| Show train child in honesty honesta by precept and example little children are born neither honest nor scrupulous nebout any blodys rights but their own they have to bo be taught I 1 wish there were another word for scrupulous cut but it lins has a dennite shade of meaning that Is not net conveyed by honest it associates itself with actions and principles rather than things lings ti it Is not difficult to teach a child honesty dy by precept and example in the home and the general feel of honesty in tho the air lie he can easily be taught never to touch or keep the smallest article belonging to another lie ho can also be taught never to lie although this Is a more complicated matter it Is not so difficult however to understand the fairy tale fibs bibs of children under live who are arc in tile the midst of imaginative development and often mistake their own wn for truth however till this stage passes and if care Is taken not to frighten a child out of telling the truth it Is fairly easy to establish hut but dally in a childs life come up tip questions of honor bonor subtle things not actually classed under tinder honesty or truth unfortunately his mother Is not with him film usually to guide illin him here for it is after lie he starts to school and begins tits ills real social contacts till that it temptation walts waits around the corner A boy peeps at an others paper and copies ills hla work tommy sees the boy lie likes the boy and what he does Is all right surely thinks tom lie begins to 0 o exercise his own eyes and from that time on never loses a chance to crib when he can another form of honor that I 1 consider important Is for children to cultivate tile the habit of never another child in his talk A franz frank opinion la Is nil all right hut but the deeper thrill of gossip the desire to do another person damage Is a bad trait trail or to bootlick to fawn over sonic some one who can be of use with utter sincerity opportunists are seldom scrupulous in the finer sense there we have it stealing other peoples work other peoples good names favors that dont belong to lis ais three out of a thousand ways way to be olive roberts robert barton in the alic new york world worl telegram |
