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FACTS IN JINGLES
FACTS IN JINGLES
_By_
WINIFRED SACKVILLE STONER, JR.
(Written Between the Ages of Five and Twelve)
INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT 1915 THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOK MANUFACTURERS BROOKLYN, N. Y.
Dedicated
to
Miss Katharine O'Shea
of
Madison, Wisconsin
INTRODUCTION
These jingles were written by a child for children. The young author does not expect that any one will imagine they were intended to be a contribution to poetry or literature. They will be of interest to adults principally as an illustration of the way a child's mind views some of the every-day situations of life. Grown people will also be interested to see how easily a young child can put facts into the jingle form when freedom of expression is acquired early.
Those who have read Mrs. Stoner's _Natural Education_ will recall that Winifred learned almost as a babe to use the typewriter. This helped her in her spelling and composition, so that she gained ease and freedom in expressing herself on any topic that she understood. She wrote out everything she learned so that she might the better get a grasp of it and remember it. And she found that when some kinds of facts were put together in a jingle they could be fixed with less effort and retained more securely than if they were learned in the ordinary way--by rote and without any method of organization.
Rhyme and rhythm seem to furnish to the young mind an easy and effective method of relating and expressing facts ordinarily dissociated from anything of interest to a child. As long as such facts are presented to the young in home and school, the jingle will prove of service to teachers and parents, and of interest and value to children. In addition, some of these jingles will delight the young merely because of their rhythmical quality, while others will afford amusement because of the humorous interpretation they put on many of the events that are daily experienced by children everywhere.
Any adult who may read these jingles should be informed that many of them were written when Winifred was hardly more than a babe. And all of them were dashed off without effort to achieve poetic merit. One characteristic that makes them of interest is their spontaneity. As an illustration of the readiness with which Winifred can construct a jingle, I may say that when she was twelve years of age, I happened one day to read her the following essay on _Bones_ written by a pupil:
"Bones is the framework of the body. If I had no bones in me, I should not have so much shape as I have now. If I had no bones my brain, heart, lungs, and larger blood vessels would be lying around in me, and might get hurt. If my bones were burned I should be brittle, because it would take the animal out of me. If I was soaked in acid I should be limber. I'd rather be soaked than burned. Some of my bones don't grow close to my others snug like the branches to the trunk of a tree. The reason why they don't grow that way is because they have joints. Joints is good things to have in bones. All my bones put together make a skeleton. Some animals have their skeleton on the outside. I am glad I am not them animals, for my skeleton like it is on the chart would not look very well on my outside."
I asked her if she would put the essay into a rhyme. She ran off to her typewriter, and in twelve minutes came back with the jingle, _I'm glad I'm not an Exo_. It is published exactly as she handed it to me, without change in content or in form.
Mrs. Stoner's _Natural Education_ describes in detail how Winifred has been educated up to this point in her career. This book of jingles presents some concrete evidence of the results of Mrs. Stoner's method of teaching freedom of expression, and her many devices for assisting a child to retain more or less formal facts in history, the sciences, and so on. The book will prove of interest and help to children, and parents and teachers should be able to get suggestions and practical teaching devices from it.
M. V. O'SHEA.
Madison, Wisconsin.
Ever since I was five years old my dear friends, the fairies, have whispered jingles to me as keys to Memory's storehouse. As these jingles have been of great assistance in my studies, I have asked my good publishers to put them in book form with the hope that they may help, or at least amuse, many girls and boys.
WINIFRED SACKVILLE STONER, JR.
