‘glory,’ or be carried away by the emotionalism of flags and drums, if another war ever came. Soldiers and guns were carefully left out of his Christmas and Birthday gifts.

“But—as soon as he was able to toddle and talk, which he did at an unusually early age, every stick he picked up was a ‘gun,’ and his favorite game was playing soldier. One day when he was not more than three years old, his mother said, ‘Hubert, what do you know about soldiers?’ His answer was, ‘Why, mother, I used to be a soldier!’

“Questioned at length, he described how he had been a soldier on a big boat, and was dressed in a uniform, and had a gun. Then one day he had been in a room, like a bedroom, on a boat, and something came through a ‘little round window’ and killed him, and he fell down on the floor dead. Many times after that he repeated this story, always exactly the same in detail; but as he grew older the memory grew dimmer, and it was finally practically forgotten among the many things with which he was filling his very active mind.

“He had never seen a boat, or a port-hole, but he described both with minute accuracy; all knowledge of military matters was deliberately kept from him, but to him it was all an old story. One day his father asked him a sudden question, without any previous conversation on the subject, ‘What language did you speak when you were a soldier?’ ‘Why, I talked the same as I do now,’ was his answer.

“Who will say that he did not take part in the World War, had been a casualty in some naval conflict, and brought conscious memory of it into a very early incarnation?”

IF PARENTS would give real study to the subject of reincarnation and would realize that their children are souls with whom they have lived, worked and probably “fought” in former lives, and now are come together to remedy some of the mistakes and wrongs of the past, they would have more sympathy for and understanding of the children they are unable to fathom and cannot handle.

Almost always the fault is chiefly in the parents, and not in the children, that the latter are as they are; for had pains been taken to study, love and understand their children, they would