Floyd's Flowers Or Duty and Beauty For Colored Children Being One Hundred Short Stories Gleaned from the Storehouse of Human Knowledge and Experience Simple Amusing Elevating

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

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Authors: Silas X. Floyd In Year : 0

Book Language: English

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Publisher's Note and Preface
A Spelling Lesson
The Truth About Luck
An Evening at Home
The Making of a Man
False Pride
Thanksgiving at Piney Grove
The Loud Girl
The Rowdy Boy
Honesty
Uncle Ned and the Insurance Solicitor
The Strenuous Life
A Humbug
A Candidate for Baptism
Going with the Crowd
Mary and Her Dolls
Jaky Tolberts Playmates
A Valentine Party
No Money Down
Tommys Baby Brother
Keeping School
The School of the Street
The Fox Hunt
A Bold Venture
A Hero in Black
The Road to Success
Samuel C Armstrong
How to be Handsome
Patience
The Bitter Bit
The Alphabet of Success
Easter Monday in Washington
Keeping Ones Engagements
A Midnight Mishap
Frederick Douglass
Our Dumb Animals
A Plucky Boy
A Heart to Heart Talk
A Ghost Story
Good Cheer
Life A Battle
Ruled by Primative Methods
Hunting an Easy Place
Burt Bankstons Bequest
The Big Black Burglar
Pin Money Made with the Needle
Self Help
Henry Ward Beechers Testimony
Rounding Up a Chicken Thief
Shields Green the Martyr
Aiming at Something
The Black Sheep of the Reynolds Family
The Holy Bible
Andrew Carnegies Advice to Young Men
Directions for the Little Gentlemen
The Letter of the Law
The Best Books for Children
The Right to Play
A Christmas Present
Drinking and Smoking
The Nickel That Burned Franks Pocket
Monument to a Black Man
The Bad Boy---Who He Is
The Bad Boy---How to Help Him
Thomas Greene Bethune (''Blind Tom'')
Not Fit to Know
The Right Way
Keeping Friendship in Repair
Little Annie's Christmas
The Velocipede Race
Fault Finding
The Puritans Sabbath
The Devil on an Excursion
Random Remarks
Benjamin Banneker The Negro Astronomer
A Little Child Shall Lead Them
Directions for Little Ladies
Three Words to Young People
A Lamp Unto My Feet
The Three Brigades
Home Sweet Home
Edmund Asa Ware
An Ante Bellum Negro Preacher
Purity of Character
Each One of Us of Importance
The Poetry of Life
On Being in Earnest
Young People and Life Insurance
A Little Sailor Cat
Advice to Little Christians
A Word to Parents
A Helpful Message
The Unseen Charmer
Our Country
The Dont Care Girl
Negro Heroes
Frederick Douglass to Young People
Too High a Dam
A Good Fellow
The Future of the Negro
The Training of Children

Truly the boys and girls of to-day ought to be thankful that they are alive. There never was such a golden age for childhood and youth as the present. To say nothing of the rich opportunities for mental and spiritual development, what a multitude of things have been provided for the innocent pleasure, the wholesome recreation of the young people of to-day; inventions that remind one of the magic of the “Arabian Nights”; tools of sport so perfect that one cannot imagine how they could be bettered; fascinating games, all unknown in the days gone by; books and papers upon which science, art and literary skill have lavished modern resources—all these and many other wonderful things have fallen to the lot of the favored boys and girls of to-day. And now enterprising publishers of our grand country are going to put the boys and girls of America—and especially the colored boys and girls of America—under obligation to them, because they have decided to add to the list of good books for children and youths already on the market. I use the word “good” advisedly; for from the day that I was engaged to write this book I have had in mind constantly the thought of making it such a book as would tell for good. It is an old saying that “evil communications corrupt good manners,” but evil reading does more than this: for evil reading corrupts good morals. I have endeavored to put into this book of stories for children only such things as might be freely admitted into the best homes of the land, and I have written with the hope that many young minds may be elevated by means of these stories and many hearts filled with high and holy aspirations. Our nation has a right to expect that our boys and girls shall turn out to be good men and good women, and this book is meant to help in this process. (Summary by Silas X. Floyd)