they come out they are very weak and have to wait three hours before they can walk. At first they eat a few small stones and sand to get their little tummies to work and then begin to bite the green grass; they must have no other but green food for this is all they can turn into blood. These little dears grow very fast and in six months are nearly six feet high. Like children, they look best when they are very small. Sometimes boys are made to ride the ostriches at the Pasadena Ostrich Farm; and a lot of fun it is to see the boys ride these strange birds; they do not ride far, because the ostrich does not like to have a boy on its back and will run along and scrape itself against a fence or a tree and jump around until the boy drops off. It is great fun to ride an ostrich because of the jumpy motion of the bird; maybe the bird thinks Satan is on its back for it surely shows that it thinks something is wrong. The boys rides are not long, but quite long enough for the ostrich. A little dog will frighten a lot of ostriches and make them run away very quick; no animal or bird can run as fast as an ostrich. 'But the horse can keep up running for a longer time, so that in a few days the ostrich is tired and shot when followed by a man who hunts them riding upon a horse. Having seen the Big Trees of California and the big ostriches you will now be ready to hear about other strange things in this strange State of California. Here are deserts of sand, and plains of salt and no end of black hard mountains that are good for nothing if gold is not found in them. Here are great spiders and funny toads and snakes and lots of ants that make the ladies put their milk and butter and sweets in tin wire cases. But in my next writing I will tell you of a funny island around which big fish swim and flying fish fly and about a railway that carries you straight up the side of a mountain where you can see all the south part of Southern California. Once, says a writer, I suddenly opened the door of my mother's room and saw her on her knees beside her chair, and heard her speak my name in prayer. I quickly and quietly withdrew with a feeling of awe and reverence in my heart. Soon I went away from home to school, then to college, then into life's sterner duties. But I never forgot that one glimpse of my mother at prayer, nor the one word-my own name -which I heard her utter. Well did I know that what I had seen that day was but a glimpse of what was going on every day in that sacred closet of prayer, and the consciousness strengthened me a thousand times in duty, in danger, and in struggle. When death came at last and sealed those lips, the sorest sense of loss I felt was the knowledge that no more would my mother be praying for me. Some Points in the Care of Children's Eyes THE HENRY LA MOTTE, M. D. [Written for Zion's Young People.] HE care of a child's eyes should commence with his birth. Scrupulous care should be exercised to keep the eyes and the face in the vicinity of the eyes in a cleanly condition. The baby's eyes should be washed at least twice a day with tepid water which has been recently boiled. This should continue until continue until the child is at least a month old. If at any time during the first month of a child's life the eyes become inflamed, or if there is a discharge of pus from the eyes, it may be assumed at once that the condition is extremely grave and a physician should be immediately summoned to attend the case. During the first two years of a child's life he should never be allowed to lie exposed to the direct rays of the sun. Too frequently is it observed that children in baby carriages attended by negligent nurses are allowed to stand with the baby's face exposed to the direct rays of the noonday sun. During an attack of any of the numerous eruptive diseases peculiar to childhood, eye complications are much less liable to occur if the little patient is so placed in bed as to have his face screened from any direct light. The child's feelings are usually a safe guide in this matter, for if his wishes are heeded the room will be considerably darkened, particularly in the middle of the day, and much objection will be made to the presence of a light at night. At the beginning of a child's school life reading and writing should be taught by means of very large print and by large letters made with charcoal or black crayon upon paper held at some distance from the child's eyes. Such exercises, until the child is eight years of age, should not last longer than ten minutes at a time, nor oftener than twice a day. If during his reading lessons a child complains of headaches and is generally inclined to be tearful, it may be confidently assumed that his vision is not perfectly normal, and he should be treated with much greater lenience on this account and should not, as is too often the case, be punished for inattention or scolded for stupidity. After leaving the primary school a child is usually, at the present day, required to take some of his books home and prepare lessons there for recitation at school the next day. From the standpoint of the oculist this is all wrong, but in the present unenlightened con SOME POINTS IN THE CARE OF CHILDREN'S EYES. 79 dition of pedagogy it is hopeless to attempt any reform in these directions. The best we can do is to earnestly recommend to parents to see that the lessons which their children are obliged to prepare at home are attended to in daylight. Before twelve years of age it were far better that no reading be done by artificial light. If it is absolutely necessary great care should be exercised that the child sits in an erect position, holds the book in such a way that the page is not slanting, and that the page is well illuminated by a light placed behind the reader in such a position that its direct rays do not strike his eyes. Two of the most fruitful causes of aggravation of eye trouble in children are reading by