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Show i WARNING TO ALL PARENTS The Tendency of Some Mothers snd Fathers to "Show Off" Their Chil dren Usually Ruins Them. When parents are the proud pes sesMrs of s very bright and clever child there Is always the risk that they may make of their offspring a self conscious and priggish little per "on. It Is natural enough that Tommy or Katie, as the case may be. should be Inclined to show off" when their attainments are made the subject of conversation. It Is extremely bad tr children, converting them Into self conscious little men and women In stead 'if Just natural "rough and turn hie" boys ami girls with a healthy liking for marble or dolls, says Worn sn's Life Many a fhlid has been ut tcrly ruined In disposition by par iit's openly shown pride, and the ten deiiry to bring children forward uu duly, and to make them the centi r of attraction before visitors Is all too sadly on the Increase. It Is. of course, very hard for the mother and father of a bright rl I'. 1 to realize that the small genius in boi.i. 1 to be less Interesting o other rtople than 'o themselves, that Irlends do not visit them for the sole pleasure of hearing Katie recite i t Tommy ung the lat. st pulr song In his shrill treble It may he a-nuslng for a while, but "show off" thlldren re apt, later on. to show tcant liking for the more solid attainments, with the resuit that their slower, duller brothers and slst. rs have them behind be-hind on the ladder of fame. Cultivate a child's talent by all means, hut do not parade them In public before him It may mean th ruin of a potsibly fin career. |