The motive for doing these little tasks well should be made prominent, showing that the child is big enough to “help” mother.  Praise should be bestowed, not as if it were anything astonishing and out of the way for the child to do the work well, but as a token of appreciation of the motive and manner in doing it.  Encourage as much as possible, but do not develop vanity by praising to excess.

Let their love be the mainspring of their every act of service.—­Written for Dew Drops by Julia H. Johnston.

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[Entered at the Post Office at Elgin, Ill., as Second Class Mail Matter.]

Price of Dew Drops.—­In lots of five or more, to one address, 20 cents per copy per year, or 5-1/2 cents per copy per quarter.  Address,

David C. Cook Publishing Co., Elgin, Ill.