The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-02-26
W. G. Il u. COLUMN.
frightening a Child.


frightening Child.
Hewho checks child with terrier,
Stops it. play and stills its song;
Not clone commits an error,
But grisvOds moral wrong.
give It play, and never fear it,
Active life j. no defect
Never, never break its spirit:
Curbn only to direct.
Wonld you stop the flowing river,
Thinking it would cease to flow!
Onward must il l0w forever;
etter teach 1t where to go.
The golden rule says with truth:
y parent Mha doesn't know how to
govern child without whipping it.
ought to surrener the care Of that
child 10 some wiser person. Sports
men once thought it was necessary to
lash their dogs in training them for
the field. They know now that the
whip SHOULD never be used. Horse
men once thought that it was neces.
sMy TO whip colts to teach them to
start or stop alta word, and pull
steadily. They know nos that an
apple is better than TIE lash, and Il
cartsS better than blow. If dogs
and horses can tie thus educated
without punishment, what is there in
our Children which makes it neces.
| starry to slap and pound them? Have
! they less INTEL genncea
Have they colder heartsR Are
they lower in the scale of being. We
! haYe heard many old people say: ''If
We we're to bring up another child we
would never whip it." They are
wise, but q little too late. Instead OF
God doing so little for children that
they must be whipped to goodness,
he has done 50 much for them that
even whipping can't ruin them; that
| is, as rule. But, alas, there are
many exceptions to this rule. Many
children are Of such quality that Y
hlow makes them cowardly, or reck
less, or deceitful, or permanently
ugly. Whipping makes children lie
| Whipping makes them hate theil
parents. Whipping makes home
diStastful-makes the boys runaways
makes the girls seek happiness any
where and anyway. Whipping i
barOar0uS.-Selected.
The memorable facts Of heredity
Il have drank whiskey every day TO
thirty five years, remarked II gentle
: man of sixty, rather proudly land
doa't STE but have as go ID Il cor
stItntiOp us the average man of m
= age; never was dcupk in my life.
He WAS telling the truth, but
learn the whole truth you would haV
! to study his children. The Oldes
young lady, had perfect health; til
i second, young man, was of II
= markably nervous and eXcitabl
/ temperament, as different from hi
l phlegmatic father us possible; til
e third, young lady Of seventeen, VIZ
epileptic and AWAY had very poo
e health. Did the farther's whlske
IL drinking have anything to do wit
these facts? The instance may
duplicated in almost every cor
munitY. Think over the families
IN !, nj, ~ P.Ik H.
has long been moderate drinker, IAN
observe the facts as to the health
# the children. The superintendent
q Q hospital for children at Bern
q Switzerland, has found by caref
observation, that only forty five pt
cent. of those whose parents use
Intoxicating liquors habItually ha
good constitutions, while eighty ,tN
per cent. of the children of tempera
, parents had sound bodies. Of IL
a children of lnebriates only six y,
f cent. were healthy. Can any mi
e drink and take the consequences
q or must his children take the co
a stquences!-Voice.
e The department of Mercy has late
It been created in the National W. C.
' U. 1t protests against vlysection
we'll as the outrageous treatment
h the Siberian exile. It's Supt., Mr.
d Mary F. Lowell, may be addressed
Bryn Mawr P;t., Box 1853.