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leading them to do helpful things until they finally felt that the per- 

 formance of certain duties belonged to them and that they were 

 invaluable helpers. 



Here they learned courage and self-confidence. They had an 

 inward consciousness of the mastery of external things. They laid 

 the foundation of useful labor. To them labor was play. This is 

 ideal labor, labor in which the element of pleasure is the controlling 

 force. 



The lessons that our children love best in their readers are the 

 ones that have to do with horses, cows, calves, sheep and lambs. 

 One time in reading from, "In the Child's World," by Miss Pouls- 

 son, I read the story called "Silver Knee Buckles." It touched our 

 little girl's heart at once. It is a story of the Revolution. The 

 British soldiers, in one of their raids for food, carried away a cow 

 belonging to a little girl of twelve. She got audience with Lord 

 Cornwallis and in her appeal to him for her cow she says, "I raised 

 that cow myself." This is the climax of the story to my little girl. 

 The responsive thrill that stirs her heart is depicted in her eyes and 

 countenance. 



To the children the twenty-third Psalm is full of meaning, "The 

 Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down 

 in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters." They love 

 the Christ-child story, and they often ask me to tell them the one 

 that has the story of the shepherds in it. 



Could these stories make the same impression upon them had 

 they not ministered to the little lambs themselves? Christ is our 

 perfect type of tender love and care. "I am the Good Shepherd. 

 The Good Shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep." 



I would suggest the tulip as a money-maker for a girl. At the 

 close of the planting season, the bulbs can be bought at a low price. 

 After December ist I presume that single early tulips can be had 

 at $3 per loo, for mixed colors. Plant four to the square foot, cover 

 three inches, and next April the bed will be the attraction of the 

 neighborhood. They will be ready to be taken up in June, when 

 there will be as many blooming bulbs as were planted, and twice as 

 many of smaller size. Orders will be taken for a good many, more 

 can be purchased and planted, and the small ones may be planted 

 elsewhere to grow to blooming size. A small stock to begin with, 

 with careful management and love for the work, will increase rapid- 

 ly and bring quite an income annually. I have done this myself, 

 and see no reason why anyone could not. October is the time to 

 plant tulips, but they can be planted any time in December if the 

 ground is not frozen. M. Crawford. 



