The Curtis Courier. (Curtis, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 3, 1907 Page: 2 of 8
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OUR CHILDREN’S CORNER, fe
LITTLE BELL'S LETTER.
By Annie James.
Little NVII »as an only child. And
little Nell wan very unhappy at time*
on account of It, too, for mere were
days whin she did not go to school;
then tho time passed very dully In-
deed for the little miss. To be sure,
she had much more attention than did
other little girls who hud sisters and lit11«
swered mamma, smiling. "You see,
one luus-t go through life with the
name that is t>< atow<*«| on him when he!
first arrives on earth; no one must be!
rather eliolee In the mutter of giving
a name."
"Well, I was alimist a week decid-
ing on a name for my Jap doll,” said
sorry
Nell. "And now I'm
I,
brothers, hut tt was not attention that called her Mosan. I'd rather .she wa
little Nell craved; she craved the cora-
linuionnhip of a Bister or a brother—
or both
called Ohryr inthemum.”
"listher a heavy name for a little
Jap. Isn't It?" ashed mamma.
Some children think there Is no fun
To be had on a rainy day;
Hut from my own experience
I can’t see It that way.
A Coach and Four.
As fast ns steeds can take yon
To gayest gay Pair-ee;
Then 'cross the English Channel
Old lxindon Town to see.
For, really, *tIs the greatest sport.
When the rain Just hours outside,
To rig you up a coach ana four.
Anil with your comrades ride.
or girl baby to our house Just as soon 1
as you can get one on hand that vou
have not engaged to unybody else, j
Iteally, I would not mind—neither
Then when you’re tired or riding;
And would no longer roam.
Drive your coach on a ferryboat.
And sail ye fast for home.
"Now, Mr. or Mrs. Stork, we haven’t
u chimney large enough for
you to come down, so I
suggest this way for you to bring
mind kept reverting to the story her would pai« and mamma, l‘m quite sure the baby: Our kitchen has a flat roof,
—if you should bring us twins. I’d and mamma's room windows on one
love to have one of them a boy and the side open out on this roof. If you will
other a girl, but I would not want put the baby on the kitchen roof, right
and I don't want to wait for
may be
stock,
you to
So please bring us
peck against the pane with your bill,
so as to wake papa ana mamma, you
may fly away without any anxiety, for
as soon as they see what Is by the
window they will quickly take it In.
"And how happy we all will be. Be
the Just what you happen to have and sure to put the bill for the baby Inside
its little shirt, so It won't got lost.
"Your admiring and hopeful little
has blue eyes and one brown, will you friend, who gets so lonely without a
one with blue brother or sister, NELLIE JONES."
After finishing the letter Nellie care-
fully read It over, finding It quite sat-
. ------ -----------,-----. isfuctory. (Though I must tell you
i oi a .on. Just do it right now. mamma brown ones, like mine. Mam- that it wns not quite so correctly
wo 11 bo ever so grateful. If you hap-
pen to have two little ones, and ono
be nice to have a sister #r brother dlf-
me. Papa has blue eyes and
papa. Oh, yes, Mr. or Mrs. Stork, papa, in print, for Nellie was only seven and
has beautiful teeth, and we'd like the* 1 could not spell and write as well art
new baby to have the Bame sort of j older persons could). Then she folded
teeth. j slipped it Into an envelope and ad-
"But I don’t wunt you to think me dressed It to
particular. I’m not at all so. I’ll be "Mr. or Mrs. Stork,
very well satisfied to have a baby| The one that has tho babies to glvo
away. In the Clouds Some-
where, Near Heaven.”
about like the last one you brought to
the Snnths. While it isn't a beauty, it
is very cute, end crows and laughs
like everything. And it is so fat that
that little Nell should post hers.
The following morning Nell's
mamma cams from the country fs
spend the day. During her vteU M
was arranged that Nell was logo tamm
with her fur a week. At first Nell
Jected, but she would not give her ism
son for doing so. The truth was^ she
feared the stork might make a rWt
during her absence. Her missu,
guebbing the cause of her little 4*^to
ter's objection to leaving home, ssift:
"It anything unusual happens bsfose
the day set for your return we’ll sand
for you, dear.” And then Nell consent-
ed to accompany her grandmumms is
the country.
But bow eagerly Nell watched the
days of the week go by, marking thorn
off on the calendar as they passed
At last, on the fifth day of her stoM
here came John, the coachman, after
her and gave her a note which raac
"The stork came to our house Iasi
night and left twins on the kltehsa
roof. If you want to see the new Sto-
tcr and brother come home with Joha.''
The note was signed by Nell's papa,
"Oh, the stork answered my letter!"
cried Nell In glee. And grandmamma
could hardly hold her long enough to
say good-by. "Twins—twins!” Oh. sow
I'll never be lonely again. Bless toe
dear, good stork. But I wonder whidh
It Is—Mr. or Mra? Anyway, I’ll write
a letter of acceptance and thanks to
the stork as soon as I’ve exaualMd
those dear, precious babies."
And away she rode toward hone, toe
happiest little girl In all the world.
Bad Habits.
The grasshopper chews tobacco;
The quail gets out his pipe;
The flshhawk is so awful poor
He has to hunt a “snipe."
Theu when you’re tired of riding.
The orchard gets plum full;
The onion squanders every sceat;
And the radish has a pull.
—Stute Journal
know—says he Is the prettiest baby
In the world. But I’ll bet my Jap doll
that you can bring us a prettier one.
"I don’t’know whether or not yon
it within 30 days and get the 10 per
cent, discount. That is the way he
pays for all the goods in his store.
