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II How Parents Should Bring Up Children; Form Child Ideals By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. 1 All the, .father and mothers in America who believe themselves to be In any way decent and respectable people continually deplore the prevalence of graft, dishon lesty and every ' ' form of thievery in (our land. - v i And yet not one (pair' of ...parents In ten 'irlBj:, HP:: little i In ttle, . ire- Children with care ful, high-- .ideals respecting' . - tha rights; and,, prop erty" jVef , their inelghbors and their (associates.;;.- -' It i during the 'first .ten., iears . o.t !s cbjid'a life .that ;4' such Ideal-: .must"' 4 be forced jLa wder . (of tfe character.. ; Art ' especially bright, Intellectual boy lof Id yfiars of. age was heard commenting,; rwlthi regret, on the dishonesty of Ameri Icanipplltics. ' . . , ; . ! ! He declared his opinion .that, all plM tlc!ans -were thieves, pocketing the money iwhich 'hjero'nged ' tiji the people - for . their imalK,'bj had stopped by' .thtf roadside1 and pieiey 'flowers' from a garden whjch : (belonged to a neighbor.' ' ' He" kf first surveyed the ground" with b watchful eye, to see that no gardener was in sight; and he had glanced up at the windows of the mansion to assure himself that no one was looking; then he hurriedly helped himself to a bouquet and passed on. ; To be sure the garden was loaded with powers and, those, that he had gathered (would never be missed. Nevertheless, he tad violated a principle; be had infringed (upon the rights of others; he had taken property which did not belong to him. The only reproof administered by his toiother when she learned of the fact was, r Oh, you shouldn t have done that." frhen she put the flowers in a vase and feet them on the center table. It was a childish act. she said. The ort of thing that every, boy does, some me in his life. Yet the act was petty larceny nothing more and nothing less. imllar thefts oocur in everv ncJchbnr- iood where .there are fruit trees. . A gentleman who has been most gen- Erous In the privileges he has granted elghbors, friends aad strangers in, 'the Ese of the beautiful grounds surrounding Is summer home planted a few cherry trees some year's ago thinking it woijld pe a pleasure to eat cherries from his pwn trees. ' 1 So far he has been denied that privil ege because his neighbor's children have helped themselves to the eherrles before jthey were fairly ripe. They have not done this openly, nor in the presence of tho owner; they have sought occasions when, they thought no one was looking, and they fled from the premises as soon fs observed, yet their parents consider his mere "childish mischief," and do pot see that it calls for any serious con federation. But this is a species of Vandalism, and trains the mind of a child to wrong ideas regarding the rights pf others. The same child would probably be fcshamed to enter his neighbors' house and steal cherries from the pantry shelf; but flowers and fruit, growing on the property of a neighbor, are just as much his own as though they had been plucked nd: carried Indoors. t These fins distinctions of what con fcitttutes honesty, refinement and good breeding should be taught bp every Ifathei and mother who desires children o become desirable citizens of the United Btateo, They should become a part of the teaching of every public school. It Is much more important that children should be impressed with these principles of high honesty and fine breeding than 'that .they should be taught drawing, anatomy or Latin. We will never have cleaner politics or fewer criminals and taw-breakers in the land until we have biore parents and ' more . teachers who Eake it a business to impress upon tho tnds of little children the necessity to Iconsider the right of others In tha small iflaily .matters of life. A peddler of cakes and oodiments pound1 his cart nearly empty. As he Emerged from a house where he bad een delivering packages a bevy of bcreamlng ' youths, under 15 years of age, ran oat of reach, laughing at his look of (consternation. They- were children of respectable, Ichurch-gomg residents of the little suburban resort. It seemed to them an excellent Jest btearthe man's "cakes and cooWes and least upon them while his back was Iturned. r j X child's mind should ba-formed before 1 1 "" j See'6 First Ten Years of Life it reaches 6 years of age to regard other people's property