. Christian herald and signs of our times. ence to theJill of a child, who may be little more•3>an a baby. Attachments of this char-T:ter are often wonderfully strong. Little Dorothy Drew, the granddaughteru: ex-Premier Gladstone of England, has ajpecial playmate—a black Pomeranian^aniel, named Petz. The two are al-most inseparable. Dorothy, who is six^ ears old, runs about barefooted on thelrpeted floors at Hawarden, where herdistinguished grandfather resides, and.^Petz, who now is eight years old but as.,vely and frisky as ever, trots bv his littlejiistresss side, as faithful as her shado
. Christian herald and signs of our times. ence to theJill of a child, who may be little more•3>an a baby. Attachments of this char-T:ter are often wonderfully strong. Little Dorothy Drew, the granddaughteru: ex-Premier Gladstone of England, has ajpecial playmate—a black Pomeranian^aniel, named Petz. The two are al-most inseparable. Dorothy, who is six^ ears old, runs about barefooted on thelrpeted floors at Hawarden, where herdistinguished grandfather resides, and.^Petz, who now is eight years old but as.,vely and frisky as ever, trots bv his littlejiistresss side, as faithful as her Petz shares her troubles and her de-;ghts, barking and leaping with joy when: v)orothy laughs and drooping his ears in gloom when she mopes in the.^.irner or has a pouting fit—which evenj he best children do have at Very different from the tie of affection,;hat bound Dorothy and her spaniel wasjhe singular companionship of a voung<ger and a terrier puppv, as shown in onef our illustrations. Thev romp, eat and. sleep side by side. Thus the roughestand wildest nature may be made gentle andtender through sympathy and affection.* Truant Children Found Out. A peculiar service was rendered to theLondon School Board by a pair of monkeyslately. In one of the school districts toomany parents reported no children in theirfamilies, and in order to ascertain the realnumber of children in the district, theschool officers resorted to an monkeys were gayly dressed,put in a wagon, and, accompanied by abrass band,were carriedthrough thestreets of thedistrict. Atonce crowdsof ch i 1 d r e nmade their ap-pearance. Theprocessionwas stoppedin a park, andthe school offi-cers begantheir work:d i s t ri butingcandies to theyoungsters,who watchedthe monkeysa n t po- Another pleasant amusement is an ad-jective letter party. The framework isa letter to be written by one of the num-ber describing some recent event or famil-iar occurrence, possibly
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