| Summary: | Newsletter of the North Dakota School for the Deaf. THE NORTH DAKOTA BANNER —s ilr \U | WFor the Young Folks. % r The Little Loaf Once in Germany there was a famine. When there is a famine, people have not much food to eat and are very poor. A rich man sent for the twenty poorest children in town. When they came into his house, he showed them a basket full of bread. He said, “Take a loaf. Come to me every day at the same hour and I shall give you bread until the famine is over.” 1 he children were very hungry. They, quarreled and struggled over the bread Each child wanted the biggest loaf. At last they went away. They did not thank the kind man. One of the children did not try to get * th'e biggest loaf. Her name was Gretehen. She waited until the other children had taken a loaf. Then she took the last loaf. It was the smallest. She thauk-ed and kissed his hand. She went quickly home. The next dar the. children went again to the rich man's house. They quarreled and struggled again. Gretehen got a very small loaf. It was half as large as the other loaves. She did not forget to thank the good man. She went home and gave the little loaf to her mother. When her mother cut open the loaf, many silver pieces of money fell on the floor. Her mother told her to take the money back to the kind man because it did not belong to them. Gretehen ran quickly back to the rich man's house. But when she handed him the money, he told her to keep it. He had put the money in it for her because she was peaceable, unselfish and grateful.—The Arkansas Optic. Then in May the hoys would have their turn. Their festival is called the “Eish Festival.” Every family having a boy, sets up a flagstaff in the doorway of its house. On the top of the pole is a gift ball, and flying from the pole is a whole string of fish made of oil paper or cloth. The golden ball signifies a treasure which the fish are supposed to be forever trying to reach. This means that the boy, when he is a man, will have to battle his way—in the same way as the fish up the river—through life. It is a sort of little lecture to the Japanese boys to be ambitious.—Selected. The Canary and The Mouse. During the evening, while we arc engaged in our studies or reading. Beauty, our canary bird, entertains a strange little visitor, a mouse, who climbs up the curtain, enters the cage and feasts on seed and water. At first, the bird seemed frightened, but as neither showed any ill effect, from their first meeting, and as the incident was so amusing, we have allowed the little visitor to come as often as it wishes. During the past month they have become great friends. When the little mouse arrives, Beauty will hop down to the lower perch and together they will feast of the good things, talking to each other all the time, the bird chirping and the mouse will sit at one end and in a little while Beauty will start singing, evidently for the entertainment of the visitor. We have to keep very quiet for fear of frightening the mouse.-—Our Dumb -Animals. Jap Birthdays. Japanese children don't have separate birthdays. Instead, there is a festival iri March for all the little girls, and another in May for all the boys. So if you were a little girl anti lived there all the relations and friends would give you presents in March; your little sister would have presents on the same day, too and so wculd your girl cousins, and there would be big birthday parties going on everywhere. Can You Tell? Which country is always frozen? Iceland, Which country reminds one of summer? Greenland. Which country' is always fat? Greece. Which country is fishy? Finland. Which country, although old, is always new? Newfoundland. Which country is ever green? Isle of J?ines. —'.Selected. Glass Do you know what glass is made of? It is made of sand, soda and lime. Men put the sand, soda and lime into a furnace. It is very hot in the furnace. The sand, soda and lime melt. Then the glass cools until it is thick as paste. The glass blower takes some of the glass od his blowing tube. He blows through the tube and makes a bubble of the glass. Then he shapes it with his tools. Sometimes he puts it into a mould. Window glass is poured on a large table. Then it is rolled until it is smooth. When it is cold it is polished with sand and water and a cloth. There are many places in this country where glass is made.—The Western I:\mmy Iranian. The Rain. Which country makes you shiver? Chile. Which country gives an appetite? Turkey. Which country reminds you of mealtime? Hungary. Which is always in a turmoil? Russia (rush-a). Which country is destructible? China. Which country is always lamenting? Wales (wails). Who likes the rain? said the grass. *T” said the little flowers. “1” said the brook. And “P said a little boy. The rain began to fall. The flowers lifted up their pretty heads. k‘Thank you,” they said to the kind rain. The brook was glad, too. He said, “1 need every drop because I want to be a large river.” The little boy said. “The rain does so much good. It does not hurt me. I have on rubber boots. I have a rain coat, and an umbrella. 1 think this is fun.” And off he ran to school.— Nature Sunday Reader.
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