New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-23
LOVE OF Il CHILD.
II Parliamentary affair, Meaning
Little IN Its First Years.

Does a child love its mother? This question is
commonly answered in the affirmative. and some
very pretty sentiments have been inspired by this
supposed fact. but. according 10 Earl Barnes. the
foundation for the belief is of the slenderest kind
your child loves you much in the same way as
IL loves its crib and its nursing BOTTLE he said
before the Jennie Hunter Alumne Association, at
a meeting held in the Presbyterian Building yester-
day afternoon 1T regards you a comfortable
attachment life. 1t is true IL may show de-
cided preference for one person over the others
but that is only because it gets the largest number
Of pleasurab!e responses from that person. In the
way. IL would show preference for its &C
customed crib If you tried to change it another
And IL Will reconcile itself in a few days to a
crib. it will transfer it's affections to an
other person. two-year-old child will forget its
mother in a week. in spite OF all that the people
around II can do 10 keep the memory alive. and
even q child OF five years does not remember long"
The generosity often attributed children is
also a oeusion, It appears.
ASK child Of a year old for a piece Of its
sugar" proceeded the lecturer land IL will hand
II TO you without hesitation; but make the same
request six months later. and the compliance will
be OF the most grudging character. The child has
not developed the vice OF selishness in that time
1t has simply developed a sense of quantity At
one year ii does not realize that it limits itself by
giving away part Of its sugar, and at eighteen
months il does
Love of animals is quite lacking in young chill
dren. They may appear TO be passionately at
perpetrate shocking crueties upon them / have
known little girl TO throw the kitten from which
she could hardly bear TO be parted from a three
story window. and another little girl whipped her
Skye terrier which she generally lavished a
great deal Of affection. just for the fun seeing
jump amp, ,-. 81. .o.,,,.u..
garten age, and ii the love OF God be said 10
be entertained by child Ii is love Of a very an
thropomOrphic God. modelled after its father or
Love, in fact. is emotion which develops very
slowly in the race and the child follows in its de-
velopInent the history of the race Among low
grade peoples love is almost entirely maternal.
communal love The Greeks rose 10 love of coun-
Try. but it is only when we come TO Christ that
We get the love that goes out TO all the world ex-
tending even TO animals and nature find no
love Of God in antiquity. The Greeks and Romans
and Egyptians feared their gods, but did not love
them That too came with Christ
IF love thus IN the race IL will develop in
only make notes OF the development of this emo
ton in their children i might provide material
the kindergarten age the child is just beginning TO
love. and Il Is the chief business OF the kinder
take the child much further Tran the little group
within the kindergarten walls;
Power Of Love in Educaton" and the idea is
one which he has not heretofore developed
There are four ways he SAID, by which men
seek shape and form and build others. one is
by fitting them Into an organization like the army
tSudyard hlpHng Is the Leading exponent or TINS
IDEA. which Is worked out IN Captains Courageous
third is 10 subject the individual to some kind or
RedaSogic theory, as Napoleon did IN France.
The fourth method OF shaping and moulding Others
fbsn 's PC best Rss'seT is SIMPLY by 2ying
shine. and har as definite effect upon the human
means OF education the power OF love has been
definitely recognized in the kindergarten and in
to get at TIE little soul hidden away 9i 10 t ine body
OF inc hh'eeale' and that is by love"