Yesterday I saw the wind. It was playing in my dog’s hair. Oil on the pavement looks like a dead rainbow. —Bits & Pieces A teacher of ten- and eleven-year-old boys in Germany would take off his top hat and bow before the boys in deference to them. “Why do you do that?” someone asked him. He answered, “Who knows what one of these boys may become?” One of them was named Martin Luther. Children will tend to adopt the beliefs of those whom they instinctively recognize as happy, and of no others. —W.