WE KNOW THEM WELL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 662, 12 November 1909, Page 4

WE KNOW THEM WELL.

1 I saw a small, unhappy child on » forry-boa); the other day (writes "Akcnehi" in tho "Bulletin") • fie v,as being haled out for a day in the open by his parents, accompanied by several adult relations, and being the only 1 infant in the party ho was having a wretched tune During the ten minutes I sat opposite the excursionists, he was bullied and badgered in an endless gamo of identification, whioh was played like this — Father {pointing without apology to an immense, smirking man) , '"Ooe that?" Child ..hales his head Father (loudly) "That's Uncle Jim! JNow, '00 is it?" ' ' 1 , .„ Child (wailing). "Wanter go 'omo! I'athor (firmly). ler carn r t go 'omo! Tell me '00 it )s," Child (muffling his sobs) 'MJnclo Jnn' Father beams and. lifting tho infant, turns him round so that lie faces the grinning and expectant relatives- "Now, tell father '00 that Is**' Child lodks once in a hostile niannor at tho stout man-indicated and, averting his eyes, rattles h» heels on the edgo of the seat. Father (persuasively). "Be a good boy, now! 'Oo is it?' f , Child (despairingly)- "Wanter B? 'omo'" Mother (gontly) "Don't be naughty, Freddie! Tell father'oo it is!" ' Father (amiably). "Don't yer know '00 it is? Child snakes his head vigorously. Mother (prompting) "Uncle Albert Say "I WON'T" 1 ' Instant upheaval of whole party and general 'lamentations which diive the child to the verge 'Df distraction. Under threats of instant porsonal violenco he is made to mutter "Uncle Aloert 1 " After which he receives congratnla--1 tions and endearments which he obviously resents I left as father was directing a stubby flnsei at gran'ma and demanding to Be informed uho she was. And even after that thore were th ree more aunts and a bosom fnend of father's fatuously waiting to bo identified before (he group was done I perceived that ,the lnknt was about to mutiny, and that there would .-probably be a breach of, the. peace, ■ So, I left.

Two American women, Misses Margaret and lonise Bartlott, have gone to China as governesses to the children nt Liang Tun Yon, prebident of the Chinese Bureau of Foreign Affairs. Liang Tun Yen was on« of 30 Chinese boys sent to America to etudy in the early seventies, whew he became a member of : Professor Bartlett's household; Ho now shows Mβ appreciation of his former teacher's by invititfg them to hie native hnA as instructors to his o>n children , They will hvo in a palaco, reeaive a fecjiereutf inoomo, and, hold their posibenfl tie long as they wish. "But what does yonr father see in mo to object to'" "Eβ doesn't see anything in yop, dear. I think that's the answer." In oonrmenwation of tho Wonlen's Exhibition, and as a perpetnal reminder of Lad' ■ Northooto'} generons interest in children's ohantMs, tho women of Toorak have decided to open a free kindergarten at Morttaguo, on the Port Melbourno line, to be knowa ( as the "Lady Northcoto" Kindergarten.