PUT THE BUTTON ON THE BOY.
A FRIEND of ours tells the following story: It was Sunday; all day long father, mother, and auntie had been kept busy caring for Jimmie. He had been forbidden again and again to go outside the gate, but the moment their backs were turned, out he would go to join the boys in the street. A button had been put on the gate to keep him in, but he had grown, and now was tall enough to reach up and turn it. "Ah! I see," said the indulgent father, "I must put another button on that gate." "Hadn't you better put the button on the boy instead of the gate?" suggested his sister. "The time will come when you can't keep him in by buttons on the gate; a little wholesome restraint now may keep the feet from straying when they get too big to be held back by a button on the gate."—Selected.