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Show TRAINING YOUR CHILD BY MRS. McCUNE. I ml of lne Pioneer grandmoth-Ikil grandmoth-Ikil ers possessed of wonderful L32LJ hearts and heads were yet forced to fight out the problem prob-lem of mere physical existence for themselves and theirs alongside of their husbands. They learned very quickly that if a horse is "soft in the mouth" the worst thing you can do is to pull on the bit constantly. Yet their ideas of "raising" their own children chil-dren is best epitomized in the familiar order of the mother to the nurse. "Go out and see what Johnny is doing and whatever he is doing tell him to slop " The evil results in the case of the horse were direct and easily traceable In the case of tho sensitive child this constant "pulling on tho bit" worked cn? ?, ld by uo moaDS decry wholc- -rcZ T, S n traInInG man' ot tho mSn?tn iu ThC heart of man 15 mod h nn',11 and baward to all Trf'oif10 BIble does teI1 us- but it c ft? ?. us, wc m"st "become as little heaven0 nter th kincdom oi Undoubtedly the reason this method oi training has become so popular a tradition from generation to generation genera-tion is because it is so easy, requires n. mctal cffort and fits all emergon- , T, man AVU0 votcs the demo-i! demo-i! 1!? 1 bccauao Ms father voted it; the relicious devotee who prays because be-cause it can't do any harm and may do some good, and the mother who putB a ve n every natural impulso of her child, all belong to the same class the mentally lazy. The evil effects of iws laziness may stop with the voter and the devotee himself, but In the case of the mother It may amount to criminal negligence toward the child. A child generalizes very quickly, when his infallible judge his mother pronounces a number of his acts bad which his child's brain declares good ' ho is bound to reach one of two conclusions, either of which is fatal. He will begin to mistrust his mother's judgment or, as is more often the case, he will decido there Is something wrong with himself. Then the actiyi- ties of tho little mind, Instead of being directed to the outward world in which he will have to live, arc directed inward. in-ward. He begins studying and watching watch-ing for himself and criticising his even' ev-en' movement lest he inako a "blunder." "blun-der." From this tlmo he will havo as much chance of growing up into a powerful, pow-erful, forceful, original personality as the man who watches his bicyclo has of learning to ride. |