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things displayed to whet the appetite for adornment?
Do you reply to their importuning for toys and
articles of clothing by the statement that you are "too
poor" to buy these things, and then do you follow this
remark by exclamations of admiration and envy over
the handsome equipages, with richly gowned occupants, and say, "It must be lovely to be rich?"
If this is your method of entertaining your children
it would be far wiser to leave them at home.
You are educating them in discontent, jealousy
and a false idea of what constitutes happiness.
You are awakening a precocious longing for wealth
and display and creating those "class distinctions"
which so many good people declare are created by
the "sensational newspapers."
If you see a man or boy pushing ahead of women
through doors or into cars and stages, say to your boy
how sorry you should be to have him so rude.
Impress upon him the necessity of politeness and
courtesy in public places as an attribute of manliness.
Thank him when he opens a door for you or steps
aside for you to enter a car, or when he rises to give
another a seat.
In all these small and simple ways you can be
giving your children the foundation of a most valuable education.
It lies in the power of the mother to make her
children what she desires them to be if she begins
early enough and keeps at the task day after day.
A child's brain is being built the first fourteen years
of life, and it is the mother's privilege to direct the
structure and awaken the noblest and most admirable
qualities by giving them thought exercises.
