UNIVERSITY OF N.C. AT CHAPEL HILL 00022093878 YEAR BOOK OF CHILD LORE Compiled by GRACE HALL BOWERS New Britain , Conn- Copyrighted 1901 by Grace Hall Bowers Adkins Printing Company New Britain, Conn. YEAR BOOK OF CHILD LORE Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil http://www.archive.org/details/yearbookofchildlOObowe January tot first January m fourtn. DREARY place would be this earth Were there no little people in it ; The song of life would lose its mirth, Were there no children to begin it. Whittier. January tbe second. /pHILDREN are God's apostles, day by day sent forth to preach of love and hope and peace. Lowell. January tbe tnlrd. T L,OVE these little people, and it is not a slight thing when they who are fresh from God, love us. Charles Dickens. sp HE birth of a child is the imprison- ment of a soul. Simons. January tne flftb. Q\ BANISH the tears of children ! con- * tinued rains upon the blossoms are hurtful. Jean Paul. January the sixth. January the ninth. n^HERE is no substitute for a child's OEXT to the cradle song is the cradle -*■ nroii r\( twinn d r^ilr? StOTV. way of being a child. Patterson DuBois. January the seventh. OATURE requires children to be chil- dren before they are men. Rousseau. January the eighth. 7] S the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapor, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood as if drinking its repose. Mrs. Browning. Col. Parker. January the tenth. •OME children are like little human scrawl-books — blotted all over with the sins and mistakes of their an- cestors. Kate Douglass Wig gin. January the eleventh. \_LJE are not among those who believe that all children are born good. Herbert Spencer. January the tweif th. T\ ND Nature, the old nurse, took ® The child upon her knee, Saying, ' Here is a story-book Thy Father hath written for thee.' Longfellow. January the thirteenth. T DEEM it wise to make him Nature's playmate. Coleridge. January toe fourteenth. ll E was a very little fellow indeed, but *■ he made the most of himself as people ought to do. Charles Kingsley. January the fifteenth. sp HE mother's heart is the child's school-room. Henry Ward Beecher. January the sixteenth. H^HE future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. Napoleon. January the seventeenth. 7] CHIIvD knows when he is regarded as a toy, a lap-dog, a mere source of amusement, or butt for ridicule. Patterson Du Bois. January the eighteenth. January the twentieth. DEARER the gate of Paradise than we, Our children breathe its air, its angels see. R. H. Stoddard. January the nineteenth. T«,AST night the stork came stalking, And stork, beneath your wing Lay, wrapped in dreamless slumber The tiniest little thing ! From Baby land, out yonder Beside a silver sea, You brought a priceless treasure As gift to mine and me ! Eugene Field. T\ LL is joy for baby while In the light of mother's smile. E mi lie Poulsson. January the twenty-first. CHE had sweet blue eyes and pretty brown hair, with round, dimpled cheeks, and that perfect dignity which is so beautiful in a baby. T. IV. Higginson. January the twenty-second. "EDUCATION commences at the moth- er's knee. Henry Ballou. January the twentv-third. IJLJHERE did you come from, baby- dear ? Out of the everywhere into here. Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through. Geo. MacDonald. January the twenty-fourth. CHILDREN are the hands by which to take hold of heaven. Henry Ward Beecher. January the twenty-fifth. CHILDREN love to recount their ex- periences, for in telling what they have seen and done they take pos- session of it. Susan Blow. January the twenty-sixth. CHILDREN are the most unerring and penetrating of observers. Florence B. Lockwood. January the twenty-seventh. U^HERE is something very cheerful ■* and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence. Alice Meynell. January m twenty-eigbtD. (e)[ BUD of soul in blossom. Thomas L. Harris. January tl>e twnty-nintn. lJ EAVENLY music seems to steal •*■ Where thought of her forever lingers, And round my heart I always feel The twining of her dimpled fingers. Eugene Field. January the tbirtietn. £T7HE childhood shows the man as ■*• morning shows the day. Milton. January the thirty-first. £T7HE first duty toward children is to -* make them happy. No other good they may get can make up for that. Charles Buxton. f ebruary the first /^HILDREN will grow up substantially what they are by nature — and only that. