Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-10
A Will OF His Own.

One Of our best local preacher,
preached assermon on children. and the
way to bring them up. and speaking ot
the old idea that n stubborn child or =
child with a will of its own, was a mis-
ance, the elder said: 81 wouldn't Give a
dime for child that had not a Will Of
its own," or words TO that effect Tho
time has been when a child with n will
OF us own has been looked upon by the
whole neighborhood as a terror. and
mothers have sighed and endured sor-
row when they have noticed the shirt
shown by such child. But when tbev.
In later years, have looked around and
seen that the most successful men
and women of the land grew up from
children that had wills of their own the
sadness and sorrow of the mother has
given place to pride. The SIM docs
not like TO see children have Wills of
their own that are so strong that they
can not be controlled by parents, but few
children who have the right kind of
parents have such wills. Take a child
with will of its own, and guide that
VIII properly, and not krock the back
bone out of it with barrel stave. and
the child Will grow up to be success
IN business. Children with wills of
their own may turn out to be pirates or
highway robbers, but il will be because
parents try to break that will by severe
punishment. They may partially break
it, but it will assert itself some time in
the wrong way, while if is guided prop
erly the will may be mountain of
strength. The successful men in all
branches of business are men who had
will OF their own" in youth. They were
not pet children who never said their
souls were their own. The successful
men look with pride upon their children
who have wills of their own, before they
know by experience that such a will is
worth millions in the battle of life. A
man who had no mind of his own as a
boy may be good enough to curry
shawlS TO matinee, or baskets to a
picnic, or he may stand on corner and
chew cane, but he could not build n
railroad through wilderness or across
a mountain, and rather than face a
panic he would sit down and cry. He
could not invent anything. unless it was
a patent corset or a self-fastening hair
pin. while his brother. who had a will
OF his own, would invent a telephone or
a locomotive. TIE child with a will of
his own may be harder to raise, and he
may cause some heart-aches and anx-
lety, but when that will which was so
hard to handle in youth gets hold of a
difficult problem of business in later
years. and clinches itself around the
problem, and begins to squeeze, it will
never let up until success is achieved.
The stubborn, ''Be sure you are ready
and then go ahead boys are in de-
mand, and are worth their weight in
gold, while the milk-and-water, "baby-
mine fellows have to be done I'D in
punches like radishes, and got rid of in
lump, and half of them turn out to be
pithy and no good. If you. good moth
er. have child with will of its own,
don't worry about the child, but thank
God and bend the will by kindness. and
where 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 n
child with will of its own, we always
want TO take it one side and tell it the
good news, that the will is more val
liable than rich relativc.-Peck's SIM