- FRIDAY EVENING, HA
TRAINING OF THE CHILD
By ELLA WHEELER* WILCOX
II There was a wom
an of limited men
ial powers, who lis
•tened to lectures on
Mental Science and
the power of Mind,
and she decided to
develop her child of
ten into a wonder of
wit and musical
prodigy.
She was utterly
lacking in a sense
of humor herself,
and she had never
been able to under
stand the different
„i am i minor
keys, or the intricacies of time, in
music.
She decided to give her son those
things she lacked.
She put him in the hands of mu
sic teachers, and she procured for
him all th, humorous books she could
find in the libraries.
Then she devoted an hour in the
filence each day to asserting success
for her child.
But the boy was bored with the
books; and he was the dullest pupil
In music ever known; and after three
years his discouraged music master
Rdvised the mother to waste no more
money on her sons' musical educa
tion. but to give him opportunity to
develop his taste for athletics. There
upon the mother decided there was
no truth in Mental Science, or the
theories about the divine power in
each soul to be what it willed to be.
But the woman had not used good
lense.
Wit is a gift, like music, poetry
and painting.
A sense of humor lacking, it is dif
ficult to train or direct a mind to see
the merry or absurd or comical side'
t)f things.
It would be impossible to teach a i
hoy born with a mechanical genius;
to compose oratories or epics. It ;
would be a waste of time to try.
Just so it would be folly to try to
train the serious or philosophical
mind to humor.
Let each human being grow into
the best of his own kind. Train him
along natural lines—that is the way
to educate.
Common sense is quite another
thing. It can be cultivated by teach - I
•rs and parents in children who doi
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not seem to possess it in any degree.
But first, the parents and the teach
ers must possess it—and few do.
I have seen a dreamy, visionary,
improvident and extravagant boy
trained into practical prudence,
thrift and economy by the persistent
guidance of an uncle he loved, and
who loved him.
The brain cells were entirely re
made in the course of a few years of
constant association with the uncle.
Fear is self-consciousness some
times, sometimes an anaemic condi
tion, sometimes the result of false
education.
The child that never hears stories
about the "dark." who never read
"Little Red Hiding Hood" and other
ear-inciting tales, and who has not
been nagged and scolded by its par
ents in the effort to make it a per
ect child, is not liable to feel fear on
slight provocation.
The old theology, with its absurd
and blasphemous stories of lakes of
hell-fire for the children of unbeliev
ers and an avenging and frowning
God, did much to awaken fear in chil
dren and render them nervous and
timid.
I have heard mature men describe
the nights of horror they passed as
little children after listening to one
of the old-time sermons and the aw
ful terror of death which such per
nicious teachings inculcated. A moth
jer who, during the nine months tire
ceding her child's birth, lives in fear
of poverty or death, or who is in ter
ror of a drunken or cruel or unkind
husband, marks her child with a timid
and easily frightened nature.
I have seen a child of two or three
years who was given to hours of hys
terical weeping without any appar
ent cause. But the cause lay In the
fact that the mother lived with her
husband's family, and the baby was
unwelcome to all, as the father was
dependent financially on his parents.
Yet such an unfortunate birthmark ;
can be educated out of ihe child by i
a cheerful and kind and wholesome;
environment.
While the great talents cannot be j
educated into a human being, all the i
unworthy and unfortunate traits can j
be educated out and the great virtues |
awakened by persistent efforts on the |
part of associates, guides and teach- !
ers.
A man who wrote good, strong i
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prose, and who was a devout believer
in the power of the will to achieve
anything, wasted precious time and
energy in a determination to be a
poet.
He studied all the laws governing
verse; and he put large, virile ideas
into correct mechanical form. Yet he
was unable to produce - one line of
poetry.
All he wrote In verse left his read
ers cold and unstirred, and even worse
than that, man of his would-be
poems jarred like discords in music,
even though they "scanned" accord
ing to rule.
But the divine something was not
there.
He had mistaken his vocation.
In our application of this great law
of the power of the will to achieve
results we must employ reason and
logic.
We must use this law along the line
of least resistance.
Finding where our strongest powers
lie and our best abilities we should
turn our \ hole intellectual and spir
itual batteries in that direction. Think,
study, meditate, affirm, prav and work
to attain desired results in'the under
taking for which we are fitted by na
ture. The man who is color blind
and unable to distinguish shades and
tones easily may overcome this mis-
I fortune to a great degree by patient
| practice in studying colors. But he
Ishould never seek a position on trains
jor ships, where the observance of sig
inals is an important part of duty;
'nor should he try to become r t artist.
