one little fellow complain.</p>
+ <p>Their teacher had liked to play in the snow as well as any of them when he was a
+ boy, and he wished that he had not been obliged to ring the school bell and spoil
+ their fun so soon.</p>
+ <p>When it was time to dismiss school that day, Mr. Newman looked very solemn and
+ said: "I think everyone of you boys deserves to be kept an hour more."</p>
+ <p>The thirty young faces that looked up into his grew very solemn, too.</p>
+ <p>Then their teacher smiled and said: "But instead of keeping you in, this time, I
+ will keep you out. I give every boy in the room permission to stay one hour after
+ school and play in the snow."</p>
+ <p>Thirty happy small boys went bounding out into the white school yard.</p>
+ <p>While they were building a snow fort and storming it with cannon-balls of snow,
+ their teacher wrote their "excuses"&mdash;one to be carried by each boy when he went
+ home from school an hour late.</p>
+ <p>When the joyous hour was over, Mr. Newman rang the bell and the boys came up to
+ the schoolhouse and were given their excuses. They thought it very funny to be kept
+ "out" an hour after school, instead of being kept "in," and to carry an excuse home
+ instead of to school.</p>
+ <p>"We will have poor lessons every day, if you will punish us this way, Mr. Newman,"
+ said one of the biggest boys.</p>
+ <p>"This kind of punishment is given only when a six-inch snow covers the school yard
+ at Hamlet," said the teacher.</p>
+ <p>The boys all went happily home with cold noses and fingers and toes, but warm
+ hearts for their teacher, whom they were beginning to think was the greatest man they
+ knew.</p>
+ <p>"I tell you I'm going to be up on that geography and grammar to-morrow," said Fred
+ Walton.</p>
+ <p>"And I'm going to know how to do those examples to-morrow," said Leonard King.</p>
+ <p>And the next day the boys all had extra good lessons, if the school yard was
+ covered with trampled snow and the battered snow fort still under the trees.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <h3>ELSIE'S ADVICE.</h3>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>"Now, Maud Anna Belinda," said Elsie, "I want you to sit up straight and listen to
+ me. I have something to say to you; something you should be glad to hear."</p>
+ <p>It was hardly worth while to ask Maud Anna Belinda to sit up straight, for she was
+ already straight, indeed, with her hands hanging down stiffly at her sides, and her
+ eyes right out in front of her.</p>
+ <p>"I have some good advice to give you," Elsie went on, "for your manners. There's
+ company manners and there's home-folks manners. Some people have very fine company
+ manners, but their home-folks manners are horrid. They make all their smiles in
+ company, and just have frowns and pouts and frets for the family; which of course,
+ you know, is very unfair and not nice at all. Some people don't divide theirs up;
+ they have manners that are just the same all the time. And this is a much better way,
+ especially if they are a pleasant kind, my dear.</p>
+ <p>"Some people get their manners at Paris, and some people's mothers tell them to
+ them when they are young. But my dear Maud Anna Belinda, if you want yours to be good
+ and lovely through and through, you must have a good and lovely heart that's full of
+ kindness and best wishes to everybody. Those are the sort they have in heaven, and
+ heaven's a better place to get them from than Paris, I guess.</p>
+ <p>"So now I'm done. And I will give you a kiss to remember it by."</p>
+ <p>If Maud Anna Belinda did not need Elsie's advice, that is not saying that some of
+ us may not.</p>
+ <p>&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <p>"That boy looks like a gentleman," said poor little Harry, looking at that boy's
+ nice clothes and then at his own poor ones.</p>
+ <p>He got on a street car. Soon he gave up his seat to a woman, and picked up her
+ gloves.</p>
+ <p>"You're a little gentleman," she said.</p>
+ <p>You can be a gentleman, no matter how shabby your clothes.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus06.jpg' width='550' height='133'
+ alt='HOW THE DAY WAS CHANGED By MARY E. BAMFORD' />
+ </center>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>Ralph and Emma and little Paul were sitting in a big circle. There were others in
+ the circle, too. There were the eight dolls, and the little wooden dog that squeaked,
+ and the fuzzy little rabbit that squeaked, and the lop-eared toy donkey, and the tiny
+ elephant that stood alone. So many toys, and yet nobody seemed happy but baby Paul,
+ who was trying to swallow his two little thumbs.</p>
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus05.jpg' width='474' height='300'
+ alt='So many toys and yet nobody seemed happy but baby Paul.' /><br />
+ <b><i>So many toys and yet nobody seemed happy but baby Paul.</i></b>
+ </center>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>In the middle of the circle was a tray with little dishes, and Emma held a tiny
+ cup in her hand, for the children were just finishing a make-believe dinner party
+ that had water and two apples for refreshments.</p>
+ <p>"Winter parties, when its raining outdoors, aren't much fun," grumbled Emma.</p>
+ <p>"It'd be lots nicer if we could have our party outdoors, and pick apples off
+ trees," grumbled Ralph.</p>
+ <p>"Twees," echoed baby Paul, trying to swallow his thumbs.</p>
+ <p>"It just rains and rains," said Emma dolefully.</p>
+ <p>"Wains," echoed baby Paul.</p>
+ <p>Baby Paul had stopped swallowing his thumbs. What was it he saw in Emma's face?
