Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1884 — Teaching a Child Sympathy. [ARTICLE]

Teaching a Child Sympathy.

A mother, instead of letting her child whip and otherwise punish an article on which it has hurt itself, taught it to be sorry for the poor piece of wood, bound up the bruise with dampened cloths, and also bandaged the article on which the babe had hurt itself. In this way a sympathy was created so strong that when grown to childhood it was part of the child’s nature, and he had been seen, when he thought himself alone and unobserved, to kiss the thing on which he had been hurt. If sympathy is given to a piece of Wood, is it not reasonable to suppose that when manhood is reached, the same feeling will be given to his fellow men? —“jP/iil.,” in Detroit Free Press.