The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-01-12
THE INFLUENCES OF HOME.
How Parental Teachings Eff
fects Mems Careers.
How Home and School
are Connected.

By Chas, S. Lyles.
| have wondered at people who
never stay at home. 1 wonder still
more when they talk of home in a
careless, Indifferent way. And yet
l wonder more than ever when they
say they find no enjoyment under its
roof and have to seek it elsewhere.
To my mind there is no surer mark
to a downward course in a persons
career, than to merely intimate that
home is not the place to find enjoy
ment And nothing is truer that
something is wrong, when the spare
time is spent elsewhere.
Sometimes this is due to the
parents; sometimes to the children;
generally to both. ] will lay the
greater blame to the parents. AT
least they are to blame, for into their
care the household is given.
You cannot persuade child that
his parents are doing wrong. To them
Pa and Ma is all there is. They
never make mistakes. If the father
is polite and manly they initiate him.
The old saying, ''He is chip off of
the old block, " is surely well founded.
The little peculiarities are nearly
always traceable back to some
ancestor, if not Immediately to the
parents. 1t is nothing to be wonder
ed at when we consider the
circumstances.
| First impressions are the most
important. How well we remember
: our first books. There is that bright
remembrance of each lesson, how the
ABB Cs stood, how the words before
. the lesson, the picture, and each para
graph of the lesson; how the desks
stood, and how our seatmate ano
school mates looked and acted. Yes,
it is all plain. We went to schoo
seven hours during the day, five days
week and about thirty two weeks
in year. The rest of the time W.
Is were at home. Thus you see tha
seven eights of the time we are
= home. If the one eighth spent a
school amounts to so much, hoy
much more should the seven eight
at home amount to? This is aprobler
which few care to solve
For moment let us think. Ther
y are none who have no influence
There are two kinds of influences
GOOD and bad. There is no half wa
around. The gulf which separate
them is so wide, that it is impossibl
to be neither. That which is nc
good is bad and vice versa.
O When young men and women al
. away from home, Gin society, thel
is an influence for true manhood an
womanhood. To some it has to
assumed To others it seems to
lu- ssperfectly natural" T" To be 'ssperfect
ou natural it must be taught at hom
A true gentleman is gentlemen at
times and under all circumstance
/ Now how can it seem ''perfect
natural unless is is constant
n impressed and fostered at home?
The character of person
Immediately reflected upon t
parents. 1t is stated that he h
good parents or poor parents.
'' course this is not always the cas-
Some persons, who are very rouI
cases have had excellent home tral
ing; while some good ones have b
very poor home training. AS 1t
= with most rules there are exceptloi
y but the general rule holds good, V
oTrain up a child in the way
should go and he will not depart fr'
'Ot it."
Some think, and not few, Il
the home influence has nothing to
with the schools. They rather thl
that the school should have the I'M
ence over the home. You who tn
IL the latter answer this. How mi
- can pupil learn merely at scho
How much more good will the sch
do him if he has kind word of b
at home, and devotes all of his ev
ings in study or conversation conce
ing his lessons? When the pl
Ing comes home and is allowed to tell