RULES FOR SPOILING A CHILD.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1257, 20 July 1880, Page 3

RULES FOR SPOILING A CHILD.

1. Begin young by giving him whatever he cries for 2. Talk freely before the child about his smartness as incomparable. 3. Tell him he is too much for you that you can do nothing with him. 4. Have divided counsels as between father and mother. 5. Let him learn to regard his father a* a creature of unlimited power, capricious and tyrannical, or as a mere whipping machine. G. Let him learn (on his father's example) to despise his mother. 7. Do not know or care who his companions may be. 8. Let him read whatever he likes. 9. Let the child, whether boy oi girl, rove the streets in the evenings — a good school for both sexes. 10. Devote yourself to making money, remembering always that wealth i 3 a better legacy for your child than principles in the heart, and habits in the life, and let him have plenty of money to spend. 11. Be not with him in hours of recreation. 12. Strain at a gnat and swallow a camel ; chastise severely for a foible and laugh at a vice. 13. Let him run about from church, to church. Eclecticism in icligion is the order of the day. 14. Whatever burdens of virtuous requirements you lay upon his shoulders touch not one of them with one of your fingers. These rules are not untried. Many parents have proved them, with a substantial uniformity of results. If a faithful observance of them does not spoil your child, you will at least have the comforting reflection that you have done what you could. — Chrht'ifin Intelligencer.

A Chowd Insulted.— A travelling tramp was recently trying to sell toothache drops and corn-salve to a small crowd a the head of Munroe avenue. As sales were slow he thought to flatter the crowd by saying : " Gentlemen, I have travelled over 25,000 miles in this country, seen all sorte of people, and come in contact, with all colors, and I must say that you twenty men now surrounding me have the most intelligent appearance of any coterie I ever saw." In the crowd was a six-footer who drives a coal cart. He had been chewing gum in a very deliberate and methodical manner, and when the speech was ended he slowly turned from man to man to see what effect had been produced. Finding a look of indifference on each face he swallowed his quid, pushed his way to the front, and kicking ovey tjie dry goods box used by the " do4fa£t as a counter he flourished his fistS'-jpl palled out :— " Mebbe this 'ere cro\r<fjp»n stand to be insulted to its teeth, but I'm a olothes-pin who can't be stepped on in my own town by a stranger ! Come up here like a man and strike right out from the shoulder ! No man can call me a coterie and keep a sound head on him." The doctor had pressing business down the street. A high aim is curative. Napoleon visited those sick of the plague in order to prove that the man who could vanquish fear could vanquish the plague also, and he was right. It is inoredible what force the will has in such cases. It penetrates the body, and puts it into a state of activity, which repels all hurtful influences, whilst fear invites and propagates them.