Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-12-27
"AS THE TWIc IS BENT"

"AS THE TWIc IS BENT"
We speak most earnestly to fathers
and mothers when we tell them that
every one in influencing child's
mind is writing upon a clean page,
and writing with fearful responsible
ity for the future.
AS you incline your child's mind to-
day, so that mind will grow in the fu-
ture, and so it will influence other hu-
man beings after you are dead. Your
child is your successor, he represents
continued life on this earth for you.
We all hope for Immortality and be-
lieye in it. In our children's case we
are SURE of it.
Make your Immortality in your chill
dren's lives one that will. do honor to
you and do good to others.
Impress on your children gentleness
and consideration for others every
day and every hour. There Is not a
day or an hour but has it's lesson, if
you will see it and apply it.
The first thing is to teach kindness
to animals.
Never put helpless animal in the
power of child until you have taught
the child that it must treat animals
kindly.
Do not laugh when your baby, just
able to walk, pulls kittens tail, or
steps on cats foot, or belabors with
its harmless blows some dog too kind
to retaliate.
Teach the child by comparisons chat
it is acting cruelty. Make it under
stand how you would feel if your ba-
by should be beaten by some stonger
person and tell the child that the kit
tens mother suffers as you would and
that the animal, if abused, has the
same feeling as the baby itself.
Don't teach your little boy of four
or five to fasten a string to a chair
and pretend that he is driving it, beat
ing it with whip to make it go. AS
Mr.. Urine truthfully observes in his
little book, that this is the sort of ed
ucation that results in brutal treat
ment of horses later on.
AS your boy grows older and
stronger. don't encourage him in ideas
of hunting or killing. Let him read
of adventures, for he must read about
| them and know about them. Explain
to them that men originally had to be
hunters, because the world was infest-
ed with huge and dangerous animals
that had to be cleared off. But tell
him that that day has gone by and that
the man that kills an animal because
he enjoys killing is very different from
him that killed wolf or bear or q
to protect the lives of women and chill,
dren.
Nothing is sweeter or more beauti-
full thanthe nature of child genuinely
gently and kind. And no mother or
father has better right to feel proud
than he whose child's eyes fill with
tears at the sight of suffering animal.
But remember that the real founda-
ton of gentleness and progress is
sympathy for human beings.
Kindness to animals is important,
especially in infancy. But what real
ly counts is kindness to unfortunate
men and women, sympathy for poor
children, desire to help those less
fortunate than ourselves.
SET THE EXAMPLE YOURSELF
Do not whip tired horse or speak
harshly and heartlessly to stupid
servant in the presence of your child.
Do not make sport of physical SUI
fering or assume beggars to be insin-
ere when your child is listening. He
will learn quickly enough that human
nature is defective and that kindness
is imposed upon. Do not be the one
to destroy his childish beliefs.
Do not set the worst of all examples
by following the brutal custom OF
whipping your child. Through brutal
whippings the feelings are dulled, the
heart is hardened. The child that is
treated brutally hands on brutality to
the next generation. -Hearsts Chicago
American. +
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