The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-31

lesson of the nail holes applies witt
full force. The nails may be draw
out but the holes will remain. So will
the hardness and injustice that children
| endure-they surely do forget many o
the circumstances, but they retain thu
impressions. And according as there
is more of this joyous, or sad, or venge
full, so is the disposition developed
from the thoughtless or selfish actions
of their elders, particularly theil
mothers.
The little ones crave depth of love
which they rarely realize. If the parent
is loving and devoted, he too often fails
to express it in all the ways that the
children appreciate and they are left to
wish that somebody would love them
with a great big love. Now love for the
children is not unreasonable indulgence.
A parent may allow child to disobey
every command given during the day
and lavish money and indulgences, and
yet fail to convince the child that he
loves him. On the other hand strict
obedience to the parents commands is
but reasonable to expect from every
child. And such requirement will not
disturb the harmony existing between
them, but will do much to increase it
by preserving due respect for the par
ent But we should miss no opportunity
for showing our appreciation of their
efforts to accomplish something, how
ever trivial it may be, and more espe-
cially if The service be done for us as is
so often the case. Nor should we ever
fail to show our sympathy with them
and our appreciation in all things.
Your little girl, anxious to help
mother, says: II will dust the room for
you, mamma" And after long and
patient effort she finishes her task the
very best she can, and you say: "Ah.
but you did not make the table shine,
and you did not get we'll into the creases
of the good work. "Why, L tried real
hard, mamma, and I'm so tired" But
she goes to work again, though this
time without any heart in it, to clean
that which she does not believe is dirty,
and at which she has already labored
till she is tired. Now is that fair or
just, considering the age of the workerp
If you would have your children good
you must manage in some way to make |
them happy. And the easiest way to
accomplish this is by keeping them
busy. Set the baby on the floor and he
will scream. but give him a rattle or a
ball or dolly and he will work away
at it with all his might, shaking the rat
tie, squeezing the ball or putting the
dolly to sleep, and prattle and crow as
happy as king. So when the child is
older compel her to sit on chair to
save her clothes, and keep her play
things put away in the closet to save
them and avoid littering the floor, and
the disposition will grow sour and hate
ful, and this badness in them all will
crop out in hundred ways that will
annoy and vex you till you will call the
child cross and nasty, while really she
8 only working off little of the vitali-
y that you have prevented from passing
,ff naturally in childish play.
Again children, like their elders, are ]
ometimes sad and heavy hearted, and ]
n this state are unable to throw off
disappointment, and unpleasant i'm
'ressions. In this again, they are hui
ian like the rest of us, and want some {
ne to sympathize with them and COM ,
Ort them in their trouble, which is as :
ard for them to bear as our trials and
are forus. But do they 7
lways get thisp No, indeed, oftener n
han not the parent flies into a fit of /
npatience, and scolds the child sound q
2 for being so disagreeable. To be q
IRE, in many cases, the mother her. b
elf is worn out with the myriad cares +
lat demand her attention, but is it V
list to visit the sins of past generations o
no developed our complicated style of n
wing, on the heads of our defenseless n
abesp Il
This is question that the heart and n
,nscience of every mother has answer n
to her time and again as she sat ri
,wn for little rest after putting the n
lildren to bed. II
All, it is then, if at no other time, "
at she sees things in their true light, w
I'd is enabled to distinguish between w
e really important things that con- hi
ice to the permanent welfare of the n
mortal souls entrusted to her care, n,
ID the frivolities of dress and fashion n,
lich so often interfere with these bet hi
r things. And as she looks upon the To
tie sleepers in their helpless inno- In
nee, she resolves again, and again fb
Mt she will chose the better part, and tb
lp those little souls to develop into wi
eful, happy men and women, what tr,
er it may cost. Cr
But, with the opening of the little Re
IS in the morning begins again the up
lily grind that has often caused her th
forget her good resolutions, and be- tn,
e she knows it, she is into the other br
ngs SO deep that she has neither br
lie nor patience left for the children. Fo
d then it is, that they are likely to of
Ter injustice from the very one who Pa
es them the best. If, as parents. we oo
uld ask ourselves concerning all our ser
llings with our children, "could we, mc
their places, yield patiently what we DO,
uire of them, or practice cheerfully all
self-denials we compel the 4 to ex- is
Use, it would GO far toward tighten
their wrongs. r
.et us as parents consider this sub wb
!, and strive at least to deal justly oh, M
h the children, assured that by this m. to,.
ans more surely than by any other, tbo
shall not only make them happy, for for
discharge our duty toward them, g
do much toward developing in p" s