The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-07
tFor the GLoBE.1
The Bows,

Fond parent, dldst ever fail, ON the glad
birth morn of your sons, to weave brill
liant web of fancies that were to be inter-
woven with the future destiny of the newly
born
How natural to dream of what the babe
will become as a youth, as q man viii
the bright promise Of his babyhood be full
filled in his youth viii the bright prom
Use of his boyhood days be fulfilled in his
prime
, Your hopes for the boy are lofty your
aspirations for his veal grow with his
growth. Your strength of purpose finds
new powers in his promise. His first
smile makes him beautiful his first pratt
tie attracts all attention. His first lessons,
well learned encourages, his first duty we'll
performed is first fruition of early hope.
Homely or handsome, graceful or I'M
couth, you sea in your own sons something
superior to others though all others may
fail to notice the superiority. All this is
natural How natural, too, for us to be
blinded by our affections to all the imper-
fections of our sons.
If you knew that the first blasphemous
expression polluting the lips of your son
and caught, perhaps from your own, was
lesson never to be forgotten would you
laugh at his precocity? If you knew that
all the evil influences that surround the
growing minds of your sons, often in their
homes, always on the street, would destroy
his good name, discourage his perseverance
in good and make HIM a vagabond-if you
knew the dire consequence ofiyour neglect,
of your example, of your indulgence, your
blindness would disappear. your too indul-
gent love would be more frequently tenn
pered with severity and strict surveillance.
Frequently, We hear the expression fall
| from fathers or mothers lips: "Ah,
have bad boy can do nothing with
| him."
But few short years ago that bad boy
was your chief scare and idol. You built
your brightest, fondest hopes upon his
| future. He had no mind no will of his
own. You formed him as he is. You made
| him bad boy! You condemn yourself
unwittingly, then.
| You say he is bad boy but do you yet
believe it You would not like to have
your neighbor tell you so, you feel aggrev-
ed because your boy sights your COM
mands, becomes self-sustaining before his
time, assumes all the importance of the
man and totally ignores you and your in
| terests. Well this Is slight loss in the
narrow compass of your home but a vast,
irreparable one TO society at large. In
few more years, at most, you will pass
away but your bad boys may live to curse
| your memory.
Reader, did you ever hear father or
mother remark 'my boy never learns any
thing bad at home; strange, the unfavor-
able reports we hear of him on the street y
True, your boy may have never learned
anything bad at home, but how much good
has he learned there? Has he learned to
tremble at your frown Has he learned
TO fear your displeasure for misdecds on
the street, in the school as much as at home
in your presence? Has he learned from
tyour example and good instruction, his
duty in your neighbors house, his duty at
school to his teacher, to his companions
and associatesseverywhere?
Father and mother, your sons cannot,
become bad boys without your own essen
tial aid. AS you teach them to honor you
so thew will learn TO honor themselves and
all with whom they come in contact.
How sad to witness the painful rending
of your brilliant birth morn fancies, and
the death OF aspirations and dreams then
INDUCED in when old aud forlorn your
worthless sons live only to execrate your
name.
How sad to believe that the best powers
and faculties of your sons lie dormant,
through your neglect to call them into
being big precept and example If you
have vice or failing. you cannot conceal
it from your boys. If you drink whisky
your sons curiosity will soon teach them
to love 1t, also, if you blaspheme Gods
name, il you smoke and chew, your sons
!, can never be manly until they do likewise
il you can quietly sit IN your home or retire
to your bed at night, knowing that your
! sons are on the street OF in bad company
} you must not blame the public scandals
8 that soon arise through their misdeeds an,
forever deprive them of that good nam
which to lose is to deprive them of all am
G bition to secure an honorable and usefu
8 membership in society. GEswno.