Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1886 — Kindness to Children. [ARTICLE]

Kindness to Children.

A writer in speaking of the need of making home attractive to children says: The time comes fast enough when there will be no little careless hand to make a “muss” on the clean table cloth, no tiny fingers to scatter things round, no darter of childish feet on the stairway. Fresh paper may cover all the marks on the liard-finisli; paint conceal the ambitious handwriting on the woodwork; and those traces of b yish pranks that still remain, the mother s eye and heart may cherish as sacred to the memory of the absent. In a genial, wholesome, tolerant atmosphei e, the hoy and the girl will go through the various stages of growth from childhood to adult life, dropping whatever is in its nature juvenile, little by little, as natura’ly as the bean-vine drops its seminal leaves; but tlie forbearance and loving patience of the wise father and judicious mother who refrained from “nagging,” will not be forgotten.