Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-04-21

ten years an ldlOt ana dlen an lulOt,
not knowing his right hand from his
left or day from night The parents and
the teachers made him an idiot.
Wrong System of Education.
You may fatter your pride by forcing
your child to know mere than any ether
children, but you are making sacri'
flee Of that child if by the additions to
its intelligence you are making a sub
traction from its future The child will
20 away from such maltreatment with
no exuberance TO fight the battle Of
life Such children may get along very
well while you take care Of them, bet,
when you are old or dead, alas for
them if through the wrong system Of
education which you adopted they
have no swarthiness OF force Of charac-
ter 10 take care OF themselves BE care.
ful how you make the child head ache
or its heart flutter. | hear great deal
about black mans rights. and China
mans rights, and Indians rights. and
woman rights. Would to God that
somebody would rise to plead for chill
dren 5 rights The Carthagenians used
10 sacrifice their children by putting
them into the arms Of an idol which
thrust firth its hand The child was
put into the arms If the idol and no
sooner touched the arms than it dropped
into the fre But it was the art Of the
mothers to keep the children smiling
and laughing until the moment they
died. There may be a fascination aud
hilarity about the styles Of education
Of which am speaking, but it is only
laughter at the moment Of sacrifice.
Would God there were only one Jeph-
thah's daughter
Again. there are many parents who
are sacrificing their children with
wrong system Of discipline-too great
rigor or too great leniency. There are
children in families who rule the house
hold. The high chair in which the in
FAINT sits il the throne, and the rattle Is
the scepter, and the other children
make up the parliament where father
and mother have no vote. such chill
dren come up to be miscreants There
is no chance in this world for a child
that has never learned to mind. Such
people become the botherati0n of the
church Of God and the pest Of the world
Children that do not learn 10 obey hn-
man authority are unwilling to learn
to obey divine authority. Children will
not respect parents whose authority
they do not respect Who are these
Young men that swagger through the
street with their thumbs in their vest
talking about their father as 1.-THE old
man. " 1.-THE governor, " 1.-THE squire.
1.-THE old chap, or their mother as "the
cid woman" They are those who in
youth. in childhood never learned to
respect authority. Eli, having heard
that his sons had died in their wicked
ness. fell over backward and broke his
neck and died. Well he might What
is life to father whose sons are de-
bauchedg The dust Of the valley is
pleasant to his taste, and the driving
rains that drip through the roof Of the
sepulcher are sweeter than the wines OF
Helbon.
Harmony In the Home.
There must be harmony between the
fathers government and the mother
government The father will be tempt.
ed to too great rigor The mother will
be tempted to too great leniency. Hei
tenderness will overcome her. Her voice
is a little softer; her hand seems better
fitted to pull ont a thorn and soothe a
pang. Children wanting anything. from
the mother cry for it. They hope tC
dissolve her with tears But the mother
must not interfere. must not coax OF.
must not beg for the child when the
hour comes for the assertion Of parental
supremacy and the suhjugation Of
child's temper There comes in the
history Of every child an hour when il
is tested whether the parents shall ruiz
or the child shall rule. That Is the
crucial hour If the clild triumphs IL
that hour then he will some day make
vou crouch. 1t is horrible scene.
have witnessed it-a mother come to ole
age. shivering with terror in the pres
ence of a son who cursed her gray hair
and mocked her wriukled face and be
grudged her the crust she munche'
with her toOthless gums
How sharper than a sorpent's tooth 1t Is
To have a thankess child
But. on the other hand, too grea
rigor must be avoided. 1t is a sad thin'
when domestic government becomes colt
military despotism. Trappers on tn
prairie fight fire with fire, but you can
not successfully fight your child 5 ba'
temper with your own bad temper w
must not be too minute ia our inspec
ton. We cannot expect our children I
be perfect. Wem must not see every thlns
Since we have two or three faults O
our own, we ought not to be too roug
when we discover that our childrel
have as many. If tradition be true
when we were children We were not a
little Samuels, and our parents wer
not fearful lest they could not raise u
because of cur premature goodness lo
cannot scold or pound your children IN
( TO nobility Of character. The bloom @
a child's heart can never be seen unde
a cold drizzle. Above all, avoid frottin
and scolding in the household Bette
) than ten years of fretting at your chill
/ dren is one good, round. old fashione
application of the slipper That minis
| ter Of the gospel of whom we read i
, the newspapers that he whipped hi
! child to death because he would not sa
! his prayers will never come to canon
p ization. The arithmetics cannot calcu
late how many thousands Of childre
P have been ruined forever either throug
too great rigor or too great leniency
The heavens and the earth are file
! with the grean of the sacrificed. In thi
D important matter, seek divine, dire'
. ton. o father. O mother
Some one asked the mother OF Lor
Chief Justice Mansfield if she was nc
? proud 10 have three such eminent sons
Y and all of them so good. mo. sh
said; "it is nothing to be proud OF, br
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