A little girl, aged four, was troubled with a quick temper. One day her cousins, who were playing in the yard, wishing her to go into the house, began throwing bits of dirt and sticks at her. She screamed passionately, then suddenly stopping, she ran to the piazza and stood a moment. Going back, laughing, she said, "Throw away now if you want to, I've treated." When questioned she explained "I just said Good! Good! Good!" Suffice to say, no more teasing was done.
The same child, about a year after, was, to sense, in a severe fever, when a lady cousin, not a Scientist, called. The mother did not speak of the error, and the cousin, who understood the silence on that subject, refrained at first, but the child kept coughing so violently, she at last said, "Eva what is the matter?" "Nothing," answered the child. "Well," said the cousin, somewhat indignantly, "it seems very much like it." "I am glad it is only a seeming," responded the little Scientist; and the seeming vanished.
Since she was three years old, at which time her mother was healed, she has had most implicit faith, and no difficulty comes, that she does not say, "Mamma, treat quick."
