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Show RULES FOR SPOILING A CHILO 1. Begin young by giving him whatever he cries for. 2. Talk freely before the child about bis smartness as incomparable. 3. Tell him that he h too much fjr you, that you can do nothing with him. 4. Have divided counsel, as between be-tween father and mother. 5. Let him learn to regard his father as a creature of unlimited power, capricious and tyrannical; or as a mere whipping-machine. 6. Let him iearu (from his father's example) to despise his mother. 7. Do not know or care who bis companions may bo. 8. Let him read whatever he likes. 9. Let the child, whether boy or girl, rove the street in the evening a good Bcbool for both sexes. 10. Devote yourself to making money, remembering always that ! wealth is a better legacy for your child than principles iu the heart and habits in the life; and let him have plenty of money to spend. 11. Be not with him in the hours of recreation. 12. Strain at a guat and swallow a camel; chastise severelv for a foible, aud laugh at a vice. 13. Let him run ahniif. fmm Mm!-, to church. Eclecticism in religion is the order cf tho day. 11. Wnatever burdens of virluom i requirements you lay on hisshoulders, touch not one with one of your fingers. Preach gold, and practice imdeemable greenbacks. Toe rult-H aie nut untried. Many parents have proved them, with substantial sub-stantial uniformity of results. Ii a faithful observance of tbt m does not spoil your child, you will at leat nave tho eomlhrtable reflection that jo'.i bavo done what you could. |