San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-15
WOMAN,AND HOME.
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEVELOP
MENT OF BOYS AND GIRLS.

Saving the Odds and Ends-Starving TO
Death for Love-At the Picnic-Being
Insulted-In Disguise-"GOOd Society,"
Overeating.
At the bottom of everything lies health
without this, every other gift is more or less
useless. Though you miss all else for your
aIildren,5 secure this if possible. Make sure
they acquire no health destroying habits.
Do not have boy tied to his mothers apron
strings. Letabundant play and out-of-door
sports create strength and animal spirits.
Boys and girls will need all of both they can
get before they have done. Encourage them
to obtain quickness, self confidence and grace
for instance, by sparring, skating, horse
back riding, dancing, etc. They will here
after stand in good stead. Indeed, this
health and culture of the body are no more
helpful, and, indeed, Indispensable, on the
economic than on the evolutional side. BY
all means, make them, if you can, your boys
especially, fearless and self reliant. Remem-
Der that true courage is one of the richest
possessions. AS has been said, it is promotive
of health and happiness, and essential to, and
by the Greeks and Romans was used synony-
mously with, virtue. A tinid man may be
afraid to act right, may not dare to do his
duty when opposed by dangers and difficult
ties. OF this virtue everybody is ambitious,
and none more so than the coward, as proved
by his vainglOrious affectation of it, Thus,
the fool affects WISDOM the knave honesty,
the niggard liberality and the poltroon
bravery.
As to what can be done in childhood to-
ward the higher Development In the first
place, if your son or daughter is gifted with
mind or tastes inherently predestined to be
cultivated, you could not prevent that con-
summation is you tried. Some men who, in
later life, become distinguished opponents of
the higher departments, in youth never show
the slightest indication of their future emf
nence Chancellor Kent, for instance, fa-
nous as he became in his maturity, up to "a
had never really taxed his mind, and had
lived the life mainly of a healthy human ami
NAL If your child be one of this sort, he
will give you but little trouble, but will Just
eat, play, grow, become strong, live in his
little body, and it will be all the better for
him hereafter that he did not develop his
taste. You may, indeed, watch your boy
and girl, however commonplace they are,
and indulge your heart in the hope that in
the future they will turn out Peabodys and
george ElOUS. OCneTS-dS MOZarC-are pre-
cocious, and show from the very start an
ticipating evidences of their later growth.
These are the difficult cases. If you sus-
pect that your boy or girl possesses some
strongly pronounced talent or bent, by all
means do not coddle it. Neither is it neces-
sary brutally to stamp it out There have
been in children inclinations that, while not
of the imperious and supreme type that can
not be arrested, might have been productive
of much pleasure and profit to their owners
and a wide circle, and yet early died out
through rough treatment and neglect. AS
time goes on, and the indications persist, and
friends and experts confirm your thought,
you may feel assured. All the more because
of suspected talent, make health and strength
the first consideration. You are much more
likely, however, to see in your child remark
able cleverness which have no existence, than
not to see those which do exist Here, it is
well to say. that too many parents seek to
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