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Show CARING FOR THE CHILDREN, Society's most itrinsent regulations in regard to the home are due to a wise regard for the proper care of the children. The lawi forbidding free lore are not so much in condemnation of that relationship re-lationship as in tot&&xni of a practice which, if general, would fail to fix proper responsibility for tho care and guidance of the offspring. off-spring. Tho home is not held to be sacred solely in order to sanction selfishness or exclude jealousies, but principally and primarily to retain for the children of the home the love, affection and undivided interest of those who bring them into the world, How essential it is to oarefully guide the little ones of a home, is made evident by a prominent writer who points out the necessity neces-sity of correct teaching and tho inculcating1 of thrift and other vir- tucs. Ag tho twig is bent, so is the tree inclined, say philosophers; and, says the writer, parents ought not to forget the fact, one moment during1 life. Take, for instance, a single phase of character thrift. It is a simple task to teach a child to be thrifty. Only a few are naturally so, among us; because Americans are wasteful as a race. Yet the difference, between thrift and waste, may make or break a career. Consider the boy.. If, upon attaining maturity, he is required to strike out for himself, there is inevitably a period of struggle, during which wasteful habits will delay his success, or even ruin his career. In the caso of a girl, if sho must marry a poor man, their happiness hap-piness will depend very largely upon her thrift. For love does not exist in a cottage where waste robs all of needed sustenance. Little things sway childhood. Tho tiny soul should be taught relative values and the need of care impressed upon the mind. To neglect this is to do the child real injustice. |