"There, there, naughty boy! Run-out and
play now. Mamma Is ashamed of you. Take
this piece of cake and don’t make me crazy
with vour noise.”
Willie’s convenient tears cease to flow; he
gratis the cake without a word of thanks ami
runs out to play. His muttier. with unreason
ing love, lias wronged tiini twice ami herself
once. First, she lias fixed in his shrewd
mind Hie fact that her rules are, made to tie
broken whenever lie teases ami cries, ami
that there is nothing to respect, much less
reverence, in a mother.
Secondly, site pampers a tender little stom
ach that ought never to be fed with cake be
tween meals, and seldom then. No matter
how strong a child he may be he will suffer
from such feeding, it may not be felt di
rectly in the digestive organs, but such a
course will produce derangement sooner or
later. It lias a secondary deplorable influence
upon him in fostering a desire for sweets ami
all kinds of complex food, which certainly
affect the disposition and temper in tiflie.
Health belongs tn the mind no less than the
bo<iv ami whatever affects one affects the
other. It may lie so indirect that no one but
the careful student of hygiene sees the con
nection between cause aail effect, but thus it
surely is.
The Missing Word Contest.
The missing word con
test closes July 15tn and
not September Ist, as
first announced. See no
tice on 6th page.
Sitting Up Lute.
