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Show I It is curious to see how frequently conscientious and anxious parents will year after year sacrifice their own pleasure and improvement to what they suppose to be the best good for their children, thus gradually losing their vigor and capacity for enjoyment, enjoy-ment, and living dull, monotonous lives under the full impression that they are in this way fulfilling most perfectly their pamntal duties. The truth is that they are withholding from their children one of the greatest blessings they could possibly confer upon them. For nothing can compensate the young for the loss of healthy, happy, vigorous vigor-ous parents, able not only to direct and guide, but to communicate strength, energy and enjoyment by the magnetism magnet-ism of their presence. And, when to this we add the inevitable perpetuation of the parents' own constitution and capacity by inheritance, surely there is reason enough for every parent to avoid the fatal mistake of diminishing his own powers for the sake of the children who can only be injured thereby. |