+ Was everything so bad?</p>
+ <p>"Yes, it just rains and rains," complained Ralph dolefully.</p>
+ <p>Baby Paul looked at Ralph, and saw the same thing he had seen in Emma's face. Oh,
+ thing's must be very bad when big brother and sister looked so sad! It must be nearly
+ time to cry!</p>
+ <p>Back of the children was a nice warm fire in the grate. The room was comfortable,
+ but baby Paul missed something from the atmosphere. He could not have told what it
+ was, but he began to whimper.</p>
+ <p>"Don't you go to crying!" said Emma crossly. "It's bad enough to be shut in by the
+ rain without your crying."</p>
+ <p>Baby Paul cried softly to himself. Thumbs were no comfort now.</p>
+ <p>Emma went over to the window. She looked dolefully out at the rain. By and by she
+ saw a man going into a house on the corner. The man had a case with him.</p>
+ <p>"Oh," said Emma to herself, "that's the doctor who went there yesterday! The Brown
+ baby must be real sick."</p>
+ <p>The doctor stayed a good while. By and by he came out again into the rain. Emma
+ ran to the telephone in the next room, and telephoned to the Browns. Yes, the baby
+ was very, very sick.</p>
+ <p>Emma came back softly into the room where the fire burned so comfortably. Baby
+ Paul was still crying softly to himself.</p>
+ <p>"The Brown baby is dreadfully sick," said Emma softly. "Oh, dreadfully! Lizzie
+ Brown was crying when I telephoned to her. They don't know whether the baby will
+ live."</p>
+ <p>Ralph and Emma looked at baby Paul. Both children had the same thought. Emma ran
+ to baby Paul, and hugged him.</p>
+ <p>"Oh, baby darling!" cried Emma. "Baby darling, I couldn't stand it if you were
+ sick!"</p>
+ <p>"Goo!" said baby Paul, looking at Emma's face. That ugly something that was in her
+ face awhile ago was not there now. Baby Paul smiled. If big sister's face was all
+ right what was there to cry about?</p>
+ <p>Ralph went to the window and looked toward the Browns. Then Ralph went to baby
+ Paul and hugged him. Baby Paul crowed for joy. Big brother's and sister's faces were
+ all right!</p>
+ <p>"You darling!" cried Emma. "Let's play menagerie for him, Ralph."</p>
+ <p>So pretty soon the little elephant and the fuzzy rabbit and the wooden dog and the
+ lop-eared donkey were being hurried about at so lively a rate that baby Paul crowed
+ and shouted for joy. What fun it was to be a well baby, when big sister and big
+ brother smiled at him! And the rain just poured outdoors! But everybody was
+ happy.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <h3>LIKE WASHINGTON.</h3>
+ <br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>"I wish that I could be as great</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>As Washington," said Joe.</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>"You can, my dear," his mother said,</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>"If you but will it so."</span><br />
+ <br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>"But how?" urged Joe. "I cannot do</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>The things he did&mdash;to be</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>As great as he was would just mean</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>A General, you see."</span><br />
+ <br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>"A General, my little lad,</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>You can be if you will.</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>A climbing boy can always reach</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>The summit of tho hill.</span><br />
+ <br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>"But to be great, we first must be</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>Brave, kind and good and true;</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>And Washington was all of these,</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>Though but a boy like you."</span><br />
+ <br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>"Perhaps," said Joe. "I'd better try</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>To be just good, and when</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>I am as old as Washington</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 3em;'>I may be like him then."</span><br />
+
+ <p>&mdash;<i>Written for Dew Drops by Helen M. Richardson.</i></p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <h3>A SCHOOLROOM SWEEP.</h3>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>The girls at Dorothy's school&mdash;the little ones as well as the big
+ ones&mdash;had to do something that very few schoolgirls have to do nowadays, and
+ that is to sweep the schoolroom&mdash;a large room that had to be swept every day
+ after the closing hour.</p>
+ <p>Do you think that you would like such a task? Well, some of the big girls at
+ Dorothy's school didn't like it either; but little Dorothy and most of her little
+ mates thought it was a great honor, and they liked to have their turn come to
+ sweep.</p>
+ <p>Dorothy had not been to school for quite one year, and the teacher had never
+ appointed her to be one of the sweepers. Dorothy wondered why. She swept the porches
+ at home, and mother said she did it well, too. She did so want to sweep the
+ schoolroom when Amy Brown did, for there were always two of the small girls, each
+ sweeping half of the room.</p>
+ <p>Day after day the teacher called the names of those who were to perform the task.
+ Day after day Dorothy listened with a fast-beating heart and was disappointed.</p>
+ <p>One day Lena swept almost the entire floor alone. She was younger than Dorothy,
+ too, but she did her work so poorly that the teacher had to do it over after Lena had
+ gone. Dorothy knew, for she watched, hoping the teacher would tell her to do it.</p>
+ <p>At last one rainy day there were but a few at school, and those who were there had
+ recently swept the floor. As the teacher glanced around before making the usual
+ appointment, she looked at Dorothy, and Dorothy turned red in the face with
+ excitement. Perhaps the teacher thought the shy little girl was afraid to be called
+ on; anyway, she passed her by and called on Lena Webb&mdash;Lena Webb and Amy
+ Brown.</p>
+ <p>Oh, oh! Dorothy could hardly keep from crying with disappointment, and Lena came
+ near crying because she was asked again so soon.</p>
+ <p>Dorothy stayed, waiting for Amy to walk home with her, and of course she watched
+ the work.</p>
+ <p>She looked with disapproval at the streaks of dust that Lena was leaving, and
+ finally she pointed them out to Lena. She was astonished when Lena threw down her
+ broom, and cried out, "You just sweep it yourself, Dorothy Wenning!"</p>
+ <p>Before the teacher could interfere Dorothy snatched the broom,
+ exclaiming&mdash;"All right&mdash;I just <i>love</i> to sweep!"</p>
+ <p>The teacher said nothing, but she noticed how evenly and clean Dorothy was doing
+ her work, and when the task was done she said to Dorothy, "My dear, you have done so
+ very well to-day that I am going to appoint you and Amy to sweep again
+ to-morrow."</p>
+ <p>How happily and eagerly Dorothy skipped home to tell her mother that at last she
+ had been allowed to sweep the schoolroom floor.</p>
+ <p>&mdash;<i>Written for Dew Drops by Mary A. Spaulding Hatch.</i></p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <h3>LITTLE WHITE RIDING-HOOD.</h3>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>In the New Year's box from Aunt Jo there was an unusually lovely present for
+ Leslie. It was really two presents: a beautiful warm white coat and a black velvet
+ hood, both trimmed with soft, white fur around the edges.</p>
+ <p>Leslie was very happy, and hurried to put them on.</p>
+ <p>"Oh, mother," she cried, looking at herself in the mirror, "I'm a Little White
+ Riding-Hood instead of a red one!"</p>
+ <p>"So you are!" said mother laughing. "I hope Granny Wolf will not eat you up."</p>
+ <p>Leslie laughed, too, and clapped her hands. "Oh, I'll go and see Granny Graham and
+ play she is the wolf, only she is ever so much too kind to eat anybody. I ought to
+ have something nice to take her, mother, you know Red Riding-Hood did."</p>
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus07.jpg' width='344' height='456'
+ alt='"Oh, I&rsquo;ll go and see Granny Graham and play she is the wolf."' /><br />
+ <b><i>"Oh, I'll go and see Granny Graham and play she is the wolf."</i></b>
+ </center>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>Mother gladly packed a basket with doughnuts and red apples, but Leslie was not
+ satisfied. "I can take doughnuts any time, I'd like to take some of the oranges from
+ Aunt Jo's box."</p>
+ <p>Mother looked a little surprised. "Are you quite sure you can spare them, dear?
