In the World of Childhood

My sister reader:

On the tongue of your child, or of your little brother, there pass sweet, charming sayings. Write them down and send them to us, with a picture of the child if possible. Our readers wish us to renew our attention to this delightful children's corner.
— The Editors —

• Little Sanaa sometimes tells spontaneous little tales that carry "poetic" meanings... Among them: her mother looked in on her early one morning and, finding her, contrary to her habit, wide awake, hastened to ask her:
— Did my moving about the room rouse you from your sleep?
— No, Mama; I have been awake a long while — ever since... (and her eyes wandered as she thought how to fix the time; then she added:) ...ever since the night began to "wilt"!!

• And she is forever perplexed by this Arabic language. She wondered why, when the teacher read her composition aloud in class, all the pupils laughed at her writing: the head of the school and his "missus" (instead of his wife!!).