The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-10-26
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

| How inconsiderate older people are
with children.
ooh, he's only a child" they may
say.
In excuse for some harsh word or
act.
But it is the little things that, in
the end, count.
The most charming child in the
world will be ruined through series
of seemingly insignificant actions on
the part of his elders.
Parents forget how sensitive chill
dren are.
They will correct them in public
in manner that will somtimes reduce
the child to the last ditch of humilia
ton
Some parents like to "show off, be
fore other people.
Thinking to impress the latter with
their rigid discipline by cutting, slap
ping, beating and screaming at theil
children
When it is really not so much de
sire to discipline the child as it is to
make a display of what they fancy will
make an impression of authority.
And they rarely deceive the child.
Children are uncommonly shrewd.
They have terrific acumen at times
I Quick flashes of intuition.
They soon learn the difference be
tween the real thing and the sham.
And, in the end, instead of regard
ma G
have a secret contempt for them which
results in a seeming submission, ever
after period of rebellion.
But a submission which is only 81
lent resentment.
A resentment that will eliminate
later, in distorted character and mis-
directed action.
Nothing is sadder than to see the
gradual Investment of the exquisite
charm Of unspoiled childhood.
And, in eight cases out of ten, thi.
is due to unwise and wilful parenta
courses.
AS has been said here before, per
haps, it is the childs aesthetic appea
that constitutes it's fascination.
= Children are all adorable curves ant
contours.
Soft and beautifully tinted flesh.
Pliable, finely spun and glintint
hair.
And always dewy, long-lashed eyes
We think it is the child's innocence
his unsophistication, his artlessnes
: that delights us.
But not So
| We don't recognize the real reason
: Because we do not know it.
Always is humanity on the still hun
for beauty
, Peering into every face, tearing tn,
heart out of nature.
1t is Beauty we all subconsciousl,
hunger for and unconsciously search
| for
: its intensest form. 1t flowers and bios
| SONS through his art.
Its perfume is exuded through hi
mastery creations.
And it's essence is heard and seel
: and felt through the medium of hi
aesthetic ministrations.
There is nothing so elusive as tn,
spirit of childhood
Some painters get it. Others not
, 1t is superlatively translated by Rot
, ert Henri in a little picture at tn
, current art exhibit, in the Little Re,
Girl"
, While this is painted with all tina
technical abandon. if it might so b
put, for which this artist is now an
then distinguished and, which, at it
apogee, lends itself superlatively t
artistic expression. it is the human
5 quality that holds in this presentmen
of little girl.
All the heart appealing pathos O
the child-all children-peeps GU
through the eyes.
The sweet timidity and the wonde
. of life.
1t is. indeed, compelling picture.
And as work of art is striking Il
method. brush-work and handling Q
color. For its color is delicious and We
is laid on with no lavish hand
Its mechanics, in short, are reduce
to the simplest dimensions, if it coul
so be put,