+ You do not have oranges very often."</p>
+ <p>"I'd like to," Leslie insisted earnestly. "I don't believe Red Riding-Hood was
+ selfish, and I'm sure White Riding-Hood doesn't want to be."</p>
+ <p>So mother put in three big yellow oranges, and Leslie ran down the hill with her
+ basket. Granny Graham was a tiny, sweet old lady who lived in a tiny cottage at the
+ foot of the hill.</p>
+ <p>Leslie knocked at the door and a pleasant voice called, "Come in." Leslie opened
+ the door and stood inside in her pretty furry things, feeling quite nice and shivery
+ over even playing that Granny was a wolf.</p>
+ <p>"Good-morning, Granny," she said, "I'm Little White Riding-Hood."</p>
+ <p>"Good-morning, my dear," said Granny, smiling, "how nice you look."</p>
+ <p>"Oh, Granny," cried Leslie, "'what bright eyes you've got!'"</p>
+ <p>Granny's bright eyes twinkled with fun as she answered, "'The better to see you
+ with'."</p>
+ <p>Leslie giggled; that was just the way it went in the story. "'Oh. Granny,'" she
+ went on playing, "'what long ears you have!'"</p>
+ <p>"'The better to hear you with,'" answered Granny; which was all very funny because
+ the ears peeping out from under Granny's cap were tiny like the rest of her, and did
+ not hear any too well at best.</p>
+ <p>After that, Leslie held her basket a bit tighter and said, "'Oh, Granny, what
+ sharp teeth you've got!'"</p>
+ <p>"'The better to eat you with,'" laughed Granny, "I'm sure you look quite sweet
+ enough."</p>
+ <p>Leslie ran over and put the basket in her lap. "The oranges are sweeter," she
+ said, "please eat those instead."</p>
+ <p>"All right," Granny agreed, "if you will give me a kiss with them, that will be
+ next best to eating you."</p>
+ <p>In her heart, Leslie thought it was much better, and while Granny Graham ate one
+ of the oranges they both decided that the story of Little White Riding-Hood had a
+ much pleasanter ending than the old one in Leslie's book.</p>
+ <p>&mdash;<i>Written for Dew Drops by Marion Mallette Thornton.</i></p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus08.jpg' width='500' height='102' alt='Knowledge Box' />
+ </center>
+ <h3>Musical Hespie and Her Play.</h3>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>Little Hespie, the wood mouse, sang sometimes as long as nine minutes. Her song
+ usually came forth when she was at play, or exercising in some way. One time she
+ became especially delighted because her wheel squeaked when she turned it. You know
+ how pleased a boy is when his hobbyhorse creaks. So Hespie, too, enjoyed the new
+ noise; but it so drowned her pretty little warble that a drop of oil was put in the
+ wheel to stop the creaky sound.</p>
+ <p>Poor Hespie became quite excited over this change, and bit the wires of her wheel.
+ So a plan was made to soothe poor mousie's feelings. A small strip of stiff paper was
+ placed in such a way that it hit the wheel every time it turned and so made a nice
+ little noise. Hespie forgot her trouble and worked at the wheel joyously, making the
+ paper noise and singing her pretty song at the same time.</p>
+ <p>If Hespie had not had her wheel to play with, her life would have been quite dull.
+ One time her wheel was corked up so that she could not go inside. She became quite
+ angry and ran in and out of her bed-box, hardly knowing what to do. Her rage did not
+ last long, however, and she was soon frolicking about the cage and singing. The song
+ sounded at first like the cooing of a dove; then it changed to quick notes more like
+ the cuckoo; and, after that, the noise was like the tapping of Mr. Woodpecker on a
+ tree.</p>
+ <p>One of Hespie's favorite games, which she played with the children, they called
+ "hauling in the lines." She seemed never to grow tired of it. The children would hold
+ a long cotton cord, while Hespie sat upon her hind legs and pulled it in like a
+ sailor, hand over hand. Then the children would pull it out again just to see her
+ pull it in.</p>
+ <p>Happy little Hespie often sang when she ate. One day a small twig with insects'
+ eggs on it was handed to her. She sat up straight in her cunning way, took the twig
+ in her hands, and held it in her mouth. While she nibbled, she sang; so that she
+ looked very much like a little musician playing a fife.</p>
+ <p>&mdash;<i>Written for Dew Drops by Susanne C. Umlauf.</i></p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <p>When we wish to help others, it is wonderful how many ways open before us.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <h3>OUR LESSON.&mdash;For Feb. 22.</h3>
+ <hr style='width: 45%;' />
+ <h4>PREPARED BY MARGUERITE COOK.</h4>
+ <hr style='width: 45%;' />
+ <p>Title.&mdash;Faith Destroying Fear.&mdash;Luke 12:1-12.</p>
+ <p>Golden Text.&mdash;Every one who shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of
+ man also confess before the angels of God.&mdash;Luke 12: 8.</p>
+ <p><i>Beginners Golden Text.</i>&mdash;<i>He careth for you.</i>&mdash;1 Peter 5:
+ 7.</p>
+ <p>Truth.&mdash;Jesus claims as friends before the angels of God those who claim him
+ before men.</p>
+ <p>1. The people loved to listen to Jesus as he taught them.</p>
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus09.jpg' width='400' height='254' alt='Illustration' />
+ </center>
+ <p>2. Sometimes they crowded so closely around him that they trod upon one
+ another.</p>
+ <p>3. One day in a crowd like this Jesus spoke to his disciples quietly.</p>
+ <p>4. He warned them to beware of some of those in the crowd who would like to teach
+ them things that were not true.</p>
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus10.jpg' width='400' height='311' alt='Illustration' />
+ </center>
+ <p>5. Jesus said people who tried to hide their evil ways and pretend to be good were
+ hypocrites.</p>
+ <p>6. He warned them that nothing can be hidden from God.</p>
+ <p>7. In the end those who try to deceive are found out.</p>
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus11.jpg' width='400' height='336'
+ alt='Be Sure Your SIN Will FIND YOU OUT' />
+ </center>
+ <p>8. Jesus said God knows and loves us.</p>
+ <p>9. He loves even the little birds and all things that he has made.</p>
+ <p>10. Jesus said five sparrows are sold for two farthings, yet God does not forget
+ one of them.</p>
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus12.jpg' width='400' height='363' alt='Illustration' />
+ </center>
+ <p>11. God loves and cares for us his own dear children, and Jesus said that even the
+ hairs of our head are numbered.</p>
