St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-01
AS THE TWIG is BENT.
Parents Are Likely to Reap Ugly
Fruits From Bad Training of


Fruits From Bad Training of
Children.
Special to the Globe.
FOUNTAIN, Mimi, June 25.-An Incl
dent occurred a few days ago that
brought to mind this: "T1ain up your
children in the way they should co."
and there came thought of what
parents were doing in that direction.
Apparently nothing at all. Children
with but a few years of life run the
streets with saucy tongues to almost
every person they meet; some impu-
dent words are flung out of their small
mouths with the greatest freedom of
speech-the aged do not escape the lash
and if a gentle remOnstrance Is ven
tured, then Outfiows volume of aston
ishiug abuse on the White-headed and
aged person that has done them no ill.
And sometimes the parents are made
to feel how hard it is to bear the trial of
a thankless child they have reared, but
have not trained up in the way it should
go. 1t comes home to them in their old
age when too late to remedy the evil
they have permitted to live until it ends
in murder or behind prison walls for
life. This is the recompense of many
that would not believe their child could
or would do any wrong in its young life,
and weakly accused other children Of
doing the wrong, and that erring child
looking and listening with the knowing
expressions of one accustomed to hear
ing complaints from outsiders and knew
what the verdict of the parents would
be, and just what reply the complainant
would receive in return.
That child is being trained for the
workshop of the penitentiary or the
gallows, and the parents, either one or
the other, may be the victim of the
wrath of their own child. They have
violated the laws both of God and man,
and are made to suffer the penalty of
their own disobedience and they bear
the consequences Of its own infractions
IN sorrow; or more often they suffer in
anger and give vent to their wrath in
no measured terms. lit seems so strange
that parents who should know, and, in
fact, do know, that their child is guilty
of the crime committed, but they seem
to think that they can convince other
people of the innocence of that con-
victed child, when to tell the truth they
can convince no one person of its being
the victim of injustice.
We often read of some aged father or
mother being the victim of child'S
wrath, and we shudder at the thoughts
so called up by such reports, and we may
pity the parents, condemn the child and
say it is a natural consequence of the
training that child has received, and we
may sit, and in our minds trace the
manner of his or her having been
reared to mans estate in the years that
are gone into the records of the parent
and child. One that reads and will call
to mind to trend of crime will See-I
will say it-that parents are now being
called to see the errors of the past
training of their children result
ing in homecoming to their own
hearts from different point,
of view, and in different way; for the
child in its anger, which he or she has
never been taught to control, vents it
on the head of father or mother, regard
less of all after details and results. That
child stands before the world convicted
of taking the life of his father or mother
brother or sister, and can trace the
way up from early youth and see where
that dead father or mother led him up
the way of sinful indulgence OF passion,
and other faults of young and impress
sive youth. All, me! If we could only
rear the little ones intrusted to our care
in the way of righteousness, and have
them keep the way up the mountain
steep until the summit of our desires
were reached, what world of happi-
ness it would be to the parents labOring
for that promise of swell done thou
good and faithful servant; enter thou
into thy reward"
Fathers and mothers, look carefully
to the way your dear ones gO-teach
them to cease to do evil and learn to do
well, MRS. MARTHA CRANDALL.