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. . . "When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall"—no wonder that it [a baby] awoke in the night and cried. . . . Nursy or mother might have thought baby had a stomach ache and given it peppermint tea, but we know that it was fear that awakened1 baby, and only love destroys fear. . . . What a stretch of the imagination—asking a child to believe that a heavy mooley cow could jump over the moon! Think of a kitty playing a fiddle and then try to convince the child that a dish could run away with a spoon. . . . Thus the children's sweet faith was lessened and they were made to doubt and distrust. . . . Mother Goose was indeed a goose. ...
. . . Did you ever awake early some morning, while it was yet dark, and hear the milkman rattle the bottles as he left the nice milk for your breakfast,—and as you snuggled in your warm little bed did you send out to the milkman a loving thought, a grateful thought, and ask God to keep him happy ar warm?
, Kitty Cheatham went on quoting from Mrs. Stetson's "tender and logical" book, showed how Mrs. Stoner had illustrated her points with parables from the Old Testament, and urged in place of
Now I lay me down to sleep;
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake
I pray the Lord my soul to take
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy's fearless Christian Science prayer:
Father-Mother God, loivig me—
Guard me when I sleep;
Guide my little feet up to Thee.
Then Kitty Cheatham confided that ... she, herself, had a revised Mother Goose, "whose happy secrets I will tell later."
Before her as she wrote her adver—tisement came "the earnest faces of the 14,000 students of the University of Berlin, representing 17 nationalities, before whom I was invited ta sing and speak by the official heads of the University (I being the only American artist who had been thus invited)." And she wound up: "Never have I been so imbued with the desire to bring joy, to elevate the children through my art, my, pen and my deep religious convictions; and I am more earnest, interested and active than ever since I know that thought is force and governs all and I shall inculcate this in my recitals (which I am about to resume). . .
*Mrs. Stoner Jr. (Mrs. Charles P. de Bruche), aged 22, was raised by her mother to be a prodigy. She "has made impromptu speeches in public since the age of four." She has written for publication since the age of five. Her books include Patrino Anserino (Mother Goose in Esperanto, written at the age of six), animal stories, children's histories, volumes of fact-jingles. The mother of Mrs. de Bruche is Mrs. James B. Stoner of Norfolk, Va., "founder of the Natural Education System." Mrs. Stoner attributes the .brilliance of her daughter in no small part to the fact that she taught the child to typewrite at the age of three. Mrs. Stoner recommends typewriters as substitutes for rattles.