with respect. This can be done by daily chats and pleasant conversation of , the parents, fashioned to 'the understanding .of the child.. . . '. . Little boys can be made to consider another boy's marbles and tin soldiers as personal property, not to be used, or touched, without the owner's permission dnd ' knowledge; and never to be marred or Injured. , ' Little girls can be mads to regard other children's dolls and toys in the same' light, the impression should be in delibly fixed upon the delicate ipind tex ture that any violation of this rule is vulgar and indicates lack of good breed ing. Children so taught, by tactful and considerate 'parents, will never become thevest, and will never be guilty of petty piirloinlng8 of." neighbors' flowers and fruits. "-..'. ; Schools and Sunday schools may profit ably employ a few moments three times each month at least to direct young minds to high, fins ideals in thasa small matters. - It will Save time and expense for courts of justice in Vears to come. And if will make the world a sweeter and more 'comfortable place for growing 8anrtfoRf;-: ' "!wv. .''.;'. (Copyright, 1912, by American-journal- ' . . ' American.) rr The Secret of the Confederate Seal The great seal of the confederacy, after being lost for forty years, has at last been found. Rear Admiral Thomas O. Selfrldge, United States navy, retired, came Into possession of the historic silver disk In 1871, when he aoted as the representative Of the United States government In a transaction by which the government ob tained various confederate state papers and other mementoes for 175,000. Acting as agent for the government Bear Admiral Selfrldge, then a young lieutenant, went to Canada and got the confederate souvenirs from Colonel John T. Pickett, who was' a souvenir hunter, and In connection with his law practice here made a business of buying and sell ing papers and documents connected with the confederacy. From the time of its disappearance the seal was not heard from until recently traced to the possession of Rear Admiral Selfrldge. This deduction was made by Galllard Hunt, chief of the division of manuscript in the library of congress. In ieoklng over the "Pickett papers" he now! the absence of the great seal. In fUiry was made of Colonel Pickett's son, and it was learned that the seal had been presented by his father to Bear Admiral Selfrldge. The rear admiral said that the seal was in a safe at his residence. No. LS67 Kalorama road, in this city. The state of South Carolina has a tradition that the great seal was buried In a well In Abberville following the last meeting of the confederate cabinet James Jones, formerly bodyguard of Jefferson Davis, who is now living in Washington, at the age of ninety, is confident ., that he burled the seal in Georgia, having received It from the hand of President Davis. At that time the injunction of secrecy was laid upon him by Mr. Davis, said Jones. For fifty years the people of the south have speculated over what had become of the eeal after the evacuation of Richmond by the confederacy. Its disappearance and the mystery sur rounding it has been a subject of en thralling Interest at all gatherings of the gray veterans, and many theories of its whereabouts have been put for ward and had their share of believers. At the last general reunion, In Macon, Ga.. It was suggested that the sea) bad been burled in the cornerstone of the confederate monument In that city. There waa even talk of removing the stone. .. There is little doubt' of the genuine ness of the seal that now reposes in a vault of the Jefferson ' hotel In Rich mond, Va., having been purchased from Rear Admiral Selfrldge for (3,000 by Epps Hunton, Jr., William H. White and Thomas P. Bryan, all of Virginia. It will be sent to the English firm of engravers who originally made the seal to have its genuineness verified. The contract of sale contains a provision that if it is not pronounced real it may be returned. New York Herald. The Persistent and Judicious Use of Newspaper Advertising la the Road to Business Sua 1 TUB BEE: Alt5rttivgr GiRUiH uu&ni.. . uow we maKe unuaren ljiars , ., j DK.ACj-T FK3!Tti& BRG-. HI HAHP5 VJE-Re iAneo QSHWV HHA, A SHOT -TJCO TO Hl4 M E NrVAJ" tsWY ' THe'pi-Alfc. AS. CA9rv KiOO' Q-AtTHe vxORO TO CAST H'M OPP FCt-VK AAViTOZV VOUUO SVftACU'Se. HSLEOP T710V? " C0NSTA6--5!? Wfe'S'COMiNfr" an fAV H.UN J4 WILES AvMAy MAKCf G ALL .JKSNAU. ARUWC AND COALUp' AfrA'K tmev ove- AH HOm