She asks each of them her name, and inquires of each which of the girls is her mother, and makes first one of them, and then the other, point to her mother in giving her answer.

By this time the illusion is completely established in the children's minds of regarding their dolls as living beings, responsible to mothers for their conduct and behavior; and the young lady can go on and give her admonitions and instructions in respect to the sin and folly of quarrelling to them--the children listening.

And it will be found that by this management the impression upon the minds of the children will be far greater and more effective than if the counsels were addressed directly to them; while, at the same time, though they may even take the form of very severe reproof, they will produce no sullenness or vexation in the minds of those for whom they are really intended.

Indeed, the very reason why the admonition thus given will be so much more effective is the fact that it does _not_ tend in any degree to awaken resentment and vexation, but associates the lesson which the teacher wishes to convey with amusement and pleasure.
"You are very pretty"-- she says, we will suppose, addressing the dolls--"and you look very amiable.

I suppose you _are_ very amiable." Then, turning to the children, she asks, in a confidential undertone, "Do they ever get into disputes and quarrels ?" "_Sometimes,_" says one of the children, entering at once into the idea of the teacher.
"Ah!" the teacher exclaims, turning again to the dolls.