Iron County Record | 1904-10-01 | Page 5 | Hour Glasses for Children

4. HOUR GLASSES FOR CHILDREN. flow Ingenious Mother Kept Her Darlings Dar-lings at Work. A clover mother recently gavo hour glasses to her threo children. They . woro timed to run out at tho end of t an hour, half hour and fifteen minutes min-utes respectively. Tho llttlo girl who I boforo had dawdled through her piano practice, after watching tho sands of time run out so visibly in her hour k glass, at onco brought a now zest to ,'" her practice. The boys would thorc-' thorc-' after tlmo thomnolvos on their evening 'chores," and hurry back to see If ; they had boon beaton by old Tlmo, as symbolized by tho hour glass. ( ' 1 It was a very good way of teaching '5 ' thorn tho valuo and economy of tlmo. '. If tiio experiment is tried, however, fmothors must bq careful not to allow their children to carry it to excess at ' I- first, and so grow weary of it as of a. ' worn-out toy.