Show rough treatment mont A link century y ago or more children were seldom beldom coddled codd lad they were ware treated on the contrary in fa a rough and ready way to which few parents would now resort an incident told of nn an englich clergyman who lived during daring the first decade ol of this century illus the harshness of the ziL quires then used toTi to Bards ards the little ones no ijo found ono day hi his five year o old a son eon playing on the margin ol of a pond which lie he lind been forbidden forbid dan to go BO near stealing up quietly behind the tho father seized hia a little boy by tho the legs dipped him lend head foremost foro moat in the water laid him bun on tho the bank and walked away tho the frightened child was lef left t to tb recover from the tha shook as beat he an AD english author tells tella how ho he WAS at bervid arved a similar trick by command of his parents ilia his feers house bouse stood on the banks of the river wear which wits wig the fairy fairyland landof of hi infancy every morn liag in tile tho summer immor Bi when bhea the nursery mar hail haa awakened him he watched her movements it she left I 1 the room for a moment ho he crept down stairs in his hii nightgown anil ana run ran through tho the gardon garden to tho the water wate rolde bide ilia hia dolight delight was to catch the etiopi which floated down alowa tho the stream and start thorn them is in a contest of speed As aa several severe colds regal ted from this amusement lin hie parents ie de term torm ineil bled to put a i stop atop to it so ono lao ining as us he stood liuK the raco race ot of the black still anil ahio ho he WIB was plunged by nn in unseen hand into the stream am sad left floundering therein for a faw raut being taken out of course tho the in both cases saw the bo danger of allowing two such little children to zo go alono to the tha Nv aters edge but bat tho the manner mannar of 0 enforcing then their commands VM van ve lvere to say tho the least baltic Child fell would cot have baro I 1 survived such auch heroic treatment |