The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-09-07
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along with his relish for food. The
bitter food he should taste, knowing
that it sometimes is wholesome and
unripe food he must be taught to
always avoid. Thus, little by little
his interest is changed from an alb.
sorbing desire to get hold of VIII at his
appetite at the moment Graves, to o
selection of such food as will make
him strong and happy. These may
seem trivial matters, but it means the
training of children's appetites and
opinions. which is not little matter.
We must not delay too long upon this
one phase of the child's development.
He has many relationships in life,
and the germs of each begin to unfold
with the earliest stages of life. The
adult individual ordinarily enters in
to family life, that most sacred, yet so
often abused relationship. Again we
see Earring and jangling. Our courts
of justice are filled with applicants
for divorce, our social circles with
married flirts.
Too often children have to look back
upon their home life as the scene of
strife and selflshness. Our news
papers are teeming with articles
written on this question, sis marriage
failure?" What is the Difficulty?
Can there be higher duty of the
parent, than the preparing of the
child for the right home life?
Home is the throne room of woman,
the bulwark of the nation, the safe
guard of the church, the disciplinar-
ian of the individual. We need not
that philosopher, nor sage, nor divine
authority should tell US of the sacred
ness of the home. Our own heart in
stincts teach it to US.
Has any earnest observer ever
watched little child playing with
its doll or playing at papa and mama,
and not felt borne in upon him the
conviction that this same childish
play was making lasting impression
upon the boys and girls future
views of family life? We do not con-
slider seriously enough the influence
the early play of the child has upon
his future life. Education by play
has been preached since the days of
Plato and yet the world at large
needs it not. have seen great
rollicking boy quieted down into the
gentlest of nurses by being given
doll to put to sleep, and have watched
with amused interest as he rocked it
to and fro. then tip-toed across the
floor and laid it gently down with the
tenderness of a real father, and re-
turn to his chair to speak in soft, sub
dued tones that dolly might not be
So in childish play do
these little ones strive to enter into
the life about them. The mother
stands first to the child in his up
looking. She occupies that relation
ship to him which, by and by, is to be
filed with thoughts of Supreme
Being. Is she not, 80 far as he can
his creator, preserver,
provider, protector, counsellor, friend
and discipliner. Early does the love
by these manifold bonds
between mother and child show itself.
The child's first manifestation of af-
lection is usually the smile with
which it greets its dear mother.
soon, very soon, the little arms learn
10 Irvine themselves around mothers
,eck, and the little lips express q
'aby love in caress and soft fondling
# her cheek and hair. What mothers
leart has not treasured the first
childish words of endearment. These
re right and good in their place, but
mother point the way to ennobliDg
hem from mere physical love into
higher spiritual love, which shows
tself in service and self sacrifice. My
wn little four-year old was stoutly
with his little sister for
he place next his mama, suddenly
urned to him and said my son, Is
lot your love strong enough to stretch
cross the room" Eyes mama, it ISL
eplied the child, and he instantly
ropped his clutch upon my dress and
walked to the farthest chair in the
DOM, sat down with beaming face,
lad in the thought that his love
Guild stand such test. So the child
an be. little by little, trained to feel
hat true love should show itself in
eeds, not words, until the selfish
lement of love will "trem blingly
ass in music out of sight," and
trough loving service to his fellow
ian he shall learn the deep and full
ignlficance of those words.
"NOt every one that sayeth unto
le Lord! Lord. shall enter into the
.ingdom of Heaven, but he that
oeth the will of my father which is
1 Heaven"
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