AWFUL INFLUENCE OF A MONEY-BOX.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1134, 4 January 1884, Page 3

AWFUL INFLUENCE OF A MONEY-BOX.

One of her Maj°sly’s Inspectors of Schools, in his report of the examinations held by him in Denbigh and Flint, touches upon the subject of the promotion of habits of thrift among children in elementary schools. He must candidly confess, he says, that he is a thorough unbeliever in the desirability of such habits for children, and ho cites one awful instance of excessive development, which certainly, to say the least of it, puts such habits in anything but on amiable light. A little fellow, he says—and be vouches for the truth of the story—was encouraged by his parents to hoard up his pennies. “Ho did so, and improved so much upon their advice that, in imitation of the object of iEsop’s Sarcastic scorn, he ardently wished to get at the source from which the pennies flowed,” which, we suppose, is this learned gentleman’s way of alluding to the fable of the goose and the golden eggs. “ Dada,” said the precocious little villain, “ I wish yon were dead,” and before the astonished mother could put in a word, he continued, “ and yon, too, mamma.”. “ Why 7” of course, the parents wished to know. “ Because,” was the reply, “ 1 could get all your money then.” The lad’s habits of thrift, soys the Inspector, have suddenly been discountenanced, and if such frightful results were very commonly to follow upon the setting up of a moneybox by the junior members of a family, and every one of them should develop into a mercenary little wretch, eagerly on the look out for symptoms of parental dissolution, most parents would prefer to do as this gentleman does—recommend all children to spend their pennies as good children should spend them. — Globe.