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Show Mo Never Struck Ola Children. "I have never struck my two children," chil-dren," said a young American father the other day, "though I have often been tempted strongly to it, and sometimes would not have blamed any parent for doing so. But I was thrashed so much by my own father, a good enough man, too, that I always stood in fear of him, seldom told him tho truth if I could help it, and never confided in him. Often I was whipped for errors I had committed with good intentions, and I remember the wild spirit of hatred that used to come over me at such times, when, smarting under the blows I felt I did not deserve, 1 would get away by myself and swear silent but bitter oatlis that would have opened the old gentleman's eyes to his folly, perhaps, if he could havo heard them from so young a child. So 1 made a vow that I would never beat my own children. And now I feel sure that they do not stand in physical fear of me, I am pretty certain they tell me tle truth, and 1 know they confide in me as a friend. And though they do not obey me nearly as ImpUcity as I did my father, and make themselves much moro of a nuisance to mo than I was to him, yet they don't regard mo as a bully, and that is something." New York Tribune. |