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Show REAL CHILDREN IN LITCI1ATURE Tlioy Are C'ruwilril tint by thn Knilurnlly 1'roper I'lilldroa of the WUeacrei.. Tho wImi mentors In ein 'iitlonal literature lit-erature virtually tell .ou that ehlhl-lilcrnturo ehlhl-lilcrnturo wonts no reul ihlldren in It; that tho real child's example of defective defect-ive grammar nnd lack of elegant deportment de-portment would furnlbh to Its little p.i-trleht'i p.i-trleht'i patrons BUgget,tloiiK very hurtful Indeed to their higher nu.ruhi, linden-eios linden-eios mid ninbltlons, wiltoi .Iiuncs Whit-comb Whit-comb lllley hi tlio Konnn. Then, although al-though tho general public couldn't for tho ltfo of It sou why or how, und might oven ba reminded that It was just such n rowdylnff child Itself, nnd thut Its father the father of his country was just Mich ii child; that Abraham Lincoln was juat r.u h a Hvable, lawlcs child; nil nil this argument would not iivuil in llio lenst, slnco tho elegiintly-intniled pnrveyorn of child litcrntura cannot liosslbly tolerate the presence of nny but tho refined children the very proper children the studiously thoughtful, poetlo children and these must be kept safe from the contaminating contaminat-ing touob, of our rough-und-tumblo llttlo fellows In "hodilen gray,'' with froivzly licadn, begrimed but Inughilig faces, and such awful, iiwful vulgnrltlcH of iinturalness, nnd irlinos of simplicity, uud brazen faith nml trust, nnd lore of life nnd ovcryliedy in it. All other real peoplo nro getting Into literature; and without some rent diildreu along will they not oon be getting lonesome, too? |