CONTENTS
PAGE
Adam's Funny Bone 238
After the Fourth Was Over 57
All Dentists Go to Heaven 47
All the World Cries 93
Answers, Not Questions, Cause Trouble 22
Appeal to the Fairies, An 187
Are All Angels Blonds? 304
Armadillo, The 199
At Easter 242
Autos Change Good Luck 85
Autumn, Queen of Year 88
Baa! Baa! Black Sheep 206
Bach, Johann Sebastian 269
Bachelor's Opinion of a Baby, A 156
Barber, Barber, Shave a Pig 226
Beethoven, Ludwig von 265
Berlioz, Louis Hector 293
Best Month of All, The 194
Beware of Stings 181
Beware of the Wet 144
Birthday Wish, A 205
B. O. K. Fairy, The 185
Bony Song, A 17
Book Mark, A 200
Bo-Peep 209
Boy Who Was Hero and Villain, A 84
Boy's Complaint, A 31
Boy's Description of a Goat, A 87
Brahms, Johannes 267
Brick Versus Watch 148
Bridget Makes Split Pea Soup 2
Brunettes All the Rage 121
Butcher, Baker, Candle-Stick Maker 221
Careful Mother, The 3
Cat Extincted the Canary, The 16
Cats a Kissin' (Catechism) 122
Children's Prayer, The 255
Chopin, Frédéric François 261
Christmas Wish for All My Friends, 40
Could Only Ask Questions 126
Cultus Mitlite 127
Curly Locks 230
Czerny, Karl 303
Dans Ma Cuisine 166
Dans Ma Maison 163
Dans Mon Joli Jardin 165
Days of Chivalry, The 142
Dickory Dock 226
Doctor Foster 217
Dux Femina Via 203
Easter Greeting 65
Easter Greeting to My Friend 90
Eatable Alphabet, An 241
England's Kings in Rhyme 115
Equal Franchise Valentine, An 180
Esperanto Grammar 198
Esperanto Poem Plain to All, An 154
Fairy Centaphrase, The 254
First Forks, The 110
First Match, The 97
First Metal Plow, The 106
Five Best Fairies, The 177
Five-Foot Shelf of Summer Books, A 15
Five Good Giants 200
Five Little Pigs 231
Franz, Robert 259
Frog Who Would A-Wooing Go, A 211
Furs Lined with Kittens 12
German Jinglette, A 236
Ghost Story, A 153
Giant Arithmos, The 67
Girls' Alphabet, The 243
Glorious O, The 237
Glück, Christopher Willibald 292
Good B's and Bad T's 30
Good-Bye to Teddy Bears 99
Good People Everywhere 305
Good Weather Assured 92
Goosey, Goosey Gander 212
Gottschalk, Louis Moreau 298
Grammar in a Nutshell 183
Grandma Turkey's Lament 21
Grandpa's Head Turns Frew His Hair 5
Great A, Little A 234
Great Surprise, A 1
Greatest Kings of Music Land, The 262
Greedy Imps 157
Greetings to Norfolk 158
Grouch-Bug, The 33
Growing Things 4
Handel, George Frederick 263
Hark! Hark! the Dogs Do Bark 228
Haydn, Franz Joseph 271
Hens 36
Her Turn Coming 128
Hope 94
Hot Cross Buns 230
How Mother Learned Natural History 141
How Simple Simon Became Wise 184
How to Be Happy 136
Humpty Dumpty 231
In India 189
Information by Phone 123
I'm Glad I'm Not an Exo 245
I Prefer a Lazy Bee 169
It Takes a Cigar a Long Time to Wear Out 105
Jack and Jill 226
Jack, Be Nimble 217
Jack Spratt 214, 229
Job Smarter Than Modern Babies 80
Johnnie's Conundrum 130
Joke on Onklo Karlo, A 8
Kind Hearts 35
King Teddy the Fearless 32
King's Questions, The 111
Kitten Gone to Waste, A 78
Kitty, Where Have You Been? 213
Koppa After Pi 148
Last of Mary Had a Little Lamb 28
Lazy White Men Sit While Flying Through the Air 104
Learning the French Alphabet 161
Legend of Westminster Abbey 140
Legends of the Coronation Stone 107
Let Ma Vote 173
Let the Bumble Be 20
Liszt, Franz 288
Little Boy and the Little Sparrow, The 223
Little Boy Blue 215
Little Girl with the Little Curl, The 236
Little Man with the Little Gun, The 209
Little Mary with Her Canary 220
Little Miss Muffet 212
Little Tommy Tucker 228
Mabel at the Butcher Shop 48
Man in the Moon, The 233
Marjory Daw 233
Mary Had a Lamb Song 234
Mary Had a Little Lamb 235
Mary, Quite Contrary 220
Memory Jogger for Your Desk, A 249
Mendelssohn, Jakob Ludwig Felix 296
Midsummer Joys 56
Miller on the Dee, The 206
Mother Hubbard 215
Mother Wotsat, of Wanamakerland 252
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 273
Much Learning Saves Ignatius 13
Multiplication Is Vexation 216
Museum's Fat Lady, The 10
Music 258
My Black Hen 234
My Christmas Wish 86
My Country 156
My Easter Wish 54
My Impression of Newspaper Men 151
My Son John 225
Nature's Music 260
'Neath Niagara Falls 182
Nervous Jelly 82
New Baby, The 98
New Year Babe, The 81
Nissen the Santa Claus of Norway 37
North Pole Jingle 240
Ode to a Faithful Dog Dubbed Pickles, An 256
Oh, Pretty Little Girl, Where Are You Going? 232
Old Garden, An 171
Old King Cole 225
Old Mother Goose 227
Old-Time and a Modern Song, An 139
Old Woman in a Shoe, The 222
Old Woman, Mother Goose, The 207
On Midsummer Night 143
On Thanksgiving 51
One, Two, Three, Four, Five 236
Only Naughty Children See Spooks on Hallowe'en 53
Oriental Metaphor 159
Our Presidents 124
Papa's Sainted Leg 186
Past and Present Eve, The 149
Patti Cake 224
Patti Lou at the Zoo 11
Peace Forerunner--"Love Mankind" 257