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Yeferuary the second. O'ER wayward children would 'st thou ® hold firm rule, and sun thee in the light of happy faces ? Love, Hope and Patience — these must be thy graces. But in thine own heart let them first keep school. Coleridge. Tebruary the third. JHHE clew of our destiny, wander where we will, lies at the cradle foot. Jean Paul Richter. February the fourth. "QOT a few of our perplexing problems would cease to exist if we were more willing to follow God's lead- ings — oftentimes through a little child. Patterson DuBois. Te&ruary the fifth. DROM the first smile in your infant's eyes, your opportunity begins to educate him. Whately. February she slxtb. 7] ND a little child shall lead them 4 1 February tbe seventh. Bible. H^ALKING low and tenderly to my- - 1 self as mothers will, Spake I softly; "God in heaven, keep my darling free from ill, Worldly gear and worldly honors, ask I not for her of Thee ; But from want and sin and sorrow, keep her ever pure and free. Ethel Lynn. Tibruary tbe cigbtb. * MAN looketh on his little one as a being of better hope. February tbe nintb. Tapper. <2 UR early years, like the infant oak, I contain the elements of our future being. F. V. N. Painter. I February tbe tentb. T »ET parents then bequeath to their children, not riches, but the spirit of reverence. Plato. February tbe elewntb. TN the man whose childhood has known caresses, there is always a fibre of memory that can be touched to gentle issue. George Eliot. February tbe twelftb. liJHERE children are, there is the golden age. Nova lis. fefcruary the thirteenth. r\\ tbe twenty*$ec©i«l. WHE smallest children are nearest to *■ God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun. Jean Paul Richter. V\l April tbe twenty-third. HE first idea which we should seek to establish in the child's mind is the belief that his parents are his sympathetic friends. Winterbum. April tbe twenty-foutb. I^VEN a child's love left unsought, unfostered, droops and dies away. Froebel. April tbe twenty-fiftb. TreIKE as the arrows in the hand of a giant, even so are the young chil- dren. Archdeacon Farrar. April tbe twenty-sixtb. /(J'HIIvDREN are not born moral; do not become cultured and educated by a heaven-sent gift of intuition. Nathan Oppenheim. April tbe twenty-sevetttb. HE child should be in harmony with himself. Hughes. April m twcmy-efgfttb. sn HE care of children is the great means of stimulating and preserv- ing unselfishness in the world. Felix Adler. April m twctity-ttintft. OBSERVE the child; he will teach & you what to do. Froebel. April m thirtieth H^HERE is not a shadow of doubt or concealment between my children and me. All is open and plain among us, as though we were brothers^ and sisters. Charles Dickens. may the first. O^HE budding-season of spring repre- ' sents childhood; the blossom-time of summer, youth. Baroness Van Buelow. may the second. may the fourth, rT7HE mystery of unfolding life ' Was more than dawning morn, Than opening flower or crescent moon — The human soul new-born. Whittier. d ATURE was all in tune with the lit- tle man, on that day when he was may the fifth. COHERE are small Pharisees in bibs almost midway between seven and eight [ ^ piuafores as full Q f worldliness years old. . . . Nature was God's, && ^ ^ so was he. Patterson DuBois. may the third. © SWEET new blossom of Humanity, Fresh fallen from God' sown home to blossom on earth. Masay. William Burnet Wright. may the sixth. CDHE wisdom of the wisest being God *■ has made ends in wonder; and there is nothing on earth so wonderful as the budding soul of a little child. Lucy Larconi. may toe seventh. S pure as a pearl, And as perfect: A noble and inno- cent girl. Owen Meredith. may the eighth. T »OOK at home, father priest, mother priest; your church is a hundred- fold heavier responsibility than mine can be. Your priesthood is from God's own hands. Henry Ward Beech er. may m ninth. "\70UR little child is your only true ®' democrat. Mrs. Harriet Beecher St owe. may the tenth. T\ L/L, the day long with your busy ® contriving, Into all mischief and fun you are driv- ing: See if your wise little noddle can tell What you are good for. Now ponder it well. Selected. may the eleventh. IXJIN the children, and you have the home. The child is the gateway to the family. Landrith. may the twelfth. COE, bonnie, dinna greit; Moder doth rock her sweete, — Balow, my boy ! Give me thy lyttle hand, Moder will hold it and Lead thee to balow land, — Balow, my boy ! Eugene Field. may the thirteenth. may the sixteenth. fQT'ALL not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child he loves. Southey. may the fourteenth. T©)ARENT5, let your home a children's * garden be, Where with watchful love the young plants' growth you see. Froebel. may the fifteenth. LJ ER little life was a blessing to us ■*■ all, giving a perpetual image of serenity and sweetness, .... and holding us by unsuspected ties to what- soever things were pure. T. IV. Higginson. H7HRE 1 .■ HREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown." Wordsworth. may the seventeenth. JJT7HE training of a child is a profession 1 where we must know how to lose time in order that we may gain it. Rousseau. may the eighteenth. sp HE child says what he heard his mother say. Proverb. ^p may the nineteenth. H K child that early in life has learned to govern his own spirit, has fought not only for himself but for his descendants. Mary Wood-Allen. may the twentieth. IJLJHO is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them ? Epictetus. may the twenty-first. TF I pride myself on anything it is be- cause I have a smile that children love. Hawthorne . may the twenty-second SU O win a child's affection and confi- dence is not easy, because it re- quires not only real virtue but sympathetic insight. Winterburn. may the twenty-third. ^HIIvDREN are earthly idols that hold us from the stars. Douglass Jerrold. may the twenty-fourth. T N the action of the child there is often a meaning of personal devotion which we are dull in discerning and slow to honor. Patterson DuEois. may tbe twenty-fifth. O L,EEP, little babe, en my knee, Sleep, for the midnight is chill, And the moon has dried out in the tree, And the great human world goeth ill. Mrs. Browning. may tbe twenty-sixtb. iJTHE child's fond prattle and the ■*• mother's prayer, Angelic voices floating on the air. Richardson. may tbe twenty-$eoentb. T T is no small thing when a fresh soul And a fresh heart, with their un- measured scope For good, not gravitating earthward yet, But circling in diviner periods, Are sent into the world. Lowell. may tbe twenty-eigbtb. CWEKT flow'ret, pledge o' meikle love, And wand o' mony a prayer, What heart o' stane wad thou no move, Sae helpless, sweet, and fair. Robert Burns. may tbe twenty-ninth. /pHECK not a child in his merriment — should not his morning be sunny ? Tapper. may the thirtieth, TftIKE the flowers that spring up fair, Bright and countless everywhere! Whereso'er a foot hath gone, Whereso'er the sun hath shown On a league of peopled ground, Little children may be found! Mary How it t. may the thirty-first. TraET children soak themselves in the atmosphere of nature. Don't stick it on the outside. John Burroughs. 3une tbe first. tSoW blessed is the little toddling thing who can be flat in the sun- shine and drink in the beauty of the "green things growing," who can live among the other little animals, his brothers and sisters in feathers and fur, who can put his hand in that of dear mother Nature, and learn his first baby lessons without any meddlesome mid- dleman. Kate Douglass Wiggin. 3une the second. CHILDREN always turn toward the light. Hare. June the third HI HOU pretty opening rose! Balmy and breathing music like the south, Fresh as the morn and brilliant as its star. Thomas Hood. 3wne the fourth. TT is the mother's privilege to plant in the hearts of her children those seeds of love which, if nurtured and fostered, will bear the blossom of perpetual youth, and the fruit of earnest and useful lives. Selected. June the fifth. r LOVE flowers, men, children, God ! Froebel. June the sixth. Q HOW me when a bud Changes to a rose, Then I'll tell you truly When a baby grows. Anonymous. June the seventh. "LJ OW he sleepeth, having drunken Weary childhood's mandragore! From its pretty eyes have sunken Pleasures to make room for more: Sleeping near the withered nosegay, Which he pulled the day before. Mrs. Browning. June the eighth. sp HE infant is like the tender petals of a rose. Winterburu. June the ninth. 7] ROSE that breathes of Paradise, Just budded from the life divine, A little, tender, smiling babe, As yet more God's and heaven's than mine. G. Greenwood. June the tenth. lfjOW often a little child could lead us, if only we were willing to be led by a little child. Patterson DuBois. June the eleventh. TT is significant of every great new birth in the world that it turns its face towards childhood, and looks into that image for the profoundest realization of its hopes and dreams. Horace Scudder. 3une the twelfth June the fifteenth. /fpOME let us live with our childreu. Froebel. Uune the thirteenth. H^HE tear down childhood's cheek that -*■ flows Is like the dew drop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry. Sir Walter Scott. June the fourteenth. P LOVELY being, scarcely formed or molded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. Byron . IJLJHA'f sympathy children have with nature till education clouds it ! Jean Inge low. June m sixteenth. LXJ HENCE that three-cornered smile of bliss? Three angels gave me at once a kiss. Where did you get that coral ear ? God spoke, and it came out to hear. Geo. MacDonald June the seventeenth. © BIRD sings — a child prattles — but it is the same hymn : hymn indis- tinct, inarticulate, but full of pro- found meaning. Victor Hugo. r June tl>e eighteenth. "HOWN by the lilac bush, something white and azure, Saw I in the window, as I passed the tree; Well I knew the apron and shoulder knots of ribbon, All belong to baby, looking out for me. Ethel Lynn. June the nineteenth. HE bliss of childhood gushes from its innocence. Hawthorne. June the twentieth. 