McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-14
BILL NYE.
INDUCES in a Domestic Homily Upon the
Duties of Parents. Mistakes IN
Rearing Children That should
Be Avoided.

Denver Opinion.
We should so live that when the sum-
mons comes to be a parent it will find
us prepared. Like thief in the night,
at an early hour when we think not
| like a thunderbolt from clear sky, the
call may come to us. Let the night
lamp, therefore, be trimmed and burn
ing, and the alum where you can lay
hold on 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
| whal 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
culoites parent, might not be ill-timed
or lnOppOrtune.
In wiping child's nose be extreme
ly careful to leave the nose. Some
parents use so much unnecessary
strength in doing this that they find
when it is too late that they have wiped
the nose of a pet child into space.
Nothing gives more needless pain.
Nothing canbe more pitiful than the
child's first look of sorrow and disap-
pointment 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 con-
slant source of annoyance 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. Ifyou will fondle
him and dote on him to society and
jerk him balG-headed in the seclusion
of the home circle, he will readily I'M
derstand what you mean. Children
soon learn that if you hug their little
gizzards flat while visitors are about,
and then, when the home life is again
resumed, you throw them down cellar
and wear out a table-leg ON their chub-
by 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-sacrifce and
self-abnegation, if they know what that
is; don't. If there should be but one
piece of pie, give it to ''poor sick papa"
1t may kill him, and after the funeral
our young life will be one prolonged
hallelujah and rose tinted whoop'
'lizajane.
Parents should not be constantly sus-
picious of their children. This will ev-
identity breed hypocrisy and unreliable
it,. If you fear that your son is
playing pin-pool, do not break down
your constitution and bring on delirium
tremens, hanging around the pool
tables and watching all night for him.
He will look upon you with distrust,
and no doubt at last tell you to 90 and
soak your head.
Do not constantly tell your boys
chow talr' he is-that he ''grows like
a weed''-and finally make him think
he is a giraffe. If yoy keep it up you
will finally make round-shouldered,
awkward, bashful beanpole out of
mighty good looking boy. If every
tall boy in this country will agree to
lick every wooden-headed man who
tells him chow he does grow" 1 will
agree to hold the coat of the said tall
boy. l am now dealing with a subject
of which l happen to be informed.
The same rule applies to girls as well. |
If you want to make your daughter
fall over the piano and yearn to climb
a tree whenever she sees anyone
come toward the house, tell her ''what
a great swalloping tom-boy she is get
ting to be-" In this way, if p rents
act judiciously and in conceit, we can
soon have nation of young men and
women whose menners and carriage
will be as beautiful and as symmetrical
as the plaster cast of sore toe.