The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-18

somebody else; and when the work is all
finished appears again, compliments the
peal workers, and takes a good attitude
in which to receive the appreciation of the
general public. Being bit lazy myself,
l must confess I rather admire her
diplomacy; but, then, don't like her
seltishness.
HOW TO BRING UP CHILDREN.
Women and children seem naturally to
go together, and just here / want to say
that have been reading a book that had
lot of stuff in it about the way children
take the downward path and who shows
it to them. Judging from the precocious
specimens here in New York, | think a
great many of them do not need any lead
ing, but, of course, fathers and mothers
are to blame for this. Sooner than see q
child of mine chasing around, selling
chances at big fair, being brazen and
impudent, would well-TI think l would
prefer to chloroform her. Fond mammas
are having their offspring taught to do
the skirt dances, and to execute high
kicks for the benefit of their friends. and
the result is about as bad-behaved lot of
Young ones as YOU could wish to see any
place. One sees girls of 10 years climbing
upon mems laps, Volunteering to kiss
them and doing their dance, starting in
my mind a wild desire to do dance on
them with paddle l don't think I
should approve of a spanking machine
but a good old-fashioned spanking is a
medicine that is quite as desirable for
children as castor oil. Both tend to cbol
the blood and make life seem more prac-
tical.
Funnily all this dance nonsense seems
to be limited to the girls. Now, this is
very bad. l like an intelligent child
like a child who is interested in the world
and what is going on, but l hate with a
fifteenth century Borgia hatred what IS
known as the smart child. can fully
sympathize with the old gentleman who
said he didn't call it smartness-he called
it id impudence. OF course, every
body's own little geese are swans, but
still do wish mothers would think iust'a
little bit about what this bringing forward
of a girl child means. Our women are in
telligent enough, and vet they prank up
baby of 10 in the silk frock and diamond
ring, and have it make an exhibition of
itself, and then cry when it Is II because
it is so free in its manner. They don't
seem to be able to trace out the cause and
effect
FASHIONABLE YOUNGSTERS.
] am very much in earnest about this,
and / wish women would understand that
among the so-called fashionable people,
children, while they lead happy lives,
nevertheless lead very simple ones, and
that the child of the millionaire will have
one or two flannel suits for the entire
summer, while the child of the book
keeper will be gaudy and offensive in
silks and laces.
A little girl who is very close to my
heart has her dinner at l O'Clock with the
family, when they take luncheon. Some
time ago it was decided that as she was 6
years old it was time she learned, when
the butler handed her a dish, to help her.
self. She was warned beforehand that,
while she could always have second
helping, she must not put too much on her
plate, and that if she did, and left it,
she would have to eat it at her half-past
five o'clock tea. OF course many tears
were shed being very fond of chicken
wings, she would put three or four on her
plate and then only be able to eat one and
half. Not a word was spoken, but the
butler, after removing her plate, calmly
lifted off it TO another the uneaten
chicken, the vegetab les or whatever she
had taken, and instead of being able to
have the delightful marmalade, or the
sweet preserves with her tea, she sat up
in her nursery and had the remains of her
dinner with it. heard a woman call this
cruel; that woman was fool. The child
was simply having an object lesson which
she soon mastered. She learned not to
be greedy, and long before the 9TH birth
day came around she could help herself
with the dignity Of the mistress Of the
house.