Article September 28, 1899 Issue

Points on Home Rule

with contributions from Margaret E. Sangster, B. B., L. E. A., Kate Douglas Wiggin

In the beginning of another school year there will be an amazing advantage to all concerned if teachers may be permitted to co-operate with parents, or rather if parents will freely give teachers their support and sympathy. If, for instance, the pupils do not seem to be comfortably adjusted in their classes, if the work is too little or too much, if there is a perceptible degree of friction between children and teachers, or if, as sometimes happens, there is suffering on the part of a gentle child from the teasing and tormenting of a bully, let the parents freely talk the matter over with the teachers, being careful not also to discuss it with the children. In most cases some decision will be reached which will promote the interests of the child, and, in all our civilization, no interests to-day take precedence of this. The child is the foundation-stone of the republic. On him, on her, on what he or she may become, rests whatever we are to be in the next generation, depends the welfare of the world.

Margaret E. Sangster.
New York Christian Advocate.

Mother, do not forget to commend your little ones when their efforts have merited a mother's smile. Watch for these opportunities, in order that you may nourish into healthful growth the better qualities and affections of child life. The answering smile, the new light glistening in the eye, the inner resolve, will more than compensate. But these are only the germs; the fruit shall hereafter be gathered. Show by every act and word that you love and appreciate the good and it will flourish, and evil die for the very want of food to nourish it.

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