Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-02-02 | Page 16 | Is Your Child Doing Well at School?

c rl i s Your Child Doing I f Well at School I IT T t r r Copyright 1318 1913 by the Press Publishing Co The cew nr York Evening World b i NATURAL HISTORY T a certain period in every e childs child's life Ufe the habit to uc collect or orS S more correctly the instinct to collect Is predominant Tho The parent is a a. serious ml mistake tateo when he or ork k he ho shows lack a a. of interest He ma may co collect pictures that are given away aVay by bytho thE tho vendors of at merchandise It ma may bo be L buttons It may be bo marbles or It rna may bc toads toad spiders or snakes Encourage f him I to make mako na o shelves boxes s O or cab cabinets ne n to Keep cep his collection tl t fled and arranged Tho The conscientious mother should be Careful careful not to show fear of any of ot the pads pad's ads animal exhibits lest she lead the child hUd hild to believe in the common superstitions super super- to the effect that this or that cr creature turo is harmful How of ot us UH oven to this day have trailed failed to wipe out of ot our minds the thought that to handle a a fro frog zany may re re- r ault in the acquisition of ot warts 2 If Jf the child bring Into the tho house a handful of f cocoons and pieces of or dried leaves are dropped on the floor do not nl F ord r him to take taka that dirt right out the house Immediately take lake an f interest In what he lie 13 Is doin doing show how him t Ui ow to keep the cocoons In boxes In a that Is always kept warm Point ut to him how low to mount the moth that moth that twill soon mako make Its appearance and th then n gIve him a set o of woodworking tools feo to o that he can build a shelved box In which to k keep cp his collection o of butter butter- and moths t fr Remember cr that t this 18 instinct t to o col- col usually com comes s OUt but once durin luring during the toe lifetime of ot a 0 child usually child usually when the Is In his or her twelfth or thir thir- par Take advantage o o of that natural Instinct D' D not Ilot squelch it rAnd And you ou will have havo at ut hand n f fJ J means of interesting thu in comparison Ith w which w the Interest t In a n subject awakened by your our direct orders plucK pales insignificance W g. g After hi his collection has Ims b been on made point out to him tho tim tong long tubular r sucking tongue of ot the hut and fh th p. tour jour wings covered with beautiful I overlapping scales that adhere tl to your yourI lr lrI I lingers fingers when handled Then tell him hini tto to place o an on ordinary ta caterpillar with I Its favorite fool ool in a glass covered c ered box For or or several laYs davs It sIll Ill cat and cland et ct and eat at Final Finally It will stop eating I and t ln a Co kind of or a J. J cobweb around Itself The Tho child knows kno of the change hano that will tran transform form tho the cocoon Into the laying egg moth Thus what would have been beon a dry dryes dryas es as s dust lesson n in tho the class room Is a a live interesting subject to th thi bo boy and tl he will welcome additional knowledge thi the same subject subject not not only welcome wel wel- come coma but thirst for It