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Show BBB llouia Ixnauag Tralolns, IlBB Hrery fairly educated woman should BBH be ablu to train her children In tho BBH correct uo of the mother tongue It BBH : Is merely a question ot Inclination on gflBA ber part. Tlis miserable excitu tor kB& out making tho effort I usually that jIBE tho cbllil rail "will loam nil that after XIBB arthllo In school." I wish to make It ""SI rlotri write I'lorence Hall Winter- HR3S burn In the Woman's Home Coinpau- WUM Ion, that they Mill never lesrn gram- UHHBI I mar so nail In school and utter six HHH j years as they can learn It at home LZBBjH btforo six. Wo need not make tbq BHHJI 1 little child's Ufa a burden by descend- RBBj Ins Lawk-llko upon all his blrdllng HBBJ tenturcs In speech. It Is a natural BBBJ tendency In early ohlldhood to mako BBHj alt the verbs regular, and to Invent BJBH adjectives. Tho three-yoar-olj little H cue Initlnetlvely says "roily" for slip- HHaHal pery, "tally" for unsife, etc Theso In- vcntlons oiiKht to bo treated Indut- I gsntly..tor.lhey,.wl)Utpeedlly ba outgrown out-grown It Is more Tmp-rtant to ox-tend ox-tend their rocnbulary by often using new terms In their rrcsenco than to clip their original variations Not only should wo use good Kngllsh bo-foro bo-foro our children small and largo, but we should Insplro In them nn ambition ambi-tion to ncblove cxcctlcnco by dropplnrf now and then some general rule so slnipls that they can themscHcs apply ap-ply It Urammar may In this way take root In their understanding without the use ot text books and a aavlni; of time be n-compllshed In tho space devoted to school education |