philosopher, by kindly questions, led the boy to acknowledge his great
debt to her for her care of him in infancy and in sickness, and, by
showing the many things Xanthippe had to try her patience, persuaded
him to bear with her and to give her that love which was her due.

Where manual training is taught in the schools, the mother should give
every opportunity to her children to practice it at home. Where it is
not a part of the school course, parents should study to devise home
substitutes for it, the mother teaching the girls sewing, embroidery,
etc., and the father instructing the boys in carpentry and the like.

The desire to collect things, which seizes boys and girls at an early
age, should be turned into useful channels by teachers and parents.
Often this valuable instinct is largely wasted, as in the collecting
of postage-stamps, the impulse which it gives to geographical and
historical investigation being grossly perverted--for example a little
island, that once issued a stamp which is now rare, looming larger in
importance than a great country none of the stamps of which have any
special value.

Every school, or, failing this, every home, should have a museum, not so
much of curiosities as of typical specimens. These may be geological,
botanical, faunal or archaeological; the rocks and soils and clays of
the home country, the flowers of plants and sections of wood of trees;
the skins of animals and birds (taxidermy is a fascinating employment
for the young) eggs and nests (here the child should be taught to be a
naturalist and not a vandal), and Indian arrow-heads and stone-axes.

In this connection it should be suggested that the most valuable
collection of all is a herbarium of the flowers of literature, specimens