Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-28
SCREAMS bring him some

and screams bring him some
thing pleasant, and not that
kicks and screams bring to him a
most unpleasant sensation, a feeling
that is akin to pain, but if once he learns
that axiom in philosophy, FhKe causes
invariably produce like effects, he has
progressed III the direction of self-oon-
troll, provided the effect is painful.
Sugar plums never develop muscles in
physical, moral or intellectual growth.
The boy in babyhood can be taught right
before he can TeasOn-he can know when
the smile means approval, and when the
sober protesting glance would check;
and he can further learn that compliance
means pleasure and noncompliance
pain.
Soon as the hands and feet can follow
the guidance of the viii, the discipline
of doing can begin. There is great
deal of silly whining about work in this
world. If God ever made creature for
idleness, naturalists have failed to CLASH
fY 1t. Poets write of ':butter1y on idle
wing, - but an observer will at once note
that fitting from flower to flower is but
terfiy work.
The boy who is taught as early as pre-
cept aud example can teach it, that the
world is a busy hive full of sweetness,
where no drones are permitted, has
learned an important lesson that will be
of service through life. Every child in
home should have its special duties and
should be held responsible for the faith
full discharge of this duty, done because
it is his or hers, and not for pay i'll any
shape. The parent who hires the child
to do what is manlfestly its part of the
daily routine, or allows it done grudging-
ly has taught him that he is an alien
and not child.
For the first few years the doing must
of necessity find its eason in the will of
q superior, but insenslbly with the years
comes the better reason-doing because
it is right. Any system in the home
or the school that interjects a
stimulus of rewards or brides
initiates against true manliness. The
memorable law Of right must become
ingrained in the boy. Proper motives
for correct actions must be the moving
cause or the boy becomes, if not dis
sembler, at least a vacillating charac-
ter; and this quality of reliability
comes not by sugar plums in any shape
but by sturdy elf-discipline that is
nourished and strengthened by discipline
from parents and from tutors. Don t
tiemen but tell them to be gentlemen.
The responsibility cannot be shifted
neither can the result be attained, save
by careful cultivation, unvaryiug firm
ness and systematic methods.
If to-day it is wrong for Johnnie
to have or to do certain
things, tomorrow it is wrong, not in the
sense of expediency, but of principle.
This distinction a child is slow to learn,
and the use OF the first the boy grown to
manhood is too apt to discern.
That parent or teacher who has taught
the boy TO look within for springs of
right-doing, and has taught to find in
his own breast the source of enjoyment in
duty done, has a guarantee for q success
full. manly career that no other system
viii supply.
RECIPES.
Butter drops-Two eggs, one cup
sugar, One-half cup butter, three table,
spoons sour milk, one-half teaspoon
soda, -four to make quit stiff.
Johnny cake-Two cups sweet milk,
one-half cup sugar, two cups meal, one
cup flour, butter the size of e. egg, two
eggs, three teaspoonfuls baking powder.
Roll Jelly cake-One cup flour, one cup
sugar. four eggs, one teaspoon baking