The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-08-04

what I 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 a 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 saw: 1--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, ALI 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 a little medicine for that,
and you wonder what is the matter
with them. Twill tell you what is the
matter with them. They are finishing
their education.
In nv parish in Philadelphia little
child was SO pushed at school that she
| was thrown into a fever. and in her
| dying delirium, all night long. she was
trying to recite the multiplication
table. In my boyhood l remember
| that in our class at school there was
| one lad who knew more than all OF US
put together If we were fast in our
arithmetic, he extricated US When
we stood up for the spelling class he
was almost always the head OF the
class. Visitors came to his father
house, and he was almost always
brought in as prodigy. At IS years
of age he was an idiot. He 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 fiatter your pride by forcing
your children to know more than any
other children. but you are making a
sacrifice of that child, if by the addi-
tons 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
H.
along very we'll 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 :
head ache or It's heart flutter. / hear
a great deal about black mems rights
and Chiuamen'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 wh'
are sacrificing their children with
wrong systems of discipline-too grea
rigor and too great leniency. Their
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 i
the scepter. and the other children
make up the parliament where fathe
and mother have no vote, Such chill
dren come up to be miscreants-
There is no chance in this world 70
child that has never learned to mind
Some people become the botheratiol
E of the church of God and the pest o
the world. Children that do not learl
| to obey human authority are unwilling
, | to learn to obey divine authority. Chill
dreu will not respect parents whose AT
thority they do not respect Who ar
, these young men that swagger throug
the street. with their thumbs in thei
vest. talking about their father as ''th
old man. the governor, 1.-The squire.
| s'the old chap" or their mother as ''th
old woman?" They are those who il
youth in childhood, never learned t
I respect authority.
There must be harmony between tn
| fathers government and the mother
I, | government The father will b
r tempted to too great rigor. Th
q mother will be tempted too grea
leniency. Her tenderness will Over
4 come her Her voice is a little softer
: her hand seems better fit to pull out
e thorn and soothe a pang. Childre
$ wanting anything from the mother CT
u for it. They hope to dissolve he
/ will with tears. But the mothe
= must not interfere. must not Goa
{ off. must not beg for the chill
when the hour comes for the asse
# ton of parental supremacy and tn
e subjugation of child's temper. Their
a comes in the history of every child a
a hour when it is tested whether {.
/ parents shall rule or the child sha
Il rule. This is the crucial hour. If II
r child triumphs in that hour, then +
h will some day make you crouch. 1t is
q horrible scene. l have witnessed it:
5 mother come to old age, shivering ~
terror in the presence of son WI
b cursed her gray hairs and Knocked h
v wrinkled face, and begrudged her tt
i crust she munched with her toothle: