The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-08-21
Duties of Parents.

| We should SO live that when the
summons comes to be a parent it will
| find US prepared. Like. a thief in the
| night, at an hour when we think not,
| like thunderbolt from a 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 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 canailIes (as we say
in France), the James Crow and the
sans culottes parent, might not be ILL
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 a 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. If 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 flat 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-sacTifce and
self-abnegation, if they know what that
is: l 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
prolonged hallelujah and rose-tinted
whoop' 'emup' lizajane.
Parents should not be constantly sus-
picious of their children. This will in
evitably breed hypocrisy and unreliable
ity. If you fear that your son is play
ing pin-pool, do not break down your
constitution and bring on delirium-
tremens, hanging around the pool
tables watching all night for film. He
will lcok upon you with distrust, and
no doubt at last tell you to 60 and soak
your head.
Do not constantly tell your boy show
tall" he is-that he grows like a
he is giraffe. II you Keep it up you
will finally make round-shouldered,
awkward, bashful beanpole out of a
mighty good-looking boy. Ii every tall
boy in this country will agree to lick
every wooden-headed man who tells
him ..how he does grow" l will agree
to hold the coat of said tall boy. | am
now dealing with q subject of which
happen to be informed. The same rule
applies to girls as we'll. If you want
to make your daughter fall over the
piano and yearn to climb tree when
ever she sees any body come towards
the house, tell her ''what n great
swalloping tom-boy she is getting to
be-" In this way, il parents act judi
ciously and in concert, we can soon
have 4 nation of ofyoung men and women
whose manners and carriage viii be
as beautiful and symmetrical as the
plaster cast of 4 sore toe.-DW NYe, ial
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