Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-07
Leaving Something Tor Children.

OF the thousands of people who are strain
ing every nerve TO leave their children some
| thing, how many ever reflect that every man
| is as sure to leave his children something as
| the sun is TO rise tomorrow morning! It may
| be an ample fortune in one case, or tendency
| to life long nervous dyspepsia in another, but
| an Inheritance of some sort each parent is
| bound to entail on his offspring. Over the
| money Inheritance be often worries himself
| into softenipg of the brain, but as to the in
| heritaDce of physical and mental qualities
! the dyspepsia, i'll temper, or dependency on
| the one hand, or the health, courage, cul-
| ture and noble character on the other-theso
| he thinks viii take care Of themselves. He
| is right. They viii take care of themselves,
| and there is just where the mischief lies.
Now, if every mother, for example, were
| only a Mother CareyS chicken, instead of q
| human being, she could safely adopt this
| leave alone course, and recommend it TO the
| paternal Mother Carey's cock. These happy
creatures have few parental anXieties. Their
young inherit from them none but good and
useful qualities. The first minute they are
iedged they take straight to the water, and
never to beer or whisky AS for flying, both
impulse and power are 50 perfectly trans
mitted in thel' organization that they are
rapt up bodily into the sky, and sent winging
it over the deep. Born to swim, born to fly,
born to eat fish, they simply set TO work to do
it, and 50 each little downy birding starts
out in life with an Inheritance amply sufli-
Gent for successful career of business, travel
in foreign parts, and congeuiai social enjoy
ment
Far different is il with human children.
Every once in a while, indeed, one of them
is born with gu organization as marvellous
as that of Mother Carey's checking, only
Of vastly higher and moro complex kind
Look, for instance, at that miraculous boy
who has lately been enhancing Boston with
his music. To the great ocean and the limit
less sky ranges OF Beethoven he took as IN
stinctively as the eeah.rri 70 TIE pillows ard
the air. Still, even though a musical mill
ionaire from the start his careful father has
felt 1t will never do to let him run wild
The boy is never allowed to get into bad
musical company of the Jim Crow order.
Few parents, however. transmit such an or
ganization to their children. And yet they
have transmitted one, and surrounded 1t
with influences 10 call it out. The children
viii have to cope with it ali their lives
Why not think, then, of what has already
been left the children. as well as of what may
be left them in money, If business turns out !
well. Ii father has bequeathed g child an |
irritable temper, why not, in mercy, try 70 |
bequeath him the example Of e parent who /
has governed and controlled the same in /
trinity for a lifetime The child inherits not 1
merely what the parent inherited, but the
good or tie bad use the parent made Of such !
inheritance, the calming or the infiaming In |
fiucnce Of the life lived in the chIld's pres
ence. There are people in plenty in the land /
who have succeeded in leaving their children
money. u hat is wanted is more who sue
coed IN leaving them intelligence, purity.
seif-controi, the memory OF a happy home,
conservation to On way Of living. IL IS
rare father who has not reason to look back
with terror and re1norse on 8 great many
things he has already left MS children, and
for which they viii have to be saints In
deed, if they ever rise Up and call lbs
memory blessed 7-boSton Herald