Show looks on the side of bilings Ti lings devices for bringing this boy to a sense oi the material disadvantages of wrongdoing havo been tiled but his happy disposition is proof against the punitive influence of any of them if he is ecat to bed early because he has so torn and soiled his clothes as to be in the drawing room he turna up the next moraine with a beaming smile and some remark about the delicious rest he has had U his diet is reduced to plain bread and wafer for the violation of a rule of the table he discovers without the slightest hypocrisy mind you what uncommonly fine bread the cook bakes and how much better water quenches the thirst than milk or cambric tea if he is kept indoors because he has abused a privilege of the yard or street he sets cheerfully about amusing himself in the house just as content apparently tolie on his back for hour after hour and indulge in day dreams aa to do anything else and the chances are that when it is all over ida little voice will be raised in praise of the comforts of homes in general and of his own in particular the only punishment he seems to dread is a whipping that has been resorted to sparingly and always for some overt and aggressive act which was wholly without excuse never for a mere matter of habit however reprehensible babyhood |