+ <p>12. Jesus told his friends to fear no one but do right and trust God.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 45%;' />
+ <h4>QUESTIONS.</h4>
+ <p>What is the Golden Text?</p>
+ <p>What is the Truth?</p>
+ <p>1. To whom did the people love to listen?</p>
+ <p>2. How closely did they sometimes crowd around him?</p>
+ <p>3. What did Jesus do one day in a crowd?</p>
+ <p>4. Of whom did he warn them to beware?</p>
+ <p>5. Who did Jesus say were hypocrites?</p>
+ <p>6. What can be hidden from God?</p>
+ <p>7. Who are found out?</p>
+ <p>8. Who knows and loves us?</p>
+ <p>9. What else does he love?</p>
+ <p>10. What does God not forget?</p>
+ <p>11. Who loves and cares for us, and what did Jesus say about the hairs of our
+ head?</p>
+ <p>12. What did Jesus tell his friends to do?</p>
+ <hr style='width: 45%;' />
+ <h4>LESSON HYMN.</h4>
+ <p><i>Tune</i>&mdash;"Jesus loves me, this I know," omitting chorus (E flat).</p>
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>Love and honor God will give</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>Unto all who try to live</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>True and faithful to their Lord,</span><br />
+ <span style='margin-left: 2.5em;'>Keeping his most holy Word.</span><br />
+
+ <hr style='width: 45%;' />
+ <h4>Title of Lesson for March 1.</h4>
+ <p>Trusting in Riches and Trusting in God.&mdash;Luke 12:13-34.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 45%;' />
+ <h4>Golden Text for March 1.</h4>
+ <p>Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.&mdash;Luke 12:34.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 45%;' />
+ <h4>Beginners Golden Text for March 1.</h4>
+ <p><i>He careth for you.</i>&mdash;1 Peter 5:7.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus13.jpg' width='500' height='114'
+ alt='Thoughts for Mothers' />
+ </center>
+ <h3>Encourage Your Child to Read.</h3>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>As early as possible let your children be encouraged to read, and see that they
+ are provided with books and papers adapted to their capacity of mind. Some parents,
+ be it said to their shame, consider money spent in this way as unnecessary or even
+ wasted. A more erroneous idea of economy never existed. Books are great educators. A
+ mother should be more careful to provide her children with good books than fine
+ clothes; should spend more time in teaching and training them than in decking their
+ bodies for show and display. Mothers, if you are obliged to practice economy, do not
+ commence to save in your children's books and papers; let it be in something else
+ first. While, however, the mind is being trained and improved, care should be taken
+ that the spiritual part is not neglected. While your children are reading books by
+ various authors, have a care that they do not neglect the reading of the Bible, the
+ Book of books.</p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <center>
+ <img src='images/illus14.jpg' width='500' height='114'
+ alt='Advice to Boys and Girls' />
+ </center>
+ <h3>Treat Them Kindly.</h3>
+ <br />
+
+ <p>Most of us are fond of pets, and it would be hard to find the boy or girl who
+ didn't want either a dog or a kitten. It is small wonder, for a dog is a very
+ faithful friend, and anything more delightful than a tiny, fluffy kitten, full of fun
+ and spirits, it would be hard to find. But sometimes these pets do not have a very
+ easy time of it. Only a few days ago we saw a little boy out on the sidewalk with his
+ kitten. He was enjoying himself, but the kitten wasn't, for he would pick it up and
+ throw it across the yard, till poor pussy mewed pitifully. Now, if our boys and girls
+ are going to have pets, they ought to learn to treat them very kindly, just as they
+ would wish to be treated themselves.</p>
+ <p>You may think, perhaps, that your dog belongs to you, and for that reason you can
+ do with him just as you please. But do you ever stop to consider that Rover or Don
+ may not enjoy being kicked and beaten and pulled about any more than you would if you
+ were in his place? That is something that we must think about. We might have been
+ born helpless, in the power of other and larger creatures. But it has pleased our
+ Father to make us what we are, and to give us the power over his other creatures, and
+ for that reason we should be very kind and gentle with them. He wishes us to be
+ merciful, and so we have his promise that those who are merciful shall have mercy
+ shown them, if ever they come to be in need of it. And then, that it may be very
+ plain to us, he tells us that "the merciful man is merciful to his beast." That means
+ that he is kind and gentle to all the creatures that he has anything to do with, to
+ his horse and his cow, to his dog, and even to the tiny kitten that ties itself up
+ into a ball, chasing its own tail. Isn't this promise worth trying for?</p>
+ <hr style='width: 65%;' />
+ <p>[Entered at the Post Office at Elgin, Ill., as Second Class Mail Matter.]</p>
+ <p>Price Of Dew Drops.&mdash;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,</p>
+ <p>DAVID C. COOK PUBLISHING CO., ELGIN, ILL.</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEW DROPS, VOL. 37, NO. 8, FEBRUARY 22, 1914***</p>
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 8, February 22, 1914,
+by Various, Edited by George E. Cook
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+Title: Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 8, February 22, 1914
+
+Author: Various
+
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+DEW DROPS
+
+VOL. 37, No. 8. Weekly
+
+David C. Cook Publishing Co., Elgin, Illinois
+
+George E. Cook, Editor
+
+February 22, 1914
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+DOING AND BEING
+
+By Julia H. Johnston
+
+
+"We're all such little girls, Miss Lee. We can't do things for people.
+They have to do things for us, all the time, don't you see? How can we
+do much helping?"
+
+Little Grace Mayne looked into her teacher's face with earnest eyes as
+she said this. The girls in the class nodded their heads and some of
+them added, "I don't see how," and "Of course we can't do anything,"
+while they waited for Miss Lee to answer Gracie. The teacher had been
+talking to them about doing things for others, and had tried to show
+them how much help was needed in this world, and how much there was for
+all to do. Sunday-school teachers feel this so much, that no wonder they
+talk to their classes about it.
