Our Women and Children
Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards.
THE TRAINING OF CHILDREN.
Plato said long, long ago: ‘‘The best
way of training the young is to train
yourself at the same time; not to ad
monish them but to be always carry
ing out your own principles in prac
tice.” Every thoughtful student and
educator has sounded the truth of this
through all the ages since.
Not one denies that a child’s first
right is to its mother. If this be true,
then surely every mother, in justice
to her heritage of motherhood, should
make herself fit to guide and to give
of herself to the child she has borne.
Your child may have a goodly heri
tage but how preciously It should be
guarded, for the inherent good and
evil tendencies give to each individu
al a conglomerate ancestry and make
of man, a creature of great complex
ity. A child is born; he has a right
to intelligent care. He grows and into
a world of his own making. The spirit
of investigation is within him. Let
this be fostered and the trend of
growth, even in the earliest childhood,
be directed toward ultimate strength,
both mental and physical. The under
lying thought in the training of a
child should be, not to destroy evil
tendencies which have been de
veloped, but to prevent them.
The foundation of high principle is
laid in the early years, and the
mother’s responsibility in making the
foundation a solid one is great indeed.
A child may learn the great moral
law of cause and effect. There
should be no reward without effort.
Moralizing is a small part of morals.
Allow your child to have a standard
within himself, not making it a de
tached thing, a thing apart.
Ignorance is responsible for a great
amount of wickedness in this world,
but bad example and parental neglect
are responsible for vastly more. The
greatest obstacle that obstructs the
way to virtuous living and morality
is the suffering which the lack of it
brings.
Teach moderation; it is a great so
cial virtue and indicates good sense
and good taste. Allow your child the
right of individuality. For every one,
at some time before life is done,
should “smite the chord of self; that
trembling passes in music out of
sight.”
You may establish a code of eti
quette which refines the manners, but
it is the courtesy within which stamps
the well-bred man and woman. “It is
easy in the world to live after the
world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude
to live after our own; but the great
man is he who in the midst of the
crowd keeps with perfect sweetness
the independence of solitude.”—Mrs.
MacKlem, in Home Life.
Is True Freedom but to break
Fetters for our own dear sake
And with learned heart, forget
That we owe mankind a debt?
No! True Freedom is to share
All the chains our brothers wear,
And with heart and hand to be
Earnest to make others free!
They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
They are slaves who will not choose
Hatred, scoffing and abuse,
Rather than in silence shrink.
From the truth needs must think.
They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three.
—James Russell Lowell.
KEEPING AT IT.
There is a very old hut very good
story about a boy who was engaged
one winter day in putting a ton of
coal into a cellar. His only implement
was a small fire shovel. Noticing this,
a benevolent old gentleman expressed
his surprise and commiseration. “My
son,” said the old gentleman, “you
surely do not expect to put in all that
coal with that little shovel?”
“Oh, yes, I do,” replied the boy,
cheerfully; “'all I have to do is to
keep at it."
There is a lesson in this story for
young and old, and it is exemplified
in the lives of the great men of the
world. It is a mistake to suppose that
the best w'ork of all the world is done
by people of great strength and many
opportunities. “Keeping at it” is the
secret of success.
Never be in too great haste. Too
many boys spoil a lifetime by not hav
ing patience. They work at a trade
until they see about one-half of Its
mysteries, then strike for higher
wages. Such men are looked upon as
blotches and slouches.
When learning a trade, my boy,
don’t move like a rusty watch. Act
as if your interest and the interest
of your employer were the same. Em
ployers will not willingly lose good
employees. Be honest and faithful.
There is the secret of success.—
The American Boy.
DAWN’S RECOMPENSE.
By Margaret Houston.
He begged me for the little toys at
night.
That I had taken test he play too
long;
The little broken toys—his sole de
light.
I held him close in wiser arms and
strong;
And sang with trembling voice the
even-song.
Reluctantly the drowsy lids drooped
low,
The while he pleaded for the boon
denied.
Then when he slept, to dream-content
to know,
I mended them and laid them by his
side;
That he might find them in the early
light,
And wake gladder for the ransomed
sight.
So, Lord, like children, at the even
fall
We weep for broken playthings,
loth to part.
While thou, unmoved because thou
knowest all,
Dost fold us from the treasures of
our heart.
And we shall find them at the morn
ing tide,
Awaiting us, unbroken, beautified.
CARD OF THANKS.
We desire to thank our friends
who so kindly assisted us in our sud
den bereavement in the death of our
son, Bryan Wilson Jr., also for the
many beautiful floral offerings.
MR. AND MRS. B. L. WILSON AND
DAUGHTER; MR. AND MRS. G.
W. JENKINS, Grandparents.
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