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Show "THINK A MINUTE FIRST." Apropos of the saying of the little ones, I am reminded of an incident which touched me very much at the time, and may find a responsive chord in the hearts of some who are parents. I was sitting in my porch on a pleasant summer morning, when up runs little five-year-old Bell, intent on a visit to a playmate across the way. "Papa," she asks, "May I go over and play with Carrie awhile?" and then, as she seemed to discern a dissent in my face, she put up her little rosebud lips to mine and quickly added: "Please don't say no, think a minute first." Was there ever a more charming protest against a hasty and inconsiderate answer? Of course the little girl had her wish. We are, perhaps, all too ready, thoughtlessly, to deny many of the requests of the little ones things that seem trifling to us, but are everything to them. And when their little appeals come, before letting the "no" rise too quickly to our lips, let us think a minute. |