I’ve heard him tell mamma so. And
I'm sure he’d be even more prompt in
paying for the baby, for he deirly
Nellie looked about for a stamp, and
not finding one, laid the letter down,
forgetting to seal it, and ran up stairs
to get her hat and two pennies, de-]
elding not to wait till pupa should come |
home to give her the postage, but to
go herself to the drug store nearby and j
get it, so that she might send the lett r|
into the library, saw tlm queer super-
; ription on the letter, and, smiling,
opened and read it. Then she care-
fully placed it back in the envelope and ;
seeled it. Shi- also wrote a note, which j
^he addre-s d to the postmaster, and j
which she would mall at the same time
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A Mis issippian, says Will T. Hale,] The Goddard family of New England: and tu tor was the ancestor of about
was noted for its feminine journal- thirty aute-ltevoliitional printers. Until
ists. I ho widow of Dr. Giles Goddard the Revolution there was always a
went into tho printing business tn ! printer of the name ih Barton.
ITii.'-. Her partner wns her s in, post-. When left a widow at the ng • of 3*J
master at Providence, and together (at the time the mother of six sons
they published the Gazette and Ooun- and eight dan hiers) she assumed cow-
tty Journal. The son withdrawing, trol of her deceased husband’s paper,
from her professional sister of colon Mrs. Goddard conducted the enterprise rfhr also did the printing for the col-
inl times In her methods and position; "ith success under the firm name of on.v.
nevertheless, a newspaper woman, be-J Sarah Goddard and Company. Shy Her husband's partner, William
ing a newspaper woman, why should thought out the motto of the paper,! Rind, went to Williamsburg and print-
which sounds
in Memphi s Appeal, referrrng to one of
tny communications to this paper, asks
“if tho newspaper woman, like th-‘ uci-
lo-girls and fair typewriters, is not en-
tirely u product of tho nineteenth cen-
tury.”
She certainly is not. She differs
lowed by his brother Benjamin. He’Margaret Draper. When
British
we make distinctions?
I believe Mrs. Eliza Nicholson, of
New Oilcans, was the first woman in
the world to own. manage and publish
a great daily paper, but many years
before the dawn of the nineteenth
century there were feminine owners
and managers of weeklies. Just be-
fore the revolution there were many
following the business.
John Peter Zenger is remembered
principally became in a trial brought
against him for libel tho doctrine of
"liberty of the press” was first ac-
knowledged. That was in 1731, and
tho paper lie published was tho New
York Weekly Journal. After his oath
in 1716 Lis wife carried on tho Jour-
nal.
very fanelinr to us:
' Vox Populi Vox Del.”
The son wandered to Baltimore af-
ter a while. On his arrival he found
the widow, Mrs. Nicholas Ha>s lbaugh,
.carrying on a printer/. He bought her
out and be^an issuing the Maryland
Journal and Baltimore Advertiser.
But lie was what we roughly call “no-
cd the Virginia Gazette. When lie died
his widow, Clementina, became tho
publisher and remained so until her
death hi 1775.
A year or two after the John Peter
Zenger trial (or in 1738) Mrs. Eliza-
beth Timothy, of Charleston, carried
on the ftoiuh Carolina Gazi-tte success-
fully. She was the widow of Louis
Donate.” Discontented, he began trav- Timothy, the first librarian of the Phil-
cling through the colonies to establish
a sort of system of post riders, leaving
the newspaper business in the hands
of his sister, Mary Katherine.
The widow, Mrs. Anne Katherine
Green, was also a Baltimore newspa-
per woman. Her husband had been a
descendant of the noted New England
printer, Samuel Green This old typo
ndelphia Library Company. Mrs. Tim-
othy j widowed daughter-in-law re-
vived the defunct Gazette in 1782. pub-
lishing it for ten years. Her large
printing housi- was on the corner of
llroad mid King s|roots.
Mrs. Mary Timothy Crouch was also
the publisher of a Charleston Gazette.
.lames Franklin ha* been overshad-
was a capable newspaper man, and ;
when he died in 1735 ho left his work,
in capable hands, the feminine part of
J his family. ‘‘A gentleman who was j
j acquainted with Anne Franklin and j
| her family,•” wrote the author and til-j
mnnac maker, Isaiah Thomas, “in-!
formed me that lie had often seen her
daughters at work In the printing
house and that they were sensible and
smiiible women.” So doubt many of
the women who canto in control of
’ the papers knew something nbout type-
setting and the like. Indeed, that was
1 one of the few things women found
employment until comparatively re-
cent times.
Mrs. Franklin and her daughters
published the Newport Mercury, and
were printers for the colony.
Not only were they connected with
journalism, but they carried on the
business of printing linens, calicos and
silks in figures “in durable and lively
colors''
The first ncwspaiier printed in the
colonies was tho Boston News-I.ettor.
To print the last copy—nnd that in the
interest of the British war on Ameri-
ca—wns the work of a winunn, Mr*.
left Boston sho went with them, and
died in Eugland as a pensioner.
Perhaps the way the colonial papers
were flung together would not in this
age be considered worthy ths word
"edited.” But all were comparatively
alike—those issued by the men war*
no improvement on those gotten o«t
by the women.
There were several other papers run
by colonial women—the Philadelphia
Weekly Mercury, by Mrs. William
Bradford, and the Connecticut Courant
by Mrs. Ebenezer Watson, among
l them. A woman editor t»nd publisher
of Virginia, born in colonial days and
living until 1S54, deserves mention be-
cause of her queer enreer. This was
Mrs. Anne Royal. Going to Washing-
ton soon after that city was founded,
she procured an Aid printing press nnd
some battered type. Witn thu aid of
journeymen printers she published on
Capitol Hill a small weekly called the
Washington Paul Pry. It was perhaps
the earliest “yellow Journal."
"How well his lips are formed," said
a man today of an enemy, “to kba
the hand that sm'tcs him’"
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