The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-08-28
privileges. The dear little things

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ought to have good time in infancy,
for trouble will surely come when they
get older, and rejoice that the mod
ern children have a better time than
we did. ! remember the little brown
cradle that VIC we're all rocked IN, and
when there wascnt a baby carriage in
the town. | remember when the av.
erage child had no nurse save its
mother, and she did the hOuscwOrk
and made all the garments, too, and
dident know she was having u hard
time. The little chaps dident have
their faces washed nor their clUthcS
changed but once or twice a day, and
they were set down on the floor or
the around and given some home
made playtl,ings, and they, too, dident
know there was anything better.
Even the children Of wealthy parents
were turned over TO the little darkies
and were happy in their keeping. l
remember when Evan Howell, the po.
lltical dictator, was bobbing around
with the little niggers and got so
dirty playing In the sand you could
cnt spot him nor tell kpthcr from
which. But now his little grandcllil-
dren 60 around In laccs and ribbons
and gold buttons and ride in 40 baby
carriage and batte In . $40 bath tub,
and Evan thinks it is all right, and l
reckon it is. Ours come as near doing
the same thing as they can and SO do
everybody elses. 1t is a beautiful
trait In human nature to improve on
your own raising and to swectcn the
hardships Of childhood. But the time
will come when the boys and the girls
get big enough to be useful and then
they should be made to know 1t. They
should be raised to habits Of industry.
The girl OF ten years should help her
mother in llouscwork and In nursing
the baby. The boy Ut ten should be-
gin with the hoe In the garden and
the Ak at the wOOdpilc. The piano is
all right, and SO is the pony, but work
should be mixed with pleasure. Some.
times l think there Is too much school,
ing and collcging going on in this gen.
Grafton and too little work. The cur
riculum Of our public schools is now
nine long years, say from eight to scv.
cnteen, and then comes three or four
more OF college and no work in all
that time, no habits Of industry, moth.
Ing but books, books, books. There is
hardly a sweet girl graduate in the
State who can make her own dresses.
She goes to the milliner and keeps her
poor old father on strain. Perhaps
the college boy takes an honor and
gets his name In the papers and then,
Of course, lie must study law and
dabble in politics and depend on the
old man for support. These kind Of
nice, smart, good.ior-nothing boys are
in every city and town and village.
They know nothing Of the practical
concerns Of life. They couldent plan
a house nor run q saw mill nor an ice
factory nor a brick.yard nor even Il
little farm. They know nothing Of
horticulture or the science OF growing
flowers or evergreen. They cOuldent
hang a door or make a gate latch or
put up a roller window curtain. But
they know q little Latin and Greek
and some geometry and perhaps can
tell you whether the deluge came be-
fore or after the flood, and they can
play base ball and foot ball and dance
the german and wear tanned shoes
and bellybands to perfection, but they
are good boys and so smart and have
such nice manners and winning ways
that their mothers are proud Of them,
but their old fathers are serious and
perplexcd. College life Is very fasci.
mating both to boys and girls, but to
most Of them II Is waste Of precious
time. Education should bc mixed
with labor. 1t should be hard to get,
not easy.