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Example And Children.-The New Orleans Bulletin, in alluding to the force of example: quotes from an eloquent writer, who said, "Example is a living lesson. The life speaks. Every action has a tongue. Words are but articulated breath. Deeds are the fac-similes of soul: they proclaim what is within. The child notices the life. It should be in harmony with goodness. Keen is the vision of youth: every mask is transparent. If a word is thrown into one balance a deed is thrown into the other. Nothing is more important than that parents should be consistent. A sincere word is never lost. But advice, counter to example, is always suspected. Both cannot be true, one is false. Example is like statuary. It is sculptured into form. It is reality. The eye dwells upon it: the memory recalls it; the imagination broods over it. Its influence enters the soul."