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Show A CHILD'S EDUCATION. John Ruskin, in answer to tha question, "When does the education of a child begin?" be-gin?" replied. "At six months old it can answer smile with smile, and impatience with impatience. It can observe, enjoy, and suffer acutely, and. In a measure, in-teJligentiy. in-teJligentiy. Do you suppose it mokes no difference to it that tha order of the house is perfect and quiet, the faces of Its father and mother full of peace, their soft voices familiar to its ear, and even those of strangers loving: or 'that it is tossed from arm to arm among hard or reckless or vain-minded persons, in the gloom of a vicious house or the confusion confu-sion of a gay one?" |