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Show TROUBLE WITH MODERN CHILD. Too Early Made Acquainted with the Pomp of the World. Miss L, K. Stoarns, In her locturo on the "Thankless Child," In Mtlwau- PPJ kco, pleaded for children to havo tlmo PPJ to bo children. "I know of a Mllwau- PPJ kco mothor who was surprised lately jH to And that at a birthday party which PPJ her daughter (a child of eight) had attended two llvorled pages stood at tho door to rocelvo tho gifts the chit- Pfl dron brought. Tho samo littlo girl who 9H was hostess at tho party, whon In a formal mood, Is apt to go to call upon somo child of her own age In her '.iW? mother's cnrrlago, accompanied by n Jr'fJ footman and drlvor, and when sho , $uM arrlvos, presonts hor visiting card bo- JliTiS'i foro seeing her friend." MissStearna '&twW comparod this complicated existence fjlVi'ty with that of tho groat John ltuskln, 'in who had but four toys during his en. II r; tire childhood, but who spent many . w ) enrapturod hours with those, and ho 9-i, attributed his tasto for architecture to Qv., 'j the fact of his blocks, ono of the u" toys, having interested him in build- S"'? ing at so early an age, |