Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-08-05

ventilated school rooms ana poorly
equipped halls of instruction is making
many of the places of knowledge in
this country huge holocaust.
Politics in many cities gets into edu-
cational AFFAIRS and while the two po-
litical parties are scrabbling for the
honors, Jephthah's daughter perishes.
| 1t is SO much SO that there are many
schools in the country to-day which
are preparing tens of thousands of in
valid men and women for the future;
so that. in many places, by the time
the childs education is finished the
child is finished!
In connection with this I mention
what l might call the examining
system of the common schools
and many of the academies;
children of delicate brain compelled to
tasks that might appall mature intel
lect; children going down to school
with strap of books half as high as
themselves. The fact is, in some of the
cities parents do not allow their chill
dren to graduate for the simple reason,
they say: ''We cannot afford to allow
our children's health to be destroyed
in order that they may gather the
honors of an institution" Tens of
thousands of children educated into
| imbecility; so, connected with many
such literary establishments there
ought to be asylums for the wrecked.
1t is push, and crowd, and cram, and
stuff, and jam, until the child's intel
lect is bewildered, and the memory is
wrecked and the health is gone.
Girls 10 years of age studying alge-
bra! Boys II years of age racking
their brain over trigonometry! Chill
dren unacquainted with their mother
tongue crying over their Latin. French
and German lessons! All the vivacity
of their nature beaten out of them by
the heavy beetle of Greek lexicon!
And you doctor them for this, and you
give them n little medicine for that,
and you wonder what is the matter
with them. will tell You what is the
matter with them. They are finishing
their education.
tou hatoSi youi iciSihS
your children to know more than any
other children but you are making n
sacrifice of that child, if by the addi-
tions to its intelligence you are making
a subtraction from its future. The
child will go away from such maltreat-
ment with no eXuberance to fight the
battle of life. Such children may get
along very well while you take care of
them. but when you are old or dead,
alas! for them, if, through the wrong
system of education which you adopt
ed, they have no swarthiness or force
of character to take care of themselves.
BE careful how you make the child's
head ache or its heart flutter. hear
a great deal about black mems rights,
and Chinamen's rights, and Indians
rights, and women's rights. Would
God that somebody would rise to plead
for the children's rights.
Again, there are many parents who
are sacrificing their children with
wrong systems of discipline--too great
rigor and too great leniency. There
are children in families who rule the
household. They come to the author
ity. The high chair in which the in
FAINT sits is the throne, and the rattle is
the scepter. and the other children
make up the parliament where father
and mother have no vote. SUCH chill
dren come up TO be miscreants.
There is no chance in this world for
child that has never learned to mind
Some people become the botheration
of the church of God and the pest of
the world Children that do not learn
to obey human authority are unwilling
to learn to obey divine authority. Chill
dren will not respect parents whose au-
thority they do not respect. Who are
these young men that swagger through
the street, with their thumbs in their
vest, talking about their father as 1.-The
old man" ''the governor" the squire"
1.-THE old chap" or their mother as 1.-THE
old woman" They are those who in
youth, in childhood, never learned to
respect authority.
| There must he harmony between the
fathers government and the mothers
government. The father will be
tempted to too great rigor. The
mother will be tempted too great
| leniency. Her tenderness will over
come her. Her voice is little softer,
her hand seems better fit to pull out a
thorn and soothe a pang. Children
wanting anything from the mother cry
for it. They hope to dissolve her
will with tears. But the mother
must not interfere, must not coax
off, must not beg for the child
when the hour comes for the asser-
ton of parental supremacy and the
subjugation of child's temper. There
comes in the history of every child an
hour when it is tested whether the
parents shall rule or the child shall
rule. This is the crucial hour. If the
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