Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-02-11
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From Our Special Correspondent
EDITORS HERALD AND TRIBUNE IF
you wish your children to be gentle. kind
and polite, you must manifest these quail
tiles IN your treatment of them. Chil>
dren are proverbial for their initiatives
ness, aud they look up to their parents
aud teachers, not only as guides in all
things, but almost as Gods and are ever
ready to copy after, and initiate them.
Ii you speak Grossly, rudely or unpolitely
TO them, you may be very sure they will
in turn do the same in their intercourse
with their playmates and associates. A
child that is always treated with an uu>
varying politeness will never speak rudely
or imprudently to one. Aud one that is
never kicked, cuffed or abused, will sci
dom quarrel or strike its playmates.
The day has gone by when children
we're expected to be meekly, humble and
os,sr'y submissive: For to make them
so generally results in cowardice or du>
plicity, and perhaps both, Yet in the
ignorance Of true mode of training,
many are SO badly managed that they 60
the other extreme, and become pert,
saucy and swaggering-but all this will
be rsmedied when people learn the true
art Of Government. When they guide,
lead and treat, rather than force, drive
and combat. Because you happen to be
a parent gives you no right to donineer
or tyranze over the little ones who are
in your power.
Love, justice and equality should be
the motto Of every one who has the trains
log Of the young. BY love, l do not
mean au undue indulgence in granting
every imprudent or foolish wish and whin
but love that seeks tie highest good of
its object, love that can say no. when
no is for the childs good, and which can
deny itself when doing So is for the best.
When you refuse childs request, always
couch your refusal in mild, gentle, yet
irm tones. Speak kindly and politely,
neye. in anger or resentment if it eau
possibly he avoided for these provoke the
sane in the child, ani their influence is
always an EVIL Que.
BY justice, mean that we should re,
gard ehildrens rights as we'll as our own.
They have keen and almost intuitive
sense If li4ht and wrong, aud act Of in-
justice always weigh heavy in the b cart
of child who feels that he has been
wroDged or imposed upon, especially by
parent or one that he loves. Children
who are treated with scrupulous justice
seldom fail to make just aud honest men.
They have right to sufhcency Of good
heathful food, comfortable clothing, a
pleasant home, as good an education as
their parents, or the community OF which
they are member. can give them, aud a
training which will develope the highest
and nob!est qualities Of their nature.
BY equality, ! mean that they are co,
heirs with their parents to all the bUuu.
teous gifts Of nature which are SO plen>
tiously bestowed upon us all, and have a
right the same as they have a"life of liber-
ty and the pursuit Of happiness and who
ever robs one of them of either of these
things, by neglect ,r carelessncss or self.
ishness, is guilty Of injustice.
The world is year by year growing
more and more humankind and gentle,
learning more and more to respect the
light OF all that lives, even to the dumb
ANIMALS it holds in servitude for domes,
tic use. 1t trusts more and more to the
inmate sense Of tight in the human soul
instead OF resting to law, force and com.
pulsion in its governments. AS result
of this humanitarian system, wars, MUIR
derers. tyrany aud expressions are grad
ually dying out, aud the history OF the
future will not consist Of merely chrOa-
iele of the fights massacrees AMI rebel
lions that have taken place. or the bio
graphics Of Kings, EmperOrs aud rulers,
who have won the bloodieSt victories over
their enemies, but rather Of the progress
Of The world in art, science. and OF civil
l,zation aud Of tales. of the deeds which
have tended to produce the greatest aud
highest good # the race. Deeds Which
have developed tie most of the grea,
qualities Of love. kindness aud true polite.
uess to all.
E. d. S.
Snowviile, Pulaski Co. Va. Jan. p 1875
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