St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-14
THE HUMAN NATURE
Weakly Exhibited by Parents in
the Gifts of the Holiday Sea-

son.
Special TO the Globe.
FOUNTAIN, Mimi, Jan. 4.-There is
something painful in watching the dis
play OF human nature as seen in many
ways about this time of the year, when
it seems called into play in its various
phases i'll the young and in the mature
years of men and women. But the
selfish disposition displayed was some
what astonishing in some of the young
people. And yet it was no more sur
prising than the weakness that was
conspicuous in many of the older PEG.
pie, All! me! Mothers, why will you
yield to your young and self
ish child and rob your young
er children of their anticipated
Christmas pleasure in something you
have promised to give them! Standing
by your side,she knows your loving and
weakly indulgent heart. Worse yet,
she knows she will carry home the
coveted dress pattern, and you will let
her do it, 1t were better for her that
you took her at her word when she said,
''If l can't have that want nothing"
Then and there you should have stood
firm and unyielding and let her gone
without what you could not get for her
without doing injustice to the younger
children at home, who will meet you in
joyful anticipation of obtaining just
what you had promised to bring them
and did not. The selfish. unYielding
child will not care for the cruel disap-
pOintment of their hearts nor for the
misery that you experience. land perhaps
you feel more deeply than any words
you can use to express the sorrow in
your weak heart: but the little ones will
soon see and learn
HOW TO COMPEL YOU
to regard their wishes and will become
your tyrannical and selfish torments,
one by one they will be your master
and mistress just because you do not re-
fuse and let them go without, when
they express themselves as the eldest
did-"Rather go withOut,if can't have
this or that" Oh, mother, with the
loving heart. so weak and yielding, did
you ever think of the consequences of
your really foolish and wrong indul-
gence? If you did not feel the sad Sor-
row of yielding, then do not blame
your children for any or every act OF
selfish tyranny in the future,f for you are
to blame for il all.
You are teaching them such lessons
as will make your own heart ache, and
NC Il SHAMEFUL dCG Ill tueiu every litlc
they make a display of selfishness on
their part. If your purse is limited, as
so many are now, do not be ashamed of
that, for it is not sin, but it is sinful
to yield to such a sinful spirit, and
will only rivet your chains the tighter
and make your sorrows the greater,
and your child more desplcable in the
eyes of other people. When you cannot
afford to purchase just what a child
wants,
TELL, IT THE WHY
and the wherefore, and be sure that the
child fully understands the reason why
you refuse. The great majority of us
have slender purses, and | know no rea-
son why we should shrink from having
it known that our good Father has with
held from us what we have honestly
tried to gain. And it is no reason that
we mothers should teach our children
to be selfish OF ungenerOus to others, or
forgetful of what belongs to other peO-
people in all the highways and byways
of this world, and forget that duty we
owe to Him who rules the universe. in
training our children for the life be-
yOnd this earthly life.
Our mission is to train for q cenSorl-
Gus world and for the supreme Judge of
an unknown world. We cannot escape
that deere, every knee shall bow and
every tongue confess to God"
Mrs. MARTHA CRANDALL.