. Babyhood . raveller on one of the Sound steamers, andhas become so accustomed to poring overthe volume that he is greatly annoyed to findit missing every now and then ; and he askswhat becomes of it. This is a problem thathas already proved too abstruse for us ; wecan only continue to renew a volume as soonas we learn one has been stolen. On most ofthe boats there is also a Bible, which in somecases has, to our personal knowledge, been inthe same place for many years. A Westernreader lately said, in renewing his subscrip-tion, that next to the Bible he put his trustin Babyhood ; but there is
. Babyhood . raveller on one of the Sound steamers, andhas become so accustomed to poring overthe volume that he is greatly annoyed to findit missing every now and then ; and he askswhat becomes of it. This is a problem thathas already proved too abstruse for us ; wecan only continue to renew a volume as soonas we learn one has been stolen. On most ofthe boats there is also a Bible, which in somecases has, to our personal knowledge, been inthe same place for many years. A Westernreader lately said, in renewing his subscrip-tion, that next to the Bible he put his trustin Babyhood ; but there is some unknownparty whose preference is evidently the otherway. This would be a high compliment toBabyhood if this studious readers conductdid not reveal a melancholy lack of acquaint-ance with some of the first principles con-tained in the other volume. Let us hopethat when this paragraph meets his eye hisconscience will impel him to resolve on nexttime taking the Bible and leaving Baby-hood where it SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS IN CHILDREN. BY CHRISTINE LADD FRANKLIN. ASIDE from the development of purelymoral qualities in a child, probablythe most important thing the mother can dofor him is to keep down the growth of self-consciousness. Doubtless there is no moraldefect which is so keen a source of unhap-piness to its possessor as is the habit ofalways thinking of himself when he is con-versing with other people, and hence ofbeing incapable of taking a real and un-feigned interest in the subject of conversa-tion. A grown person who has ever ob-served himself attentively knows very wellwhat is the one and only way of gettinghimself out of his self-conscious frame ofmind ; it is for the conversation to becomeso interesting that he is actually absorbedin it, and has for the moment no attentionleft to bestow upon his importunate self. And this is the secret of preventing thedevelopment of the obnoxious quality inchildren. If they are left to stand idly in theroom and see themselve
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