Nuhou, Volume I, Number 7, 18 March 1873 — The Children Rad the Nuhou. [ARTICLE]

The Children Rad the Nuhou.

We have had somd praise that has pleased anH encouraged us, The busy men down town are eager for the Ni nor. It makea them forget that gugar is low." Several of them \vait for it f on the morniug of its ieisue, and are not to be put ofi* with promises that it will appear by-and-bj T but iiold on till they get it into their hands. The Hotel folks wont sit down to breakfast till it comes ; and as it is so eonvenient in its size t and the size of iis articles, it is never out of hand <luring the meal. The terse and trenehant equibs keep time with the ehimea of the trencher. The dear compaet leader goes glibly down \vith the «teak; the ehopa relish with vicws of a ehop fallen Minister. Buns and the band go hand in irand. Veal chimes in with the Nuiiou's views of When yoiueat your toast or roast, you atso see frow official sinuers are roastcd. Coffee and tea of course suggest reciprocity. Bome sc;ason their lish, this time of Lent, along with a sprinkling of J{ 12 per cent. ,? And as you eat youv ration you think ot annexation. We have had our litcrary titomach tickled with ali this; and although we have had a few rebuffs, ■ sis' for instance being to!d that we did not know how to epell, and that we were a b!a«phemous «heet;" and even one official said. " Nnioi: be — blessed (perhaps it was another word he said;; be would hofc buy it, but \vould borrow it a dead-head from lns neighbor; and yct for all this we have been great!y ploased, but uothing has |)leasod us so mueh as to know tliat the ehildren read our paper. Ves, we know that they lay down the Ai*abian Nights to piek up the Nuhou. The Punahou girls and boys all read it before they leam their kfesons, ano they learn them all the better in eonsequenee. Ali the other boys read it; the CaUfornia 4 boys, t-he Eenieui boys, und thc &coūt boys too ; and chcir girls all read it J>efore they say theiv prayers. Uu/„ and ®osand Birdie, and Nellie, and Maggre, and Molly, aitd Mny all read iu and arc so tiekled \vith the jokes A that thev don't notiee the bad Hpdling, but elap their pretty linle hands, and *ay, vou dear, jolly, little Nunoi , we loveyou. ? * Ah children, we woukl rather please you thau all the fogies in the W'orld, We iiate t%ies, espeeially respeetable, serious fogies. We understaud the serious things oflife as welhis they do, but we don"t want to be al\vavs talking of them w> seriously as they du. We have seen the rise and fall of empires, and more than oikv have :trod among the du v t of a dynasty; but for all that we have lound notlnng greater than huiuan }ove, and none so aweet as that of ohildren. We will try to please you little and we will he earel\tl not (o v<ffrnd your pt tu ious, t?:nple 4 tender »>oufc. Therc are ih \nand

! of you } |wbitc uLi'l brown, below the age of ili'.en ' | in fches€i isleg, aoel you are the hope of thk };oor • lartd, We are with jou, and wo ehall so spcak that you may understand, Y6u see the j Bclfishn6BS, and narrow uDkindlv views of thig | generation of uien, and you rnay unite hercafter with intelligence, and foith, and eliaritable good J will one so that līawaii have a pople ful! of patnotism and < nUrpnce, and fittid for tiie highest exereisi- of puMle virtue. t Let the children read the Nunou. !