| Show TROUBLE WITH MODERN CHILD too early made acquainted with the pomp of the world miss L E steams in her lecture on the thankless child in kee pleaded for children to have time to be children 1 I know of a kee mother who was surprised lately to that at a birthday party which her daughter a child of eight had attended two liveried pages stood at the door to receive the gifts the ahll dren brought the same little girl who was hostess at the party when in a formal mood Is apt to go to call upon bouie child of her own ago in her mother a carriage accompanied by a footman and driver and when sha arrives presents her visiting card before seeing her friend miss steams compared this complicated existence with that of the great john rushan who had but four toys during his entire childhood but who spent many enraptured hours with these and he attributed his taste tor architecture to the fact of hla blocks one of the toys having interested him in build ing at so birly an age |
