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THE CAROLINA UNION PARMER
Country Home Department
BinriHeied by Mrs. E. D. Nall, Sanford, N. G., to whom all Matter
for tbis Departnont Should bo Sent
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Why pa, he didn’t go to town
Last evening after tea,
But got a book and settled down
As com’fy as could be.
I’ll tell you I was awful glad
To have my pa about,
To answer all the things I had
Been trying to find out.
And so I asked him why the world
Is round, instead of square,
And why the piggies tails are curled.
And why don’t fish breathe air?
And why the moon don’t hit a star.
And why the dark is black?
And just how many birds there are.
And will the wind come back?
And why does water stay in wells.
And why does June-bugs hum.
And what’s the roar I hear in shells.
And when will Christmas come?
And why the grass is always green.
Instead of sometimes blue,
And why a bean will grow a bean.
And not an apple too?
And why a horse can’t learn to moo.
And why a cow can’t neigh?
And do the fairies live on dew.
And what makes hair grow gray—
And then my pa got up, and gee!
The awful words he said,
I hadn’t done a thing, but he
Just sent me off to bed.—Selected.
A Girl IVho Loves Books.
I am a little girl thirteen years old
and have been reading with much
interest, what some of the readers
of this page have written concern
ing books. I have read “The
Sketch-Book,” by Washington Irv
ing, “The Spy,” by Cooper, “The
House of the Seven Gables,” by
Hawthorne, “The Lady of the
Lake,” and “Marmion,” by Walker
Scott, “The Swiss Family Robe
son,” and “Evangeline,” besides
several others from the Sunday
School Library, during the past
year. Of those, I have read this
winter, “The House of the Seven
Gables,” “The Lady of the Lake,”
and “The Swiss Family Robeson.”
The one we have selected to read
next is the “Last of the Mohicans.”
Our plan is, after we have finished
reading a book, to make a synopsis
of it. In this way we remember
more about the book than we would
otherwise. We all read them aloud
and; of course, there is a lively
spirit of rivalry to see who has the
best synopsis. I do not think there
is a better way for boys and girls
to spend their leisure time than
reading good books. It makes one
familiar with the best authors. You
learn to talk well from reading well.
Good reading furnishes much to
think about. Good books are the
best of companions. I wish some
other girl or boy would tell us what
they are reading. Lillian.
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The Laugh Cure.
Laughter induces a mental
hililation.
The habit of frequent and hearty
laughter will not only save you
many a doctor’s bill, but will also
save you years of your life. There
is good philosophy as well as good
health in the maxim, “Laugh and
grow fat.” Laughter is a foe to
pain and disease, and a sure cure
for the “blues,” melancholy, and
worry.
Laughter is contageous. Be
cheerful and make everybody
around you happy, harmonious and
healthful.
Laughter and good cheer make
love of life, and love of life is half
of health.
Use laughter as a table sauce. It
sets the organs to dancing, and thus
stimulates the digestive organs.
Laughter keeps the heart and
face young, and enhances the phys
ical beauty.
Laughter is nature’s device for
exercising the internal organs, and
giving us pleasure at the same time.
It sends the blood bounding
through the body, increases the
respiration, and gives warmth and
glow to the whole system. It ex
pands the chest and forces the
poisoned air from the least-used
lung-cell. Perfect health, which
may be destroyed by a piece of bad
news, by grief or anxiety, is often
restored by a good hearty laugh.
A jolly physician is often better
than all his pills.—Success Maga
zine.
“IVhat If It Were My Mother?'’
If we could see our own loved
reflected in the poor around us,
how often would our hands reach
out to help ? A lady was riding one
day in a carriage, when she came
upon an old woman with a queer
little hood on her head and a staff
in her hand. She was neat and
clean, and her skin smooth and
delicate, but her back was bent and
her feet were without shoes.
The lady saw she was shoeless
and stopped the carriage. “Here is
some money,” she said in a tender
voice. “What for?” said the
woman, looking up pleasantly.
To buy shoes for your poor feet.
Do you not want a pair?” The
woman laughed a little low laugh,
which seemed to come from a heart
filled with simple happy thoughts.
“Don’t you want a pair of
shoes ?” asked the lady, a little hurt.
“God bless and reward you,” an
swered the woman heartily.
The carriage drove on, and the
lady sank back in her seat with
tears in her eyes. “Oh,” she said,
“I thought I saw my own mother*in
that dear old lady. She had just
such a sweet face and pleasant
voice. You don’t know how I felt
when I thought of my mother, old
and feeble, walking with bare feet,
over this rough rocky road.—Girls’
Companion.
Thursday, February 22, i9^^’
Judge Gently.
“It was a liberal education i*^
cliarity to go to her with a bit 0
gossip. “The speaker laughed
softly over the memory. ‘ She
the gentlest hearer and the kindes
judge you ever saw. No matte
how dreadful or how true the new
might be she always managed
find some pity or some praise
mix in and sweeten it. She alway
sent you away with the shamed an
chastened resolution to gossip
more, or to go back to every 0^^
whom you had told the tale a ^
modify it after her pattern. Sue
gentle hearer and kindly
w'ould be a blessing in every com
munity, aye—in every
For we all need more or less tra
.nd
m
tis.
iiig and reminding to gentleness a
kindliness of thought and wor
our dealings with those abou
It is so easy to judge keenly a^^^
h&rshly, to get into the habit ^
ing the faults and allowing
obscure the virtues, of gossip
criticism instead of praise an
couragement.
Suppose we try instead, to ig^
the faults that we cannot reme y
notice, and bring forth to the
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every virtue we can nna ^
body we know. Would it
a wonderful and splendid c a
in our view of our friends
neighbors.—Orphan’s Friend.
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Write me or call on me at once, as the supply is limited.
W. A. SIMPKINS, Raleigh, N. C.
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