The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-01-05
Hiring Children 70. be Good.


Mrs. Holmes and her sister were sit
hing before the cheerful CRATE fire sew.
ing, while their tongues hew almost al
nimbly as their fingers, as various mat
ters from the forming of the President's
Cabinet down to the shade of blue used
in knitting the baby's socks had been
discussed. Finally the subject of mir.
ing children to~be goodswas broachesi.
"Well." said Mrs. Holmes, l am tired
of trying to coax or beg Albert to dc
anything and I think he is too large
a boy to 1coeree into right doing. So ]
am going to hire him to do any little
task I may hereafter require of him. y
MARX my words, Ellen, you'll be sorry
if you do" replied her sister, show
soon, think you. will his judgment as to
terms differ from yoursa 1 saw that
course tried by George Edward 8 moth
er last summer. She needed some
cherries for making pies. and. offered
him six cents a quart to pick them. He
answered, impudently enough: Who'll
pick cherries for six cents d quart? I
wont. And only Yesterday. in coming
from church, /. overheard Mrs. Moody
offering her boy five cents to learn the
books of the Old Testament before
"Well, he probably learned them.',
'.He more likely did not. or if he did
he can't repeat them to-day. Twill find
out how good his memory is next Sun.
day morning, as heeis in my sabbath
school class. Hiring children to learn
anything, to do anything which they
should do, for it's own sake, or to be any
thing, 1 have never found yet to work
well.n ssSsi7
= 'sWell, what can be done?'' a84
'.Doiie! Why tell q child to do .
thing and see that he does it, to be
sure. The very groundwork of order
in families is obedience.l Ihave always
told you that you wonld5 have trouble
withsAlbert if you appealed so constant;
dy to his wishes in little matters. A
parent ought to know what is for a
child's good better than the child does.
and without unrighteously provoking d
child to wrath or thwartfng it unncces-
sarily. Unqnestioning obedienee should
be the rule. This has always been my
plan vii NY children, as you well
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- hay Afways thought You much too
strict / 1kyour little ones. What does
child Of Nina's age know about .obe-
dience? You utterly spoif all the little
cunning ways aofayour mere babies,' 81
= Better to get along without a self,
willed pet than to tolerate a self-willed,
boy .1s 4s;sf.s.;.., - s.
But you do give your children re-
n,a wards a;r;n for ben, beng good What is that
My children know that obedience
is expected of them; that to do good
and be good is to be the rule of their
lives, but they have evil and temptation
to contend against, rs well as all other.
children. Ii the hope Of gaining some
little gift, is added to tile conscientious
Of the matter, L sometimes
think it helps some in overcoming the
natural desires for wrong doing,
stsThen why do you tell me Tshall be
sorry if hire Albert to do right a. +
:: Simply because he@well krioAes if
you do. not hire him he will not have
to perform t1e required task, and in
this way you are putting yourself at his
mercy. You make the Gift the
sole reason for his doing it, and as
say, his ideas of value and yours
will soon differ. With my children,
# wish anything done they
understand fully they must. do it,
Z give them any little extra
pleasure for it or not. "A regular barter
Of so much given for such a service
rendered [ seldom make with them.
Whenever j do. it is about some little
business matter, and for the purpose OF
them either to work or to get
Dy their own labor. / hired Willie to /
pick some berries for me during the
summer. yet, had / wished him. to do
20, he would have picked them for me
Without pay. / wished to teach him the
value of his labor s
1Well, / must confess, can't see
he difference between your method OF
hiring and mine.n az ilss sssS
s'WeA, there is difference. You
admit being tired coaxing and begging
Albert to do anythings and therefore
propose hiring him, and / tell you twill
all as signally as coaxing and begging
lave done. l never importune my chill
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light to command them to do, as you
veil know. Therefore, a gift from me
S extraneous, a reward of well-doing,
vet not make-shift to enforce a COM
nand, which without it would be of no
'fect, And would you commence this
very day, late as it is, and demand q
prompt, quick obedience from Albert,
n short time you would have no oc-
'asion to coax or beg, and the rewards
# well-doing can then be kept for
,rizes, as it were"
80 Well. sister, your success with your
,oys has 50 far certainly been remark
bile. If Ienly. could - "a
I" You can if you will. You are a
Woman of sufficient character to carry
'ut any course which involves as much
courage and tact as this will. Only you
must assert and maintain your woman
y, or rather, yonr motherly dignity
at Work.
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