The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-03-28
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Go when YOU want and come back when
you want to. Have good time. 90 IT.
Give boy plenty Of money and ask MIN
not what he does with it, and you pay his
way straight to perdition. But after
awhile the lad thinks he ought to have a
still larger supply. He has been treated.
and he must treat. He must nave VINE
snppers. There are larger and larger
expenses.
Result of Lax Discipline.
After awhile one day a messenger from
the bank over the way calls in and says
to the father Of the household Of which
am speaking: THE officers of the bank
would like to have you step over min
ute'' The father steps over, and bank
officer says, rs that your check" NO,
he says, that is not my check. l never
make an H in that way. l never put
curl to the " in that way. That is not
my writing; that is not my signature;
that is counterfeit. Send for the po-
lice" STOP" says the bank officer,
your son wrote that
Now the father and mother are waiting
for the son to come home at night. 1t is
II o'clock, it is half past L 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. I gave you all the money you
wanted, and here in my Old days | lind
that you have become q spendthrtt,
libertine and Il sot. The son says:
"Now, father, what is the use of your
talking that way? You told me to SO it.
and ! just took your suggestion. And
so to strike the medium between severity
and too great leniency, to strike the hap
ply medium between the two and to train
our children for God and for heaven is
the anxiety of every intelligent parent.
But for the most part the children that
live sometimes get cross and pick up bad
words in 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 to get them ready. Time
passes on. They get considerably older,
and the son comes in from the street
from a pugilistic encounter, bearing ON
his appearance the marks of defeat, or
the daughter practices some little decep-
llOIl III Tie 1t soy
II can't always be scolding and fretting
and finding fault, but this must be stop
ped" SO in many 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 go 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 III one good
thunderstorm than in five days of cold
drizzle. Better the oldfashioned style of
chasrisement if that be necessary than
the fretting and the scolding which have
destroyed SO many.
Some man will come TO the young peo-
pie and try to persuade them that purity
and honesty and uprightness are a sign
Of weakness. Some man will take a 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 out Of that puri-
| tanical straitjacket. 1t is time you
were your own master. You are verdant.
You are green. You are unsophsticated.
Come with me; III show you the world.
| III show you life Come with me- You
need to see the world. 1t won't hurt you"
After awhile the young man says: "Well,
| can't 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.
| Oh, how many traps set for the young.
Styles of temptation just suited TO them.
Do you suppose that man vino went
clear to the depths of dissipation went
down in one great plunge? Oh, no! At
| first it was fashionable hotel. Marble
floor No unc!ean pictures behind the
counter. No drunken hiccough while they
drink, but the click of cut glass to the
elegant sentiment. You ask that young
man now to go into some low restaurant
and get drink. and he would say, DO
| you mean to insult me-" But the fash
ionable and the elegant hotel is not al
ways close by, and now the young man is
on the down grade. Further and fur
ther down, until he has about struck the
bottom of the depths of ruin. Now he is
| in the low restaurant. The cards so
greasy you can hardly tell who has the
| best hand. Gambling for drinks. Shuttle
away, shuttle away. The landlord stands
in his shirt sleeves, with his hands on
his hips, waiting for an order to fill up
the glasses.
The Worm that Never Dies.
The clock strikes 12-the tollng OF the
| funeral bell of soul. The breath of
eternal woe Pushes in that young mans
cheeks III the jets Of the gaslight the
fiery tongue Of the worm that never dies.
Two O'Clock in the morning, and now
they are sound asleep in their chairs.
Landlord comes around and says: Wake
up, wake up! Time to shut up" "Whatw
says the young man. thine to shut upy
Push them all out into the night air. Now
they are going home. Going home! Let
the wife crouch in the corner and the
children hide under the bed What was
the history of that young man? He be-
gar his designations in the barroom Of
Fifth avenue hotel and completed his