The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-26
MADE PRETTY TALK
Professor ChriSman Tells
About Ideal Children.
He RELATES INCIDENTS
Which Were Cutie Interesting
TO the Audience.

DIT Oscar Chrtsman IN his address be-
fore the normal graduates Tuesday even
ing brought out some beautiful thoughts
on children After reviewing the affairs
Of the world, and the great characters in
history, Professor ChTisman saidi
If such beautiful scenes come to you
now, want the holy influence TO remain
upon you while you view with me some
thing stiu more beautifuI-the hearts Of
children
''Who can see the beauties in the heart
Of child! 1t is like the blue in the rift
Of clouds whose silyery lining only tend
TO make the blue the deeper and causes
one to feel that heaven lies but short
distance beyond 1t is ike that lovely
view into The sword OF Orion which goves
only such glimpses as cause a craving
for yet deeper views. It is like the beau
tiful vision we sometimes get Of the full
moon slowly coming up between clouds,
at times half buried by clouds which tend
to make the other half to shine the more
brightly. while over the sky are little
dappied clouds which pave the ethereal
blue as though q way for angels to
tread upon.
when God wrapped little piece Of
earth about part Of Himself, when He
made that covering to consist OF little
pink toes and fingers and sweetly soft
flesh. and when He gave over this prec-
ious little bundle into the hands Of wo-
man, He gave % her the most precious
and most sacred thing upon this earth.
How have you handled that little piece
r,Fn ri
% find In Il Whatever ye seek for in
children ye shall surely hnd. II you are
looking for truth in the child you VIII
ind truth Il you are looking for false
ness II the child you viii find falseness.
II you are looking for an eternal soul in
the child you viii find an eternal soul.
II you arc looking for a lost and ruined
being IN the child you viii find a lost and
ruined being. But, remember that the
fountain never rises higher than the foun-
taln-head. If you have falseness within
you, you viii find falseness in the child.
If you have truth within you, you viii
find truth in the child. II you have love
within you. you viii find love IN the soul
Of the child.
How viii you approach a child to dis
cover his being2 In whatever way you
approach q child he viii turn TO you in
the same way. If you so to him with
scOwl he viii give you back a scowl. If
you give him a sneer he VIII return you
q sheer. II you put dirty insinuations
into your reproof he viii come back at
you with dirty insinuatons. OF course.
the child must in most cases keep his
thoughts to himself, but tel you. with
what judgment you judge a child ye shall
be likewise Judged by the child. If
you've got q beam in your eye. you may
be sure the child quickly perceives it
ssli.-a sou ere s,-3yils 10 remove The mots
from his.
Every child has something good in his
makeup. Why not look for that good
slider OF course it requires patience.
Every day you must look for It. Every
hour you must look for it Every min
ute you must look for it Don't give UP.
Keep on looking. When you have found
It keep working TO have the child always
bring IL forward. BE sure. Of course,
that you have discovered a real thing or
otherwise II you have only discovered a
thing of the moment. your culture OF ii
may only give # q dollhouse existence and
Il win soon wither away. But If you find
the real good thing IN a child you cannot
cultivate II too much, for around It you
must bring every deed Of the child till
his whole nature is bettered- Won't you
try this?
NO parent or teacher is doing her best
work who does not md this good spot
Ia the child and cultivates It. I do not
mean the false goodness which SO often
misleads. but the good something which
Ia really and truly a part q each childs
nature. The teacher who has the power
of seeing the best side Of every child Is
q grand teacher. But the teacher who
has the power 70 build around this good
ness all there IS in the child to the for
nation of good character is the grand
est Of all teachers.
.Did you ever stop 70 think that this IS
exactly wherein Jesus Christ showed His
greatness in dealing with Bis followers
lie touched the best in the nature OF each
and built around il the grand human
character OF each of BIS great disciples.
Yet He failed to ind this in one of them
DO YOU see this great work of Christine
NEEDING OF these so various clements into
50 grand thoughts and actions? So you
zoo NAV do likewise II you truly love your
children.
The child is not only father 70 the
man but he IS mans superior. II has
long been noted that the child gathers
more in his first I'VE years than. perhaps,
ln the Whole remaining part Of his life.
Bat il has not been understood that this
ls not because he has SO much 10 learn
in these earlier years. but rather that il
Is Because he is able TO learn much. This
Is the most brilliant period in the whole
life 81 man. This grotesuue being. with
an immense head. long body. and very
short legs IS q slant lie knowledge set
TINS. The majority Of geniuses were
small men with great heads, just like
Htue children. They had TO re so or they
rouId never have been Eeniuses. Also
most OF them performed their great feats
In early life and IN many cases died
young. This was necessary or they could
rot have done their great works FOR they
kept close TO their ch16-nature.
Women. are superior TO men, because
they are more nearly akin 70 children.
No man has ever come IN contact with
3 woman OF a child but that he has had
10 acknowledge. perhaps often only 20
himself that these are superior beinss.
Man must reach conclusions by reason
ms. But this is too slow q process for
the woman and the child They take a
shorter cut and reach conclusions By in
tuition
Man Is superior to the woman and
the child in physical OF brute strength.
and the only way he has kept his power
over these beings is through the exer-
else Of this brute strength Woman is
slowly regaining her rights. ana with
herself she is puiling Up the child 10 its
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