The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 1798, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1909 Page: 3 of 4
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KINDERGARTEN,
For the Hostess
Chat on Interesting Topics of Many Kinds, by
a Recognized Authority
A Merry Christmas.
What better wish can be sent forth
to all the department readers than
this one made by Charles Dickens so
many years ago?
“Many merry Christmases, many
happy New Years, unbroken friend-
ships,- great accumulations of cheer-
ful recollections, affection on earth
-and heaven at last for all of us,’’
There it is all in a nutshell, just the
wish Mme. Merri extends to every one
•on the day of the Christchild’s birth,
when the joy bells are echoing their
message of peace round this great
world. But to insure “accumulations
of cheerful recollections” we must be-
-gin this very minute to lay up our
treasures by thinking of the next one
who may need our ministration*, rich
ms well as poor.
I was especially touched last week
when I saw a deeply veiled woman,
whom sorrow has touched with a
heavy hand, having lost every mem-
ber of her own family within a very
short time, leaving her absolutely
mlone, making purchases of dainty
trifles for children, for servants and
friends on both sides of the continent.
It took a stout heart to join with the
merry throng and it was to me true
bravery to even attempt to get away
from what I knew her true feelings
to be. As 1 grow older I think the
"greatest art in the world is that of
self-forgetfulness. We are so apt to
think that we may be excused if we
personally do not feel like rising to an
^occasion or entering into the spirit of
this blessed holiday time. There is a
college girl who has had heavy finan-
cial losses, making her usual gifts
Impossible, but to assure her friends
That she does not forget she is writing
the dearest notes on scarlet paper with
gold ink, sealing the envelopes with a
Christmas emblem. I think even the
overburdened postman will smile
when he delivers these bright mis-
sives. By the way, how many of us
ever think of the postman or ask if
he has children to whom we could at
least send a Christmas postcard?
Gifts of home-made cakes, fine mar-
malades', mince pies awd cookies are
acceptable to young housekeepers,
bachelors and college folk who may
be unable to participate in the fesr
tivities at their own homes. Speak-
ing of things to eat, as nearly every
one dines sumptuously in the middle
■of the day on Christmas, this sup-
per was planned to satisfy but not
overwork the inner man, who is gener-
ally taxed to the uttermost on feast
days. First, there was an appetizing
combination of fruits served in orange
cups resting on a doily made of
holly leaves. The mixture consisted
of oranges, grape fruit, bananas,
grated pineapple, lemon Juice and
sherry, with sugar to sweeten. It was
chilled and seemed to be just the ap-
petizer necessary. Then came fried
oysters, old-fashioned cold slaw, hot
biscuit, potato chips, individual molds
of cranberry jelly, shrimp salad, toast-
ed crackers, coffee, cheese, nuts and
white grapes. The salted nuts were
in little sled-shaped boxes and the
name cards were tied to small Christ-
mas tree boxes, which were filled
with bonbons wrapped in gilt paper.’
MADAME MERRI.
Stenciled Table Covers.
The arts and crafts are showing
handsome table covers made up in
dark, intense tones of burlap with a
heavy design stenciled over the sur-
face in an opposing tone. These are
excellent for the library and the sit>
ting room.
Nursery Screens
—
Inexpensive White Elephant.
A Daisy Top.
||YOWADAYS the nursery of each house 1* not an extra room into which
the cast-off furniture from other rooms and the left-over rugs and draper
® ^ ies are thrown. Parents recognize the value of environment when their
children’s lives are in the impressionable stage of development, and playrooms
are furnished with a view to giving beauty plus comfort for the little ones.
Screens are necessary to protect children from draughts, for they are on
the floors, or very low down, in their play hours. These pieces of furniture
are now decorated with pictures of animals, flowers and figures that bring
back to us our story-book days, and are a joy to childish eyes. They are ex-
pensive if bought in the stores. Why not decorate your own nursery screens?
You know the special liking of your children, and can buy plain forms, upon
which pictures can be pasted or painted.
Denim is procurable in all staple shades. Screens in two or three sec-
tions and of different heights are easily bought, and the pictures you will sup-
ply yourself.
Animals are always interesting to little tots. A clever older person ought
to be able to draw on white muslin an elephant. The lines must be simple,
for children are pleased with drawings which seem almost crude to us. It is
an easy matter to cut other elephants from the first pattern, and when you
have .supplied the eyes, ears and a few flesh wrinkles, paste the forms in a
straight border at the top of your screen. They will never be anything but
pleasure-giving white elephants to you and your children.