+
+"Well," said Miss Lee, as if she were thinking very deeply, indeed,
+"perhaps there is really nothing that you can do to help others. Doing,
+seems to be a hard word with you little maids. Suppose we drop that word
+and take another. A very great man once said that when we could do
+nothing, we could still be something, for the sake of other people. I
+would like to have you all see what you can be. That comes first,
+anyhow. You have to be alive before you can talk, and walk, and think,
+and act. You have to be willing before you can do anything, you know,
+and so we will see what we can do with ourselves, before we try to do
+much for others. Shall we?"
+
+"Yes, but I don't understand just what you mean," said Lucie Ray.
+
+"Then listen," said Miss Lee. "When anyone does anything for you,
+suppose you try to be truly thankful. When anyone teases you, see if you
+can be patient. If others are cross, see how kind you can be. When
+others are sour, you must be sweet. I really think you will have enough
+to do."
+
+"We'll try," said Grace.
+
+"That is right. Try, and keep on trying. There's one thing more: If you
+are thankful, say so. If you are sorry for anyone, say so, and if you
+feel kindly, speak kindly. These things ought to come out. But as you
+try to be patient and sweet, don't go about telling it. Let other people
+find it out. They will, easily enough."
+
+"How will they?" asked one.
+
+"The other day," said Miss Lee, "someone gave me a rose. It was an
+American Beauty. I put it in a vase in the parlor. There it stood, tall
+and straight, with its green leaves like lovely garments around it, and
+the crimson flower, like a beautiful crown above. Yes, there it stood,
+and never said a word. It never said, 'I am sweet.' or 'How fragrant my
+breath is!' not once. But everyone who came into the room, even when it
+happened to be dark, knew that the rose was there. Why?"
+
+"It was so sweet. They smelled it," cried the class in chorus.
+
+"Yes, that was it. By being sweet--not by saying, 'I am sweet'--it made
+itself known in the room. Now, see how sweet and loving and thankful and
+patient and thoughtful you can be this week. Think about being, instead
+of doing."
+
+The next Sunday they talked over the week.
+
+"I tried to be thankful and to say 'thank you,' when I ought," said
+Margie, "'cause mamma says so much to me about that. It was hard to
+remember always, but I tried."
+
+"I tried not to be cross with Rex," said Ruth. "He gets my things and I
+don't want him to. Sometimes I kept from being cross and sometimes I
+didn't. Once I slapped him, but I was sorry right away, and kissed him.
+Then he didn't cry."
+
+"To be sorry the minute we do wrong is one way to grow better," said
+Miss Lee. "Don't be discouraged."
+
+"Mamma said yesterday when she took Jack in the carriage and left me,"
+said Grace, "that if I would make Nettie contented and happy, it would
+be better than anything I could do for her. So I played tea party with
+her, and was happy after a little minute, and mamma said 'Thank you!'
+when she came back. Then I was gladder still."
+
+"I seemed to have a chance to be sorry for people," said Fanny. "Mrs.
+Bailey, next door, had lots of trouble, and I went in and said softly,
+'I'm so sorry. Mrs. Bailey!' and she said, 'That helps a great deal.'"
+
+After all this talk, and more words from Miss Lee, the girls made up
+their minds to keep on trying to please by being right, and being
+bright, and they found, as others may, that there is no surer way to
+give help and to do right.
+
+
+
+
+SCHOOLTIME ANYTIME.
+
+
+When you have a hard lesson what do you do with it? Fret and complain
+over it? Look for someone to help you with it? Or do you brace up and
+tackle it bravely, bringing all your best effort to it.
+
+
+
+
+When the School Yard was White
+
+Ellen D. Masters
+
+
+Snow did not cover the school yard at Hamlet so often as not to cause a
+great deal of excitement among the boys and girls, especially a deep
+snow--deep enough for making snowballs and forts and snowmen.
+
+So the day after the big snow that fell there one night, Mr. Newman, who
+had charge of the third grade boys of the Hamlet School, found it a hard
+day to keep order in his room; and a good many of the boys got low marks
+for the first time that term.
+
+How they did hate to leave the white school yard when the bell would put
+an end to the short recesses!
+
+[Illustration: How they did hate to leave the white school yard.]
+
+"I think it's a pity we have to be shut up in the schoolhouse all the
+time and not get any good of it--when it doesn't snow here like this
+more than once till you're grownup," Mr. Newman heard one little fellow
+complain.
+
+Their teacher had liked to play in the snow as well as any of them when
+he was a boy, and he wished that he had not been obliged to ring the
+school bell and spoil their fun so soon.
+
+When it was time to dismiss school that day, Mr. Newman looked very
+solemn and said: "I think everyone of you boys deserves to be kept an
+hour more."
+
+The thirty young faces that looked up into his grew very solemn, too.
+
+Then their teacher smiled and said: "But instead of keeping you in, this
+time, I will keep you out. I give every boy in the room permission to
+stay one hour after school and play in the snow."
+
+Thirty happy small boys went bounding out into the white school yard.
+
+While they were building a snow fort and storming it with cannon-balls
+of snow, their teacher wrote their "excuses"--one to be carried by each
+boy when he went home from school an hour late.
+
+When the joyous hour was over, Mr. Newman rang the bell and the boys
+came up to the schoolhouse and were given their excuses. They thought it
+very funny to be kept "out" an hour after school, instead of being kept
+"in," and to carry an excuse home instead of to school.
+
+"We will have poor lessons every day, if you will punish us this way,
+Mr. Newman," said one of the biggest boys.
+
+"This kind of punishment is given only when a six-inch snow covers the
+school yard at Hamlet," said the teacher.
+
+The boys all went happily home with cold noses and fingers and toes, but
+warm hearts for their teacher, whom they were beginning to think was the
+greatest man they knew.
+
+"I tell you I'm going to be up on that geography and grammar to-morrow,"
+said Fred Walton.
+
+"And I'm going to know how to do those examples to-morrow," said Leonard
+King.
+
+And the next day the boys all had extra good lessons, if the school yard
+was covered with trampled snow and the battered snow fort still under
+the trees.
+
+
+
+
+ELSIE'S ADVICE.
+
+
+"Now, Maud Anna Belinda," said Elsie, "I want you to sit up straight and
+listen to me. I have something to say to you; something you should be
+glad to hear."
