The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-09-11
FATHERS, BE KIND.

AoA O Gull q iAttAN As7b
nervous intensity, WITH eyes of start
ling wonder and long curling eye
lssnss. which sta ted Ike his fawn-
like eyes with quick epprehsnsloD
and timidity; boy "no played with
all intensity, kept dong something
all day long without tne power 10
rest, walked off EaIUue, and even
when alone spoke with bimselt.
chased the geese with little legg as
lean and swift, and at the table eating
his meals could not sit very etlli nor
bear to sit all the morning IL church
hearing toe sermon, because Bis
heart was te0 rapid in his narrow
little chsst. where every rib could be
counted against his tender flesh AID
skin. La the morning he was Rwake
at the earliest light; at ths evening
his tired nature yielded to the deep
sleep of exhaustion. His mother
feared she could never raise him 80
be a man His father thought he
was too long becoming q man in
gravity, 5obrIety and formal obed
auce.
What ails my scn?" the father
sternly asked He is rattle-hesdet
and without stability. l fear Tor
him. d. you chastise him enough?
Spare Lot the rod lest be grows be-
yoed you aud your rule!"
'Alas!" exclaimed the mother, "h5
has mis- little world We cannot see, per-
baps. He is growing and sensitive,
TIE do2tor says we must not push
him at bis studies, but let him play
all he can. till his frame is equal to
his brain"
The father shook bis head and
spoke sternIy to the boy, end feared
ne was going 10 give them all trouble
growing uD 20 seldom moulded and
restrained.
All Gay the little boy was doing
something, carrying the cat by the
tail, carrying the dog under his arm,
making pictures on the paper Of en-
gines and steamboats, and Indians
and bellows
He will be an artist" said his
mother, hopefully.
He will spoil the library" ex-
claimed the father, supiciougly.
Antsgonisn grew up between the
father and the boy, born, on the boys
part, Of fear; on the fathers of critl
cism and severity. The boy ran to
is mother and asked her protection
iiom his fathers suspecting eyes.
the father feared his wife was spoil
iBg the son with mistaken generosity
and allowance. At times the fathers
habiIual suspicion broke away lks
clouds above hard, humid Britain.
and be laid his rigorous books OF
theology down to take bic boy walk.
Jag, and they grew little nesrer.
Then sgaiD the father observed Eebaa
voluptuous tendency in the sSn
which started his fears anew; sosse
taste for worldly, passiag msdss a4d
joys.
wife, " said he, do you ever give
our boy money!
"a little" she said; "a lev peg
nies, to buy drawing materials aHd
colors; he will be M artist. |
think"
Money" exclaimed ,he sire, a.
the root of every evil. You hSa pa
tar give him FIRE or polsen. He
will become Wild, rained spsha-
thrift"
The idea that his wife gave the
child money operated in the fathers
head like jealousy or revenge; il
tinted everything about bis .un's
conduct, and he believed his wife lad
deliberately set to work to indulge
her child at the expense of hh s-ul. ).
One morning, thinking of such
things, the father ley awake in bed
and a gentle noise disturbed hiha.
The sun was nearly up. though it WAS
scarcely five O'Clock. and the light
cir striking through the chamber car
tsins, showed a little boy in his
nieht-gown stealing along the floor
toward the foot of bis fathers bed.
Lying perfectly still, with eyes almost
closed, the father saw that small
headed child unabls perhaps to
sleep, yet careful not to awake bis
parents, turn an eye of ccvetousness
upon his fathers trousers and vest
hanging upon a nail. He glanced
sharply toward his father to sec if be
was quite asleep, and then swiftly,
like little bird hoped upoa chair
rem his lean white fingers into his
fathers pocket.
"Ha" thought the father. "My
son IN my pockets by stealth, before
I an awake, and initiating the bad
example of my wife, who often, per-
haps, searches unauthorizedly there!"
As he said this a dreadful idea
crossed bis mind. That son, spoiled
by his mothers indulgence, already
corrupted by spending money, was
thiei-s thief while yet child He
rose in bed and spoke in q voice of
thunder.
Robert, you are stealing my
money!
Horror frose the boy; he dropped
from the chair Ike 8 Cat, and was
into his own bed in the next room
and covered his fsce with the sheets
Anguish and stern resolve possessed
at once the isther's stricken heart
He had delayed too long to chastise