Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-08
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| ton is the beginning 1t Is when the mind
! first begins to obs rye that most wise teach
ers are needed I live in hopes that before
! long kindergarten system will cover the
1 whole United States Theoretically, the
Child should be taught at home; and, when
parents are what they ought TO be, the first
ten or twelve years should be rigidly home
wears; but where the parents are incapable
or unwise, the child should nave something
better than home can give him. The state
should see that he is taught on the best pos
si5le plan At present he is simply turned III
with a rabble gathered alike from the slums
and from the cottages
Father Paxtol's hint that "a little more
care is given your hogs than your children
is applicable far more widely tnan at first
seems. If q man OWNS 4 nog he intends to
make the most of it. | believe it is true of at
least one half of the children born in this
country that the parent only thinks, not how
to make the most Of them, but how to make
most out OF them. Anything like an idea
of responsibility to children is not felt.
1t does not dawn on the ave age parent that
he is under obligation literally to bring
his children up TO their very best power
believe child has as good a right to oc-
cupv himself in the line of natural tastes as
other people have. This will seem to many
absurd, or meaningless, in two ways. In the
first place very large proportion of parents
do not recognize the fact that children have
any natural bias toward very specialized en-
ployment. | 10 not think they give the mat
ter any thought. They simply recognize the
essential difference between girls and boys:
but all boys are boys-and ali girls are girls
cut out of common Jumps, with common
illnesses. The idea that boy, bern on
farm should be mentally unit to do farm:
WORK, does not enter The head OF average
fathers. OF course, if frail in body, he is con-
signed to the law or the ministry. But it so
happens that an ertiSi or mechanic or engineer
is often born where least looked for. 1t is
one of the chief obligations of the parental
relation to discover the stronger biases of
childrens minds, and encourage and aid
them | set this down as one Of the chill
dren's rights that must and will find empha-
sis IN our better civiliZation.-M. Maurice,
NJ, D., in Globe Democrat
Tradesmen's Signs in Russia.
In Holland and Belgium the names of the
railway stations are given in three or four
different languages. In Berlin and in Paris
there is more consideration shown for the
foreigners than in Petersburg The Russian
thinks that in Russia Russian sutfices as a
means of communication. Fortunately in his
shop fronts he mercifully interprets his Cyril
Ian characters by that original volapuk of
the worlds infancy, the picture. The use Of
signs, once universal in England in an age
when few save the priests could read or write,
is now confined with US almost exclusively to
the public house In Russia, the number of
literates being still small in proportion to
the population, the tradesman has recourse,
not TO signs, but TO the simple and obvious
expedient of painting upon the outside walls
of his establishment more Or less vivid pict-
ures of all the articles which he has on sale
The butchers front is covered with frescoes
of legs of mutton and sirloins Of beef. Ths
green grocer glows respondent behind a wall
full of painted cabDageS, carrots and turnips
Tempting pictures of the warmest of fur
overcoats proclaim the dealer in winter
wraps Some of these mural advertisements
are wretched daubs, as bad as our signboards.
But others are very fairly executed; and,
the difficulty Of the subject and
the stucco on which the artist has 70 work,
the result is not unsatisfactory. The effect
Of the whole is to give much more variety
AMI color TO the streets of ST. Petersburg
than we can hoast in western capitais.-