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Show Tliou.Tlitlc ss Cruelty j A recent news dispatch told of Teresa Ter-esa Corona, 14 years old and six feet tall, who ran away from school and homo lo get away from the ridicule of her fellow pupils. Thoughtlessly her associates have made her the victim of a heai'tlc::-, tragedy. . It was hard cnoujih to bear the self-consciousness self-consciousness and embarrassment which the child's abnormal size made : inescapable, but those who made her burden greater by their derison were' unspeakably cruel. Thousands of instances like this occur, where some physical defect or peeularity of sensitive persons is used as a pretext to torture them with unkind un-kind remarks which cut to the quick. We read some time ago of a young girl who finally committed suicide bccaiiso she had been driven to desperation by ridicule of her family name, which had a suggestive meaning to evil-minded persons. Children will seize upon such opportunities op-portunities to hara-ss their associates, sometimes In a spirit, of fun, but often of-ten with vicious intent. While most parents would disapprove of such con- duct, many do not lane the iroume to explain to their children how really, cruel it Is, or appeal to their better natures to Induce them to refrain from , if. Unnecessary infliction of mental suffering suf-fering is as bad or worse (linn the In-1 rilrUon or physr.lal pain and children ilmuld be earnestly admonished to' avoid both forms of cruelly. j |