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Show TROUBLE WITH MODERN CHILD. Too Early Made Acquainted with the Pomp of the World. Miss I K. Stearns, In her lecturo on tho "Thnnkloss Child," In Milwaukee, Milwau-kee, pleaded for children to havo tlmo to bo children. "I know of a Mltwau-keo Mltwau-keo mother who was surprised lately to find that at a birthday party which her daughter (a child ot eight) had attended two liveried pages stood at tho door to iccelvo the gifts tho children chil-dren brought. Tho snnio llttlo girl who was hostess at tho purty, when in a formal mood, Is npt to go to call upon somo child of her own ago In her mother's carriage, accompanied by a footman and driver, and when Bho arrives, presents her visiting card before be-fore seeing her filend." Miss Stearns compared this complicated cxlstenco with that of tho great John Ruskln, who had but four toys during his en-tiro, en-tiro, childhood, but who spent many enraptured hours with these, and he attributed his tasto for architecture to the fact of his blocks, ono or tho toys, having Interested him In building build-ing at so early an ago. |