Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-10-17

Jay, OCT, II, 1903,
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his neighbors may wonder how so ex-
emplary citizen as he will become,
could ever nave such hoodlums OF boys
as his sons, in spite Of their mother.
will perhaps be. And do you think
any amount of training would change
this order OF things and made the ff-
teenth year trait appear at the tenth?
Did you ever see training avail in such
cases? True it is that boys improve
while the training is going on, but we
ought to be fair to the evolutionary
changes. and not attribute their results
to the drill.
II is the birth of a wholesale self
consciousness, and the passing out Of
the period of carelessness ana rebel
lion against advice and refinement into
one of normal self respect. that pro-
duces the change in most of these boys.
Much of the training bestowed on
unbecoming and Maynard children is
useless, and some OF II both unneCes-
sary and chevious.-During the
clown period your boy may not keep
his room in order, nor turn down the
bed-clothes when he gets up in the
morning, nor behave himself in a po-
lite manner in company or at table
What is the use of wasting your en-
ergy over these things when he will
normally evolve himself out OF his
loutishness, and that quickly. as the
years fly?
Your girl may romance to you with
q sober face, and build all manner Of
fiction for you.-But almost as sure
as the sun, her development wall in a
few years bring her a spirit Of true
honesty and purity that will give you
comfort to your dying day.
The best training for children II
manifestly that OF the gentle sort
The greatest power over a child is pos.
sible only when he believes you under
stand him and have some sympathy
with his soul"
The old idea of a parents attitude
towards his children has grown out OF
the old theology of a relentless God
anxious to punish by hell-fre children
who have done the best they knew
how. II the Father who is better than
any human father could be. uses 50
little reason in his judgments, why
should not poor man when he is
given a little brief authority" over
his own servants, take out his fits oi
temper on their backs. This is easier
than studying psychology, and more
In accordance with a sort of parental
dignity.
With this book | would advise those
interested to read THE Educ alton fol
Simplicity" in Wagner's simple Life.
1. i. +
"The Harkriders." By Opie Read. Clio:
5ISx7A inches. Ills, 1853 PIP. Laird
& Lee, Chicago, $3.50.
geographically well done, the book
will be enjoyed by those who like
opie Reads novels, and such readers
are numerous.
The story begins with the affairs OF
John Harkrider as he returns to his
deserted home at the close OF the Civil
War in which he fought on the Con-
tederate side. He marries in blue
jeans" a girl in calico" and they start
out in life in good spirits. To their
home comes very often a cousin. Major
Luke Harkrider, who with Colonel
John, talks over war experiences. BY
and by when daughter is born TO the
Colonel, Luke says that he will wait
for" her, which he does. In the mean
time, many negro and po' white trash
characters are introduced with some
good dialect, Callie and Slab, two SER
wants, being the chief opponents. Slab
writes poetry" and for this reason is
unduly held in contempt.
When Augusta Thompson a friends
daughter is left in the care OF the Col
onel by a will providing that the girl
be kept ignorant Of the fortune COM
ing TO her from her father, she comes
TO live with her guardians brother,
the Colonel, and here Beverly Harkrid-
err nephew, renews his love for the
protege.
Augusta Is supposed to have q
voice" which she wishes TO cultivate,
but the will provides that she shall not
do 80.
Simms, a villain who has discovered
that Augusta is an heiress, tries to
win her love, SO upon this hinges the
plot OF the story. What they all said
and did is unfolded in due course to
the patient reader, who may be assured
at the start that all comes out as 1t