The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-09-12
Duties of Parents.

We should so live that when the
summons comes to be a parent it will
find US prepared. Like thief in the
night at an hour when we think not,
like thunderbolt from a clear sky, the
call NAV come to u.s. Let the night
lamp, therefore be trimmed and burn
ing. and the alum where you can lay
hold of it at any time. But, above all,
we should make ourselves conversant
with those little parliamentary rules
which must govern the conduct OF the
parent in his or her social contact with
the child. A few suggestions upon
what constitutes etiquette. and shows
good breeding in this branch of society,
readily marking and contrasting the
cultivated parent and distinguishing
him or her from the vulgar, the snide,
the plebeian, the canailles Gas We say
in France), the James Crow and the
sans culottes parent might not be i'll
timed or inopportune.
In wiping a child's nose be extremely
careful to leave the nose. Some pa
rents use so much unnecessary strength
in doing this that they find when it is
too late that they have wiped the nose
of pet child into space. Nothing
gives more pain. Nothing can be more
pitiful than the child's first look of
sorrow and disappointment when he
starts to wipe his nose and discovers
that it is gone. Pause, fond parent,
while the wipe is in its incipiency, and
resolve that YOU will spare its nose.
1t can be of no use to you, and the loss
of it will be constant source Of annoy
ance to the child.
Teach your child the beauty Of frank
ness and open candor toward all. I'M
press upon him the beauty of being
what you appear to be, and hate de-
ception everywhere. II you will fondle
him and dote on him in society and
| jerk him bald-headed in the seclusion
of the home circle, he will readily un-
derstand what you mean. Children
soon learn that if you hug their little
gizzards fiat while visitors are about,
and then, when the home life is again
resumed, you throw them down cellar
and wear out table leg on their
chubby limbs, that life is real, life is
earnest and the square-toed, open,
frank policy is not generally in use.
Parents should impress upon their
children the beauty of self-sacrifice and
self-abnegation, if they know what that
is: l don't If there should be blu,
one piece Of pie, give it to poor sick
papa" 1t may kill him, and after the
funeral your young life will be ono
prolonged hallelujah and rose-tinted
whoop' emup' lizajane. g..
Parents should not be constantly sus.
picious of their children. This will in.
evitably breed hypocrisy and unreliable
ity. II you fear that your son is play
ing pin-pool, do not break down YOU
constitution and bring on delirium
tremens, hanging around the pool
tables watching all night for him. HI
will look upon you with distrust, ant
no doubt at last tell you to 90 and soal
your head.
Do not constantly tell your boy ''hov
talf' he is-that he grows like
weed and finally make him thin
. he is a giraffe. you keep it up yo
will finally make round-shoudered
awkward, bashful beanpole out Of
l mighty good-looking boy. II every tai
G boy in this country will agree TO lie
every wooden-headed man who tell
him chow he does grow" will agre
to hold the coat Of said tall boy. I al
now dealing with subject Of which
= happen to be informed The same rul
l. applies to girls as well. II you war
~ to make your daughter fall over tn
piano and yearn TO climb tree wher
e. ever she sees any body come towarc
e. the house, tell her "what a gre,
10 swalloping tom-boy she is getting
So be-" la this way. If parents act jud
ciously and in concert, We can SOC
ne have nation ofyoung men and wome
n whose manners and carriage will
lie as beautiful and symmetrical as Il
:. plaster cast Of u sore toe. BiU Me-,
Denper Opinion.