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Show A Child's Sense of Justine. ' Nothing seems to burn into the memory mem-ory and heart of a child as an undeserved punishment, however trifling the matter mat-ter may seem to the adult inflicter. In Bome children of the sunny, hopeful type the wave of indignation and help-lees, help-lees, unspoken protest against unjust correction passes away, and leaves apparently ap-parently no trace. To other children, with more sensitive natures or more rebellions re-bellions dispositions, unjust words of reproof re-proof kindle fires of rage, which smoulder smoul-der with sullen persistence under the ashes of seeming forget fulness, ready to bnrst out violently and unexpectedly. If this seems an overdrawn picture one has only to think backward at one's own chilish days, and to recall the time when careless treatment by nn elder first taught ub to be bitter, unforgiving, resentful. re-sentful. A child's sense of justice is as keen as his heart is tender, and this is one of the qualities most necessary to a noble character; char-acter; a quality that must be blended with truth and honor and self -sacrifice to give the right balance to dispositions which wonld otherwise work harm. A child's justice is always tempered with mercy to those he loves, and when iu the home he is justly and tenderly dealt with he learns little by little that higher sense of justice toward all with whom he comes in contact. When his own small rights are carelessly and continually continu-ally thrust aside, he, too, learns to play the brigand, to invent devices to achieve the might which he has learned makes right. Harper's Bazar. |