Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-03-29

A father says: 81 have seen so many
that make mistake by too great severity
in the rearing of their children Now,
will let my boy do as he peascs. lie shall
have full swing. Here, my son, are tick
cts to the thcatcr and opera. If you want
TO play cards, do so. II you don't want to
play cards, you need not to play them. Go
when you want and come back when you
want to. Have Il good time Go it,' Give
boy plenty of money and ask him not
what he does with it. and you pay his
way straight TO pcrdition. But after
awhile the lad thinks he ought to have a
still larger supply. He has been treated
and he must treat. He must have wine
suppers, There are larger and larger ex-
pcnscs.
Result of Lax Discipline.
After awhile one day a messenger from
he bank over the way calls in and says
10 the father of the household of which
am speaking; The officers of the bank
would like to have you step over a min
ute The father steps over, and Il bank
officer says lis that your check NO
he says. that is not my check. | never
make an H in that way. ! never put a
curl to the ~ in that way That is not
that is n counterfeit. Send for the po-
lice" stop says the bank officer, your
son wrote that
Now the father and mother are waiting
Tor the son to come home at night. 1t is
- o'clock, it is half past II o'clock. it is
| o'clock. The son comes through the
hallway The father says: "My son. what
does all this mean? | gave you every OPP
portunity. | gave you all The money you
wanted and here i'll my old days find
that you have become a spondthrift, Il
lihcrtinc and a sot." The son says: "Now,
father, what is the use Of your talking
that way You told me to go it, and |
Just took your suggestion And so to
strike the medium between severity and
too great lenicncy, to strike the happy
medium between the two and to train our
children for God and for heaven is the
anxiety of every intelligent parent.
Another great solicitude is in the fact
that SO early is developed childish sinful
ness. Morning glorics put out their
bloom in the early part of the day, but as
he hot sun comes on they close up. While
there are other flowers that blaze their
beauty along the Amazon for a week at a
time without closing, yet the morning
glory does its work as certainly as Vic
tora rcgia so there are some children
that just pat forth their bloom, and they
close, and they are gone. There is some
thing supernatural about them while they
tarry, and there is an ethereal appearance
about them. There is a wonderful depth
to their eye, and they are gone They
are too delicate a plant for this world.
The Heavenly Gardener sees them, and
he takes them in.
But for the most part the children that
live sometimes get cross and pick UP bad
words III the street or are disposed to
quarrel with brother or sister and show
that they are wicked You see them in
the Sabbath school class. They are so
sunshiny and bright you would think they
were always so, but the mother looking
over at them remembers what an awful
time she had tn get them ready. Tine
passes on, They get considerably older
and the son comes in from the street
from pugilistic encounter, bearing on
his appearance the marks of defeat, or
the daughter practices some little decep-
ton in the household. The mother says,
II can't always be scolding and frettins
and finding fault, but this must be stop
Ped SO in many a household there is
the sign Of sin, the sign of the truthful
ness of what the Bible says when it de-
clares, They go astray as soon as they
be born, speaking lies"
Picking at Boys.
Some 60 to work and try to correct all
this, and the boy is picked at and picked
at and picked at. That always is ruin
Gus. There is more help in one good
thunderstorm than in five days of cold
drizzle. Better the old fashioned style OF
chastlsement If that be necessary than
the fretting and the scolding which have
destroyed so many.
There is also a cause of great solicitude
sometimes because our young people are
surrounded by so many temptations. 4
castle may not be taken by straight cor-
ward siege, but suppose there be inside
the castle an enemy, and in the night he
STOVES back the bolt and swings open the
door. Our young folks have foes without,
and they have foes within. Who does
not understand itt Who is the man here
who is not aware of the fact that the
young people of this day have tremendous
temptations?
Some man will come to the Young peo-
pie and try to persuade them that purity
ana honesty and uprightness are sign
OF weakness. Some man will take dra-
matte attitude, and he will talk to the
young man, and he will say: you must
break away from your mothers apron
strings. You must get ont of that puri
tanical straitjacket. 1t is time you
were your own master. You are verdant
You are green. You are unsophisticated.
Come with me; I'll show you the world.
I'll show you life. Come with me. You
need 10 sec the world. 1t won't hurt you 4"
After awhile the young man says: well,
| cant afford to be odd. ! can't afford to
be peculiar. ! can't afford to sacrifice all
my friends. I'll just go and see for my
SELF Farewell to innocence, which once
gone never fully comes back. DO not be
under the delusion that because you re-
pent of sin you get rid forever Of it's con-
sequences, | say farewell to innocence,
which once gone never fully comes back
ON, how many traps set for the young.
styles of temptation just suited to them
DO you suppose that a man who went
clear to the depths OF dissipation went
down in one great plunge? Oh, no. At
first 1t was a fashionable hotel. Marble
floor, No unclean pictures behind the
counter. No drunken hiccough while they
drink, but the click of cut glass to the cle-
CANT sentiment. You ask that young man
now to 60 into some low restaurant and
get drink. and he would saw "Do YOU
mean to insult me?' But the fashionable
and the elegant hotel is not always close
by, and now the young man is on the