Pearl of Lakes, The 9
Peas Pudding Hot 219
Peter Pumpkin Eater 216
Peter Visits an Episcopal Church 152
Pets' Christmas Carol, The 52
Pickerino--The Cook's Fate, A 106
Plea to Editors, A 196
Plea to Knights and Ladies Fair, A 194
Please, Grandpa, Croak 108
Pretty Little Maid with Pretty Little Bonnet 235
Pretty Maid, Where Are You Going? 210
Pride 79
Pure-Blooded Pup, The 69
Pussy in the Well 218
Queen of Flowerhood 239
Rain, Rain, Go Away 221
Revenge on an Aching Tooth 137
Riddle, A 96
Rock-a-Bye, Baby 213
Roosevelt Compliments Mama Lion 23
Rubinstein, Anton 289
Santa's Reindeer in the Sky 41
Saying His Speech 195
Scarlatti, Alessandro 302
Schubert, Franz Peter 277
Schumann, Robert 279
Seeking Bargains 126
Simple Simon 214
Sing a Song of Sixpence 222
Sing Joyfully on Your Way 218
Six in the Cemetery 125
Six Little Mice Sat Down to Spin 208
Skillet in Society, A 66
Sleepers in Westminster Abbey 100
Snail, Snail, Come Out of Your Hole 223
Song of Home, A 175
Song of the Woods, A 147
Soul of a Miser, The 160
Spelling Wrong "Rong" 172
Strauss, Johann 300
Susan Rewarded for Twenty Years' Service 6
Taffy Was a Thief 229
Take That Gum from Your Mouth and Put Your Feet Right In 91
Tasmania 197
Tersest Bathing Suit, The 89
Thanksgiving in 20,000 A. D. 49
Then and Now 176
Three Blind Mice 224
Three Cheers for Typewriters! 247
Three Wise Men of Gotham 208
Time of His Life, The 25
Titania's Toyland 253
Titanic's Noble Band 131
To Friends Who Remembered Me When I Was Ill 158
To Market 232
To Modern Knights 145
To My Leap Year Valentine 244
To My Valentine 58
To Save Him from a Whipping 109
Tom the Piper's Son 219
Too Many Dolls 27
Too Ticklish to Count His Ribs 104
Torpid Liver 'Sploded Him, A 160
Twilight 14
Uncle Sam's Pittsburgh Arsenal 201
Un Petit Barbare Pou 167
Verdi, Giuseppe 281
Wagner, Wilhelm Richard 275
Weber, Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von 295
Wee Willie's First Hair Cut 24
When Will We Be Old Enough? 129
When Women Vote 170
Whingwang Sonnet of an Easter Bonnet, A 55
Who Is Mother Goose 233
Wilmington's Good Fairy 251
Wilmington's Santa Claus 250
Winds of March, The 155
Winking Star, The 26
Wise Replies 168
Woes Caused by Whooping Bugs 29
Wonderland of Matematiko, The 59
Wondrous Growing Baby, A 7
World's a Mirror, The 248
Young Mail Carrier, The 95
FACTS IN JINGLES
A GREAT SURPRISE
On the nineteenth day of August, in the year of nineteen two, Most kind and gracious Madame Stork right over Norfolk flew, And brought to my dear mother there a wonderful surprise, A little red-brown baby girl with large blackberry eyes. Now mother, she had asked the stork to bring her greatest joy And drop a bundle at her door containing a wee boy; But when the stork made a mistake and brought just little me, She thought that I was better far than any boy could be, And wrapped me in the blanket which she'd planned for my wee brother And which my dear "Ma Mie" had knit to help my busy mother. She changed the name of Lionel to little Winifred, And all the things for brother planned, she gave to me instead.
BRIDGET MAKES SPLIT PEA SOUP
"Bridget," asked the mistress, "whatever is the matter, Nothing ready for our lunch excepting pancake batter? Why, I invited guests to come for lunch at half-past one, And they've been waiting all this time and yet there's nothing done."
"Well, mum," replied Miss Bridget, "the fault is all your own, For split pea soup you ordered and, workin' here alone, It's took me just two hours while tryin' just to split Three hundred of these blarsted peas, which give me most a fit, And as there's still three hundred, 'twill take two hours more To split the pesky little things, shure as me name's MAHORE!"
THE CAREFUL MOTHER
Now come, dear John, and go to school, I hope you know your every rule. No, do not kiss me, Johnnie dear, My mouth is full of germs I fear.
Love, as you walk along the street, You must not pat each dog you meet. Alas! you naughty, careless lad, You've touched the cat, how sad, how sad! For I must sterilize again Your hands and face and books and pen.
Now, take each antiseptic glove And quickly into each one shove Your fingers which are prone to be From dreaded germs--ah, never free.
Here's "SURE-GERM-KILLER" in a case. Put some at once on hands and face, For, oh, I fear those dreadful GERMS May some day make you food for worms!
GROWING THINGS
My dearest friend, John M--, and I, at least our mothers say, Are growing just as weeds will grow in April and in May. John's legs they grow so very fast his pants they leave his knees, His jackets get so very tight they burst if he dare sneeze. His head grows large and larger, I suppose because of brains, So when he wears his last year's cap, it causes lots of pains.