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tance, though I did not see any en- 

 chantment. 



I get dinner at one o'clock, and sup- 

 per at seven, prepared l>v my good 

 friend. Aunt Dearwyne. She under- 

 stands the business. I must be pretty 

 good, because many times every day I 

 am called "a good little dog!" 



Tuesday is visiting day on Wright 

 Street, and every Sunday there is five 

 o'clock tea. On these days I always 

 make a point of being at home. I am 

 so fond of cake. 



And in conclusion, I hope, dear mis- 

 tress, you are feeling better for your 

 rest ; but do not lose your rest and sleep 

 fretting about me. because I am very 

 well and happy with my Jack and Mac- 

 kenzie friends, and with oceans of love 

 I am 



Forever yours, 



Jo. 



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The Lesson of Kindness. 



BY MRS. I. L. DARRAGH, NASHVILLE, 



TENNESSEE. 



Those of us, either as parents or 

 teachers, have had to do with the train- 

 ing of children, know well its difficulties. 

 How hard it is. to make a dishonest 

 child, honest ; a selfish one, unselfish ; 

 how near to the impossible it is to ex- 

 tract his ugly temper. But there is one 

 lesson that children, with few excep- 

 tions, will learn when taught — the 

 lesson of kindness. I own I tremble 

 for the child who does not learn it 

 easily and quickly. He is either men- 

 tally lacking, or a pervert to start with. 

 I have in mind a very bad boy, whose 

 career I was watching with interest. I 

 saw him once on the play-ground, tear 

 off the legs of a grasshopper and throw 

 it on the ground. He lived to fill a 

 murderer's cell. I recall another that I 

 at times feared was hopelessly bad. 

 He was early taught the lesson of kind- 

 ness and it proved the leaven for the 

 lump. At the dawn of manhood, the 

 responsibility of a widowed mother 



and orphaned sister faced him. He 

 bravely shouldered it, and they became 

 the objects of his tenderest solicitude. 

 The mother builded better than she 

 knew. Parents should watch for the 

 first appearance of cruelty and nip it in 

 the bud. It starts in ignorance and is 

 easily corrected by knowledge. Just now 

 the parents and teachers of our country 

 should bend their best efforts toward 

 counteracting the pernicious effects of 

 the example of perhaps the world's 

 bloodiest butcher, Theodore Roosevelt. 

 The very superabundance of animal 

 spirits of the man makes him attractive 

 to the immature mind and the unde- 

 veloped character of the youth of the 

 land and the evil effects of such an ex- 

 ample will be far-reaching. For many 

 months the world has been regaled at 

 regular intervals, with the latest news 

 from the scene of carnage, until the soul 

 sickens and cries out "How long, O 

 Lord, How long!" The marvel of it is 

 that He does not reach down and stay 

 the bloody work. A mental vision por- 

 trays him as with bulging eyes and 

 savage teeth, he stands gloating over the 

 quivering, writhing agony his shot has 

 brought to his feet — a scene from Dark 

 Ages. The pity of it is, that he has with 

 him, his young son, who will doubtless 

 follow the footsteps of his father in his 

 thirst for blood. Geo. T. Angell's 

 whole life was spent in efforts to better 

 the condition of helpless animals. His 

 body was followed to the grave by a long 

 line of things whose language ignorance 

 cannot understand. How appropriate if 

 Roosevelt's cortege could be composed 

 of shrieks and groans and agonies of his 

 dying victims. 



Special Offer. 

 We want to double the membership 

 of The Educational Humane Society 

 within the next two months. Any one 

 sending a Corresponding Membership 

 in this Chapter before July 1, 1910, 

 will receive FREE a copy of "The 

 Animal Lover's Birthday Book." 



