Show TROUBLE WITH MODERN CHILD L too early lade made acquainted with the pomp of the world miss L bi steams in her lecture on the thankless child in hee kee pleaded for children to have time to be children I 1 know of a ke kee mother eother who was surprised lately to find that at a birthday party which her daughter a child of eight had attended two liveried pages stood at the door to rece receive ive the gifts the chil dren brought the same little girl who was hostess at the party when in a formal mood Is apt to go to call upon some child of her own age in her mother s carriage accompanied by a footman and driver and when she arrives presents her visiting card be fore seeing her friend miss stearns compared this complicated existence with that of the great john ruskin who bad had but tour four toys during his en tire childhood but who spent many enraptured hours with these and he attributed his taste tor for architecture to the fact act of his blocks one of the toys having interested him in build ing at so early an age |