Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-07-26
BILL NYE.
A Domestic Homtly Upon 8Ilstakes
In Bearing Children.
From the Denver Opinion

lfrOm the Denver OplnlOu.l
We should SO live that when the sum-
mons comes to be a parent it will find
us prepared. Like tibet in the night,
at all early hour when we think not
like a thunderbolt from u clear sky,
the call may come to us. Let the night
lamp, therefore, be trimmed and burn
ing, and the alum where ye 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
what constitutes etiquette and shows
good breeding in this branch of So
ciety, readily making and contrasting
the cultivated parent and distinguish
ing him or her from the Vulgar, the
snide, the plebeian, The canailles las we
say in France), the James Crow and
the sans culottes parent, might not be-
ill-timed or inopportune. ..-
ln wiping child's nose be extremely
careful to leave the nose. Some par
ents use SO much unnecessary strength
in doing this that they find when it is
too late that they have wiped the nose
of Il pet child into space. Nothing gives
more needless pain. Nothing can be
more pitiful than the child's first look
of sorrow aud disappointment when he
starts to wipe his nose and discovers
that 1t is gone. Pause, fond parent,
while the Wipe is in its incipiency, and
resolve that yOa will spare its nose. 1t
can be of no use to you, aud the loss Of
it will be a 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 them the beauty of being
what you appear to be, and hate decep-
ton everywhere. If yon will fondle
him and dote Oh him iu society and
jerk him bald d-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 out while visitors are about and
then, when the home life is again re-
sumed, you throw them down in the
cellar aud wear out table leg Oh their
chubby limbs, that life is real, lite is
earnest, and the square toed, open,
frank policy is not generally in use.
Parents should impress upon their
children the beauty of self.sacritice 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 your yOung life will be one pro-
lomged hallelujah and rose-tinted
whoop-'em-up liza jane. ...-
Parents should not he constantly sus.
picious of their children. This will
evidently breed hypocrisy and unre-
liability. If you fear that your son is
playing pin pool, do not break down
your constitution and bring OH deliriun
tremens hanging around the pool.
! tables watching all night for him. He
will lock upon you with distrust, and
no doubt at last tell you to 90 and soaE
lyOur head.
DO not constantly tell your boy 'shoW
tali' he is-that he grows like weed
+ and finally make him think he is s
/ giraffe. If you keep it up you will
finally make round -shouldered, awk
ward, bashful bean-pole out of q mighty
! gc"d-looking boy. Ii every tall boy il
: this country will agree to lick every
wooden-headed man who tells hin
chow he does grow" will agree tt
hold the coat vi said tall boy. l ali
& now dealing with u subject OF which
happen to be informed. The same rule
!, applies to girls as well. Ify you want tt
make your daughter fall over the piano
t and yearn to climb a tree whenever
she sees anybody come toward tho
, house, tell her "what a great swallop
ing tom-boy she is getting to be-" IL
this way, if parents act judiciously and
i'll concert, we can soon have nation
, ofyoung men aud women whose man
ners aud carriage will be as beautfu
and as symmetrical as the plaster cast
: of Il sore toe.