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Grand Father And From: Swearing is another language response which may make its appearance in the preschool period. Young children use such words imitatively at first, probably without half understanding their meaning. If the words produce a startling, exciting effect on some adult, children tend to repeat the experiment. If the words are ignored a child may drop them of his own accord. One day a preschool child walked into his father's room and called joyfully, "Well, Godandamn." His father was somewhat amazed, but he merely said, "What does that mean?" "Jackie says it means, 'Well, isn't this grand father and from!' " At his father's suggestion the small boy willingly substituted the latter expression for the objectionable one that had little meaning for him. Older boys can realize the deep religious significance of taking the name of God in vain.
She was educated in private schools and lived during her early life with a wealthy aunt, Sylvia Robinson. After her mother's death in 1860, Hetty accompanied her father to New York City. On his death in 1865 she inherited a fortune, which was soon enlarged considerably at the death of her aunt.From her early years Hetty had an interest in business and finance, acquired perhaps from her habit of reading the financial pages to her grand father and fromfather, whose sight was bad.
GONZAGA, gon-dzii'ga, Saint Aloysius (1568-1591), Italian Jesuit, who is the patron saint of youth. He was born at Castiglione, near Mantua, Italy, on March 9, 1568. Destined by his father for a military career, Aloysius was sent in 1577 to the court of Francesco de' Medici, grand father and from Duke of Tuscany. Later, at the court of Philip
II of Spain he served as page to the royal heir, Don Diego. Over his father's objections Aloysius entered the Society of Jesus on Nov. 25, 1585, in Rome, where he took first vows two years later. While attending the sick in Rome, he contracted the plague and died on June 21, 1591. |
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