Show protest against cruel or tz for pro 10 ocious audren I 1 condou aruth when lords and badiea take to bunting the highways in search of children whose lives they rain and whose innocence they destroy it is time to register a protest we have baby piAnists baby singers baby actors baby gymnasts we shall to on have baby orators or baby soldiers and still the remorse ism mrs leo hunott seeke aate her prey and ser ves it up for the am of noodles and the glorification fi cation of herself cannot the more sensible people if any on c ebitt see the pitiful side of all this baby worship cannot they realize the dumb agony of the young vic tiar whose pie maiure jenius they so loudly applaud they do not know I 1 presume that in the bidet of the turmoil and glitter of his american tour poor little josef was profoundly that he longed far leisure to p fy ay with his toys io ride his hobbyhorse to arial up big mechanical kitten they are blind and deaf to every human ini pulse so long as their infant idol goes through his part with apparent zest if the poor child breaks they are first to hal ob you h ites that e over a ea ayrer T broken kneeland knee sand yet encourage b 7 your r applause this child torture this ruin of xoung lives precocious intellects I 1 the stolid british pub lie fancies that those children who perform for its edification take to singing acting playing or the double trapeze as easily as its own brats taketo marbles bulls eyes and the skipping rope I 1 wish to be charitable and I 1 do not believe that the british public with all its obtuseness is willingly cruel or callous but does any child take naturally i to performs i dg in publio for the benefit of other people certainly nol children are said to be selfish but it i s the selfishness born not of e I 1 but oxsheer light hearted thoughtlessness A child may care for sp lause but not for applause from a crowd of people whom it has never seen a childs nature is loving and reliant child is not hopeless sly perverted attaches more imp ortance to the good opinion of its father mother sisters brothers and nurse than to the cheers of a mob at a theater or aai opera house but society to change all this society must be amused wherefore like a fabled monster ittem ands living sacrifices of young children who mouth and strut for its amuse mena disappear society knows not cares not whither if some young genius b Y its untimely and senseless sens eleos flies its piam nez ders why so and so has gone off in such a deplorable manner I 1 have seen ina contemporary an interview with that excellent me mrs kendal who it appears schooled miss vera beringer for the stage part of little biord F abut leroy peor little veral she is but nine years old and mrs icen dal thinks her one of the most plastic Pla stice ye godi children she has ever on now I 1 have an infinite r ape ct for mrs kendal alike as aurig c a mother and matron but I 1 think that her audi have no doubt that it is the right method is simply revolting she tell vera a funny story at which the little maiden would laug i ha saily then mrs kendal would fix upon that laugh now what I 1 want you to do when you say so audgo and again mrs kendal would tell the little girl a sad story whereupon hei little floe would as sume that I 1 mixture of adae and sympathy so common said yet so ie it is om footo mo oto isaeal bat if we to faroe our children aft I 1 I 1 the methods indicated by the eel lea L amro kendal it will become ex rate indeed |