A Moon-Bath.
Last night I saw the silver moon;
It WHS n pretty slight.
It filled the street, it filled my room
With such a shilling light
That I conlii see togo to bed
Without the gus high overhead.
I wish wo had n silver moon
Each night the who'e year through (
I think 'twould make a child all good,
Anil clean and pure—don't you?—
After the bath-tub big and white
To take a bath lu sliver light.
Cat Nut CM.
Hardly any animal is AO well known
to us as is the cat. It is found in
nearly every home, and seems to be
the proper ornament of the hearth.
But common as it has become, pussy
is not a native of the British Isles, for
it is not a descendant of the wild cat
once hunted in England and Scotland
for its fur. Our fireside friend came
from the far east, probably from Per
sia, which can still provide such bea
tiful specimens. In Egypt it was ac
tually an object of worship, and cat
mummies are sometimes found in the
land of the Pharaohs. Considering its
eastern origin it is passing strange
that no mention of it occurs in the
Bible. This was due, so it has been
said, to the fact that the Jews of old
did not love animals and that they
saw so much cat worship during their
stay in Egypt that they took a spe
cial dislike to the animal. The Dutch
on the other hand, remarking how
stoutly it fought for life and liber
ty, chose the cat for their ensigfi.
An Aesthetic Canary liirri.
I wonder if, among the thousands
of children who love and care for pet
canaries, many realize that there is
just as much difference in the char
acters and dispositions of the birds as
there is in their little owners. Some
birds arc out and out aristocrats, while
others are the veriest little plebeians.
I had once a canary who, in spite of
all my bribes, entreaties and coaxings,
simply would not bathe. Every time
i came near his cage with the little
white bathtub filled with water, he
would curl up into the sulkiest little
yellow ball you can possibly imagine.
High on the topmost perch would he
sit, the very picture of rage. If I
put the tub in the cage, he would
fight me, shriek out little discordant
notes, and fly into such a tempest
of anger that for fear he would hurt
himself I had to take out the hated
tub.
So deep seated was this yellow
atom's aversion to bath that I named
his "Tramp;" and, although as a mat
ter of form I still took the tub to
him daily, I had resigned myself to
his untidy nature, when, one day, I
accidentally broke the white tub, and
in its place I chanced to take a cu
riously shaped little Japanese dish
of blue and white china.
As I came near the cage, "Tramp's"
joyous morning carol stopped short,
and he flew up to his topmost perch,
as sulky a little bird as you would
care to see. But what is this? I
placed the dish in the cage; and as the
sharp little biack eyes rested on it,
the yellow ball flew down with out
stretched wings and glad chirps of
joy, perched for an instant on the
brim of the dish, and then splashed
into the water with every indication
of the utmost joy. I was amazed, of
course, and could not understand the
change. Day after day went by and
each morning Tramp welcomed his
bath in the blue and white dish.
Then, one morning, the blue and
white dish was broken; and I prof
fered a white one similar to the old
one.
Once more Tramp showed the old
aversion to his bath. Sulkier than
ever now, he flew on hip topmost
perch, an,* greeted me with shrill
chirps of rage. So it continued, till I
found another blue and white dish.
Then my aesthetic little pet resumed
his dally bath.—Christian Register.
Foxy'* New Collar.
One day while I was eating my
breakfast of bread and potatoes Elsie
said: "Wouldn't it be nice if Fox had
a collar? He shall have one, shan't
he, Mother? Do buy him one, please
do." And my mistress said, "Yes."
I didn't think much about it then.
I didn't know what a collar was, but
I've found out now.
Next day Elsie sat in the parlor
studying and I was gnawing her
shoes, when my mistress came in and
gave Elsie a little package. And Elsie
jumped up so quick she knocked mo
over, and clapped her hands, and cried:
"Oh. mother, you really did. It's the
loveliest little collar I ever saw." And
I jumped up and barked, too.
Just then I found a newspaper and
dragged it pto Elsie, 'cause I thought
she wanted to tear it up, like I do
when 1 feel glad. She looked so glad,
you know. And I guess she did want
it fo she tried to tear It away from
me, and then I dodged 'round the
room, so's she could have some fun
chasing me.
But at last she caught me and took
away that beautiful newspaper, and —
just think —threw it in the waste pa
per basket. Then she held me down
and fastened something around my
neck. I didn't run away. I sat still,
wonuering what that funny thing was
'round my neck.
Then I remembered that newspaper
and I wanted it. But when I moved
something jingled. I cocked my head
and listened and it jingled again. I
wondered where the noise came from,
rnd Iran all 'round the room, hunt-
ing for it. all the time It kepi
jingling in my cars, and all the tirna
Elsie and my mistress tat there and
laughed at me.