TUHN AROUHO ON A TVftN' &i6(H&fi. WOW, GET owne sott at f.os'A. K6AO TWE Bui.LTiN5 INSPECT MVENfriME, flU. ViTH WATEIanj MOO IC QHTQ TH6 TlAltS. TXe. Alp. An p yjmJ THE QJNOWCTDI 5 The Making By MARGARET HTBBARD AYER Once upon a time there was a girl who thought she was too tall, and It worried her a great deal. When she was about 13 years old she began to sprout Just like Alice in Won derland, after she had eaten of the grow lng side of the mushroom, and she grew, and grew, and grew until she thought there was nobody In the whole world who waa so tall as she was or who pos sessed such very long legs and arms and such long hands and feet. She asked her best friends if there wasn't some thing that would keep her from growing any taller and she was quite sure she was going to be a giant or monstrosity of some kind. Her family made such fun of her height that she became horribly self conscious, and when I first knew her she was just about as awkward as any girl could be, for nothing f!ll make you aa gawky as the ridicule of your own family. "You are certainly the human giraffe." jeered her elder brother, and at dancing school she was called the . animated grasshopper. Naturally she didn't Im prove any, under this kindly admonition, but grew more awkward and ungainly day by day, and in the secrecy of her own room ehe shed bitter tears of morti fication over her else and general length of limb. I think she would have developed into one ef the angular, thin and gawky girls we see so many of , If a kindly old aunt bad not taken her la band. This dear j iI A Y i i i ! t ''.ViM'" ii I ssszl, J L.Jr OMAHA, . WEDNESDAY, hm wn qiVOTIOi THV AO nM 001 Hr f iNUV HE Tlliet OF TVrC TWltO OeO-riETVFF AHO TVP-H1KC- tt J-W DOCr l&ne PicneJr maa m . CMNeS ASTER? WBfo'Htm mm hell TOAMonter?. towha TMGW COM. AND VAMfeli. UP, jT?rW Ba:, Oit VP, OWTWOtrMii OrVTHE" VNAV WAce,(Wr P70R.T3' 7WX ( GO TQ C00l-r', ANOTEiTJf y A0"T" PEW) COWS ETC" AFTTR AH HOOftf ?ST of a Pretty Girl r 0 1 j $sl, ' -v ft t I - MISS KATHERINB KAELRED IN TWO- BEAUTIFUL P0SES old lady was a natural..' ehcourager, and Instead of telllna tha ' laniv crlrl how awkward she was, and h'ow ridiculous she looked when she stooped ln trying to hide her height, she praised heY,l telling her what a splendid thing" U fas to be tall and strong, and how proud the girl should be of her sls.' 'ft took a long time before the girl lea mod to stand up straight, instead of crouching In a; vain effort to look small, and .much patience and perseverance were expended in .trail ing her to use her arms 'and "hand naturally and gracefully.- ' The girl was also much too thin, and she seemed to be all angles and elbows. She had never had a good appetite andj JULY 24, 1912. azire TMe WHS Pl3HC-MArV SAT 0S1VC ftEML PlATTOf-N OF me urTLeScovA naitimj pATiewTLy vat. a hts" rievrVAi TED AHO VNAlTCO AirJOTHgN VrVAlTEO TOrAe A r-ONfr6JE-AtMO G-AwG" frtJTWHA- A THfTR-C hook, hevahkco r vp. WROTE A OouT fl & AUCTI C THAVSLS VMOUUO WOU call. IT A' CQQ gQO ; ' ' vi00p5 rW DEAR-. WE? HOTHlS TO 00 TlU. T0MOr?e0W T she had generally Indulged la the wrong kind of food for one of her build. Now she was encouraged to take a glass of milk between meals in the morning, in the afternoon 'and before going to bed.' She ate plenty of cereals and all the starchy, sweet vegetables, such as pota toes, peas, corn and beans, as well as salads and rich foods like ' bananas. Cream roups, macaroni -and spaghetti, puddings and other substantia! foods formed art of her daily bltt'of fare, and this regimen' lth' the encouraging flat tery of the old aunt soon' began to turn angles Ir.to curves.' Besides that, after her 'dally bath, which was in warm water and not cold, she was told to rub l WWW 1 AUICICV ( i " ' p) ag e Drawn for Selected by EDWARD MARKHAM. Dr. Woods Hutchinson. In his "W and Our Children," says some things about diet of children that I cannot agree with. I think that their diet should be a mat ter of constant concern, and their eating between meals should be under careful restrictions. But there Is much In the book that is admirable. I like especially well the following paragraphs concerning truth telling in children! "The one thing that 'will' make a child a tlar Is eoWardlce a fear of the conse quences of telling the truth.' And these consequences, nine times out of ten, which he, dreads are the results of the wrath, moid or less, righteous, of those who are In 'authority over hint. ' "Now, fear