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Show CRIMINAL IN CHILD NATURE. Writer in New Orleans Picayune Asserts As-serts We Are All Born with Tenderness Ten-derness Toward the Bad. "All children," said a psychologist, "are horn criminals. Instinctively they lie, steal, slander, torture I don't know what. The saintliest man. a very Dr. Parkhurst of a man, were he to grow up as he began, would have a long career of bank robberies, assaults, as-saults, debauches and murders, and he would die on the gallows. "A child, as soon as it begins to toddle and lisp, steals. Till 'you have trained a child to know that thefts are followed by spankings, would you dare to leave it alone in a candy shop? "It also lies. After a raid on the jam or cake,' does a child admit its guilt? Of course not. It lies earnestly, earnest-ly, doggedly. "A child slanders and libels. Did you ever hear a beautiful, lisping child speak in praise of its playmate? play-mate? No. On the contrary, it accuses ac-cuses the playmate continually of horrible crimes. I "A child will get drunk if you give it the opportunity. Lack of opportunity opportu-nity is all that prevents children from becoming confirmed inebriates. "It is needless to go on. Look back on your childhood. Study your evil little child heart. You'll wonder then that no curio collector cherishes a piece of your rope." New Orleans Picayune. |