Children In Society

The moment children eease to respect any of the grown-up people with whom they associate, not only is tho wholo benefit of the intercourse lost at once, but real injury is inflicted on the moral tone of the ehild. For this reason children should be brought as little as possible into the society of men and women who cannot coinmaiid their respect. When you see a child doing anything unlike other ohildren, anything queor, surprising, or uncouth, however eoinic or however lever it may seem, never laugh at or applaud it. Ohildrcn naturally are vcry self-willed, and with real natural peeuliarities, can soon be broken of such tricks, if treated with absolute indifference. But once lot the idea fmd i fa way in thcir brains that such sallies, BtHlgity thoagh they be, are regarded as marks of genius, and the misehief is done. Let there be no dividod rule in a house Don't let tho children see that the father means one thing and the mother anoth'i in their bringing up. They see the ence, if it exists, in a moment ; and wnen they do, farewell to all wliolosomo parental influenco. Fathers and mothers may talk too frèely before thuir onildren, forgetful of their risina intelligence. And, indeed, nothing is more eomrnon than to get a winlt from the head of the house, iinplying that you aro to be upon your guard be fore Johnny or Tommy, who, is listoiiinp; open-inouthed to yonr witty narrativt while lie himself tho next moment wil offend against his own precautions in tli most barafaoed manner by plunginf, headlong into youi1 domestic conti-oversj The only daughter of the Czar of Kus sia, tbc Grand Duchess Mary, a youn lady of 18, is reported to be betrothed t the prince of Orange, a gentleman of 81, and the heir -of the cvown of Holland. This, it is suggested, is probably a. quiet notification to the new Germán empire that Kussia does not care to see the gates of the Baltic and the North sea absolute[ ly covered by the G-ercnan eannon.