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Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 45: October, 1910 And yet, the child cannot always be at home, nor can it be at all times under the careful guardianship of the Sunday School teachers. There comes a time when the call of life is heard - i from out the dis First tance. Every mother l School Days. Knows with what a feeling almost akin to regret, she has led her little. Ones to school for the first time. For the first time it will be out of her personal care and training! For the first time it will be under influences different to those in which it has been reared! From this day forth her precious dar ling will be thrown into daily contact with children whose home training, perhaps, has not been of the standard she herself has sought to maintain. Small wonder, then, that her heart is filled with a tender yearning to keep her little one to herself. But the law of life is inexorable. The child must get an education, and in order to get an education, it must go to school. So if she is a wise mother, she makes the acquaintance Of the teacher; ex plains to her or him, as the case may be, the temperamental traits of the child; inquires into the sanitary con ditions at the school; questions closely the little one at night; goes over with it the experiences of the day; learns of the pastimes and habits of its school mates, thereby learning, herself, just where to suggest a change, just where to modify or encourage. So, too, the father, if he be a wise father, - and certainly such a mother deserves a wise husband - studies closely the environ ment of the home and the school; keeps himself ever on the alert for the secret vices and insidious evils that creep spectre-like into the very best regulated communities; strikes with firmness and decision wherever evil deigns to lift its slimy head, bear ing ever in mind that the things of this world in time will decay and per ish, but the moral character of his fam ily is to him a matter of eternal con sequence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.