Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — John Ruskin’s Babyhood. [ARTICLE]

John Ruskin’s Babyhood.

John Ruskin says of his youth: “For toys I had a bunch of keys to play with as long us I was capable of pleasure in what glittered anti jingled; as I grew older 1 had a cart and a ball, and when I was six years old two boxes of wellcut wooden blocks. “With these modest, but I still think entirely sufficient possessions, and being always summarily whipped if I oried, did not do as I was bid or tumbled on the stairs, I soon attained serene and secure methods of life and motion, and could pass my days contentedly in tracing the squares and comparing the colors of my carpet, examining the knots in the wood of the floor or counting the bricks in the opposite houses."