insists on having a book, chair
or apple to the inconveniencing of an elder, and what an outcry is raised:
"Such rudeness;" "Such an ill-mannered child;" "His parents must have
neglected him strangely." Not at all: The parents may have been steadily
telling him a great many times every day not to do these precise things
which you dislike. But they themselves have been all the time doing those
very things before him, and there is no proverb that strikes a truer
balance between two things than the old one which weighs example over
against precept.

11. It is a bad policy to be rude to children. A child will win and be won,
and in a long run the chances are that the child will have better manners
than its parents. Give them a good example and take pains in teaching them
lessons of obedience and propriety, and there will be little difficulty in
raising a family of beautiful and well-behaved children.

12. Never correct a child in the presence of others; it is a rudeness to
the child that will soon destroy its self-respect. It is the way criminals
are made and should always and everywhere be condemned.

13. But there are no words to say what we are or what we deserve, if we do
this to the little children whom we {399} have dared for our own pleasure
to bring into the perils of this life, and whose whole future may be
blighted by the mistakes of our careless hands. There are thousands of
young men and women to-day groaning under the penalties and burdens of
life, who owe their misfortunes, their shipwreck and ruin to the ignorance
or indifference of parents.

14. Parents of course love their children, but with that love there is a
responsibility that cannot be shirked. The government and training of
children is a study that demands a parent's time and attention often much
more than the claims of business.

15. Parents, study the problems that come up every day in your home.
Remember, your future happiness, and the future welfare of your children,
depend upon it.

16. CRIMINALS AND HEREDITY.--Wm. M. F. Round was for many years in charge
of the House of Refuge on Randall's Island, New York, and his opportunities
for observation in the work among criminals surely make him a competent
judge, and he says in his letter to the New York Observer: "Among this
large number of young offenders I can state with entire confidence that not
one per cent. were children born of criminal parents; and with equal
confidence I am able to say