St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-04

brings you down to teach you the spirit
of child-like trust, and bye and bye, i'm
Its full vigor, ministers to your "second
childhood
What another home is sometimes
created when the baby treasure is born
into 1t! Husband and wife are bound
now by new silken cord which heaven
has thrown about them. God be praised
for true-hearted women who rejoice in
children, and God be praised, too, for
mothers who delight in the personal
care OF their children. How gladly we
mark the day when our smile and
"chlrrup" waken the first responsive
smile from precious baby" The chance
for training begins then. 1t begins
sooner. l acknowledge a more than
aesthetic sympathy with Wordsworth's
lines:
Thou who didst wrap the cloud
VI infancy around us that Thyself
Ihereln with our sim plicity awhile
Mlgntest hold on earth communion undis-
rurbed."
How much is truth and how much
fancy Ill Wordsworth's words is after
all uncertain, but we do own the truth
that Cod wrapped the cloud of infancy
around us that the mother might hold
communion with her child. And she is
in Gods stead to the bate. If Tor years
1t learns anything of divine love the
mother is the mortal who reveals and
lmpreSseS that love. Divine love, hope,
faith. courage, patience in her are wax
ing the responsive germs in the child,
and then, bye and bye. from her
heart-life it reaches easily up and
lays hold upon Christ, whose life
and image She has borne and impaired.
The greater part of the mothers work
Is before the boys and girls are old
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this be true, can faithful mother be
content to let her child grow up with
the sentiments of another, permit her
self TO be for the most part superseded
by another, so that it shall receive the
impress OF another'S character rather
than her own? Such mother is max
ing much more of herself than of her
child. would not have mothers foolish
In their dotings, but l would bear that
sooner than the other extreme of
Ostrich nurture"
On the other hand there is danger
that you be held too closely indoors by
morbid sense of responsibility. You
want recreation, relaxation. The brac-
ing OF pleasant work for something
which home demands, just for the sale
OF the nursery, gives new life to you. If
the weather is favorable take the little
one or little ones along. A CHEEKY tramp
cams peevish child and dissOlves
seas of troubles" doubtless stirred to
connection by thin air and close walls.
1t brings out the better spirit and life to
go where there is 10 roof but the canopy
OF the Sky. The ha:dest work in the
world is to do nothing. 1t applies to
children. very little children. Like a
clock. children need to be wound up and
started, and then there is lots of go in
them" There is such a thing as blend
ing the most faithful watch and care
with a wise neglect. 4 spirit Of de-
pendence should be grated with a
spirit of independence. If we pet
them and mourn with them over every
little mishap we are preparing hard
work for the boys all through school
days. and probably making them too
tender Tor manly success wnen they 90
out into the battle of life. Must we
''Dreak a child's WiIl?" No. Break
the will and you have snapped the
flbres of good character. Instead of
breaking let it be bending; bending
down from self-asSertiOn to self-devo-
ton. Let gentleness speak the word
or firmness and hold to it. Children
are shrewd detectives. They know the
yielding point, and hold their fort with
greatest shrewdness. Boys and girls
have rights. The right to ask fair
questions and receive reasonable an
swers. The right to try the wings of
growing thought and to run with the
feet of honest endeavor. We who are
Older owe them as much as they owe US,
for they have revealed life to US and
given us incentives to healthful activity.
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