The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-23

A Parent Who Tried Bob I~ngersOli's
Methods.
From the Springfield Republican

Colonel Ingersoll says he keeps a pocket
bo k In ali open drawer and his children 60
and help themselves to money whenever they
Want it. 81 hey eat when they want to;
they may sleep all day If they choose aud sit
up all night If they desire. | dont try to
cOerce them, l never punish, l never scold.
They buy their own clothes and are masters
of themselves"
A gentleman living on Marshall street who
| has a boy that IS fun as kitteny as his father
read the article and pondered deeply. He
knew that Colonel lnyersoll Was u success al
raising children III the way they hould 60
and he thought he woul try it. The boy
had caused INN considerably annoyance, anu
he made up his mind that he had not Treated
The boy right, so lie called The boy in from
the street, where he was putting soft-Soap on
Il lamp-pOSt i'll order TO see the lalnpllglter
climb 1t, and said to him
"My sen, | have decided to adopt a different
course with you. Heretofore / have been
careful about giving you money and have
wanted to know where every cent went to,
and my supervision has, no doubt, been an
uoying to You. Now l'm going to leave my
pockei-uuok III the bureau drawer, with
plent of money in it, and you are at liberty
70 use all you want without asking me. l
WANT you 20 buy anything you desire to buy
your own clothes and feel as though the
money was yours, and that you had not got
to account tor it. just make yourself at
nome now and try and have a good time"
The boy looked at the old gentleman, put
his hand Oh his head, as though he had '.got
'em shure," and went out to see the lamp
lighter climb the soft-soap. The next day
the sterner parent went out into the country
shooting, and returned on the midnight train
three days later. He opened the door with a
latch key, and a strange yellow dog grabbed
him ny the elbow Of his pants and shook him
he said, "hke the agur."
The dog barked and chewed until the son
anne down in his night-shirt and called him
off. He told his father that lie had bought
that dog of a fireman for $11 and it was
probably the best dog bargain That had been
made this season. He said the fireman told
| him he could find a man that wanted that
kind of a dog.
The parent took of his pants, what the dog
had not removed, and in tie hall he stumbled
over a birch bark canoe the boy bought of All
| Indian for 50, and all army musket, with all
iron ramrod, tell Town from the corner. The
boy had paid Sc for that. had also
bought himself an Overcoat with :. sealskin
collar and cuffs and a complete outfit of
calico shirts and silk stockings.
In his room the pareut found the marble
top of a soda fountain, a Wheelbarrow aud
the matle-sheli filled with all kinds of canned
meats preserves and crackers and a barrel of
apples.
A wall tent and six pair of blankets were
rolled up ready for camping out, and a buck
skin shirt and a pair of coruurOy pants lay OIL
the bed ready for pulling on. Six tish-poIes
and a basketful Of fish were ready for
business, and an oyster can full Of Grub
worms tor bait were squirmlng on the wash.
stand. The old gentleman looked the lay
out over, looked at his pocket-book in the
bureau drawer. as empty as a contribution
box, and said
"Young man, the times have been too flush
we will now return 10 a specie basis. When
you want money come to me and l will Civ,
you a nlckle and you will tell me what vol
intend to buy with it or I'll warm you. You
hear me ~