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If they spent their little fund in trifles for their own use, they would acquire
a habit of selfishness; which, when once formed, it is most difficult to
eradicate.
I have remarked the pleasure with which children will relate the incidents of a
visit, which they have been permitted to make to a poor family; and it is a
refreshment to persons advanced in life, to see a young family thus trained.
As soon as little girls can sew, they should be encouraged to make garments for
the poor, or repair their own old ones as a present to a child of their own
size, or make patchwork out of old dresses for a bed covering for poor people.
Their being permitted to do these things, should be as a reward for good
behavior in attention to their lessons or other duties.
When they are old enough to make a loaf of bread, a pie, or a little plain cake,
allow them to do it, and take as a present to, or make broth or panada for a
sick person. This teaches them to prepare these things while young, and may be
useful to them in after life.
How cheering it must be to the aged or afflicted, to see smiling young faces
enter their dwellings, bearing their little offerings of food or clothing, the
work of their own hands.
Be encouraged my dear young mothers; if you thus train your children to works of
charity, you will be doubly blessed.
Early Rising Promotes Punctuality.
It is an old and true saying, "that if you waste an hour in the morning, it is
seldom recovered all that day." This dispirits you, and the next day there is
still something left undone.
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