It worried me awfully. I thought It
was a new kind of rat, and 1 tore all
over the house looking for the rat,
with jingle In my ears. It drove
me 'most crazy, I can tell you.
But now I've found out it was two
little bells on that collar thing on
my neck that Jl.ijled so. And though
1 don't mind it so much now as I did
at first I keep scratching and working
hard to get that collar off. I haven't
got it off yet, but I will some day. I
don't like such things on my neck.
Would you?— Brooklyn Eagle.
Wliat tlio Gold I'lcce rougM.
It was a happy day for the littls
Jacksons, for that very morning father
had broken the toy bank and counted
all the pennies and nickels, and had
taken them down town with him, and
at dinner time brought back a beauti
ful gold piece in their place. And,
more than that, mother said that, just,
as soon as Hit was quite well again,
they would take the gold piece and
buy the party. That was what they
had wanted for ever so long—a party,
with ice cream, you know, and crack
ers to pull and take out tissue-paper
caps. So, of course, they were
And Tom and Dick and Meg and
Johnnie-Jump-Up all kissed Hit
harder than usual and started off to
school again in high Site-
Mother was very busy that after
noon. She was packing a box of half
worn clothes to send out west to Un
cle Dick's poor people; and while she
brushed and folded and smothed little
dresses Hit toddled about and reached
for things she ought not to have. She
reached for the big vase on the table
and Meg's doll and many other things,
but the only thing she got was some
tiling round and yellow and not very
large; and when mother opened the
fat little fist and looked to see what
it was, it turned out to be the gold
piece.
Miss Mehltable Jackson would not
give the money up. So mother let her
alone, only trying to keep an eye on
the young lady and the gold piece, to
see that no harm came to either of
them. The day passed away and after
a while the children came trooping
home from school. The very first
thing they wanted—after being well
kissed, of course—was the gold piece
that was going to buy the party.
'then a dreadful th.ng came to light.
The gold piece had disappeared. They
searched high and they searched low.
Mother shook out Hit's little skirts
and looked carefully under every rug
in the room. But there was no sign
of tlie money. Then she asked the
baby, "Darling, did you put it into
the drawer?" and "Did moiner's baby
throw the pretty money out of the win
dow?" And to every question Hit
would show her tiny teeth in a smile,
and answer, "Yes"—which, you know,
v.as very annoying to the children,
they wanted the party so much.
When father came home he said he
would buy another toy bank, and they
would start ail over again; but they
could net quite give up the hope of
finding their gold piece, and every
few days Meg or Dick or one of the
others would insist on turning the
rugs all up again or putting Miss Hit
through new questions as to where
she had put their money. But it was
always tno same, and they did not
learn anything new.
It was about a month later when
mother got a letter from Uncle Dick
about the clotnes for his poor people,
bne read the letter through at break
fast; and as she came to the last part
she gave a funny little cry, and said:
"Oh, ch.idren, do listen to this."
Every spoon went down into the
oatmeal plates, and every child pricked
up his ears and listened while mother
read;
"And the best of all was the surprise
in the pocket of the smallest coat —
Meg's it must havo been. If your lit
tle ones could have seen the joy that
gold pieco brought, they would have
had a pleasure nothing else can give:
Tell them all about it. Tell them the
little coat with the precious money
wont to a baby girl—a little lame thing
whose back has often ached for the
easy chair they have given her now.
And tell them tne children had a party
—all the youngsters from the neigh
borhood, each one feeling very fine in
something out of the big box. And
the way those little chaps joined hands
and danced about their crippled queen
was a uelight to see."
There was a little more about can
dy and apples the children were so de
lighted with; and then mother looked
arounw at the children a minute, and
asked:
"Shall I write Uncle Dick it was a
mistake? Perhaps the chair has not
been bought yet, and we could still
get the money and buy the party."
Anu such a regular chorus came
back, "Oh, no, mother, oh, no," that
Hit took it up, and thumped her spoon
against her silver cup to a liveiy
"rat-tat-tat," and sang "Oh, no, oh,
no." until Jane came in and took her,
wriggling and squealing, off to the
kitchen.—Augusta Kortrecht, in Sun
day School Times.
The I.H(B C)nefn'S Autograph*.
Great annoyance has been caused at
.court by recent sales of Queen Victo
ria's private letters and autographs,
of which an immense number have
been produced in the open market dur
ing the last few months. It is impos
sible to understand how such strictly
confidential communications as the
quoon's private letters to foreign sov
ereigns and to the Duchess of Glouces
ter and other members of the royal
family can have come to be publicly
offered for sale, unless they have some
how passed into the possession of the
servants of the recinients.—London
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