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Show DO NOT REPROVE ' AT BEDTIME. To send a child happy to bed should be one of the mother's most ordinary tasks No little one should slread the bedtime hoar, or fear the dark, or be allowed al-lowed to go to rest under the sense of disgrace or alienation from household love. Whatever the child's daytime naughtiness may have been, at nightfall be forgiven, and go to rest with the mother's kiss on his lips and her tender voice in his ear. Hardly anything can be worse for a young child than to be scolded or puuithed nt bedtime. The mother does well to be a little blind to some thiugt, re-I re-I tueiaberiug that a geod deal of childish culpability it superficial I only, and washes off almost us 4, evening bath removes Horn the skin. I I The main thing w ithf children is to have well started with good principles, which they carrj through life. Obedience, truth, unselfishness, purity, are essentials, essen-tials, an3 these can all be lov-inglyjcultlvatcd.and lov-inglyjcultlvatcd.and will floutith in the right home atmiphcre When the nursery brxid is undressed and iu bed, the light turned low, the room quiet ifoi the night, the mother, or nur . or elder sister, or the kind auntie who is still found iu some fortunate for-tunate houses, should have a little fund of stories to draw from for the children's pleasure before they embark on the train for dreamland Imagination is very active iu little children, and occasionally one meets a mother who does not understand the child's world, having forgotten her own early days and their illusions, or who is afraid that fancies will letd her child into deceit. While the most exact and rigid truthfulness truth-fulness should be practiced in our dealings with children., they themselves should be taught to shun equivocation and every form of lying, still we ueed not fear to let imagination give them pleasure. Children thrive on stories and are thus better able to grasp otherliterature if ar!y fed on these. Word and Works. |