+
+It was hardly worth while to ask Maud Anna Belinda to sit up straight,
+for she was already straight, indeed, with her hands hanging down
+stiffly at her sides, and her eyes right out in front of her.
+
+"I have some good advice to give you," Elsie went on, "for your manners.
+There's company manners and there's home-folks manners. Some people have
+very fine company manners, but their home-folks manners are horrid. They
+make all their smiles in company, and just have frowns and pouts and
+frets for the family; which of course, you know, is very unfair and not
+nice at all. Some people don't divide theirs up; they have manners that
+are just the same all the time. And this is a much better way,
+especially if they are a pleasant kind, my dear.
+
+"Some people get their manners at Paris, and some people's mothers tell
+them to them when they are young. But my dear Maud Anna Belinda, if you
+want yours to be good and lovely through and through, you must have a
+good and lovely heart that's full of kindness and best wishes to
+everybody. Those are the sort they have in heaven, and heaven's a better
+place to get them from than Paris, I guess.
+
+"So now I'm done. And I will give you a kiss to remember it by."
+
+If Maud Anna Belinda did not need Elsie's advice, that is not saying
+that some of us may not.
+
+--_Selected._
+
+
+
+
+"That boy looks like a gentleman," said poor little Harry, looking at
+that boy's nice clothes and then at his own poor ones.
+
+He got on a street car. Soon he gave up his seat to a woman, and picked
+up her gloves.
+
+"You're a little gentleman," she said.
+
+You can be a gentleman, no matter how shabby your clothes.
+
+
+
+
+HOW THE DAY WAS CHANGED
+
+By MARY E. BAMFORD
+
+
+Ralph and Emma and little Paul were sitting in a big circle. There were
+others in the circle, too. There were the eight dolls, and the little
+wooden dog that squeaked, and the fuzzy little rabbit that squeaked, and
+the lop-eared toy donkey, and the tiny elephant that stood alone. So
+many toys, and yet nobody seemed happy but baby Paul, who was trying to
+swallow his two little thumbs.
+
+[Illustration: _So many toys and yet nobody seemed happy but baby
+Paul._]
+
+In the middle of the circle was a tray with little dishes, and Emma held
+a tiny cup in her hand, for the children were just finishing a
+make-believe dinner party that had water and two apples for
+refreshments.
+
+"Winter parties, when its raining outdoors, aren't much fun," grumbled
+Emma.
+
+"It'd be lots nicer if we could have our party outdoors, and pick apples
+off trees," grumbled Ralph.
+
+"Twees," echoed baby Paul, trying to swallow his thumbs.
+
+"It just rains and rains," said Emma dolefully.
+
+"Wains," echoed baby Paul.
+
+Baby Paul had stopped swallowing his thumbs. What was it he saw in
+Emma's face? Was everything so bad?
+
+"Yes, it just rains and rains," complained Ralph dolefully.
+
+Baby Paul looked at Ralph, and saw the same thing he had seen in Emma's
+face. Oh, thing's must be very bad when big brother and sister looked so
+sad! It must be nearly time to cry!
+
+Back of the children was a nice warm fire in the grate. The room was
+comfortable, but baby Paul missed something from the atmosphere. He
+could not have told what it was, but he began to whimper.
+
+"Don't you go to crying!" said Emma crossly. "It's bad enough to be shut
+in by the rain without your crying."
+
+Baby Paul cried softly to himself. Thumbs were no comfort now.
+
+Emma went over to the window. She looked dolefully out at the rain. By
+and by she saw a man going into a house on the corner. The man had a
+case with him.
+
+"Oh," said Emma to herself, "that's the doctor who went there yesterday!
+The Brown baby must be real sick."
+
+The doctor stayed a good while. By and by he came out again into the
+rain. Emma ran to the telephone in the next room, and telephoned to the
+Browns. Yes, the baby was very, very sick.
+
+Emma came back softly into the room where the fire burned so
+comfortably. Baby Paul was still crying softly to himself.
+
+"The Brown baby is dreadfully sick," said Emma softly. "Oh, dreadfully!
+Lizzie Brown was crying when I telephoned to her. They don't know
+whether the baby will live."
+
+Ralph and Emma looked at baby Paul. Both children had the same thought.
+Emma ran to baby Paul, and hugged him.
+
+"Oh, baby darling!" cried Emma. "Baby darling, I couldn't stand it if
+you were sick!"
+
+"Goo!" said baby Paul, looking at Emma's face. That ugly something that
+was in her face awhile ago was not there now. Baby Paul smiled. If big
+sister's face was all right what was there to cry about?
+
+Ralph went to the window and looked toward the Browns. Then Ralph went
+to baby Paul and hugged him. Baby Paul crowed for joy. Big brother's and
+sister's faces were all right!
+
+"You darling!" cried Emma. "Let's play menagerie for him, Ralph."
+
+So pretty soon the little elephant and the fuzzy rabbit and the wooden
+dog and the lop-eared donkey were being hurried about at so lively a
+rate that baby Paul crowed and shouted for joy. What fun it was to be a
+well baby, when big sister and big brother smiled at him! And the rain
+just poured outdoors! But everybody was happy.
+
+
+
+
+LIKE WASHINGTON.
+
+
+ "I wish that I could be as great
+ As Washington," said Joe.
+ "You can, my dear," his mother said,
+ "If you but will it so."
+
+ "But how?" urged Joe. "I cannot do
+ The things he did--to be
+ As great as he was would just mean
+ A General, you see."
+
+ "A General, my little lad,
+ You can be if you will.
+ A climbing boy can always reach
+ The summit of tho hill.
+
+ "But to be great, we first must be
+ Brave, kind and good and true;
+ And Washington was all of these,
+ Though but a boy like you."
+
+ "Perhaps," said Joe. "I'd better try
+ To be just good, and when
+ I am as old as Washington
+ I may be like him then."
+
+--_Written for Dew Drops by Helen M. Richardson._
+
+
+
+
+A SCHOOLROOM SWEEP.
+
+
+The girls at Dorothy's school--the little ones as well as the big
+ones--had to do something that very few schoolgirls have to do nowadays,
+and that is to sweep the schoolroom--a large room that had to be swept
+every day after the closing hour.
+
+Do you think that you would like such a task? Well, some of the big
+girls at Dorothy's school didn't like it either; but little Dorothy and
+most of her little mates thought it was a great honor, and they liked
+to have their turn come to sweep.
