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pleasure with all their dolls as they did with those ducks. They hatched 

 some of the ducks with hens. The girls fed, brooded and took all the 

 care of them. I paid no attention whatever to them and the result was 

 they sold fifty-six dollars' worth and kept thirteen ducks for breeding pur- 

 poses. O, the air castles they are building for another year! 



Mothers, try your little girls and boys in this work; it will surprise you 

 what an interest they will take and how many steps they will save you 

 during the summer, besides the practical knowledge they will gain that 

 will help them in after life. We have their music lessons and musical in- 

 struments to pay for anyway. Why not give them a chance to earn the 

 money to pay for a part of these at least. They will practice more econ- 

 omy in spending the money they earn themselves than if it came direct 

 from us. They will also take more interest in their music and try harder to 

 learn when they pay for the lessons with their own money. This is not 

 all. It will be an advantage to them to learn things along this line while 

 we are here to teach them. Labor rarely becomes irksome to children 

 when they are personally interested in it, knowing they will receive, the 

 profits derived therefrom. 



