carrot a golden hue? How could one clod condense the smells of a whole soap factory, into one little onion? How does a potato come to have starch in it? If one bunch of green weeds is worth ten cents for spinach, why doesn't everybody in Wall Street go to farming? When some of the boys reached the Bowery Saturday night, the first question they asked their fathers was: "How much it would take to buy a ticket to Dakota." Ah, Wordsworth, looking across the field, and writing, "My heart with rapture thrills and dances with the daffodils," and Ruskin with his confession of what the fields and brooks did for his culture, throw a pathetic light on the lives of the little waifs of the tenement-house, starved for an outlook on the grass and the wave, and the shrub and the flower. Plainly the child has a right to its outlook upon the world of nature.—N. D. Hillis.
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Children and Music—See Music and Children.
Children and the Bible—See Adapting
the Bible.
CHILDREN FORMING PARENTS' CHARACTER
A friend once said to me: "So long as
my children were little, I lived at peace with
my faults and bad habits. Perhaps they were
annoying to others, but they caused me no
uneasiness. But since my children have
grown up, I am ashamed to meet their eyes,
for I know they judge me, observe my attitude,
my manner of acting, and measure my
words. Nothing escapes them; neither the
little 'white lie,' nor my illogical reasoning;
neither unjustifiable irritation, nor any of the
thousand imperfections I formerly indulged
in. I require now to be constantly on my
guard, and what will finally happen is this,
that, instead of my having trained them,
my children will have formed my character."—Dora
Melegari, "Makers of Sorrow and
Makers of Joy."
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CHILDREN, LINCOLN'S REGARD FOR
When Lincoln, on his way by train from
Washington to Gettysburg, was halted at a
station, a little girl was lifted up to an open
window of the car, and handing a bouquet of
rosebuds to him, said: "Flowers for the
President!" Mr. Lincoln took the rosebuds,
bent down and kissed the child, saying,
"You're a sweet little rosebud yourself. I
hope your life will open into perpetual beauty
and goodness."
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Children Missionaries—See Song, Effective.
Children, Neglecting the—See Home,
The Old and the New.
Children, Religious Nature of—See
Animism.
CHILDREN, ROMAN CATHOLIC CARE OF
Bishop Fowler, in the Christian Advocate, describes the method by which Roman Catholic institutions in South America receive and care for foundlings:
No thoughtful man can watch the long
processions of children which the sisters
are teaching, and believe that Romanism is
closing its career. She takes the utmost care
of all the children she can obtain. In the
great cities she has her foundling institutions.
The arrangement for receiving foundlings
is unique. It reminds one of the
standard advertisements for stolen property,
"No questions asked." There is a rotary
dummy in the side of the building above the
sidewalk. This contrivance turns round instead
of moving on pulleys. The outside is
simply flush with the wall. Any one can
turn it around. On the other side is a little
bed. The waif is placed in this bed, the
trap is turned back to its place, a bell is
rung, a servant comes to the bed, takes out
the waif, and no one is the wiser. The party
depositing the child may be round the corner
and gone in the darkness. The child is
cared for, soon put to work, soon hired out,
and becomes a source of income to the institution,
and adds one more to the rolls of
the church.
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CHILDREN SAFE
An old sexton in a cemetery took special
pains with the little graves. When asked
why, he said: "Sir, about those larger graves
I don't know who are the Lord's saints, and
who are not; but you know, sir, it's different
with the bairns." (Text.)
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CHILDREN, SAVING
Judge Benjamin B. Lindsey speaks as follows of his work in dealing with juvenile delinquents:
I have often been asked how it is if I can
