Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 14, 1923, Page 11

i | | i init “THE GIRL WITH THE CURL. There was a little girl, 4e she had a little curl \Right in the middle of her fore- ©” head; But her feet were always wrong, Arid “her legs so very long, ‘That this little girl was nothing short of horrid. A Lesson Learned HARLIE! Charlie!” again and again Lizzie called, but no one answered, and just as she was going into the house to tell mother they must eat dinner with- out Cousin Charley she heard a mer- ry laugh above her head. Just yesterday the earth was brown, but surely in the night A fairy came with magic wand and changed it all to white, And now today the sun shines forth on a world so dazzling fair It seems that only peace and joy are dwelling everywhere. Knee-deep in the feathery flakes the children love 7 to play, Not all the Summer is half so nice as just one snowy day. A Visit With Jack the Giant Killer in Pictureland aaallt AT (Courtesy Paitapeiraia Recor.) “Are You the Little Boy Who Wished to Visit Pictureland?” She Asked. DISCARDED. THE LAMPLIGHTER MAN. “oh, ob, you are up there, are you? He should be just ashamed of him- He's always such a cheery friend, Aren't you afraid you will spoil your good suit?” “Never thought of it. won't scold, for she knows I haven't been up a tree for two years. Please * Rest, baby, rest, . Upon thy mother’s arm! Tim eatin’ air (the air does ‘taste, doben't it?).” {To be sure tt tastes, but chicken ple and peas and succotash taste even rr.” i t Hannah “looked grave when ashe heard where Charlie had been. “Ybur ‘uncle says that trée is un- sound, ‘you mustn't get up there this year,” she cautioned, ‘Charlie was vexed. ‘He was sure Ufitlé Ned was’ too ‘busy for words. }He. did. not mean to. disobey. He came to the country meaning to be R0dand he looked good, but, like the branch, he was not sound; he had sojoften disobeyed. So after awhile bi ; jought he would climb just once to get the view. So up he went and began to whistle; it was such a pleasant prospect. He even began to rock a little as he whistled, and then a crack, a crash, and Charlie lay on the ground. There they found him, his arm badly broken, and instead of anjoy- ing his country visit he bad to suffer tor weeks, and after a talk with Aunt Hannab he began to see why Cousin Hal and Lizzie looked not only sound, but were sound as well as true, self, He leaves us now upon the shelf; Mother At first we were the grandest thing, A kite, a ball, a bat, a string, Alas! I know we've had our day, tell Aunt Hannah I’m not hungry, He's gone off to the school, they say! The dear lamplighter man; He lights the byways at the end Of day as best he can! He sends his little gleaming light Up alleys dark and drear, She'll shield her love from harm. fright, Because the night is here! His lamp is not so very large, His ladder is not high. Yet he’s as careful of his charge As if it reached the sky. I'd like to be a lighted man When I am grown up, quite, T think it is a lovely plan To make the byways bright. BATHING DOLLY. I bathed my dearest doll today— Now she is no more fit for play. Her shining hair, al) golden curls, whirls! Her eyes, that were a lovely, blur, Were only pasted in with glue, It melted, and those eyes fell out My hair and eyes are on me tight! \den (Fleanings~ And shows there's nothing to give Came off and mixed with soapsud And floated down the bathtub spout. I’m glad—since she is such a sight, ETER liked two of the pictures in his nursery better than all the others. One was of Jack the Giant Killer when he was running away from the Giant, and the otber showed Jack, after he bed killed the Giant, leading the Princess out of the Castle. After he had been looking at these two pictures Peter sometimes thought how splendid it would have been to know Jack, land one day, when he was wishing he had known him, all of a sudden . « be was in the picture, running as hard ashe could beside Jack the Giant Killer. “Run!” gasped Jack, “or Giant Twelvetoes will catch us—I left my sword at home this morning!” “But—but—I'm not part of the pic- ture,” panted Peter, “I’m a little “You're in Pictureland now,” said Jack as they reached the forest and plunged in among the trees, “and there are lots of giants in Picture- land.” “But how did I get here?” asked Peter. He wasn't at all sure he liked being chased by a giant. ‘ “Oh,” said Jack, “I expect you've been wishing you could be like me— now haven't you?” Peter admitted that be had some- times wished something of the kind. “Then that’s the reason you're bere,” Jack told him. “You can generally get what you really want if you wish hard enough. Very soon you'll wish you hadn't wished quite so hard. Giant Twelvetoes is getting too sharp—and I hear he is having a pair of seven-league boots made, too! Wait here while I fetch my