Show train tain child in honesty by precept and example little children are born neither honest nor scrupulous about any blodys rights but their own they have to be taught I 1 ich wish there were another word for scrupulous but it lias has a definite aliade of meaning that Is not net conveyed convened by honest it asso associates clates itself with actions and principles rather than things it Is not difficult to teach n child hone city by precept anil and example tn III the home hoine mid and the general feel of honesty in the air lie ho can easily be taught never to touch or keep the sinal smallest lest article belonging to another lie ile can also be taught never to lie although tills this Is a more complicated matter it Is not so BO difficult however to understand tho the fairy tale elbs fibs of children under five who are in the midst of imaginative development and often mistake their own for truth however tills this stage passed and if care Is taken not to frighten a child out of telling the truth it Is fairly easy to establish but dally daily in a childs life come up questions of honor those subtle things not actually classed under honesty or truth unfortunately his mother Is not with him film usually to guide him here for it Is after ho he starts to school and begins ills real social octal contacts that temptation writs around the corner conler A boy peeps at an others paper and coples copies ills his work tommy sees the boy ile he likes like the boy find and what lie he does Is all aill right surely thinks tom ile he begins to exercise ills his own eyes and from that tant time on never loses a chance to crib when lie ho can another form fonn of honor that I 1 consider important la Is for children to cut sivate the habit of never disparaging another child in III his file talk A fr frank fink opinion Is nil all right but the dee deeper per thrill thrift of gossip the desire to to do another person dai damage ringe Is a bad trait or to bootlick to fawn over sont some one who can bo be of use nap with utter sincerity opportunists ore are seldom scrupulous in III the finer sells bense e the there re we have it stealing 0 ther other peoples work other pe peoples good names favors favora that dont belong to us three out of a thousand ways to be unscrupulous olive roberts ll harton barton in tile tho new york world telegram |