A Word For The Little Ones

A writer in O'Donahoe's Magazine says that many times it is cruel and unnecesbary to torce ohildreo to do tuinas that are disagreeable to them, mercly for the purpose ot'makiüg tbeni obcy. Wheieanygootl end is to be answcred, it is ditïerent. Little ones often object to what is good for them and, when n'rmness is neet ssary, people should lol i'course te firui. But if a little, powerless creaturc has a t-trong faiicy or a great repugnauee, a parent ur guardián abuses his power in ignoring it. Why should your little boy be made to eat the fat of' his nieat, if he loathcs it, or anything, no matter what, that is rcpulsive to hiui? It may bc necessary to retüse souie things at table, but scldoui, if ever, to force anything upon tbeui. Why make a child, either girl or boy, miserable by forcing it to wear articlea of clothing of which its taste doos not approvc or at which other cbildren laugh ? T think little gids suffer more frpm this than aoyonething. Almost all of us have sotue such meiuory. I knew a lady whose childish life was made very wretched tor a year by an obsolete old bag in whiou she was forced to carry her books to school ; and another whose mother forced her to wear some old lace, wbich though coütly, was laughcd at by the ignorant ohildren who made her world, and declared that ghe actually wished herself dead, until that lace was banished froin her wardrobe. If you can afford it, it is witter to give your boy the particular topor kite he wants, and your girl the very dolt she covets or the blue ribbon she admires. And, at any rate, you need not uselessly force them to anything froin which they shrink or which makes them unhappy.