has .unquestionably played in the past a large and important part as one of the motive forcos of moral growth, as one of the influences to be appealed to in education. . : ," 'The feat of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,' we are complacently told. But necessary and Inevitable: as the fear of the oonsequenoes Is In prompting self restraint and molding conduct, it' Is now i..r,...tv ft.'mutfrt h'y thoughtful teach era and parents that It should be re stricted to as narrow limits as possible In tli training of the young child. Cer tainly no child should be made so afraid ;--7 Cure for ScrawnineSs " ' . I .l it- .11 -II... .la J herself with oil. a purs olive oil scented with lemon verbena, having been pre pared for her and kept in a cool place. Like all tall, thin girls, this one needttd plenty of rest, and eight hours' sleep, with an extra nap In the middle of the day. soon made a great change In her personal appearance. Her morning coffee was taken away from her and even tea was denied, but Instead of that plenty of chocolate was supplied. - For sweets she ate dates and figs, especially the former, Instead of candy. Where there Is no chronlo trouble, the girl who Is all too thin, nine times out of ten can trace much of her physical ailment to a worrying disposition. You can worry yourself thin even quicker than getting thin by diet or drugs. The thin girl Is usually over-consclentlous and over-energetic, and naturally she cannot acquire flesh as long as she Is overdoing physically. ' .- ' I am dwelling on the thin girl's troubles because usually the very tall girl is the very thin one, and the tall girl will never become really graceful until she adds to her weight or begins to think of her self not as a skinny hatrack of bones, but as a generously padded and wall proportioned person. . i . ; , ...... Physical grace is not . acquired by any rules out of books, but by a study of the art of beauty and motion in other people, In art, and especially In those graceful persons we see on the stage, and who personify all that is beautiful and gracious. The awkwarq, thin girl cannot do bet ter than to take as a model some woman whose physique Is the Ideal of her own slim figure. The actress has studied the srt of motion and knows how to make the beet of herself. The length of limb which worries the awkward girl Is an added beauty when it Is mastered and dominated by grace. One of these Ideals Is personified In the statuesque person of Miss Katherlne Kaelred. whoe beautiful arms and hands are the despair of her Imitators. The grace with which she moves them Is a study In Itself. She Is very tall and regal woman and her arms are long and her hands have long, slender fingers. For many years Mies Kaelred practiced this exercise, which Is one of the very best for, limbering the wrist and arm. "Hold the arm out from the shoulder, the hand stretched out. placing ths fingers on an imaginary bar, raise the wrist without moving the fingers; now lower the wrist, still keeping the fingers on the same spot. At first It is well to place the fingers on a firm base,' a shelf or even the back of a ehatr will do. In raising the wrist raise It as If from the shoulder, and lower it the same way. Don't raise the wrist from the elbow. Raise the wrist with a long, undulating movement, 'almost a snake-like move ment." ...... Some of Mist Kaelred's rules are worth remembering by the tall girl: , i "Never, try ,,to, look shorter than you are. Be proud of your height. "Don't forget that a large woman must be stately and slow to motion. "Cultivate repose " Discouraging. "What's the matterr "Oh, nothing." "No, no, don't tell mo that Something disagreeable or discouraging ,bas hap pened. Your looks show it. ' 1 ''Well, If you insist on knowing, I started out this morning . feeling as gay and chipper as a boy of twenty; but a little while ago I met a fortner sweetheart of mine and she told me that her eeoond daughter bad just graduated from high school. Say, are the wrinkles around my eyes very noticeable ?" Chicago Record-Herald. 