The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-12
TO PLEASE CHILDREN .
AN INQUIRY as TO HOW THIS CAN
BEST BE ACCOMPLISHED.

dreu Does Not Chang6-Women Can
phase Them Better Than Men.
From the Washington Ssdr.
writer for the Star started out the
,otber day to find out how to please children.
ua met an old bachelor about so years old,
,rbo lives by himself because he is too cross
IN live with anybody else, and he asked
him what his general views were upon the
subject Of children.
..rnildrenm he cried, they are the
GREATEST nuisances under heaven. They
wake you up in the morning and ruin your
sIaen. and II you laugh or talk at night you
wake them Up and they yell and their par
ants get mad. Talk about the trouble wo-
man cause In this world, why, il isn't half
"a much as the trouble caused by children
Pm a bachelor, tell you, and I'll never be
anvthina else for | know good thing
~ySsn see it, but / would rather have
twenty wives and be a Brigham Young or
a Blusbeard with all my wives alive than
adopt one child"
"But.n said the writer, "you were doubt
less once q child yourself"
well" he said, AZ suppose was, but IL
wasn't nv fault, and am ashamed OF it
and have endeavored all my lite to live it
down."
4.Did you ever try to please a childT
''Never bus once" he answered. Chill
dren don't please me and don't try TO
please them, but a good many years ago l
thought was In love With a widow, aud by
way Of pleasing her l tried to make friends
with her little boy"
"How did you 60 about itF' he was asked.
HOW HE TRIED TO Please THE BOY.
'Well, patted him on the cheek and
asked him II he didn't want to take a walk
with me some day. He didn't want to at
all. but his mother told him to say he did.
He and took one walk-no more didn't
know what to say to him or what to do
with him. led him by the hand, as
might have led an elephant by his trunk,
but think would have been less afraid OF
an elephant. Several times, by way OF
making myself pleasant. was on the point
of asking him to come in and have some
thing, but / remembered that children are
not allowed to drink anything. would
have offered him oysters or a crab, but /
didn't know whether children eat those
things. Finally he began TO cry for his
mother. | wanted to hand him over to a
policeman and have him taken away-any-
where. but | called a hack instead and told
the driver to take him home. He beloved
like calf and went off alone in the hack,
creating disturbance"
"But how did his mother take it, Did she
ever speak 20 you againp
"IneVer gave her chance, my dear fell
low. Twas cured of any weakness l NAV
have had for her. came to the conclusion
that her incumbrance, in the shape OF that
squesling brat, was something altogether
too colossal for an ordinary mortal to en-
& dure, and l never went near her again, nor
have since then ever tried to please a
child.n
CHILDREN's KEEN PERCEPTIONS.
OF course men of this kind ought never to
have anything to do with children. No
man can please them unless he likes them.
& They are hypOcrites often themselves but
they detect Hypocrisy in others at once, and
they can never be pleoated by people who
are doing 1t for some selfish purpose. The
truth Is, children are the most arbitrary
class OF community. They set up stan
dards Of their own, and if you don't follow
them woe unto you. A man who is too
much dressed or too conceited in his bear
Ing may go safely among men, but Just let
him pass by lot of boys and he will get a
most unmercitul amount Of guying. They
are perfectly fearless in their condemnation
too, and would just as soon make fun OF a
senator or a millionaire as of a GOAL HEAVIER.
Many men who don't stop to think are care
less OF their popularity with boys. but wise
men give attention to the subject. Presi-
dent Garfield, 1t will be remembered, ao-
knowledged that he was afraid of boys
liz Au6n AucI, DUs ne never COulQ L6lt what
boy might not turn out to be. II know
not what possibilities are buttoned up under
his jacket" was the way he put 1t, and he
was always very polite TO boys. As he W as
sgood deal of boy himself he was popular
with them.
LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN
literary man who was questioned on
this subject of how to please children con-
tessed that he could no more write book
or story that would please children than
he could fly. He said he had read many
books that are popular with children and
wondered where their charm lay hid. The
children never tire of certain books, and
certain other books that grown up people
would suppose to be more interesting to
them they won't have any thing to do with.
Above all do they despise books that pre-
tend to be written simply to afford amuse-
hent, but have hidden on every page soma
species OF teaching. This Ia like giving a
disagreeable pill coating OF sugar and
asking child to eat it. He will be attracted
oy the sugar, but he will detect the medi-
cine soon You can't fool q child II YOU
are giving him ''lesson book" he will And
IL out, and ne will not read it, except under
Compulaon. To please children in print,
Just as In everyday intercourse, requires
mat you should have thorough sympathy
WIN them-in short, should be somewhat
VI child yourself. And while this sub
u Jeot Is up it is well to call attention to a
curious circumstance. The literature for
children hardly ever changes. You who
Ieaa this article were brought up on the
saune poetry and prose that pleased your
kLaa9tather. He went to sleep in his early
enldhood with Mother Goose in his ears.
ne tnen grew excited over Puss-in-b0ots
auu Jack, the valiant giaDt-killer. He
graduated from that and took to Grimms'
.aIy stories and Hans Christian Andersen,
allu then he had glorious time with the
"a AAraolan Nights and Robinson Crusoe.
uroWn people have schools of affected writ
rs with affected followers and these schools
Htesg changing, but there are no schools In
ULIIurens literature. A good child's book
P,eases generation upon generation OF chill
y. en, ana the man who writes one ought to
10 ~ wiling to lie down and die content with
W. mes work, for his name will live.
en- y, ~ ever heard that Hans Christian Ander-
b Vu wrote philosophical essaysi He did,
ss S"ever, and the few people who have ever
IN yeSo,o ouem say they ara very good, but the
~ O 10 world knows and loves the author OF
H Hs ogy Ducking and Big Hans aud Little
pa 'r.S me man that thoroughly pleases one
sl', alton Of children is not satisfying a
OF solid worth,
WOMEN CAN pIHAsr r,urT n1ru pper