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15. Maxims touching the lodging of Children.
TAke care not only for your Sons, but also for your Daughters, that as much as may be they lye alone, or with such persons in whom you may have as just a confidence as in your self.
'Tis an advice which St. * 1.1 Francis of sales gave to Madam de Chantail in pre∣scribing her Rules for the Education of her children. And to make her comprehend the profit here∣of, he says; that experience rendred this observation daily more and more re∣commendable unto him.
In effect, because Parents neglect this Counsel, it chances not only that of two children which are in the same bed, there's but one of them whom God draws out of the heap of corruption, and leaves the other by a just judgment abandoned to his irre∣gularities;