Children are excellent physiognomists, and soon discover their real friends. 275 _Dr. Guthrie_--He believed--to use his own words--that "where parents will never punish their children, those children will punish them." _From Dr. Guthrie's Memoir._ 276 Indulgence to children breeds ingratitude. 277 A man who gives his children habits of industry, provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. _Whately._ 278 Choose rather to leave your children well instructed than rich. For the hopes of the learned are better than the riches of the ignorant. 279 WOULD YOU HAVE ANSWERED SO? You would not be in a Japanese house long without noticing their extreme politeness, and that this politeness was especially shown by children toward their parents. The one thing that Japanese children must learn is perfect obedience; a child would as soon think of refusing to do a thing altogether, when told, as to ask why he must do it. A little * * * girl, the child of a missionary, was playing in the street with some Japanese children. "Mary," called her father from the house, "come in." As she paid no attention, the others thought she had not heard, and began to say to her: "Your august father is calling you," "Your honorable parent is beckoning to you," and so on. "I don't care," said Mary. The children stopped playing and looked at her in astonishment. Her father called her again. This time she answered crossly, "I don't want to come in. What for?" At this the children picked up their playthings and hurried home, talking excitedly all the way. "Rude little foreigner!" "Bad little girl!" they said, and it was a long time before Mary saw anything of her friends again. _Juniors in Japan._ 280 _Children_--Living jewels, dropped unstained from Heaven. --_Pollock._ 281 Children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe. 282 Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. 283 Children are like the to-morrow of society. --_Whately._ 284 Children think not of what is past, nor what is to come, but enjoy the present time, which few of us do. --_Bruyere._ 285 _Children_--I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. --_Dickens._ 286 Love of children is always the indication of a genial nature, a pure and unselfish heart. 287 MY CHILDREN. What use to me the gold and silver hoard? What use to me the gems most rich and rare? Brighter by far--aye! bright beyond compare-- The joys my children to my heart afford! 288 Children need models rather than critics.