The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-16
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Hints to Parents.

Always speak in a pleasant voice.
Teach your children how to work !;
how to obtain a living by their ef.
forts. Teach them the nobility and
the dignity of labor. that they must
respect and honor the producer.
Explain the reason why. The
child is little interrogation point.
To it all is new. Explain the reas-
on. Your boy will some day repay
! this trouble by teaching some other
child.
Teach your children the evil OF Sc
cret vice, and the consequences OF
using tobaoc, and spirituous Ii
auors; teach them to be temperate,
orderly, punctual, truthful, neat,
faithful and honest.
Encourage your child to be care
full of personal appearance; to re-
lturn every tool to it's place. to
/ Always pay debts promptly; to ney,
er shIrk duty; to do an equal
share, and to always live up to aa
agreement.
Teach your children to confide
| in YOU, by conference together. Tell
them your plans, and sometimes
ask their advice; they will thus
open their hearts to you, and will
ask: your advice. The girl who
tells all her heart to her mother has
shield and protection about her
which can come only with moth
er's advice and counsel.
| Give your children your conf
dence in the affairs of your business.
They will thus take interest, and
become co-workers with you. II
YOU enlist their respect, theii
sympathy and cooperation, they
will quite likely remain to take ur
your work when you have done, and
will go ahead perfecting what you
have commenced. tr3
If YOU are farmer, do not over
work your children, and thus by
hard and dreary life drive them of
to the cities. Arise at reasonable
hour in the morning, take an hours
rest after meals, and quit at five, o.
six o'clock in the afternoon. lie
the young people, in games and 9th
er amusements have happy time
during the remainder of the day
There is no reason why a farmer
family should be deprived of recre
= alton and amusement, any NOR
+. than others
Teach your child the value of th'
Sabbath asia day for the spiritua
improvement of the mind; that OF
the Sabbath morn the ordinary
work of the week should not be re
sumed if is possible to avoid it
t that the day should be passed in at
3 tendance upon religious service o
some kind, or exercises that vii
t enable and spiritualize the nature
While rest and recreation may be-
: part of the days programme, tru'
philosophy dictates that the spirit
ual faculties of the nature should b
cultivated by setting apart a por-
4 ton OF the time for their improve
ment. g.
Teach yonr children those thing
: which they will need when they pc
' uss.s.4s MEN and .te;aeei "a womes
: they should understand how to cook
how to make bed, how to preserv'
cleanliness and order Throughout
the house; how 20 ornament theii
rooms, to renovate and preserve fur
, niture and clothing, how to sing
how to play various games, thai
they may enliven the household
They should be taught how to swim
and how to ride, how to, drive how
to do business and how to preserve
health. The mother should early
entrust money to the girl, with
which 70 buy articles for the house
hold, that she may know it's value
= Think what man and woman need
to know in order to be healthy, hap
py, prosperous and successful, and
teach them that.