The Portland daily press., 1900-12-11
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The child was an intolerable nui-
sance and especially annoying to me
because I have firm and rational ideas
about the training of the young. Yet
do not believe that complained of him
more often than the other boarders.
Indeed l made definite and sustained
effort to be reticent, for the dreadful
creatures father has long been friend
of mine, and | know that parents are
ridIculously sensitive.
1t seemed to be taken for granted,
however, that 1 as a bachelor of ma
ture years must be the one who was
saying unpleasant things to the land
lady on the subject of George Lamb.
For instance, the landlady in fit Of Ill
temper told Mrs. Lamb that one of the
boarders had said that II he owned an
animal with a voice like Georges he
would keep him In a lighthouse and use
him as a fog whistle. And the remark
was at once attributed to me.
denied having said 1t. adding that l
had too much sympathy with the lone
ly lighthouse keeper to recommend any
such disposition of Georgie, and this
trivial pleasantly was promptly report
ed TO Mrs. Lamb. When / went into
Jimmy Lambs Office to go to lunch
with him the next day, he said he had
made arrangements to go with some
body else don't know how one is to
get along with people who are so thin
skinned.
The only serious comments that l
have ever made upon George have TAX
en- the form of general remarks upon
the training of children. 1t Is singu-
lar fact, but perfectly well known and
intrusively obvious, that only those per-
sons marry who are unfit to rear or
spring. For instance, I should know
what to do with children, but Jimmy
| Lamb has not the most rudimentary
idea.
AS l was saying at the dinner table
the other night, the root of the whole
matter is obedience A child should be
taught to mind what is said to him alb
solutely, instantly and without ques-
tion. whether he Understandable or not.
If he shows the slightest symptom of
rebellion, he should be clasped into a
room with nothing In it but padding on
the walls, a room from which no sound
can ever emerge and situated as far as
| possible from all other parts of the
house, and there he should be kept un-
til he is willing, even anxious, to be-
have like a sensible adult. l am willing
&Iak Il En n n
boarding house where people like the
Lambs, in reduced circumstances, are
! living In single room, but that is their
/ lookout. They should have thought of
| 1t long time ago.
However. such procedure is unnec-
essary IL perfect obedience has been in
stilled into the child. As to the possi-
bility of doing this there can be no
question, as was saying to the people
at my table.
II shall quote very high authority for
this statement" said L Have you
seen Desprez? He's the fellow who is
exhibiting the lion cubs at the Vaude-
| vile theater. l saw the show last night
and was greatly entertained, and today
] fell in with newspaper man who
was going TO get a story out CT Des-
I PREF, so ! went along with him and
heard q most instructive conversation.
"Any one who has cubs to train," l
continued. slightly raising my voice,
"whether they are young lions or-or
| Just plain cubs, don't you know, should
have n talk with Desprez. That man
knows his business.
"'To obey says he. 1t is ALL And
how do you suppose he accomplishes
1 It? Why, IN the simplest manner pos
sible and precisely in accordance with
the ideas that l have always held"
Behind my back George was loudly
protesting that he must have banana
to eat with his soup. and his mother In
that mildly grieved tone which is in
tended to reach Georgie's sensibilities.
but wouldn't even IL he had any was
saying:
'Hush, Georgie! Mr.. Appleton is
talking"
Il don't care IL he is." responded the
angel boy. II want Maria to bring me
a nannerw
Maria Is the waitress, and she was
Just passing out of the room, which ac-
counts for the emphasis with which
Georgie hurled the last word after her.
| 1t might have been heard In the next
! county.
Banana" said Mrs Lamb gently, as
II his error of pronunciation had been
the real matter of Importance.
"Desprez," | continued, takes the
cub into a perfectly bare room where
there is nothing to distract his atten-
/ ton Then the man tells the beast to
lie down or to do anything else that is
perfectly simple. The cub has to do
that one thing over and over again un-
til he has forgotten that he ever did
\ anything of his own will. Not another
step is taken In his education until obe-
dience has become more natural than
roaring"
"RoarIngr' repeated George. This
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