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Show Early to bed and early io rise, has doubled the lenffth of thousands of lives FOR THE BIG FOLKS WHO LIKE LITTLE FOLKS. The Value of a Mother. A Chlcngo man told me about a llttlo event In his boyhood which seems to mo to bo a great event In his llfo. Ono day ho was playing nround tho bench of a carpenter and accidentally broke tho workman's rule. Not being discovered ho quietly shoved tho rule to an unnoticed position posi-tion and loft tho placo. But later ho mado n confldnnt of his mother and told her about It. Sho was able to show him his error and to get him to purchase a new rulo for tho man. Tho boy had a mother and sho had his confidence and tho man had a now rule nothing unusunl in this. Yet tho man nearly n half contury later thought It worth whllo to tell about It and I think It worthy of oven moro spneo than I am giving It. It is suitable for all of this pago and also big typo becnuso It Is a starting point. Tho necessary basics aro so few you can count them on your fingers. fin-gers. When a vital start is mado In real wisdom It Is moro Important every year wo look back on It. Wo nro moro nnd moro grateful to tho parents and teachers who did somo very llttlo thing which created somo great condition. condi-tion. Wien. a boy my parents cncouragei m In memorizing and speaking, nt o" Sunday school entertainment, Monv gomcry's llttlo hymn, "Sow In the Morn Thy Seed." Years later when perplexed and among strangers that hymn jumped Into my head at tho right time to glvo mo just tho encouragement en-couragement I needed to go on and bellevo. That entertainment has mado mo over thankful to that church and my teacher, tho superintendent and my pnrcnts. Tliero Is a sunrlso glory around tho whole- event si Children know moro than they hear and see, and they feel moro than thoy know. Tho wisdom of parents speaking speak-ing well of tho teacher Is self-evident yet easily neglected. A wise teacher can see tho homo through tho manners man-ners of tho child oyen read tho homo opinion ot tho teacher In tho treatment treat-ment received from tho scholar. .Have you wondered If well-taught parents forget that thoy wero taught and trained at great effort, and lot their children grow up in a wild itato? I havo noticed that somo untrained parents par-ents pay special attention to tho education edu-cation of their children. What part of your early life has proven most useful later on? What ono thing havo you read or heard which has helped you tako hot ter caro of children? What ono useful hint do you know about children's clothing? What Is the subject on which you would Hko to seo useful Information gathered? What is tho best way to keep children chil-dren quiet in church? " ' How can a mother learn tho best diot for n peculiar child? What havo you learned by oxpon-slvo oxpon-slvo oxperlonco which you think you should havo learned by observation? |