:In neither field could h-» g honors.
Children should be watel is they
: develop into thinking b \ anil
their tastes and tendencies d be
carefully noted by wise parents and
instructors. Then every effort should
I be made according to old and new
thought methods to encourage the
growth of the very best qualities and
jto eliminate b* lack of use all unde
sirable traits and propensities.
By encouraging words and by force-1
;ful silent thought vibrations the most
| unpromising child may be helped to
grow into what a wise parent de
sires. But the WISE parent never
desires the impossible. He does not
try to make a mechanic out of a mu
sical prodigy; nor a musical prodigy
out of a born mechanic who is stone
I deaf.
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The pattern 8251 is cut in sizes 34, 36,
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Harry, a bright youngster, -was told
by his mother that she would give him
five cents for a dozen pins rescued from
the floors, thus preventing her year
old-babe, who was just beginning to
creep, from finding them. "What will
you do with the money when you
earn it, Harry?" he was asked by a
neii;htor. "With the first five cents,"
said Harry, promptly, "I will buy a
paper of pins and scatter them all,
over the house." —ln National
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ENOUGH LEFT OVER
Mrs. Ives had entertained her bridge
club, and as she had to prepare con
siderable food having gotten her hand
in, she decided to invite a few people,
to whom she was indebted, for the
next evening.
She made out her list of guests, and
sent her little daughter Eleanor to de
liver the invitations. Eleanor's first
stop was at Mrs. Jordan's. She gave
the Invitation and as she was about to
depart, Mrs. Jordan said:
"Why, Eleanor, I'm aQ-aid your
mother is undertaking too much, after
having had the bridge club last even
ing."
"Oh, I guess not," replied the child,
"I heard her tell father this morning
that there was stuff enough left for
three parties."—ln National Monthly.
A RELIGIOUS MAN
"Say, ma!" said Willie, "do you
know I think that that ash man that
comes and dumps our ashes every
week Is a real good Christian man?"
"Why so?" asked his mother.
"Well, yesterday he came to Mrs.
Smith's house next door and picked
up their wooden barrel and raised it
over his head and was about to dump
it in his car when the bottom came
out and ashes fell all over him."
"My how terrible." said Willie's
mother, "and what did he do?"
"Oh! he just sat down-In the gut
ter and told God all about it." —In
National Monthly.
BABY'S NAME
It was an eventful day for Rose the
day her little sister was born. She was
I delighted and took no pains to i-oti-
Iceal her great joy. At the sumo time
she felt a Kieat Increase of age and
dignity, and announced to her mother,
at the first opportunity that she no
longer wished to be called "Rose" but
by her own name—Frances.
"We called you Rose, dear, when
you were a baby," said her mother,
with an indulgent smile, "because you
were so fair and sweet that you re
minded us of a rose. Can you not
think of some flower that your little
sister resembles?"
Rose curled herself up at the foot
of her mother's bed and meditated
deeply for a few moments then she
went over and took a peep at baby
sleeping peacefully In her crib.
"I think we might call her cur
rant," said the little tot. —In National
Monthly.
THK I.ITASY OF HOSES
For that my roses knew the scathe,
For women writ in silver rime,
I thought me but a women wraith,
A dead leaf on the winds of time.
Yet gallantly, with head unbowed.
With fingers deft as any fay's.
From flax, silk fine, I wrought a
shroud.
For the gay comrade of my days.
I swathed him in It, fold on fold.
And set a candle at his head,
Then over him, so wan and cold.
The litany of roses said.
, I scanted naught, from April's flower.
Thorny and pale, a rose's ghost.
To red, red blooms of royal dower,
i That dare the falling of # the frost.
"Pray, roses all. for love in death!"
My heart said if I spake no word:
Sudden I felt a catching breath—
Love in his cerements strongVy
stirred.
"Ix>ve and his rose die not of frost."
lie laughed within his sheltered
, | close—
! For—you had passed and lightly tossed
Within my hand a red. red rose.
'l—Martha McCulloch-Williams, In June
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TWO WAR VETERANS BURIED
Marietta, Pa., May 22. —For the first
time in many years two Civil War vet
erans were burled about the same time
In the Marietta Cemetery yesterday
I afternoon, Captain Sigmund N. Wis-
I ner and Joseph McFarland. Tho
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funeral of tho former waa held from
. 'his late home in Market street, the
Rev. H. H. Poticher officiating. At
the funeral of Mr. McFarland, In tho
United Brethren Church, West Mari
etta. tho Rev. Mr. Funk was the offi
ciating clergyman.
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