Then there is the daisy top. Huge white flowers with yellow centers and
green leaves look very well on a blue background. Yellow petals are effect-
ive on brown denim or a wooden panel at the cop. They should be arranged is
a posteresque fashion, with the flowers grouped at one side.
The possibilities are legion. On plain screens which carry out the color-
ing of the nursery let pictures, made at home, shine out in inexpensive glory.
You have no idea how well worth your efforts these simply decorated screens
can be made. They are scrapbooks on a large scale and give correspondingly
BroDortionate pleasure to little boys and girls.
USE HOT IRON ON 00b
TO SAVE MANGLED BABY
New York Policemen Have Desperat/
Fight with Bull Terrier in
Rescuing Child.
New York. — Eighteen-months old
John Eodice was almost torn to pieces
by a savage bulldog while visiting his
godfather, Pasquale Picarilli, at No.
238 West Thirtieth street.
The little boy was in charge of An-
toinette Picarilli, the 14-year-old
daughter of the house at the time.
The father was attending to his ex
press business and Mrs. Picarilli was
on a shopping expedition. The child
had been left with them owing to the
serious illness of his mother, who re-
sides at No. 306 East One Hundred
and Sixth street.
The two children were in the kitch-
en playing with blocks, while the dog
was lying quietly behind the stove.
The baby suddenly jumped up and
playfully pulled the animal’s tail. With
a snarl the brute seized the child’s
Attacks Dog with Hot Iron.
Arm, hurled him from side to side, at
times dashing his body against the
walls. Antoinette ran downstairs and
shrieked for help.
Neighbors ran to the rescue. A
man rushed into the room with a
heavy crowbar, and dealt the animal
a crashing blow across the head. Then
a woman appeared with a red hot iron
and laid it heavily across the dog’s
nose. With a howl he loosened his
jaws. The man caught the child, and
all within the apartment succeeded in
reachir/g the hallway and slammed the
door, leaving the dog a prisoner.
Patrolman Thomas Wedder heard
the dog’s cries, and was told of the
affair by neighbors. Patrolman
Thomas Creevy joined him, and with
drawn revolvers the two men entered
the kitchen.
Creevy advanced, guarding himself
with a chair. As the brute sprang he
was met by a bullet in the chest. Sev-
eral shots were fired without effect
and the dog landed on the chair held
in Creevy’s hands splintering it.
Finally the animal ran into a bed
room and crawled under the bed. The
men fired two more shots and he rolled
over as though dead.
Without warning the animal revived,
grabbing Creevy in the right thigh
tearing a gash of several inches and
cutting the leg of his trousers entirely
off.
Then he sprang for the last time
and his jowls were within a foot of
Wedder’s throat when the last shot
struck him squarely under the eye,
killing him. The time of the fight was
20 minutes.
Every one of the 12 bullets fired had
passed through his body. The dog
was a pure white English thorough-
bred of the fighting stock and had
been regarded as dangerous for some
time.
Victor Emmanuel’s Rare Coins.
King Victor Emmanuel, according
to a French newspaper, is a numis-
matist of the first rank, and his maj-
esty possesses a collection which may
be termed a museum. His cabinets
contain 60,000 coins, some most rare
and almost priceless.
The king is a scientific collector,
and will shortly publish a treatise on
numismatics. It will run into sev-
eral volumes, and will be entitled
•‘Corpus Minimorum Italicorum.” The
work will be a complete catalogue of
mediaeval and modern money struck
by Italy or by Italians in foreign lands.
The printing of the first volume is al-
most complete. To insure correctness
proof sheets have been submitted to
the keepers of the coin departments
in the principal museums of the world
Character.
Character Is the divinest thing on
earth. It is the one thing that you
can put into the shop or info the study
and be sure that the fire is going to
burn.—PhilliDs Brooks.
NEW GAME FOR LITTLE TOTS
English Custom of Making Butterflies
Out of Paper and Giving Prizes
to Winners.
Mothers with little ones know that
they must have parties once in a
while, just as their grown-up sisters
and brothers, and a part of the edu-
cation of the child is teaching it the
duties of hostess and the nice little
courtesies of entertaining. The play
at parties must not be as boisterous as
it may be at other timds, and this
sense of decorum is another of the
things a child learns when it begins
to give or attend parties. Mothers
are often at their wits’ end to know
how to amuse the children, for this
must be all arranged for beforehand
or the party will -prove a failure.
A lady who visited recently in an
English country house is telling her
friends about a children’s party which
she attended over there. It was a
garden party, and the little ones were
all gathered together in the large tent
prepared for them, after they had
greeted one another and had some
time to get used to the environment.
