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Show Train Child in Honesty by Precept and Example Utile children are horn nellhei honest nor Heriipuluiis about any body's right. i hut their own. They have to lie taught. l'vvlslt there were anoiliiT word for "HiTiipuloiiN." Hut It Iiiih a dell nlle simile of meaning llinl Is net conveyed by "honest" It lissiiclllleH Itself Willi lli'llliUH Mini principles miller than things. It Is not illilleult to tench u child lioiieily. lly precept mid example In the home and the general feel of honesty hon-esty In the air, he ran easily be taught never to lunch or keep the smallest ni'lli'lo belonging to another He can also lie (aught never to lie, nlihoiigh this Is a inure complicated mutter. It Is not so ililllcult, however, how-ever, to nnder.sland the fairy tale libs of children uiiiler live who are In the midst of Imaginative development develop-ment and ofien mlslnUe llielr own conjurlngs for truth. However, this stage passes, and If care Is taken not to frighten a child out of tolling Hie truth, It Is fairly easy to establish. estab-lish. But dally In a child's life come up questions of "honor" lliose sublle things not actually classed under honesty or truth. Unfortunately, his mother Is nut with him usually to guide ti 1 in here, for It Is afler he starts to school and begins his real social contacts that temptation waits ground the corner. A boy peeps at another's paper and copies his work. Tommy sees the boy. He likes the boy and what he does Is nil right, surely, thinks Tom. He begins lo exercise his own eyes and from that time on never loses a chance to crib when he can Another form of honor that I consider con-sider Important Is for children lo cul llvale the habit of never disparaging another child In his talk. A frank opinion Is all right. But the deeper thrill of gossip, the desire to do another an-other person damage Is n bad trail Or to boolllck, to fawn over some one wiio can be of use, wllh utter sinceilty. Opportunists are seldom scrupulous In the liner sense. There we have It Stealing other people's work, other people's good names, favors that don't belong to us. Three out of a thousand ways to be unscrupulous. Olive Roberts Barton, In the New York World-Telegram. |