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Show CHILDI3H EYEG SEE MUCH. Houhold Shares Cannot Pe Concealed Con-cealed from Them. "My father's bouse is full of 'fakes,' " said a 12-year-old playing in a-neighbor's house. When asked what he meant ho recited one article after another all cheap imitations of expensive ex-pensive things. A little girl who had turned 14 said to a friend; "Mamma says 1 mustn't pretend-; that to pretend is to lie. But she pretends as much as I do. She pretends that she has a stained glass window In her bathroom when It's really only colored paper pasted on the glass. Of course, mamma's a woman, wo-man, and I'm not. I suppose I'll have to wait until I grow up before I can pretend!" When the remarks of these two youngsters were repeated to the parents par-ents they were amazed that the points had fastened themselves on their children's chil-dren's minds. But it is here, nevertheless, never-theless, that the pernicious habit of allowing shams and imitations in thousands of our American homes Is creating its worst havoc upon the children at the most formative periods peri-ods of their lives, says the Ladies' Home Journal. And yet we expect a child to ring true in his thoughts and character when, on every hand, he is; surrounded in his parents' home with things that are sham and an imitation. |