9 The Bee by Tad of any punishment that he will lie to. es cape it. "To tho unspoiled, uncowed, unterrlfled child It goes as much against the grain to tell a lalsehood as It does to eat salt on his pudding Instead of sugar. "To Invent something that didn't hap pen Is an unnecessary mental effort, in the first place. In the second, It lands him In a lot of trouble, making this new creation of his square with a lot of other obstinate facts that are sure to crop up. In the third place,. It leaves, him In the uncomfortable dread of being found out, when he knows that with tha. exquisite logic of parental discipline he wi'.l be doubly punished, onoe for committing the offence and once more for lying about it "Lying Is the vice of slaves and- cow ards, and your child Is born a free man and a fighter. If he loses his heritage, It wilt be more often your faults than his. . . , . "this is not by any means to. say that a child will not of his own accord make a statement which doesn't correspond with the facts. On the contranry, many children are born romancers, ' and posi tively revel in exaggeration and i ts rol'lng forth of , romantic adventure which could never by any possibility have occurred fo them-imless it be, in, some previous Incarnation. .' j "These Uttie . wonder mongers vhve Such fertile Imaginations and envisage things so .clearly the 'ai ,t'd of thtin, and gloat so over the pictures of battle and adventure which are spread before them In their gift-books,, recalling every tiniest detail and touch of color In that photographlo memory of theirs, that they have, I am convinced, great difficulty In distinguishing between their memories of what rea'.iy happened to them and their even more vivid recollections of the things that they have read or been told, or seen In picture books. "The cow that actually Shook its head and mooed ferociously at them is a recollection not a whU more real to them than the dragon with biasing scales and fiery breath who almost swallowed them whole for supper. "But there Is not a psrtlcle of vice in tissue preposterous romances, which are obviously on the very face of them In capable of deoetvlng even the moat gull ble. They furnish one of tha most de lightful occupations of childhood, and the only harm In them Is In the mild element of boasting and bragadoclo Involved, and the habit of leading the child to dwell too much In the clouds, i "But the greatest breeder of untruth fulness In young children la the habit (which, alas! it Is so easy to fall Into) on the part of particularly consoientloue parents end guardians, of surrounding the child's every activity, his every hour ef the day, with an elaborate network of rulca and restrictions and precepts. "Some pf these, though reasonable In themselves, hedge the child In at so many points that It Is scarcely in human nature to avoid conflicting with them; "Others are utterly absurd and Irra tional, and made by us far more out of regard for our own comfort and peace of mind than for the well-being of the child, such as many of the edicts against noise and boisterousness, and playing with water, or running on the grass, or climbing the trees for fear that it wtll spoil his clothes, "But the main point is that there are so many of these rules that the child can hardly even remember them all, let alone manage to observe them. And the chances are that, when suddenly pounced upon by an Irate parent, or nurse maid, who demands with fury In the eyes and sternness. In . the voice whether, be has been playing In the bath room and dropped the glass on the floor, or taken the salt caller for a sand box and heaped Its contents on the tablecloth, he is ex ceedingly likely, en UghtntngJlkt Im pulse, to say 'No.' And when he has once said It . of course he Is bound to. stick to it from sheer perversity and senss of self-respect. "We ought to respect the reserve, the Individuality and the $alf-respeqt of the child. T-he child is by nature .honest, brave and affectionate But how aulckly there virtues developdepends much upon ble environment-"' - ; . . Whv He Sympathised r The physicians In Mankato had' agreed that during the Chautauqua, '.assembly they would employ a .call boy.,' and each was to pay his share of the expense. This bey was to call any 'doctor who was wanted, without disturbing the, speaker, as It was emberrassing"' "to him and looked as if they were doing it to advertise without expense; So it all went well until the aftemeen when Strickland W. Otlllland spoke. As he was talking away a certain doctor had call from the platform, and he walked eut father ostentatiously.. Some of the people who knew . of the arrangement laughed and snickered, and the speaker got. It, He aald: "Don't taughk.-folka That Is the way' jgy brother fot hie start" - ' '- - And everybody roared. Minneapolis Journal. I ' ' ' ' : .' "".-''.':'" ' i ''