Show The flights of Children I have a good deal of sympathy for the little people during their first eight or ten years when they are just beginning to learn lifes lessons and when the laws which govern them must often seem so strange and un justThe The child has a right to a place of its own to things of its uwn to surroundings sur-roundings which have some relation to Its size its desires and Its capabilitieS capabili-ties How should we like to live half the time in the place where the piano was twelve feet high the door knob at an impossible height and the mantle shelf In the sky where every mortal thing was out of reach except a collec tion of highly interesting objects on dressing tables and bureaus gua ded however by giants three times as large and powerful as ourselves forever for-ever saying Mustnt touch and if we did touch we would be spanked and have no other method of revenge save to spank back symbolically on the inoffensive persons of our dolls Mrs Kate Douglas Wiggin in a paper on Childrens Rights |