PUTTING CHILDREN TO BED.
Kot with a, reproof for any of that day’s sirs of omission or commission. Take any other time but bed-time for that. If you ever heard a little creature sighing and sobbing in its sleep you could never do this. Seal their closing eyelids with a kiss and a blessing. The time will come all too
soon when they will lay their heads Upon their pillows lacking both. Let them, then, at least have this sweet memory of a happy childhood, of which no future trouble or sorrow can rob them. Live thein their rosy youth. Nor need this involve wild license. The judicious parent will not mistake my meaning. If you have ever met the man or woman whose eyes have suddenly filled when a little child has crept trustingly to its mother’s breast, you may have seen oiffc in whose childhood home dignity and severity stood where love and pity should have been. Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children ; too much love, not one.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 841, 31 May 1878, Page 3
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