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Show Cure of Nervous Habits In Children. Curing tho norvous habits or "tricks" of children Is ono of tho most Insistent problems facing parents. Tho problem Is made particularly difficult dif-ficult becauso . tho habits come so qulotly that wo find them established boforo wo havo really notlcod them. Somo habits nro caused by disordered norves, nnd In such a enso tho doctor must bo consulted. Twitching of tho taco or limbs, opening of tho mouth, blinking of tho oyes, hesitation ot speech, aro all Indications that something some-thing is wrong, and no child must bo punished for thorn. Indeed, moro punishment pun-ishment novor does any good elthor to tho tricks dependent on bad health or on thoso of imitation. Dofectlvo sight Is tho cause of many so-called tricks. A child whoso vision Is faulty scrows up his oyes or scowls in his efforts to adapt his powors of sight. In such a case an optician or oculist should bo called ln and tho sight tested. A bad hiiblt Is Blmply ropontpd action, nnd It la only by persistently stopping It that ono can hope to oradicnto It. |