The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-01-22

mischief as it might otherwise b
doing.
1t is written in the scriptures tha
the sins of the fathers shall be visitet
on the children, but don't you try to b,
omnipotent and do the visiting your
self as | have known mothers to do.
"You'll never be anybody; you r,
just as shiftle>s as your father" | ono,
heard a woman who had found mar
riage failure tell her son. Because
eldermembers of the family have failed
in certain lines is no sign that the same
thing may not be successful for youl
child.
There was once woman WHOSE
only brother had been sent to college
While there he turned into what j:
known as bookworm, and in all hi.
after life he refused to work, or to dc
anything but SIT in an obscure corner
of dusty old library and read. He
never gave any of his knowledge to the
world; he was only an absorber ol
ideas, and such he remained during the
whole of his harmless, useless exist
ence. When his sisters son arrived at
years of discretion the son strongly
! desired to go to college, and as he was
a strong, energetic youth, there was
really no danger of his following in his
uncle's footsteps. But the mother set
up her authority, said there had been
enough learning in that family, ban
ished poor Johnny into a wholesale
grocer's office, where, at last accounts,
he was revenging himself for the fam
lily coercion, after the manner of boys,
by going to the bad as rapidly as pos
sible.
A few MOI, "don'ts" and l am
done. The first one isn't don't.
Make your children eat up clean
whatever they take on their plates at
the table. If they are not brought up
to guage their appetite children will
waste an incredible amount of food by
fllllng their plates, eating a few mouth
fuls and then order another helping Of
something different.
| WAS ONCE AT A TABLE
where sat one of those blase children,
who, poor thing, had only to ask for
an article to have it. | watched while
the much enduring waitress carried
away from before this infants high
chair plate after plate filled with food
scarcely touched. Finally the end was
reached.
"What will you have next, Hermie?"
A pause was necessary. He could
not think of anything more to ask for.
Finally, with an air of inspiration, he
gazed upward and ordered:
"I-I guess I'll have a clean plate,
Maggy."
Don't put your children into tight
clothes. When a garment is outgrown
discard it. Growing bodies are only
tortured by tight clothing. and the
wearing of such is productive of far
more physical and moral ills than peo-
pie are generally aware of.
| Don't think that because children
are young and innocent they have no
ideas of cleanliness or modesty. | have
seen little girl go thirsty all long
hot forenoon rather than drink from
the common-to-all drinking cup at
school, and l have seen the same child
in an agony of shame, because her
thoughtless mother rushed a young
gentleman cousin into the room where
the child was being dressed. Such in
stincts in children should be carefully
guarded and cherished, instead oi
laughed down as ssfoolish whimsies."
| Don't let every one kiss your little
ones. People are SO foolish that l have
known an old woman with mouth
full of scrofulous sores to insist on kiss
| ing a baby. The child's mother very
sensbly requested cessation of the
kissing, at which the woman became
angry, but the hatred of such crimi-
nally careless people is of less danger
than their kisses.
If you have one OF those babies that
lies down and screams when it cannot
have its way, don't get frightened wher
it turns black in the face and holds it:
breath with rage. Don't give it wha
it yells for. If you do you
WILL HAVE A YELLING BABY
mo st of the time. Try wholesome
neglect When it screams put it il
the cradle and go out OF the room
When baby sees nothing is gained BY
yelling the tantrums will stop.
Ispeak o. yelling as distinguished
from crying. Babies cry when the,
are hungry, or thirsty, or in pain
Some of them yell without any tear
at all when they want their own way
| once went to call at fine man
sion. While ringing the door bel
| noticed small boy running roun'
and round the house, producing tn
most astonishing howls. When | wa
in the parlor his mother informed m
, that "Harry is only having one of hi
tantrums. His nerves are 50 consti
> tuted that he can't help having the.
when he is crossed" | wonHN
what kind of man that boy woyLHg1r
: into, and if he would be orsgoEEa
It have tantrums in bank or ,A-sT.hatI.
a ever he was crossed in w; I0n -
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