Life — January 9, 1902 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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35 neglected by the Saturday supplement is fully supplied by the Sunday morning paper, so that between the two the child is not likely to be neglected. One of the beauties about the children’s page is that it keeps its readers from standard literature. And it gives them that agility of mind, which later on will be of such service to them in taking TIMES HAVE CHANGED. “Ip YoU DON'T STOP USING UP ALL MY PEATHERS AND RIBBONS TO DECORATE, YOURSELF WITH, "LL Go NOME To MOTHER.” taken fresh heart and face a hostile world with all the dare-devil fearless- ness of the grand old race. —_‘ This sig- nificant dispatch, flashed all round the earth, tells the story and shows the un- dying, bull-dog tenacity of historic “The Government to-day began the work of army reform, The pay of all army officers will be increased from this day ; and a new insignia of rank, from patterns approved by the King, will be adopted. The details of this new departure are all worked out ; but owing to a desire to avoid foreign com- plications the plans of the Government are being kept secret.’* Thero it is in all its simple grandeur. London is jubilant; the Zimes says it renders the case of the South African republics more hopeless than ever; the Pro-Boer elements of England are very much depressed. The members of the Triple Alliance have got together in Vienna; a cabinet crisis is imminent in Paris; Russia has stopped all work on the Trans-Siberian railroad; the Japanese ficet is being mobilizod ; something is liable to happen in Ire- land. Preparations for the coronation will be pushed, while this plan of army reform is being worked out. England is now safe. Joseph Smith, The Children’s Page. TP IIOSE philanthropists who are engaged in charitable work rightly consider that, to accomplish the best results, the gen- eration not yet risen must be the object of the greatest solicitude. Psychology shows that the habits of maturity are not easily brushed aside, and that infancy offers the true field for the propagation of the benefits tocome. This is the scientific method ; and if we find that those purveyors of mental condiment: has they are—the news- papers, are using it, we must merely accept this as being in full accord with the spirit of the age. The idea of the children’s page is to fitthe mind of the young, as early as possible, into the habit of reading the papers, and for this purpose it is an admirable institution. The newspaper reading habit is one that cannot be inculeated too early. Being such an eminently useful thing and having such a vast effect upon the morals and the intel- lect, every father should see to it that the children’s page is placed in the hands of his youngest child as soon as he or she can sit up and take notice. The children's page begins on Saturday afternoon and lasts through until Monday morning. Whatever form of idiocy is in, with the least number of glances, all the details of a murderoradivorce. As for standard lit- erature, that ought to be neglected. What each child should be taught is to be thor- oughly saturated with the spirit of the age, and how can this be any better accomplished than by reading everything in sight, red- hot from the press ? Besides, the children’s page is useful in another way. It gives occupation to retired hymn writers and broken down newspaper men, and is a help as a stepping-stone to those amateurs who, in the full maturity of their powers, later on blossom out in the woman's column, COUNTRY is an artificial contriv- ance designed to facilitate living ; it is not made to be died for. Celebrated Pugitist : axrway? Quiet Citizens Beo PARDON, BUT T WASN'T LOOKING AT YoU. “WELL, WHY WASN'T YER LOOKIN’ AT ME? DON'T YER KNOW wWHo 1 ax?" WHO YER LOOKIN’ AT comicbooks.com