Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-26
SCHOOL BOYS SUMMER VACATION.


Within the next week between 1000
and 4,0oO boys and girls will graduate
from high schools in Iowa and a least
500, 900 mere Will be turned out OF school
houses to roam at will FOR three months
of the summer. Thus does the perennial
problem arise what shall We do With
Jamie and sueo 1T may 5sselns pres,r,,,,-
tuous for a newspaper to discuss a
subject so little Understanding the par
ents themselves, but no thoughtful
business man can go about his daily
duties without noticing on every hand
the varied effects of$the different modes
of bringing up children, and comparing
the results as noticed. Upon such d
man, especially if he is an employer
given to the study OF the comparative
usefulness of men in the finished prod-
uct,s the conviction is forced that In
general too little sattention is paid 10
the training of the child TO work
For nine months of the yearthe gov
educating growing generations, but
during the other three hat duty must
be performed by the parent. The gov
ernment's work is confined mostly TO
book learning, which in itself is Very
essential. aitho not complete. Book
learning without a capacity for doing
fa,
often an abuse. Every boy and girl
should be taught 10 work. for no man
however rich, has right to be idle
and most boys ard gir!s should be 81
taught for the reason that after tbs
crisis of graduation they Will be con.
fronted with the stern necessity d,
working for a livelihood. Then it i,
& that the previous home training tell:
its story. If during the last eight Of
ten summer vacations the boy or cir
has been taught 20 do useful things
chores as they are called, he or she ca,
turn his hands to almost anything an.
will drop into some lucrative position
with hardly an effort. But let the DO,
grow up in good clothes, With never
time in his history when he had I
work, when he had learned to care 10
horse or a COW, fill the wood box
paint a screen or repair the sidewail
and he will be the most awkward re
cruit imaginable when his Influential
father gets him job.
Business men notice these things an
comment on them. II a little girl come
into store to trade and shows by ne
purchases that she has been schoole
at home in the arts of housekeeping tn
business man knows that she has bee
taught to work and she will be the frs
( to receive position in that store whe
later her application is made A DO
that can leave home in the summer t
work on a farm, albeit his father live
In mansion, is the boy that will max
man of himself and will be able
conduct his fathers business success
fully in the years to come. On the othe
\ hand the boy, cursed with a father VII
allows him to live in idleness thru TIL
long summer vacation, will drift IN
consciously into bad habits. olga
stores and restaurants will be hi
haunts and juvenile cussedness hi
pastime. A girl who can help he
mother as well as read Latin and pla
the piano, altho dozen servants are j
the house. is q blessing to be cherishe
in every family. A girl who cant ha
better be dead, or rather her mothe
haa better be deprived of her daughte
for the faults Of her child are largeI
due to its training.
These are the comments, We readers {
the Times Republican, that other peopl
are making about your children.
Providence has decreed that you sha
3 enjoy the Incompatible blessings {
children to be reared in your family,
- also charged you with 2 grave r.