+
+Dorothy had not been to school for quite one year, and the teacher had
+never appointed her to be one of the sweepers. Dorothy wondered why. She
+swept the porches at home, and mother said she did it well, too. She did
+so want to sweep the schoolroom when Amy Brown did, for there were
+always two of the small girls, each sweeping half of the room.
+
+Day after day the teacher called the names of those who were to perform
+the task. Day after day Dorothy listened with a fast-beating heart and
+was disappointed.
+
+One day Lena swept almost the entire floor alone. She was younger than
+Dorothy, too, but she did her work so poorly that the teacher had to do
+it over after Lena had gone. Dorothy knew, for she watched, hoping the
+teacher would tell her to do it.
+
+At last one rainy day there were but a few at school, and those who were
+there had recently swept the floor. As the teacher glanced around before
+making the usual appointment, she looked at Dorothy, and Dorothy turned
+red in the face with excitement. Perhaps the teacher thought the shy
+little girl was afraid to be called on; anyway, she passed her by and
+called on Lena Webb--Lena Webb and Amy Brown.
+
+Oh, oh! Dorothy could hardly keep from crying with disappointment, and
+Lena came near crying because she was asked again so soon.
+
+Dorothy stayed, waiting for Amy to walk home with her, and of course she
+watched the work.
+
+She looked with disapproval at the streaks of dust that Lena was
+leaving, and finally she pointed them out to Lena. She was astonished
+when Lena threw down her broom, and cried out, "You just sweep it
+yourself, Dorothy Wenning!"
+
+Before the teacher could interfere Dorothy snatched the broom,
+exclaiming--"All right--I just _love_ to sweep!"
+
+The teacher said nothing, but she noticed how evenly and clean Dorothy
+was doing her work, and when the task was done she said to Dorothy, "My
+dear, you have done so very well to-day that I am going to appoint you
+and Amy to sweep again to-morrow."
+
+How happily and eagerly Dorothy skipped home to tell her mother that at
+last she had been allowed to sweep the schoolroom floor.
+
+--_Written for Dew Drops by Mary A. Spaulding Hatch._
+
+
+
+
+LITTLE WHITE RIDING-HOOD.
+
+
+In the New Year's box from Aunt Jo there was an unusually lovely present
+for Leslie. It was really two presents: a beautiful warm white coat and
+a black velvet hood, both trimmed with soft, white fur around the edges.
+
+Leslie was very happy, and hurried to put them on.
+
+"Oh, mother," she cried, looking at herself in the mirror, "I'm a Little
+White Riding-Hood instead of a red one!"
+
+"So you are!" said mother laughing. "I hope Granny Wolf will not eat you
+up."
+
+Leslie laughed, too, and clapped her hands. "Oh, I'll go and see Granny
+Graham and play she is the wolf, only she is ever so much too kind to
+eat anybody. I ought to have something nice to take her, mother, you
+know Red Riding-Hood did."
+
+[Illustration: _"Oh, I'll go and see Granny Graham and play she is the
+wolf."_]
+
+Mother gladly packed a basket with doughnuts and red apples, but Leslie
+was not satisfied. "I can take doughnuts any time, I'd like to take
+some of the oranges from Aunt Jo's box."
+
+Mother looked a little surprised. "Are you quite sure you can spare
+them, dear? You do not have oranges very often."
+
+"I'd like to," Leslie insisted earnestly. "I don't believe Red
+Riding-Hood was selfish, and I'm sure White Riding-Hood doesn't want to
+be."
+
+So mother put in three big yellow oranges, and Leslie ran down the hill
+with her basket. Granny Graham was a tiny, sweet old lady who lived in a
+tiny cottage at the foot of the hill.
+
+Leslie knocked at the door and a pleasant voice called, "Come in."
+Leslie opened the door and stood inside in her pretty furry things,
+feeling quite nice and shivery over even playing that Granny was a wolf.
+
+"Good-morning, Granny," she said, "I'm Little White Riding-Hood."
+
+"Good-morning, my dear," said Granny, smiling, "how nice you look."
+
+"Oh, Granny," cried Leslie, "'what bright eyes you've got!'"
+
+Granny's bright eyes twinkled with fun as she answered, "'The better to
+see you with'."
+
+Leslie giggled; that was just the way it went in the story. "'Oh.
+Granny,'" she went on playing, "'what long ears you have!'"
+
+"'The better to hear you with,'" answered Granny; which was all very
+funny because the ears peeping out from under Granny's cap were tiny
+like the rest of her, and did not hear any too well at best.
+
+After that, Leslie held her basket a bit tighter and said, "'Oh, Granny,
+what sharp teeth you've got!'"
+
+"'The better to eat you with,'" laughed Granny, "I'm sure you look quite
+sweet enough."
+
+Leslie ran over and put the basket in her lap. "The oranges are
+sweeter," she said, "please eat those instead."
+
+"All right," Granny agreed, "if you will give me a kiss with them, that
+will be next best to eating you."
+
+In her heart, Leslie thought it was much better, and while Granny Graham
+ate one of the oranges they both decided that the story of Little White
+Riding-Hood had a much pleasanter ending than the old one in Leslie's
+book.
+
+--_Written for Dew Drops by Marion Mallette Thornton._
+
+
+
+
++---------------+
+| |
+| Knowledge Box |
+| |
++---------------+
+
+Musical Hespie and Her Play.
+
+
+Little Hespie, the wood mouse, sang sometimes as long as nine minutes.
+Her song usually came forth when she was at play, or exercising in some
+way. One time she became especially delighted because her wheel squeaked
+when she turned it. You know how pleased a boy is when his hobbyhorse
+creaks. So Hespie, too, enjoyed the new noise; but it so drowned her
+pretty little warble that a drop of oil was put in the wheel to stop the
+creaky sound.
+
+Poor Hespie became quite excited over this change, and bit the wires of
+her wheel. So a plan was made to soothe poor mousie's feelings. A small
+strip of stiff paper was placed in such a way that it hit the wheel
+every time it turned and so made a nice little noise. Hespie forgot her
+trouble and worked at the wheel joyously, making the paper noise and
+singing her pretty song at the same time.
