The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-17

theto are large appropriations Tor every.
thing slss, and ohesrful appropriations, but
a. soon o. the appropriation 10 to be made
for tho educational or moral interests Of
the city we are struck through with An
economy that 10 we'll nigh the death Of u.
In connection with this mention what
I might call the oramming system Of the
common schools and many Of the aoad-
emies; children Of delicate brain compelled
to tasks that might appall . mature intel
lect; children going down TO school with
strap Of books half as high AZ themselves.
The fact Ia in some Of the cities parents do
not allow their children to graduate for
the simple reason, they say, "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 imbe-
cility, so that connected with many such
literary establishments there ought to be
asylums for ehe wrecked. 1t Is push and
crowd and cram and stuff and jam until
the child's intellect is bewildered, and the
memory Is ruined, and the health Is gone.
There are children who once were full Of
romping and laughter and had cheeks
crimson with health who are now turned
out In the afternoon pale faced, trritAted,
asthmatic, old before their time. 1t is
one Of the saddest sights on earth, an old
mannish boy or an old womanish girl.
Girls 10 years Of age studying algebrai
Boys IL years Of age racking their brain
over trigonometryi Children unacquaint-
cd with their mother tongue crying over
their Latin, French and German lessonsl
All the vlvaclty OF thelr nature beaten OUT
OF them ~ the heavy beetle OF Greek
lexiconl And you doctor them Tor this.
and you give diem iietle medicine Tor
OF them. VIII tell you what Is the mat
Ter OF them' Iney are nnisnlng Vhelr CO.
ucationI
Body and Brain Weakened.
In my Parish in Philadelphia q little
child was 60 pushed At school that she was
thrown into fever, and In her dying de-
lirlum all night long she was trying to re-
cite the multiplication table. In my boy
hood remember that in our GLASS at school
there was one lad who knew more than all
Of us put together. II we were fast In our
arithmetic, no extricated u.s. When we
stood up for the spelling GLASS, he was al
most always the head Of the class. Visit
ors came to his fathers house, and he was
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 know.
ing his right hand from his left or day
from night. The parents and the teachers
made him an idiot.
You may fiattsr your pride by forcing
your child to know more than any other
children, but you are making sacrifice
Of that child il by the additions to its in
telligenoe you are making a subtraction
from its future. The child will 60 away
from such maltreatnent WIN no e1uDer-
anoe to light the battio OF NE; euch chill
dren may get along very well Whle you
take care Of them, but when you arc old
or dead alas for them II, through the
wrong system OF education winch you
adopted, they have no swarthlness or force
of character to tako care OF themselves.
Be careful how you make the chlld's head
ache or Its heart hutter. l near great
deal about black mans rights, ald Chlna-
mans rights, and Indians rights, and
woman's rights. Would God that some
body would rise to plead for ch1ldrens
rights. The Carthaginlans used to sacri-
foe their children by putting them lnto
the arms of an idol which thrust forth lts
hand. The child was put into the arms OF
the idol and no sooner touched the arms
than 1t dropped into the IRE. But ~ was
the art OF the mothers to keep the children
smiling and laughing until the moment
they died. There may be fascination
and hilarity about the styles OF educa-
ton of which am speaking, but 1t Is only
Ian nhfar AFT thn moment or gACTlflE9.
Would God there were only one Jephthahs
daughter!
Discipline of the Young.
Again. there are many parents who are
sacrificing their children with wrong sys.
tenn of discipline-too great rigor or too
great leniency, There are children in
families who rule the household. The
high chair in which the Infant sits is the
throne, and the rattle Is the scepter, and
the other children make up the parliament
where father and mother have no votel
Such childrdA>come up to be miscreants.
There 10 no chance in this world for a
child that has never learned 10 mind.
SUCH people become the pother"I,oh u tne
church OF tod ana me PEST ol inc WORM.
Chlldren tha1 40 not learn 10 opey human
divine authority Chliafen VIII hoe re.
spect parents whose authority they 10 not
respect. VINO are these young men that
swagger through inc street WIN theif
thumbs IN their vest talking aoouo their
father as the oid man, the governor
"the squire, the old chap or their
mother as the OLD woman Ihey arc
those who In youth, IN chilahood, never
learned to respect authority. LII, having
heard that MS sons had dlea III Ihelr
wickedness, fell over backward and broke
his neck and died. Well he might. "in1
Is life to father whose sons are de-
bauched? The dust OF the valley IS pleas
sht TO MS tasto' anu ehe olINine ialhs 'n..O
arp through the roor OF the sepulcher arc
sWeeter thln tle Wiiies vi heipon'
ineio nauso w .4 , ~ '.sn stbnu,a 'o ,a 40,
'her so'ei ma anu .Ho i'o INES. ~ "