Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic

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Wiggin Kate Douglas Smith. Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic

PREFATORY NOTE

THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

CHILDREN'S PLAYS

CHILDREN'S PLAYTHINGS

WHAT SHALL CHILDREN READ?

CHILDREN'S STORIES

THE RELATION OF THE KINDERGARTEN TO SOCIAL REFORM

HOW SHALL WE GOVERN OUR CHILDREN?

THE MAGIC OF "TOGETHER"

THE RELATION OF THE KINDERGARTEN TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOL

OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN

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"Give me liberty, or give me death!"

The subject of Children's Rights does not provoke much sentimentalism in this country, where, as somebody says, the present problem of the children is the painless extinction of their elders. I interviewed the man who washes my windows, the other morning, with the purpose of getting at the level of his mind in the matter.

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And the right kind of children, before they are spoiled by fine feathers, do detest being "dressed up" beyond a certain point.

A tiny maid of my acquaintance has an elaborate Parisian gown, which is fastened on the side from top to bottom in some mysterious fashion, by a multitude of tiny buttons and cords. It fits the dear little mouse like a glove, and terminates in a collar which is an instrument of torture to a person whose patience has not been developed from year to year by similar trials. The getting of it on is anguish, and as to the getting of it off, I heard her moan to her nurse the other night, as she wriggled her curly head through the too-small exit, "Oh I only God knows how I hate gettin' peeled out o' this dress!"

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