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Show Dpu't tell your child the happiest days he will evor know are his days of childhood Don't hio thm with maturity comes cares, and workuml I roubles, and fears that make u '"'Ion If your child comes toyou with a Dial that Is great to him. but I" ou In the light of your years and expeilenee. In the merest lrK0 Uol.t aay, ou are ei f00li8h to be troubled by bo small a thing," but remember ho lias but lltt'o reason to use, uud no experience to guldo him, and that for the tlmo his grlof "clothes him as a garment," and It Is for you, with your love and sympathy, sym-pathy, to rend It, ami bring him sunlight sun-light again. It Is a great wrong to bellovo tho wild fears grotesque fancies and nameless doubts which haunt the minds cf children nrc passing pas-sing whims. So vivid are these, they often ocmo to us 1 middle llfo or old age, and cuuse us an involuntary siumdcr. If a child's troubles are ' usually small, tho understanding Is Bmullor. Tho pitiful grnvlty with which they attempt to settlo weighty questions which their elders often glo up as hopeless, demands our most dollcuto sympathy. Every stage of life has Its peculiar trials, and Just as surely Its own Joys. Let us not then so recklessly risk oro reputation re-putation for wisdom as to point to children nnd say, "Now, my dear child, Is your heyday. Enjoy It to the full, for the years that are passing pas-sing on you are full to the brim or care and trial." Say rather, "If tho future has great woik and lespon-slbllltlis, lespon-slbllltlis, bo has It piuporltlouato reward," re-ward," The surest, greatest, happiness hap-piness of life should como with the full development of mind and heart. n |