71 ND he wandered away and away ® With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day The rhymes of the universe. Longfellow . tlune the twenty-first. sp H E plays of childhood have the mightiest influence on the main- tenance or non-maintenance of laws. Plato. June the twenty-second. HE child despises mere externals and explores the heart of things, to see whether it be good or evil. Stevenson. m, June the twenty-third. U^HAT I could bask in childhood's sun ■*■ and dance o'er childhood's roses. Praed. June the twentv-fcurtft. DO rose-buds yet by dawn impearled Match, even in loveliest land, The sweetest flowers in all the world — A baby's hands. A. C. Swinburne . June the twentv-fiftb. 7\ VIOLET by a mossy stone ® Half hidden from the eye ! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. Wordsworth . June m twettty-sixtft. H^HE rosebud opens on her cheek, -*• The meaning eyes begin to speak: And in each smiling look is seen The innocence which plays within. William Whitehead. 3«nc \U twent V'scpettil). fT\ EACH of these human flowers, ® God's own high message bears, And we are walking all our hours With " angels unawares ! " Mary Howitt. June tbc twenty-ciaMb. "LXJHAT flight and air are to the bird, play is to the child. Susan Blow. June tbe twnty'tiM. T\ THICK veil hangs over the young ® being which, like a closely envel- oped bud, does not betray the exact im- age of the flower it will one day expand into. Baroness Va?i Buelow. June tfte tttirtietb. QNENESS with Nature is the glory ® of childhood. G. Stanley Hall. July the first. § NLY a tender flower Sent us to rear; Only a life to love, While we are here. Only a baby small, Never at rest; Small, but how dear to us, God knoweth best. Matthias Barr. July tbc second. JRHE chi * pitied. child that has no pets is to be G. Stanley Hall. July tbc tbird. TO LESSED be the hand that prepares a pleasure for a child, for there is no saying when and where it may bloom forth. D. Jerrold. July tbc fourth. w HE plays of the child contain the germ of the whole life that is to follow. Froebel. July tbc fifth. £IOOD government depends upon get- ting a child to so love and trust his parents that the pleasing them shall of itself give him pleasure. Winterburn. July tbc $ixtb. OOTHING, perhaps, has been more misunderstood than childhood. James Sully. July the seventh. lj ERE you are, you little croodlin' *■ doo! Looked in er cradle, but didn't find you there — Eooked f'r my wee, wee coodlin' doo ever 'where; Be'n kind lonesome all er day with- outen you. Eugene Field. July the eighth. JX?HE child creates the family and the family life by its advent. Froebel. July tbe ninth. ONE cannot turn a minute, ® But mischief — there you're in it; Poking at the roses, In midst of which your nose is; Or climbing on a table, No matter how unstable, And turning up your quaint eye And half-shut teeth, with "Mayn't I?" Leigh Hunt. July the tenth. "PjEEP meaning often lies in childish play. Schiller. July the eleventh. C"HIL,DREN are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them. Daudet. luly tlK twelfth. 3uly the fifteenth. T CANNOT do anything with him, —his j XJLJHILE childhood shall be left, im- father indulges him so. agination shall not have spread Winterburn. her holy wings totally to fly the earth. Charles Lamb. MS the thirteenth if) USH, my dear, lie still and slumber, r- Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. Isaac Watts. Duty the fourteenth. T«FT thy child's first lesson be obedi- ence, and the second may be what thou wilt. Fuller. July the sixteenth. -pjELIGHT and liberty, the simple creed of childhood, whether busy or at rest. Wordsworth. July the seventeenth ONCE a child is born, one of his in- ® alienable rights, which we too often deny him, is the right to his child- hood. Kate Douglass Wig gin. July m eighteenth. NOTHER little wave Upon the sea of life; Another soul to save Amid the toil and strife. Lucy E. Ackerman. July tbc nineteenth. TO ACHELORS' wives and old maids' ' children are always perfect. Chamfort. July tbc twentieth. 7] CHILD should always say what's true And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table, At least so far as he is able. R. L. Stevenson. July tbc twenty-first JT7HE child is the mother's chief text- * book, and a beautiful, entrancing' perplexing volume it is. Emilie Poulsson. July the twenty-second. ■O RIGHTER beamed thine eyes than summer, And thy first attempt at speech, Thrilled our heart strings with a rapture Music ne'er could reach. D. M. Moir. July tbc twenty*tbird.