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Show HOUR CLASCC3 FOn CHILDREN. How Ingenious Mother Kept Her Dar-llnrjs Dar-llnrjs at Work. A clover mother recently gave hour glasses to her thrco children. They wero timed to run out at tho end of sn hour, half hour and fifteen minutes min-utes respectively. The llttlo girl who boforo had dnwdled through her piano practice, after watching the sands of tlmo run out so visibly In her hour glass, at onco brought a now zrst to hor practice Tho boy3 wouU thereafter there-after tlmo themselves on their evening "chores," and hurry back to sco If they had been beaten by old Tlmo, as symbolized by tho hour glass. It was a very good way of teaching thom tho valuo and economy of time. If tho experiment ls tried, howover, mothers must be careful not to allow their children to carry It to oxcoss nt first, and so grow weary of It as of a worn-out toy. |