This is the great hardship of the children of great wealth: they are not taught to work.

What might be called a religious instinct leads to human sacrifice upon the Aztec altar; directs the Hindu to cast the new-born child in the stream, the friend to sacrifice his best friend to a pagan deity.

The head nurse (English) who takes entire charge of her nursery, who doesn't like any interference, and brings the children to their mother at stated hours, doesn't exist in France.

Some had their children with them, who looked half perished with cold, always insufficiently clad, but they were quite happy roasting potatoes in the ashes.

"The establishment contains: "(1) The Kindergarten proper, a National Kindergarten with four classes for children from 2-1/2 to 6 years old.

Ah, it is a touching thing, to see some great philanthropist come forward, at the call of Duty and his Publisher (perhaps also quickened by the hollow sound emitted by his treasure-box), and compress himself into the absurdly small compass of a few pages 18mo., in order to afford himself the exalted pleasure of holding simple and godly converse with children at large!

Everybody looked gayFrench people so dearly love a showand it was amusing to see the interest every one took in the steady stream of people, from the fashionable woman driving to the Bois in her victoria to the workmen, who would stand in groups on the corners of the streetssome of them occasionally with a child on their shoulders.

Parents should never deceive their children by a careless or a wrong answer to the simple questions put to them by these little searchers after knowledge.

'What are you angry with the child for?' 'Oh, she bothers so.

For the purpose of seeking that relief to my feelings which change of place only could afford, I determined to make a sea voyage; and, as one of my father's vessels was about to sail for Canton, I accordingly embarked on board the well-known ship the Two Brothers, captain Thomas, and left Sandy-hook on the 5th day of June, 1822, having first placed my three children under the care of my brother William.

"A poor woman in Utica, who owns three houses and is building another, sends her children into the streets daily to beg.

She ought to be guarded from that short-sighted and selfish devotion which makes her look upon her child as the centre of the universe, and which leads her to sacrifice every hour, every thought, every talent, to him alone.

"But the Children of the West Wind do not suffer the death of, their sons to go unrewarded.

Until now he hadn't communicated with her: 'Dear Mr Ottley, Of course you know I'm not returning to the children after the holidays, nor am I going with you to Westgate.

But I'll do it, if I got to trust the store for a year to a child like Selene.

"You don't realize how little I've talked to the child about booksor anything else, for that matter.

Because of its freedom from any kind of formality, this system is perhaps better suited to little children than the Dalcroze work, unless that is in the hands of an exceptionally gifted teacher.

They had driven the unthinking child out of me and forced me to reflect on my future.

Make of them the kind of men who some day can face their children without having to hang their heads.

But if a child who is sent off to bed alone says there is a bear in the room, the bear is subjective; it is not a living monster that will devour anybody, but a creature called into the mind of the child through dread.

In vain, all in vain, O thou 'mid the wine-jars golden That movest in delicate joy, Ganymêdês, child of Troy, The lips of the Highest drain The cup in thine hand upholden: And thy mother, thy mother that bore thee, Is wasted with fire and torn; And the voice of her shores is heard, Wild, as the voice of a bird, For lovers and children before thee Crying, and mothers outworn.

Myself in cares immersed, I left the child Among his toysand turn to find him man

It is reported that he has issued an order for the strangulation of all French children between the ages of three and five, in reprisal for the treacherous blowing up of Germans at Laon.

I wanted to know a little about the life of the man who wrote Mary Had a Little Lamb, which, I am told, is known by children over pretty much all the western world.

"I have a pleasant time of it once or twice a year with an old gentleman, living away in the country; one whom memory calls up from the dim and shadowy twilight of my earliest recollections, as a tall stalwart man, already the head of a family with little children around him.