OCTOBER TWENTY-NINTH
He it was who bathed the little ones, who "buttoned
up the backs" and tied careful "ribbin bows"
here and there for the whole six; he who drilled them
in "mannerly behavior" in court.
Indeed he had always performed most of these
personal services, which were, so he generously
distinguished them, "acts of love and not labor."
Ruth McEnery Stuart
OCTOBER THIRTIETH
O Wonderland of wayward Childhood! what
An easy, breezy realm of summer calm
And dreamy gleam and gloom and bloom and balm
Thou art!—The Lotus-land the poet sung,
It is the Child-World while the heart beats young.
James Whitcomb Riley
From "A Child World." Copyright, 1897. Used by special permission of the publishers, The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
OCTOBER THIRTY-FIRST
People who write about children should always
tell the truth. For to translate even a child's
simplest day into words is to narrate one of the Seven
Wonders of the world.
From "The Finest Baby in the World"
NOVEMBER
NOVEMBER FIRST
Self-government with tenderness, here
you have the condition of all authority over
children.
Amiel