CHAPTER XVII.
Parents and their Teachers.
My heart has been much torn of late, reading of the wrongs of Children.
It has lately been discovered that Children are being hampered and harassed in their career by certain brutal and ignorant persons called, for want of a better name, parents.

The parent is a selfish wretch who, out of pure devilment, and without consulting the Child itself upon the subject, lures innocent Children into the world, apparently for the purpose merely of annoying them.

The parent does not understand the Child when he has got it; he does not understand anything, not much.

The only person who understands the Child is the young gentleman fresh from College and the elderly maiden lady, who, between them, produce most of the literature that explains to us the Child.
The parent does not even know how to dress the Child.

The parent will persist in dressing the Child in a long and trailing garment that prevents the Child from kicking.