The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-11-22
Kiss the CniIdren Good Nlght.

[St. Paul Pioneer Press
Send the little ones to bed in a happy frame
Of mind. 1t requires some discipline and
self-deninl on the part of a weary parent to
answer all the foolish questions and attend
to the many wants that multiply so fast as
the hour of bed time draws near, but II is a
labor OF love that will bring a large recon-
pense. Children never forget. They will
carry with them through life's long aud
weary pilgrimage the remembrance of the
face that bent over them ut night, and tina
was associated in their immature minds with
heaven aud God. And the little tiresome
last questions mean so much to them. What
If we should not answer them and they never
awakened herei Unanswered questions and
unanswered problems have followed men
and women through life with narrowing per-
sistenco.
And never give a thoughtless answer to q
child's question. Never tell the little ones
that the thunder is the voice of Cod Think
what mn idea they must form of such a God.
Do not tell them petty stories that will
mislead them into tangled paths. Hood says
pathetically OF his own
81 remember, l remember
The fir trees dirk and high.
l used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky.
sit was a childish ignorance,
But now It's little joy
To know I'm further oil from heaven
Than when l was q boy
No one can so gently and kindly prepare
the little ones for the perplexities and disap-
pointments OF life, which are inevitable. as
the fathers and mothers to whom their edu-
cation should be u first consideration. The
moral lessons taught at the mothers knee or
by the bedside can never be forgotten, nor
can the father shirk all responsibility in tho
matter of home tutelage. That is a child to
be pitied who is afraid to ask its father any
question which arises in its young mind; who
dare not climb to the parental knee and
challenge the world to dislodge It, DIR Hol-
land, in his fine poem of Daniel Grey, which
is said to typify his own father, says:
He had some notions that did not improve
him,
He never kissed his children, so they say
We feel sorry for the children of a father
so ~austere, but we can afford to pity one who
lost so much beauty and value out of his own
life. Then kiss the children good night and
good morning and answer all their questions,
and you will find that in such work two are
blessed-one in giving, the other in receiving.
Good sense about ChiIdren's CIothes.
[St. Paul Pioneer Press.
There is very likely no conservatism more
difficult TO deal with than that displayed by
the young boy in regard to any change in his
apparel. III l must wear these cuffs" said
an S-year-old boy, on Sunday morning, ~
am not going to church" The cuffs in ques-
ton were entirely unobjectionable in the eye
of man or woman. They were probably un.
noticeable, also; but the boy discovered a
morbid dread of appearing in them, as they
were not a usual addition TO his toilet He
confessed, in confidence to his mother, as
they walked along, that he dreaded the re-
marks his Sunday school class would make
upon them. How little consideration is shown
for the feelings Of children.
How few parents realize that the child's
world, only, Rs John Brown, of Edinburg,
says, about three feet high" has its TRACE
dies and comedies, its fear of blighting, ad-
verse criticism. So many times, when gar
ments are chosen, whom the question Is not
of expenditure, but of taste, the children
themselves might be allowed to choose, within
certain limits, what they will have.
Who has not seen this sight; when all
the happy boys In the neighborhood are
wearing knee pants, one small and weary
soul appearing in pantaloons the exnct coun.
terpart of his fathers and reaching to the
heels OF his SHOES! This life is made a burden
10 him, and then and there Is begotten an un-
sasy consciousness OF self that will require
years OF thought and experience and Of reso-
Tut, care TO overcome.
The consciousness Of being well and suita.
bly, dressed, so dear to the heart of woman
and SO conducive TO her ease, Is just as con-
soling to a child, and is no more likely to lead
10 a morbid fondness for dress than Is the
discomfort occasioned by the consciousness
that there Is something wrong about hls
clothes.