. Babyhood . much can be learned ofthe habits of birds and their vari-eties. The childrens powers of obser-vation will be cultivated as they learnto distinguish one variety from another,and the lessons of patient industry andof faithful parenthood will not fail toimpress itself on their young , too, our little daughters, whengrown to womans estate, will hesitate to decorate their bonnets with birdswhen they remember the little feath-ered friends of their childhood. The old system of education, the sys-tem of negation, is passing away, andis replaced by the saner, more reason-able
. Babyhood . much can be learned ofthe habits of birds and their vari-eties. The childrens powers of obser-vation will be cultivated as they learnto distinguish one variety from another,and the lessons of patient industry andof faithful parenthood will not fail toimpress itself on their young , too, our little daughters, whengrown to womans estate, will hesitate to decorate their bonnets with birdswhen they remember the little feath-ered friends of their childhood. The old system of education, the sys-tem of negation, is passing away, andis replaced by the saner, more reason-able method of endeavoring to teachour children to love what is beautiful,as the surest means to create in thema distaste for all that is unlovely andnot of good report. One of the great-est safeguards against ignoble pleasuresis a true and deep love of nature—anability to receive with open heart herteaching and to enjoy the beauties withwhich she daily and hourly delightsthose whose eyes are open to EDUCATIONAL METHODS. Flippancy and Its Cure. Without doubt every thoughtful per-son has had the consciousness forcedupon him that this is an age of pertnessand flippancy. Who has not at sometime been obliged to lose much thatwas interesting in lecture or conversa-tion because of the careless whispersand giggling of those around, and evenmany times lost the uplifting effect ofreligious service on account of would-be smart, flippant comments uponspeaker and subject? In many homes the spirit of carelesspertness reigns supreme. No greatergulf can be imagined than that which yawns between the treatment of par-ents by their children a century agoand the attitude which exists to-day—between the Eespected Parent and•Honored Sire of olden time and theirreverent Dad, Governor, or, worseyet, the old man of the present youth-ful scion. While the attitude of olden times isadmittedly one extreme, it is to begravely doubted whether, by rushingto the other, we have gained in anyway.
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