The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-14
SIGNS OF new SPECIES.
The Danger Of Taking
Children in Too Serious
a Manner.
ICoNoCLAST'S LATEST WORK
Easy TO Be a Crank, But AwfulIy
Hard 10 Undo Work Once Done
Signs Of the Times.

Very seriously, nLu1osb uuSmtllnRlys
writes Louise Belts Edwards. In the
Philadelphia Press. 1t would sometimes
seem that the world-the younger half OF
1t, at all evsnts-ls to be saved through
the people without theories or ''views."
Goods army of just common folks''-
two thoughts to the vital pvobleuss Of
child>training over which we strain and
struggle aud agonizs; those who. in short,
have never done anything for their child
rem but Just love them and 90 their
Ignorant. unguided and ITO us) humiliat-
ingly successfui best. They are the salt
which preserves the whole world, the
balance to the wheels or progress which
might else fly to pieces under the erratic
direction of the crank; In their society
we can stretch our wsAry linn b. cramped
with riding .hobhies, n ask ourselves
such heretical questions as Gan we take
children too ssriouslyi Is IL possible to
be too conscientious. too advanced, In our
treatment OF thefn."
The world was undoubtedly a long
while discovering how Interesting 10
childhood, but Is nov making up for
lost time. Feeling her sacred responsi.
bility" to such an extent that the bless
ing Is almost lost signt of in the burden.
the mo .ern mother q will leave the
word FIN de steele" to recuDerate) ID
well described In q recent aga inc skit:
she thought upon him days and nights
Her only sou-her sleep oft losing;
She viewed him In so many lights.
The mingled beams became confusing.
His budding pow ers each hour enhanced
The fears her heart forever paining.
Lest on mistaken lines advanced
His mental and his moral training.
With prescience Of his growing need
She pored Ger every scheme presented.
And tried. in teaching him to read,
Seven several systems late invented.
Each game he learnt was but a veil
For information's introduction;
Each seeming simple fairy tale
She tarbed with ethical instruction"
"The little move and how much It isi,'
Even carried thus to excess, our solici.
sude is, of course, far better than the
oIdtime indifference; but In our wild
anxiety TO do the right thing we are
nutting mind and body on a strain Viii CHI
is as Indirectly Injurious to the children
ourselves over that problem The Child
with treble sized capitals; we lose sight
of him as q blessed little bit OF humanity
meant to SMOOTH, not to engrave more
deeply the wrinkles on our brows; aud
most disastrous Of all. we are losing our
sense Of humor. When that is gone.
fare well 10 success 10 dealing with tue
9AiAt A~AN Ok t00S4 10 90
necessary Ia moulding q character as 10
kneading bread, D one ounce OF fond,
foolish mother love Is worth q tou OF
top heavy bearing. which, II we don't
take care. will make us mad.
A NEW DISCOVERY.
The signs OF the times are not far to
seek. The latest discovery. in the line of
making our children creatures 'too
bright and good for human nature's daily
food" is that the teachings of Mother
Goose are immoral. Had o ever
guessed il? Such knowledge IS too won
derful for me; l cannot attain to 1t; but
q self styled kin iergartner In a popular
unerring finger the hitherto unsuspe ct ID
corruption hid in these time hallowed
melodies. Now We who ware brought up
on them can trace our moral ~obliquities
to their proper source in the dishonest
example set by ''Torn, Tom, the Piper's
SOM; the cruelty suggested by throwing
the inoffensive old gentleman downstairs
in "Goosey Gander": the profigacy OF
Georgia Porgie, who kissed the girls; the
appalling kelishness of Jacky Aorner
and the theft. violence aud murjar incul-
Gated in the perverting recital that ''Tsffy
was a Welshman. Taffy WAS y thief"
Mother Truths Melodies: A Kinder
Rarien," although | do not remember
this writer's mentioning 1t. is already, in
the most advanced circles. ~supplanting
the inspired nonsense in which imagina-
tive. melody loving, humor percelviuQ
childhood has always taken a subtle but
most real delight. l have no criticism to
make ON this work. which commences
with q rather impolite gdjul alton to
Mother Goose to Fly. by away" and
make place for Mother Truth; Il few ex-
anples Of Its ethical jingles speak. though
in hating numbers, for themselves
Here is an ernasculated, up to date We rston
Of Jacky Horner:
"Little Jacky Horner
Sat in a corner,
Eating a morsei of nice brown bread.
Have some pie or some caks?"
Not l." with q shake
And a toss with his wiee iittie head;
For this bread will make bone
And white teeth like q stone,
That will neither grow soft nor decay"
The cloven hoof of instruction peeps
forth everywhsre:-
Bye o Paby Bunting,
The indiana live by hunting,
And bring home man y q beaver skin
10 wrap the little pappoose in-'
Do not start, reader, gentle or other.
wise; this is not irreyerence, it is milk
for babes:-
WHOLLY HoLE-Y.
Seven million little openings
God has made upon your skin;
Mouths of tiny little sewers
That run every whore Within"
The prOverb that man is never too old
to learn and his sons never too young to
teach him." is exemplifsd here, wnere
one sapient tufapt thus discourses;-
Papa, when you dive me tandy,
Dive me only white, =
'Tause there's poison Ia the tolored,
Which my health will blight.
But you better d i've me sudar,
Let the tandy be,
'Tause l shall not want so much,
And that is best for me-"