Excerpt from Memory Gems for Children: Based on Nature and Ethics Mothers, you are in a great measure, responsible for the lifetime happiness of your children. Happi ness is from within. To have the love of the beautiful, in nature, given to little ones is not only your duty, but ought to be your pleasure. The mind stored with simple, dainty memory gems, so simple that the youngest mind is not burdened, is one way and a very important way, of accomplishing this end, - the love of the beautiful in nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.