Then each child was given a piece of
paper, a pair of scissors and several
pieces of colored chalk. The children
of the hostess attended to this. Each
child was told to cut out a butterfly
as well as she knew how and with
the chalk to make the spots, anten-
Qae and so on. 'When the butterflies
were completed they were gathered
up and pinned on the wall, making
juite a pretty picture gallery. While
the children were enjoying the re-
freshments, judges passed around and
picked out the three best pictures.
The name of the artist was on the
back, and when this was read and the
three prizes distributed, there was
great excitement among the little
ones. Of course, It need not be a but-
terfly, but most children are as famil-
iar with this insect as with any other
and, at any rate, after such a contest
they will examine more closely the
butterflies they find.
MAGIC FAN TELLS YOUR AGE
Illustration Showing How One Can
Ascertain How Old a Friend
May Be By Blades.
If you wish to know the age of a
friend—always supposing the friend
not to be older than 31 years—just
show him this picture of the “magic
fan” and ask him to tell you on which
M the blades his age appears. Then
Teils Friend’s Age.
the only thing you have to do is to
add the numbers at the top of the
blades indicated and you will know
the correct answer.
For instance, suppose your friend is
19 years old. The number 19 will be
found only on the blades 16, 2 and 1,
the sum of which is 19.
Floral Decorations.
Jennie is only five and her brother
Rob is six; so of course she asks all
sorts of questions, and he always an-
swers them.
The other day she heard some one
talking about “Floral Decorations,”
and immediately asked Rob what it
meant.
“Why, don’t you know even that!”
exclaimed Rob scornfully. “Why, flor-
al decorations are rugs or carpet or
matting, or anything else you use to
decorate the floor!”
Knew His Business.
“Now,” said Miss DePlayne to the
artist, “I want yol to make as pretty
a picture of me as you possibly can.”
“Oh, I’ll attend to that,” replied the
portrait painter. “When I get the fin-
ishing touches on you won’t know
fourself.”
Youngest Saxon Princess.
Princess Monica, daughter of the
Xing of Saxony, is six years- old. Born
ifter her mother was divorced she
jvas last year given up by her mother.
The little girl has two sisters, Mar-
garet and Marie
6* 0
I’m going to start to kindergarten;
Ma says I’s awful smart, an’
Then, besides, she says I’m growint
An’ it’s time to be a little knowin’.
Nex’ door's anuder boy that’s smart an*
His ma sent him to kindergarten,
An’ he learned games, an’ songs an*
sewin’,
Oh, yes, he’s awful smart an’ knowin’.
PITCHING BALL IN CRICKET
Innovation in Ancient and Popular
English Game Just Been Tried
and Approved By Players.
Cricket is as popular a game of ball
in England as is baseball in America.
Machine Pitches CrtcKet Ball.
It is played with 11 men on a side,
one side being dispersed in the field
to deliver and catch the ball, and the
other batting. The batsman stands
before a wicket, which the pitcher, or
bowler, as he is called In England,
tries in every possible way to knock
down, says Popular Mechanics. The
game, which cannot be completely de-
scribed because of lack of space, is
very ancient, having been played un-
der the name of cricket as far back
as the sixteenth century. In itself, it
has not undergone any changes to
speak of, but once in awhile some
auxiliary idea is developed, one of the
most important of which is the bowl-
ing machine for practice, here shown.
It is the invention of an expert play-
er, and has just been tried and ap-
proved. It will bowl any length,
pace, direction and break required,
giving amateur pl&yers as excellent
batting practice as could a profes-
sional bowler. The ball comes to the
batter on the first bound, and “break’’
is the term applied to the slant it can
be made to take after striking the
ground.
A Real Conqueror.
She (angrily)—That chimney doea
beat me!
He (mournfully)—Yes, I wish I
dared do what the chimney does.
She (sharply)—What?
He (meekly)—Smoke in spite of
you.
His Experience.
Singleton—Don’t you think it is
easier to coax .. woman than it is to
drive her?
Wedderly—Can’t say—but I know
It’s a great deal safer.
Suited to the Part.
“How was the escaped prisoner
dressed?”
“Naturally, I suppose, in a cutaway
coat and slouch hat.”
Louder.
“Rich people make a lot of noise
getting married.”
“So they do, but the real noise
comes when they get a divorce.”
Good Reason.
“Teacher—“Johnny, can you tell me
why a donkey eats thistles?” John-
ny—“Yes, ma’am; it’s ’cause he’s a
donkey.”
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 1798, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1909, newspaper, December 24, 1909; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth910902/m1/3/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.