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Show A Lesson All Should Learn. There is no lesson that mothers shculd strive more earnestly to teach ! their children than that of self-re- straint. It is from its antithesis, self-I self-I indulgence, that all the troubles and j sorrows of life are sure to spring. It is also a lesson that fathers and moth- ers would do well to practice at tin same time they are instilling it int I the minds of their little ones. It is what is seen and heard in their horn that takes root and bears flowers 02 weeds, as the case may be, rather than what you simply tell your childre they must or must not do. The first lessons in self-restraint must be taught very early in life; in fact, within with-in a very few hours of the birth of your child. If you indulge your child in all his little whims and fancies you are giving him his first lesson i: self-indulgence, and from these lessons les-sons will spring all the faults, or even crimes, of later years. |