firelight while sitting in a cramped position upon the floor, with the head bent nearly at right angels to the body so intefering with the with the proper circulation of blood in the head. Defects of vision in children are usually of such character that their progress may be checked or entirely cured if recognized at a cufficiently early stage. This is one of the many reasons why the eyes of all school children should be carefully examined at least once during their school life by a competent oculist. The proper choice of a career may often depend upon the result of such an examination. A very common trouble which oculists are frequently called upon to treat is one commonly spoken of by them as "Poulticitis." This is a condition of extreme irritation of the eye due to well meant but misdirected efforts, usually on the part of some old lady, to relieve some irritable condition of the eye by means of tea leaf poultices. A simple irritation of the eye may frequently be relieved by very hot or very cold applications, but never by a tea leaf poltice. Better the world should know you as a sinner than God know you as a hypocrite. The bee from his industry in the summer eats honey all the winter. Hell is full of good intentions and heaven of good works. If you would keep the wrinkles out of your face, keep sunshine in your heart. Don't expect a stranger to saw your wood while you sit in the shade. When the fox is asleep nothing falls into his mouth. Zion's Young People. We thought that it would be a good Published Monthly by thing for that boy if he would clean his mouth and never again defile it with this poisonous weed. We would like to see every boy in Utah a member of the clean brigade: clean in person, clean in Zion's Young People Publishing Co. thoughts and words. We hope that SOME EDITORIAL. No. 3. Keeping the Inside Clean. OME months ago flags bearing the words "smallpox" and "diptheria" were to be seen in nearly every ward in Salt Lake City. At present the city is almost entirely free from these dreaded diseases, and this condition has been brought about largely by the sanitary measures which were adopted and carried out by the citizens. In a number of the district schools cleaning clubs were organized, and boys and girls agreed to clean up their yards and lots and burn the rubbish. They did so, and a cleaner city than Salt Lake is today it would be hard to find. Having cleansed the outside, we would like our young people to turn their attention to the inside. A few evenings ago we were riding on a street car and we saw one of the boys who belongs to the cleaning club smoking a filthy cigarette. every boy who reads this will resolve to never let an improper word pass through his lips. Boys,. let us follow the example of Presi-dent Grant. "When Mr. Grant," says Mr. N. N. Riddell, "was in the Chair as President of the United States, a member of Congress, in conversation with a number of others, began telling a vulgar story. Casting his eyes around the gallery, he said, 'I guess there are no ladies present. Mr. Grant looking up said, "No, sir! but there is a gentleman present and you will please not tell your vulgar story here!'" Boys, let us keep our hearts clean and pure, You know the blessing that has been promised to the pure in heart-that they shall see God. Shall we use our lips to offer prayers and sing praises to God and then turn round and defile them with vulgar stories? No, by God's help we will not. We will keep our minds filled with good thoughts so that there will be no room for evil ones to enter. In a word, we will be gentlemen. "A Plain Talk to Boys," 10c; "Child Culture," 50c. On sale at this office. TWENTY-SECOND PAPER, WM. H. BURTON. IT IS not alone as a warrior or a jurist that King David is an interesting figure in Hebrew history. As a poet, as the sweet singer of Israel, he has attracted the attention and challenged the admiration of the world ever since his time. He is credited with being the author of not fewer than seventy-three of the psalms which bear his name, and for sublimity of thought, for grandeur of expression, those compositions are preeminent even among the poetry of our own time. What can be more beautiful than the nineteenth psalm, which opens with the grand declaration, "The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handiwork?" Indeed, all the emotions that sway the human heart are depicted in the psalms of David with a master hand. And here I want to call the attention of the student and the lover of holy writ to the book of Job. Who was Job? This has been the query of Biblical scholars ever since the time of the great psalmist. Some have held that the man of the land of Uz was a real being, whom the Lord permitted Satan to bring down from a high state of material prosperity down into the valley of the shadow of death, that the evil one might test his own power, and see if he could not make the favored one of the Lord curse God and die. Others have held that Job was the grand creation of a poetic mind; this one ascribing that wonderful story to the great lawgiver of Sinai; that one claiming him as the creature of the sweet singer of Israel, and still another giving the Prophet Ezra the credit of his creation. Without presuming to decide such a moot point, it not being material to this essay, let us take the story as it reads; let us follow with reverence the grand narrative as it unfolds, and when we have reached the nineteenth chapter we shall find perhaps the earliest positive evidence of the faith in a Redeemer. Beginning with the twenty-fifth verse the sublime faith is expressed in these words, "For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand upon the earth at the latter day. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold and not another, though my reins be consumed within me." In a careful reading of the story of the chosen people I can find no warrant for believing that at any |