+
+If Hespie had not had her wheel to play with, her life would have been
+quite dull. One time her wheel was corked up so that she could not go
+inside. She became quite angry and ran in and out of her bed-box, hardly
+knowing what to do. Her rage did not last long, however, and she was
+soon frolicking about the cage and singing. The song sounded at first
+like the cooing of a dove; then it changed to quick notes more like the
+cuckoo; and, after that, the noise was like the tapping of Mr.
+Woodpecker on a tree.
+
+One of Hespie's favorite games, which she played with the children, they
+called "hauling in the lines." She seemed never to grow tired of it. The
+children would hold a long cotton cord, while Hespie sat upon her hind
+legs and pulled it in like a sailor, hand over hand. Then the children
+would pull it out again just to see her pull it in.
+
+Happy little Hespie often sang when she ate. One day a small twig with
+insects' eggs on it was handed to her. She sat up straight in her
+cunning way, took the twig in her hands, and held it in her mouth. While
+she nibbled, she sang; so that she looked very much like a little
+musician playing a fife.
+
+--_Written for Dew Drops by Susanne C. Umlauf._
+
+
+
+
+When we wish to help others, it is wonderful how many ways open before
+us.
+
+
+
+
+OUR LESSON.--For Feb. 22.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+PREPARED BY MARGUERITE COOK.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Title.--Faith Destroying Fear.--Luke 12:1-12.
+
+Golden Text.--Every one who shall confess me before men, him shall the
+Son of man also confess before the angels of God.--Luke 12: 8.
+
+_Beginners Golden Text._--_He careth for you._--1 Peter 5: 7.
+
+Truth.--Jesus claims as friends before the angels of God those who claim
+him before men.
+
+1. The people loved to listen to Jesus as he taught them.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+2. Sometimes they crowded so closely around him that they trod upon one
+another.
+
+3. One day in a crowd like this Jesus spoke to his disciples quietly.
+
+4. He warned them to beware of some of those in the crowd who would like
+to teach them things that were not true.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+5. Jesus said people who tried to hide their evil ways and pretend to be
+good were hypocrites.
+
+6. He warned them that nothing can be hidden from God.
+
+7. In the end those who try to deceive are found out.
+
+[Illustration: Be Sure Your SIN Will FIND YOU OUT]
+
+8. Jesus said God knows and loves us.
+
+9. He loves even the little birds and all things that he has made.
+
+10. Jesus said five sparrows are sold for two farthings, yet God does
+not forget one of them.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+11. God loves and cares for us his own dear children, and Jesus said
+that even the hairs of our head are numbered.
+
+12. Jesus told his friends to fear no one but do right and trust God.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+QUESTIONS.
+
+What is the Golden Text?
+
+What is the Truth?
+
+1. To whom did the people love to listen?
+
+2. How closely did they sometimes crowd around him?
+
+3. What did Jesus do one day in a crowd?
+
+4. Of whom did he warn them to beware?
+
+5. Who did Jesus say were hypocrites?
+
+6. What can be hidden from God?
+
+7. Who are found out?
+
+8. Who knows and loves us?
+
+9. What else does he love?
+
+10. What does God not forget?
+
+11. Who loves and cares for us, and what did Jesus say about the hairs
+of our head?
+
+12. What did Jesus tell his friends to do?
+
+ * * * * *
+
+LESSON HYMN.
+
+_Tune_--"Jesus loves me, this I know," omitting chorus (E flat).
+
+ Love and honor God will give
+ Unto all who try to live
+ True and faithful to their Lord,
+ Keeping his most holy Word.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Title of Lesson for March 1.
+
+Trusting in Riches and Trusting in God.--Luke 12:13-34.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Golden Text for March 1.
+
+Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.--Luke 12:34.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Beginners Golden Text for March 1.
+
+_He careth for you._--1 Peter 5:7.
+
+
+
+
++----------------------+
+| |
+| Thoughts for Mothers |
+| |
++----------------------+
+
+Encourage Your Child to Read.
+
+
+As early as possible let your children be encouraged to read, and see
+that they are provided with books and papers adapted to their capacity
+of mind. Some parents, be it said to their shame, consider money spent
+in this way as unnecessary or even wasted. A more erroneous idea of
+economy never existed. Books are great educators. A mother should be
+more careful to provide her children with good books than fine clothes;
+should spend more time in teaching and training them than in decking
+their bodies for show and display. Mothers, if you are obliged to
+practice economy, do not commence to save in your children's books and
+papers; let it be in something else first. While, however, the mind is
+being trained and improved, care should be taken that the spiritual part
+is not neglected. While your children are reading books by various
+authors, have a care that they do not neglect the reading of the Bible,
+the Book of books.
+
+
+
+
++--------------------------+
+| |
+| Advice to Boys and Girls |
+| |
++--------------------------+
+
+Treat Them Kindly.
+
+
+Most of us are fond of pets, and it would be hard to find the boy or
+girl who didn't want either a dog or a kitten. It is small wonder, for a
+dog is a very faithful friend, and anything more delightful than a tiny,
+fluffy kitten, full of fun and spirits, it would be hard to find. But
+sometimes these pets do not have a very easy time of it. Only a few days
+ago we saw a little boy out on the sidewalk with his kitten. He was
+enjoying himself, but the kitten wasn't, for he would pick it up and
+throw it across the yard, till poor pussy mewed pitifully. Now, if our
+boys and girls are going to have pets, they ought to learn to treat them
+very kindly, just as they would wish to be treated themselves.
+
+You may think, perhaps, that your dog belongs to you, and for that
+reason you can do with him just as you please. But do you ever stop to
+consider that Rover or Don may not enjoy being kicked and beaten and
+pulled about any more than you would if you were in his place? That is
+something that we must think about. We might have been born helpless, in
+the power of other and larger creatures. But it has pleased our Father
+to make us what we are, and to give us the power over his other
+creatures, and for that reason we should be very kind and gentle with
+them. He wishes us to be merciful, and so we have his promise that those
+who are merciful shall have mercy shown them, if ever they come to be in
+need of it. And then, that it may be very plain to us, he tells us that
+"the merciful man is merciful to his beast." That means that he is kind
+and gentle to all the creatures that he has anything to do with, to his
+horse and his cow, to his dog, and even to the tiny kitten that ties
+itself up into a ball, chasing its own tail. Isn't this promise worth
+trying for?
+
+
+
+
+[Entered at the Post Office at Elgin, Ill., as Second Class Mail
+Matter.]
+
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+
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