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Show Superstition. I Lf we could search iiitooUierpersons' t niind- in the majority of them we should j find ideas and theories dating back to i the litres of superstition. If parents are j so unfortunate as to be superstitious 1 they should the more earnestly en-; deavur to beep their little ones' minds free from a similar taint. We have enough trouble to endure in our jour-, ney through life without seeing it ahead of us before we come to it. Often after a great deal of low spirits and worry over imaginary coining trials they never come, and bad we met them unexpectedly unexpect-edly we should nut have had any more fret or grief than we have already suffered, suf-fered, since we bad, or fancied we had. 1 the omen which foretold them. I know persons who will be miserable for days after a bad dream, constantly expecting some evil to befall them; others are always endeavoring to ascertain ascer-tain the future significance of every present event. Why should we burden bur-den our little ones' minds with such ; nonsense ? lc can be but an incubus at ; the best to think that one knows what is going to happen. The child who is thus taught is cruelly wronged, and given a weapon which can hurt none but the possessor (unless he, too, transmits trans-mits it to his cbilden); but upon hiin it can work grievous evil and cloud many hours which otherwise might have been entirely care free and happy. Among the uneducated superstition often runs riot, and one sometimes meets with ideas that are fairly bloodcurdling. blood-curdling. It would be wise if mothers would pay rather more attention than I they usually do to the fancies their little ' ones may be imbibing from nurses and servants. Mrs. fi. li. Snider in House-, keepers' Weekly. , |