Juvenile Ideas – Children's Questions and Answers

1916

A little girl once said to me. "Are there people on the moon?" I said I didn't know, but that perhaps there were. " "Well, what do they do," she said, "when there's only a little bit? They must get very crowded. Don't they?" Which was almost as perplexing as the query put to me by another little maiden, who asked, "What do angels do with their wings when they lie down and go to bed?"

Very quaint was the idea of a little girl who was once visiting a house where a small child had died recently. She was asked to draw something. So she drew a grave with some flowers on it. Her mother, on seeing it said, "Janie. you mustn't do that; Mrs. —— wouldn't like it. You see, it reminds her of very sad things." "Oh, well," said the child, "perhaps it was thoughtless of me, but I can easily turn it into a beehive." And she did, with all the bees coming out — Hilda Cowham in Strand Magazine.

—Stevens Point Daily Journal, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, July 29, 1916, page 3.