The Red Cloud chief., 1893-08-11

children Of delicate brain compelled to
tasks shat might appall a mature intel
lcct; children going down to school
with a strap Of books half as high as
themselves. The fact is, in sons Of the
drcn to graduate, for the simple reason,
they say: ave cannot afford To allow
our childrcn's health to be destroyed
in order that they may gather the
honors Of an institution" Tens of
thousands Of children educated into
imbccility: so, connected with many
such literary establishments there
ought to be asyluns for the wrecked.
IL is push, and crowd, and cram, and
stuff, and jam, until the child's intel
lect is bewildcred, and the memory is
wrecked and the health is gone.
Girls 10 years of age studying alge-
bra! Boys IL years OF age racking
their brain over trigonometry! Chill
drcn unacquaintcd 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 Il Greek lexicon.
And you doctor them for this, and you
give them u 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!
In my parish in Philadelphia a little
child was SO pushed at school that she
was thrown into a fever. and i'm her
dying dclirium, all night long, She was
trying to recite the multiplication
table. In my boyhood | remember
that in our class at school there was
one lad who knew more than all of us
put together. IL we were fast i'm our
arithmetic, he cxtricatcd us. When
we stood mp for the spelling class he
was almost always the head of the
class. Visitors came to his fathers
house, and he was almost always
brought in as a prodigy. At IS years
of age he was an idiot. lie lived ten
years an idiot and died an idiot, not
knowing his right hand from his left.
or day from night. The parents and
the teachers made him an idiot.
You may flatter your pride by forcing
your children to know more than any
other children, but you are making a
sacrifice of that child, IL by the add.
tions to its intelligence you are making
a subtraction from its future. The
child will go away from such maltreat-
ment with no cxuberance 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,
ulnSf for than 10 tb sl, ~.
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 tiutter. hear
u 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. Their,
are children in families who rule tn,
household. They come to the author
ity. The high chair in which the in
FAINT sits is the throne, and the rattle Il
the sccptcr, and the other children
make up the parliament where fathci
and mother have no vote, Such chill
dren come up to be miscreants.
There is no chance in this world fo,
n child that has never learned to mind
Some people become the bothcratioI
of the church of God and the pest o
the world. Children that do not learr
to obey human authority are umwillin,
to learn tn obey divine authority. Chill
dren will not respect parents whose au
thority they do not respect. Who ar,
these young men that swaggcr through
the street, with their thumbs in thei
vest, talking about their father as 9TH,
old man." "the GOVERNOR 'the squire
"the old chap" or their mother as 18th,
old woman" They are those who il
youth, in childhood, never learned t,
respect authority.
There must be harmony between tn,
fathers government and the mother
government. The father will b,
tempted to too great rigor. Tn,
mother will be tempted too grca'
%lcniency. Her tenderness will over
come her. Her voice is a little softer,
her hand seems better fit To pull out ;
thorn and soothe n pang. Children
wanting anything from the mother cry
for IL. They hope to dissolve he
Wal with tears, But the mothc
must not interfere, must not Goa
off, must not beg for the child
when the hour comes for the asser
ton of parental supremacy and tn,
subjugation of a child's temper, There
comes in the history of every child NJ
hour when it is tested whether tn
parents shall rule or the child shall
rule. This is the crucial hour. If tn
child triumphs in that hour, then 1t
will some day make o crouch. II is
horrible scene | have witnessed it: !
mother come to old age, ~shivcring wit
terror in the presence of a son VIII
cursed her gray hairs and Knocked he
wrinkled face, and bc~grudged her tn,
crust she munched with her toothles!
gums!
How sharper than q serpantStooth It Is
To have u thankless child!
But, OF the other hand, too great rig