27 DECEMBER 1902, Page 15

CHILDREN'S SAYINGS.

[To THE EDITOR Or TEE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Can you make space for more children's sayings, this time from across the sea ? A little Boston girl found it difficult to master a stitch in knitting, and her aunt thought to enforce patience by reminding her that Rome was not built in a day. To which came the quick response : "Oh, Aunty, how can you talk so ? Don't you know that it took God only six days to make the whole world, and I don't suppose He spent more than half an hour on Rome ! " A small negro child said to the writer the other day that a glass required washing, "because, you see, Ma'am, I left it out all summer, and the flies roosted on it."—I am, Sir, Ace.,