American literature -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Sunday schools -- United States -- Periodicals
I WONDER if the Pansies have been posted about “rubber grapes”? Little
rubber bags made to look exactly like large beautiful grapes; but
what do you think fills them, instead of the delicious fruit which
God has made? Why, brandy, or whiskey, or wine, or whatever liquor
the buyer prefers! Think of it! The circular describing them says one
great advantage is, “that travellers can refresh themselves in this way
without exciting observation.” Can they? Suppose we make that part hard
for them; thirty thousand Pansy Blossoms with their eyes wide open are
not going to be cheated by rubber grapes. Of course every boy and girl
will see to it that no miserable humbug who pretends to be a “fruit
dealer” gets any of their money for his cheating grapes. But isn’t
Satan smart, and cunning, and busy? Really, it becomes us to keep our
eyes very wide open indeed.
* * * * *
WHO among us has ever visited the school for Indians in Carlisle, Pa.?
If any Pansy Blossom has been there, I wish he or she would write us a
letter about the school. It is a very interesting place; four hundred
and fifty scholars, boys and girls; the girls in navy-blue dresses and
cloaks, the cloaks lined with scarlet, the boys in military dress. With
their very bright eyes, and their very black hair, I think they must
make a handsome picture.
Industrious people are they; the cooking is done entirely by the
pupils; the clothing is all made by them; they even make their own
shoes! They are very good scholars; some of them really brilliant.
You wonder how they get time to study, with so much work to be done;
that is all nicely planned for them. Half the pupils go to school in
the morning, while the other half are at work in the sewing-room, the
pantry, the harness shop, the printing office, the carpenter’s room,
and the like. In the afternoon these two divisions change places; the
students work, and the workmen turn students.
Think what a little while ago these boys and girls were roaming through
the forests, sleeping on the ground, their only dress old blankets
wrapped about them; learning to be dangerous enemies to all the white
race! Now some of them are Christians, and all are well-behaved and
industrious. Who will remember to pray daily for the Indian School at
Carlisle?
[Illustration: The P. S. CORNER]
MY DEAR BLOSSOMS:
I have a very nice plan for the year. I wonder who of you will join me?
A Bible Band. That is what I now want to form. I will select and have
printed in each PANSY a list of readings for each day in the month. How
many of my Blossoms will engage to read the day’s portion with me, and
write out in little blank books prepared for the purpose, answers to
the following questions:
1. What is there in this reading that I ought especially to remember?
2. Is there a direction for me to follow, if so, what?
3. Is there something for me to avoid, if so, what?
How can I make these verses help me through this day?
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