. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. tiously as a flower ; not to be thrust into not- ice V)y hiivint; his snyiugs and doings repeated in his presence, nor snubbed into silence und conscious inferiority by being constantly re- minded that "children should be sceu and not ; Hardly anything is moro essen- tial in the management of children than the tiudly ign(.>riug eye that does not notice too much. I pity the child who is the centi'e of a blindly doting or injuiticiously critical


. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. tiously as a flower ; not to be thrust into not- ice V)y hiivint; his snyiugs and doings repeated in his presence, nor snubbed into silence und conscious inferiority by being constantly re- minded that "children should be sceu and not ; Hardly anything is moro essen- tial in the management of children than the tiudly ign(.>riug eye that does not notice too much. I pity the child who is the centi'e of a blindly doting or injuiticiously critical fam- ily, whose every saying is repeated, every act commented upon, and where, in consequence, naturalness is imijossible. PoliteChildeev.—"Thankyou, ," said ilrs. Brown, as her little sou handed her a jiaper he was requested to bring. "Thankyou, Bridget," said the little fel- low a few hours after, as he received a glass of water from his nurse. "Well, Mrs. Brown, you have the best mannered children I ever saw," said a neigh- bor. "I should be thankful if mine were as po- lite to me as yours are to the servants. You never speud half the time on your children's clothes that I do, and yet every one notices them, they are so ; " We always try to treat our children po- litely," was the tpiiet reply. This was the whole secret. When I hear parents grumbliug about the ill-manners of their children I always wish to ask, "Have you always treated them with politeness 'i" llauy parents who are polite and polished in their manners toward the world at large ai'e perfect boors inside the home circle. If a stranger offer the slightest service he is gratefully thanked ; but who ever remembers to thus reward the little tireless feet that are traveling all day long, up-stairs and down, on countless errands for somebody ? It would be policy for parents to treat their children po- litely for the sake of obtaining


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