The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-12-09

/, was also considered that it's influence was
| irresistible, thai no one could possibly
pass beneath it without yielding to its
power, and hence both matron and maid
must submit to the salutation which has
since become customary.
The best wayto keep c%hildrenout of
mischief and keep them from bothering
you when are busy is to furnish plenty
of amusement for them, says the New
York Telegraph All healthy chill
dren love to play, and it is the parents
| duty to make the childhood OF their chill
dren as happy and as free from care as
possible. During the day time one room
| should be given to the children where
| they may play and make as much litter
, as they please, making 1t a rule that they
/ shall leave the room tidy before they go
! to bed, for their habits of order and neat
ness can not be taught them to early.
Where the house is large enough to
| allow a day nursery, and there is more
thar oe child, the room should be divided,
and each child have his special side or
half, as the case may be. In this case
there need be no quarreling because one
| child is playing where another wants to
play, and II possible it is better if each
child can keep his toys in his own portion
of the room. While this prevents quar-
relling, do not let it go to the other ex-
IRENE n allow the children to become
selish-they should be encouraged to lend
each other their toys, but not to take
them without permission from the owner.
If one child wilfully destroys another's
toy he should be made to give up some-
thing Of his own in exchange 1t is as
well to teach the children, even in the
nursery, that naughtiness must be paid
for.
Girls are easily amused and find pleas
ure in m~aking-belieye housekeeping, inylt-
ing each other out to tea and taking the
dolls. or in making the dolls clothes. The
boys might find endless amusement by
making the different articles of furniture.
With a few tools and a lite assistance
from father they might do wonders. Thin
matchwood and cardboard can be made
into a variety of articles, and cork is also
very useful for the manufacture of fur
niture.
Both boys and girls are Away anus
ed with a scrapbook. Cutting, arranging
and pasting in the pictures Will pass
MANY an otherwise dull afternoon. Pic
lures from illustrated papers and BOOKS
might be used and painted after they
have been pasted in.
Quite a houseful of furniture can be had
by pasting the Illustrations OF furniture
on stiff cardboard and then cutting them
ont. pasting a stiff, narrow piece at the
back. so that the picture will stand when
finished. When the furniture Is suppilea
paper people to match canspe cut oue anu
stiffened in the same way
q workbasket, a writing desk or a pox
of bricks is always appreciated by q enid.
Endless amusement can be mad from
b,zse tovs. Children also dearly love any
thing which has a key and can be locked.
Little good can come from being aroi-
trarv with a child, by making him do as
we wish without first getting at the cause
If his w~ilfulness,,, is the position taken by
Anna Wikel writing of Breaking a
rbild,s VIII, In the December "Woman's
Home Companion "A child's voltlons
IL transient. The endeavor, then, must
he 70 Get at his heeting volitions and
train each one Alright, until he can be saia
to have a governing purpose. Some put
implicit faith in reasoning wien q chit
Well. ii shows respect for child nature
and occasionally reaches him; at least II
NAV have some effect in developing MS
reasoning powers, and certainly promises
confidence between parent Il child II
his reason were already developed 0hefe
would be less difficulty in training the
will. but since it is not we must train the
vii, through other avenues, and his feel-
Ings his emotional impulses. form me
bestof these. In order to strengthen ana
train his VIII a child must be allowed TO
exercise 1t by choosing for himself as far
as practicable. The parent or teacher
,n,,st advise the child before the choice IS
made or when he is suffering as the re-
sp1t Of an unwise choice he may well re-
tIect on them for not giving him the bene-
ft of their experience; but after both SIDES
sre made plain the child must be LETT a
frea moral agent. II there Is a choice De-
tween a pocket knife and a new pair OF
trousers a boy will almost surely choose
tho knife. When he feels ashamed OF MS
patched knees it Will be a means Of cut
tare to his Judgment through the emotion
~ shame. and his next willing may be in
line Of reason. But it takes more than
ona lesson to learn that we cannot eat
our a and have it, too Robertson
saws. There are two ways OF reaching
tr,1th-by reasoning it out and by feeling
+ ont, A child must feel his way to
truth. A child lives in his feelings, and
through them he is reached for good or
evil"
simple as is the act of bowling. it never
tbeless give rise to doubt and perplexities
to many persons who are uncertain, under
given conditions. whether a bow should pc