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Orison Swett Marden's

Love's Way

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An Invitation - Try Love's Way - The Greatest Thing in the World - Making Life a Song - The Dream of Brotherhood - Driving Away What We Long For Most - Employers and Employers - Spite Fences - Work and Happiness - Practising Love's Way - Training the Child - How to Lighten Your Words - Survival Value - The Miracle Worker - Our Little Brothers and Sisters - The Thing That Makes a Home - "Stranger, Why Should I NOT Speak to you?" - "I Serve the Strongest" - The Daily Orientation - Scatter Your Flowers As You Go - Love Letters From God - The Harmony Bath - Heroism at Home - What the Bee Teaches Us - Love's Way and Christmas Giving - Contents -


XI

TRAINING THE CHILD

Not long ago a woman applied to a New York district court to have her son Harold sent to a reformatory.

When questioned by the magistrate as to her reason for wishing her son sent to such an institution, the distressed mother replied that it was because the boy was so bad she couldn't do anything with him. Then turning to the boy, the magistrate asked him why he didn't behave like a man and treat his mother better. "Because she hits my dog," was the startling reply.

Further questioning revealed that a neighbor gave the lad a puppy, a little mongrel thing, three months old, which he had taught to beg, to carry things in his mouth, and to perform some little dog tricks. He had built a little house for the dog to sleep in, and had also earned enough money to buy a collar for him.

The mother acknowledged that she considered

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