The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-04-28
pulls one way and father pulls the otber

4 from monday morning 10 Saturday night
1t is that style Of culture. The boy is
picked at and picked at and picked at.
Now, you might betteC give one sound
chastisement, and have done with il
than 70 Indulge Ia the perpetuaI seold-
ing and fretfulness. There Is more
health In one good thunderstorm than
in three or four daysOf cold dTizzle. -.
Here is apaTent who says: TI2wilI
not err on the side that parent hae erred.
In being. too strict with his children.
wiz let mine do as they please. If they
want to come in to prayer they can; II
they want 70 stay out they can; if they
want TO play at cards they can; they Can
do Bny thing they please; there shall be
no hindeTance. 60 ttl Here are tickets
for the opera and theRteT, son; take your
friends with you; do whatever y0l, de-
stre."+ One day q gthtleIhan comes in
from the bank 10 his fathers office and
says: They want 70 see you over at the
bank q Tninute.1 Father goessinto the
bank. The cashier says: is thai your
l checkP Father looks at tt and says:
mo, never gave that check; l never
CROSS u in that way; never make the
curl to y in that way; it's not my
check; that's a forgery; send Tor the
Fp0lieeP 'Ahg says the cashier, .;don't
be 80 quick; your son did thatg The
fact wa5 that the boy bad been put in
aissipatiDg circles, and ten and
| afty dollars went in that dlre ctiOn
and he had been treated, and he
mad TO treat others, and tho boy
felt that he must have $500 to keep him
self in that circle Thai night the father
sits up for the s0n tO come home. IL Is
one O'Clock before he comes iniO the
nall. be comes IN very much flushed.
his eyes glaring and his breath often
| SlVe. Father says: "My son, how can
JOu do SOP a have given you everything
yOn wanted, and everything 10 make
YOU comfortable ana happy, and how
4 hhd IN my old age that you are spend
| thrift, Il6ertlne and a drunkardl' Tht
'0n says: Now, father, what's the use
If you talking in that way2 You tOld
ne that might have good time, anu
20 go IL. have been acting on your
| -uggestiOn, that's ALL" And 80 one par
ut srr5 on one side, and another paren.
rrs on The other; aud b, W to strike
| 4. ppy medium between severity and tot
ie1IencY, and dtTrln our eoIls and daughI-
.TS 10 usefulness On ear Lh and DllsI liz
pIeayen, ls ~ question which agitates
very Christian household III my cOngTe-
cation. Where 80 many good Inen anu
women have failed Is II strange that W.
should sJulr times OuOttne pgUprieIy UI
Jur IheOryiand the aceuraey'0f our klnu
Again, pafentlai anxiety often arises
rom an early eKhiblIiOnrOf sinfulness
| III the child. The mOrnfng-glOrfeS
JIOOm for little while under the sun,
.nd then they shut up as the heat comes
IN; but there are flowers BiUnR tHr-
KL1AH0n that blaze their beauty tOI
weeks at time; but the shUrT-liVeu
.nOfninH glory fulfIlS its nIlssiom az
veil as Lne-VictorIau ufegia. There are
some people who take forty, fifty OF
&txty yeAfs IOsdeVelOn@s Then there art
tIttIe children whO ding their beauty Oh
yne vision and VANISH They are mOrp
ing -glyrles that, c4nnOt stanu the YiATt
f the hot noon su1l-Ot trial. YouhaSrA
aiA know "a such little children. They
are pare; they were ethereal; there was
something very wonderfully deep-iH the
eye; they had q gentle foot and soft
nald, and =, Something plnnest g5upefs
ma tdriI in their dahaYfor TO he
varied aWay. 2 AYon had dlsdcAl a Zone Ma
your household. Gone now! 1t was too
iefteate plant for this rough world
Hfhs heavenly gardener saw itrand tookS
&c In. d We make splendlC Sun day-sch
OoOks out of such children, but they al
most alWays dLe. l have noticed that
Tor, the most part The, children that live
sometimes get cross, and PICK up ban
words In the street and quarrel with
,OT0ther and SISTER, and prove .uaInis-
takably that they are Wlcked--as the
Bible says, going astray from the womb,
speaking lies. Seethe little Uues I'm nthe-1
Sabbath class. 80 sansliRyl and heauti-
tul; you would think they were always
50: Eut mother, seated little way off;
looks over at these children, andthinks
Of the, awful time she had to get them
ready After the bOyzOr girl eomess q
little further Oniin life, the mark Of ain
upon them is ssill more evident. The
sou comes In FROM pugilistic eneonn-
ter in the street bearing the marks Eof
defeat. The daughter practices positive
deception; aud the parent says: S'Wtlat
shall Ido2 l can't always 0e correcting
aud scOldtng, aud yetdhese things must
be stopped" IT. especially. sadsif the
parent sees his own faults copied by the
child. Itis very hard wOf * to pull up a
hettle that we Oufselyea PLANTED. Ne
lemember that ehe greatest frauds that
ever SHOOK the barking h0uses of the
country started from boy s'deceptiOna |
good many years ago; and the cleaning
Glade of the murderer is only another |
blade Of the knife with which the boy |
struck his cOmfade. The cedar of Lebtsns |
on thai WTestles W ith- the blast tarted |
from seed lodged in the side of the |
m0untain, and the most tremendous dis
hOnesties Of the world once tOddled out
from the cradle.i All these things make
parents anxious. F.
Q AIAAoey Ou buog pdib WI pdIbutb ALSO II
arises from eOusciOlsness. that there
are 30 many temptations thrown all |
around OuF young people, It may be al
most Impossible 10 take 8 castle by siege
-straightfOrward siege-but suppose
i'll the night there is q atTaitOr vii hin,I
and he goes down ands draws the bolt
aud sWings open the great door, and,
then the castle falls Immediately. That
- the trouble with the Hearts of thesl
young; they have foes Without and foes
within. There are great many who
try TO make our young people believe
that 1t Is sign of weakness to be pura.gI
The man will toss his head, and taxed
dramatic attitudes, and tell of hlS own
IndiscretiOns. and ask tile young man
II he would not like to do the same.
And they call him Verdant, aud they say
he Is, green and unsephlslicated, and
wonder how he can bear the ppFitanical
straight jacket. They tell hun he ought
TO break from his mothers apron
strings, and they say: II viii show you
all about town. Come with me-. You
UuRht TO see the World. ItiWOI't hlift