sword.” So Peter waited, hidden in the wood. Every now and then he heard the Giant roaring outside, or crash- ing through the trees looking for them. He was beginning to feel—not ex- actly frightened, of course, but rath- er anxious that Jack would come back with his sword. He wished Jack would come back and—he was back: With his sword, too! “Here I am!” said Jack. “My word, isn’t the Giant angry?” he con- tinued, as the roars and crashes drew nearer and nearer, “Are you going to kill him?” asked Peter. “Of course, Iam,” replied Jack. “In a minute we shall be in the oth- er picture, Shut your eyes until I shout.” Peter shut his eyes ‘ightly, and when Jack shouted to him to open them again—they were in the other picture! The Giant was lying on the ground in front of the Castle with a sword sticking out of him, and Jack was just leading the Princess out of the gateway. “Are you the little boy who wished to visit Pictureland?” she asked. Peter said he was. The Princess smiled, Jack laughed, and— “I do believe you're half asleep al- ready, Master Peter,” said nurse, who had just come into the room, “come along—it's bedtime!” Big brother went to school today And left me all his toys; Baseball and marbles he will play At recess, with the boys. “THEN AND NOW.” Away he rides—this gallant knight, Ready against all wrong to fight, ‘The knight of old had much to do, But not one-half as much as you, COMRADES. Brother went to school today, Left me all alone to play. I have tried each well-loved game, But they do not seem the same. T am in a dreadful fix. Tl) be glad when I am six! PRETENDING. I run about our yard all day And toot and whistle at my play. My‘mother thinks’ that I'll wear out, And it'is:true—I would—no doubt If I were just a boy again, But'T am’ not, for I'm a train! THE FLOW OF iCE. Over lake and river Now a floor is laid, And in the stillness Jack Frost plies his trade. Quiet carpenter, On your floor of ice; Make our skating good, Make it smooth and s:ice. Skimming like sea-gulls, Over stream and pond. Through the still forests, Yes, and beyond, BRING IN THE WOOD. Lug the wood in More'and more; Heap it‘ higher On the fire— Make it roar. Heo’ the fire Crackling so; See it leaping, See it creeping, See it glow. Lug. the wood in, High in air; . Fire is needy, Red tongues greedy, Warm and fair. Puzzle Picture RMVIOAO This Damsel Is Churning. Do You See Who is Going to Help Hert? The Fairy Queen and Her Helpers OTHER had seen the nursery M floor and it truly was in a dreadful condition and no one wanted to clean up. So mother said: “Iam the fairy queen, A dreadful storm has turned my beautiful home into a wilderness. Where are the fairy helpers to clean up?” “Here,” cried one little child. “I am one,” cried another child. “O take me, take me,” cried an- other. “Very well,” mother. began. “I shall sing a song and the elves must dance around and do as I bid them.” Here and now, here and now, Leave your work horse and your plow, Dance and sing, work and play, Clear up all the trash away.” How the fairies worked. vi ee Pixie and Fairy-finger Flo and Jack the Gnome, Clean-up-The-Home and Lightning Lulu swept and dusted and tied up all the loose threads. In 15 minutes you never would have known that room. Mother then took hands all around and sang: Now we'ro happy that we're done, Every little fairy one. As we dance and romp and sing, Fairy Queen the feast will bring. And motber hurried down into the pantry for the nicest jelly roll you ever tasted, A GOOD FITTER. They say that pegs so round won't fit In holes that are quite square, But if a boy that’s square is round, He fits most anywhere. SLIM JIM REBUS DICTIONARY | | TOMORROW, Te HY 2 (25, nen TE Y “Tye made it.a practice to put all my worries down in the bottom of my heart, then set on the lid an’ smile.” —Mrs. Wiggs, i n “Lovey Ma. Peawe ASAD LITTLE LAD. There was a little lad, Whose countenance was sad And whose head was twice as long as it should be; But his legs were short and fat; If it hadn't been for that He would have been quite sweet as you can see, MOTHERS. Aren't mothers queer, And dear? They like the back of chicken—or the neck, And don’t care a speck When your chum stays for tea, Or when he Spills jam on her best cloth, Or sips his broth With lots of fuss! It must be cause they just love us, THE VERY THING. ' “A storm in the country,” the eles phant sald, “Need never fill a body with dread. Why run helter-skelter j When one can take shelter Under a watershed. RIGHT-0, JACK! Jack Frost now {s circulating j With bis customary bite, But he claims that he is treating Each and every object white, WHAT HE SAYS, What does wee mosquito say In his joy at peep of day? Skeeter wee says: “Life is roses Camping on the people’s noses.” MOTHER GOOSE DOT PUZZLE Wy be fe ger PO Berane Peeligg? Cnrwuwee— : BECALISE THe LETTER. 2 a < —