THOSE DEAR CHILDREN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 787, 9 April 1910, Page 10

THOSE DEAR CHILDREN.

If one -attempted to deal at larga with the answers given by children to examination questions (says a writer in the "Windsor Magazine") the editor would probably object that he. could not devote the whole magazine to one article, but one or two samples, may be--given -The-son of a well-known bishop.was recently asked by'his form-master'- &*' public school,-for the meaning of the Parable of the Grain of- MustardSeed "It means," said the boy, that a little religion goes a long way, and-, those who have, least of it here will be highest in the kingdom of heaven. • Another,, on being asked. what was meant by the Salic Law, replied: Th* Salic Law provides that no one whose - mother was a woman may ascend the. throne." ~.,.,, i_" • It must, ono would think, have been this descendant of Mrs. Malaprop who, when his mother offered, to play at ball with him, replied: "But you can never •cafch; that's the worst of having * woman for one's mother." ; ,' There was something ingenious -ana! reasonable in the reply, of little Arthur, aged six, who had succumbed for _ tho, second time' to the attractions of aa exposed' and unprotected cake. : : Hismother told him that his first faUought to have warned him, and.pointed, the moral of St..Peter and the cock.There came' a deep sigh and a quiver OS the lips,'and then he- replied: "But,, ■mamma, the cock in the back street isdead, and you can't expect me to remember St. Peter with a hen." Sometimes, for all their acuteness, children, like other people, get a triflo jnixed, as when the little girl was told that whenever the bishop, who was coming as a visitor, spoke to her, she was to be sure to say, "Your Grace. • The bishop l duly arrived, but he was somewhat startled, not to say disconcerted, when, on addressing soma paternal remark to the little maid, she at once closed her eyes and clasped her hands, saying: "For what we are about to receive, the Lord make us truly, thankful." But that was not quite so bad as the mistake of the "buttons'' on another occasion of an episcopal .visit. His master had impressed upon him the dignity and sanctity of this most- im-. portant guest, and had told him that if jon knocking at the bishop's door withthe hot water in the morning, he. was asked: "Who's there ?"■ he was to reply: "The boy, my lord." Unfortunately, in his awe and perturbation, he did reply: "The lord, my boy.".;;:-. Children have a perennial interest in* ; and enriosity about, their baby brothers and'-sisters, though this, perhaps, is! more true of girls than of i boys. Fo'r there is a record of one boy who, being asked how ho liked his little baby sister, replied: "I'd rather have had a New-; foundland pup." It was a little girl of' three who explained: "Baby has broken jt.holo in the sky and come through," and another little girl who, after puzzling her small head as to why baby didn't speak, evolved the beautiful and pontic reason —''I: know," sbo said; "the things that baby saw in God s house before she came to live with us were so wonderful that she cannot; speak about thorn. She's got to bu quiet—till she's forgotten."

Women may be peeresses by Roy a! grant, but cannot sit in tbo House of Lords. Marriages of riiinors are much mora frequent in mining and manufacturing; than in agricultural districts. At one time among tho Greeks Ww' wearing of breeches indicated slavery. There isn't a man iri America whoso' vote cannot bo bought for a kiss.—Mrs, Alma Webster -Powell. . Johnson: "I don't see why yon tail t\\U front door a -'storm door. It isn't a storm door." Brouson: 'Must wait a iain» uto, old man. My wife always meote ia« v