The Dillon tribune., 1883-10-06
A VIII OF Ills Own.

A Win Of Ills Own.
One Of our hest local preac,.ers
preached q sermon on children. ana tia
way to bring them up, and speaking of
tie old idea that stubborn child .,r .
child " tn will OF its own, wa, NM.
san. e, the elder sail, II wouldn't 0ive
fartli 9 for child. that had not a
viii Of its own" or words to that effect.
The time has been when child with
Will OF its own las been looht Il upon bv
the whole neighborhotl as q terror.
and mothers have sigh, Il and endured
sorrow when they have noticed the
spirit shown by such child. But
when they. in after years, have looked
around and seen that the mot success
tal men ard women Of the land grew
up from chil,'ren that had Wills of their
own, the sadnes, aud SORROW Of the
mother had given place to pri.le. The
San does not like to zee children kave
wills of their own that are SO strong
that they cannot be controlled by mar.
ents, hut few chi dren who have the
right kind of parents have such Wills.
Take child with will OF its own, and
guide that will properly, aud not knock
the backbone out. of il with barrel.
stave, and the child will grow up to be
q success in business. Children with
wills OF their own may turn out to bc
pirates or highway robbers. but it will
be Lecause parents try to break that
will by severe punishment. They may
partially break it, but it will assert it.
self sometime in the wrong way, willie
If it is guided properly the will may he
. mountain Of strength. The success
full men in all branches Of business are
men who had wills Of their own" in
youth. They were not pet children
who never said their souls were
their own. Such children become he
milliners. or dudes. The successful
men look with pride upon their chill.
dren who have wills of their own, be-
cause they know by experience that
such will is worth millions in the
battle of life. A man who had no mind
OF his own as boy, may be good enough
to carry shawls to matinee, or baskets
to picnic, or he may stand on o corner
and chew q cane, but he could not build
railroad through q wilderness or
across mountain, and rather than face
q panic he would sit down and cry. He
could not invent anything, unless it
was patent corset or self-fastening
hair-pin, while his brother, who had
will of his own, would invent tele-
phone or locomotive. The child with
will Of his own may be harder to
raise, and he may cause some heart
aches and anxiety, but when that will
which was so hard to handle in youth,
gets hold Of difficult problem Of bus
ness in later years, and clinches itsaH
around the problem, and begins to
squeeze, it will never let up until sue
cess is achieved. The stubborn, "Be
sure you are right and then go ahead"
boys are in demand, and are worth their
weight in gold, while the milk-aud-
water, "baby-mine" fellows have to be
done up in lunches like radishes, and
got rid Of in q lump, and half Of them
turn out to be pithy and no good. II
you, good mother, have a child with
will Of its own, don't worry about the
child, but thank God and bend the will
by kindness, and when that child grows
up and succeeds where others fail, write
us . postal card. All of the successful
men in the country had Wills of their
own, and that was all the capital they
had. When we see q child with a will
of it's own, we always want to take il
one side and tell it the good news-that
will is more valuable than q rich
relative.-Peck* Sun.