Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1891 — Nothing Like Praise. [ARTICLE]

Nothing Like Praise.

Parents are too often slow to see the motive of their children’s kindest actions. A little fellow has been reading of some young hero who helped his father and mother in all sorts of ways; and after racking his brains to think how he, too,-6an help, he remembers that he can fetch his father’s slippers, and take his hoots away and pu» them in the proper pi .oe. Without 6aying a word to anybody, when evening comes he does it; but the father is so occupied that he notices not what the boy has done: The little fellow hopes on, thinking that when ho goes to bed his father will say how pleased ho was to see Charley so willing to help; but not a word is uttered, and the boy goes up to hod with a choking feeling in his throat, and says his prayers by the bedside with a sadness very real in his heart

Parents often complain of children not being so ready to help as they should be; the fault is with the parents, who have not known how to evoke feelings with which the heart of every child is richly stored. All words of approval are helpful and encouraging. In a large family there nave been days of anxiety and care. The eldest daughter by her skill in teaching has earned a little extra money, and without a word to any one she lays nearly all of it out in buying things that ars much needed in the house. What joy fills her heart when a fond mother takes her aside, and with emotion that cannot be concealed says how thankful sh« is for %uch considerate kindness, and murmurs: “I don't know whaft w» should do without yOu, darling.” My friends, do not bo so chary of these words of encouragement yGo i Words. _ For a bad burn or scald take sweet oil, mix into it pulverized red chalk and white lead, and with a feather anoint the wound. Do not scratch the sore while it ia healing or it trill leave a scar.