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Title: Children's Rights and Others

Author: Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Nora Smith

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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS

_A BOOK OF NURSERY LOGIC_

BY

KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN

"A court as of angels,
A public not to be bribed.
Not to be entreated,
Not to be overawed."

1892

PREFATORY NOTE

I am indebted to the Editors of Scribner's Magazine, the Cosmopolitan,
and Babyhood, for permission to reprint the three essays which have
appeared in their pages. The others are published for the first time.

It may be well to ward off the full seriousness of my title "Nursery
Logic" by saying that a certain informality in all of these papers
arises from the fact that they were originally talks given before
members of societies interested in the training of children.

Three of them--"Children's Stories," "How Shall we Govern our
Children," and "The Magic of 'Together'"--have been written for this
book by my sister, Miss Nora Smith.

K.D.W.

NEW YORK, _August_, 1892.

CONTENTS

THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
CHILDREN'S PLAYS
CHILDREN'S PLAYTHINGS
WHAT SHALL CHILDREN READ?
CHILDREN'S STORIES. _Nora A. Smith_
THE RELATION OF THE KINDERGARTEN TO SOCIAL REFORM
HOW SHALL WE GOVERN OUR CHILDREN? _Nora A. Smith_
THE MAGIC OF "TOGETHER." _Nora A. Smith_.
THE RELATION OF THE KINDERGARTEN TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOL
OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN

THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

"Give me liberty, or give me death!"

The subject of Children's Rights does not provoke much sentimentalism
in this country, where, as somebody says, the present problem of the
children is the painless extinction of their elders. I interviewed
the man who washes my windows, the other morning, with the purpose of
getting at the level of his mind in the matter.

"Dennis," I said, as he was polishing the glass, "I am writing an
a