Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-07
hours of his childhood and, youth for

SlIOu, Du' OO LAOy pIOfo tHdl, VI are tloy
the exceptions which prove the rule that
toll and poverty are poor schools for the
young? If hard work and exposure, which
many believe are necessary to harden and
make men of boys, are the tools to hew
perfect men out of the limited material
furnished, where are the thousands of poor
children who have felt their sharp edges?
Why did the multitude live and toll and die,
while the few rose superior to circum-
stances and became great? Can any one
deny that better opportunities and finer
training might not have added new dig
nifty and lustre to the honored name of
Lincoln?
The mountain pine that hangs over the
precipitous sides, and bares its head to the
fierce tempest in Which ali it's companions
have gone down, may be sturdy and firm,
an unfailing support TO cling to, but is its
gnarled and crooked form as perfect a tree
as the oak growing in the valley, or do its
branches afford such refreshing shade?
Had it been transplanted to q more kindly
soil how tall and stately it might have
raised its crown to heaven.
Youth is the time for preparation and
growth, manhood for toll and strife. It
should be the pride and pleasure, as well
as the duty of parents to give their chill
dron the best possible advantages for the
growth of mind and body.
That rich men's sons often turn odt
badly is not che fault of training, but for
lack of it. Getting lich and fashionable
society left the parents no time TO look
after their children, and SO the devil took
them in hand. Tennyson, in the tragic
story Of Enoch Arden, says:
Gin him woke,
With his first babes first cry, the noble wish
To save all earnings to the utternost
And give his child better bringing up
Than his had been, or hers.''
There are many such parents outside of
stories. There is another class who consider
that their children owe them an eternal
debt of gratitude and the way for them to
pay it is to support them. The father of
a large family of children once remarked,
in the most self-suficient manner to q
friend, well, We are pretty well fixed.
My girls ell have places to teach bat one,
and she works at homo and saves a girl,
and my boys have places in offices.
They all bring in something" Indeed!
and what do you do?" asked the friend.
son, ] help them with advice, and keep
the family a going" There are many
such men, strong, blessed with perfect d.
gestion and yet so shiftless that they live
by the work Of their children. They are
valueless, except as the mouth piece Of
other men, who have no time for talking.
There is little manliness in father who
can look upon his children and feel no
ambition to give them the best bringing
up possible. 81 should like to do for my
children, if 1 could" is often said. man
is able to smoke and drink and loaf
around shops and saloons, but not to take
care OF his own SONS and daughters.
a widowed mother once remarked about
her son, II helped him through the high
school, and then gave him his time, twas
all I had to give him." No, not all, as his
after career proved, for the staying quail
ties which bore him onward to success were
sn Inheritance from his mother.
''My sor, you can never pay me for
what have done for YOU have have sent
you through college," boasts Pecksnifian
father, with the attitude of "Duty adver-
Using itself in capital letters" Is that
much to do for son! Many fatherless
boy has done as much for himself, and a
fellow ought to be better off who
has a father. The boy never
received or accepted an invitation to be
his son; he assumed the office voluntarily,
then the least he can 10 is to discharge the
duties promptly and not assume too much
credit for the doing.
To speculative mind there is room for
inquiry into the resolution with which a
| mother assumes the sole care of her chill
dren and brings them up, keeping them
around her, often doing it by her own la
Dor; and the weakness of father similarly
situated. To find places for all able to
work is usually his first care, and to give
away or loan the younger to relatives
or friends his next.
LII bnlS ldNu VI hUuuuanCS ne Is poor
specimen of man who can not pro-
vide for his children, without
dwarfng their growth, or stultifying their
minds to get their bread and butter. Mel
Their can he impose the task upon the
msther, although by some mysterious pro-
violence such semblance of men usually
have superior wives, who take up the bur
den and bear it bravely doing what they
can, knowing in their secret hearts that
their marriage was delusion and snare,
and thoroughly despising their weak
| partners.
There is no business in this world that
pays SO well as the loving careful training
Of one's own children; it pays daily, and
lays up large bank account for the future,
reaching on into eternity.
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