The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-05-12
THE Home CORNER.

that everybody knew him as a cruel
and ruthless man. When, afterwards,
he came to stand before the bar of JUS
tice to answer for a brutal and venge-
full murder, those who had shielded
his bOyhood and excused all his faults
were utterly aghast, and cried out Bit
terly that Johnny was 80 changed,
and that he surely must have fallen
into bad company.
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But this Home Corner has always
believed that criminals grow. If you
allow your boy to be cruel and selfish,
you are preparing the way for selfish
and cruel man, with those vices in
tensified by years, because they will
have grown with his growth and
strengthened with his strength. That
is one of the saddest thoughts con-
nected with the childhood of children
that the very vices planted and
uourished by parents themselves,
through carelessness or overdulgence,
continually grow and ripen, until
some day they startle you with their
power and magnitude. All things
considered, this thing of being re-
sponsible for children is one Of the
most fearful gifts to man. Alas for
those who receive il lightly, or who
do not learn to appreciate 1t until 1t is
too late!
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: A few evenings since we sat and
watched the bright little kindergart-
mere as they danced about the May
pole. How the snowy dresses and the
bright ribbons flashed and fiuttered,
: and everything was maze of lovely
colors and fitting figure. We older
, and graver ones who sat and looked
on were not sure that the little kind
} ergartners did not have wings, SO
} light and airy were their motions;
but as we watched them quite other
thoughts came into our heads. The
tiny boys and girls to whom life is
such a merry playtime, what will
they be twenty, thirty, forty years
, from now? All, they will have the
world in their own hands then, and
l will be saving the state, doubtless,
just as people are busy saving 1t now;
3 while we-well, perhaps we will be
looking on again, as we did the other
night at their merry mimicry. Will
any one of those :chubby, brlght-eyed
boys be the statesman, the orator OF
his times? VIII anyone of those dam
: ty little maidens some day change the
: fate of empires, another DeStael? We
l have all heard OF
"Old Master TreboIious,
: Who followed principle glorious;
\ He made 1t a rule
. On entering his school,
; To his pupils to bow
AS well he knew how:
For there may be some great men before u.s.
Said respectful old Master Treborious
, Who followed principle glorious"
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So we, who watch the little kinder
3 gartners, look forward to the time
when they shall be out in the world
fighting all the more bravely for their
happy May day; when they be great
: men, some of them, when their hands
shall guide the pen, when they shall
: be the workers and comforters and
: heaters of the world, or when, per-
3 haps, some of them shall lie quiet
here and there, Caught out in early
snow.n
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She had hurriedly wiped away her
> tears when the knock sounded at the
door, but her face betrayed her.
The friend who stood there could
not be deceived. "You have been cry
ing again." she said reproachfully,
and the lonely woman in the pathetic.
shabby black dress murmured, while
the tears started afresh: ooh, must
cry little, Annie. Nobody can blame
, me for that. Morning and evening,
while Ben's at home, / have to keep q
cheerful face. It's been hard enough
for him, poor fellow, and can't bear
to make his burden any heavier. But
,, oh, when he's gone, If / didn't cry
little think my heart
would break You don't know
how lonely the house is land she
used to be here, talking to me all day
long land so often about things /
didn't understandable she was such
wise child, and If you had heard her
ou'd "a been sure angels had talked
with her. Oh yes, Annie, know
you've lost children of your own, but
you've never been 80 poor that when
your child asked for things on It's
death bed you couldn't get
'em. She wanted nice little
. things to eat, for what we
had was so poor, and the last thing
she asked for was oranges-and che
/, never got 'em. And to think that the
very day she was laid in the ground
Ben got work again Oh, 1t came too
, late! What do we care for it now?"
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And with her friends arms around
her she wept as though her heart
\ would break, and yet looked at the
| clock, knowing that 1t was almost
q time for Ben to come home, and that
she must wipe the tears away and
, have cheerful face to greet him when
. he came. JULIA TRUITT BISHOP.
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