Newport weekly independent., 1903-11-06
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FAULTS OF CHILDREN.
teredity Explains Many of the Worst
 ones--A Few Bits of Homely N-> Advice

| and Susie at their play for half hour or so, writes Alfred J. Warehouse, in New York Times. Brown says it is strange that his Charlie tells so many wrong stories; but 1 am able to control my surprise -I have had some business dealings with Brown.
 My Tommy and Mary played keep ing house the other day, and I noticed that large part of their play consist ed of pretended pickering between the head of the family and it's foot. Now wonder where they got such repre- hensible ideas of domestic life?
 Peters contends that there is noth- ing in heredity, but even he admits that he never knew a mongrel dog to give birth to a high-bred Gordon see- ter.
 A good and great man may be born of the slums, as One came out Of Nazareth, but it is just as well to re- member that gold mine rarely IS found in mud hole. If your boy or girl betrays no desire for forbidden
 
 is radically wrong.
 If the man who wrote a book en- titled The Innocence of Childhood" had listened to the conversation of some group of youngsters on the street of an evening he might have added several valuable chapters to the book, but they probably would have demor- alized it's general plan to a consider able extent
 frequently punish my child for be- ing too accurate an imitation of his pa-and so do you.
 My children are not perfect, but, then, what could you expect? Their mother is a nice girl, but she has her little faults
 Brown says that he feels pained when he observes the selfishness of his children. l sympathize with Brown; but I have not caught him in the act of hunting for places of need in which to give away some of his money.
 If George w., Jr., is inclined to paint things red" don't be too severe on him. Remember what his father was, and judiciously endeavor to con- vince him that there is paint of mild ly pink shade that costs less in the long run.
 After all, the world does not alter us as much as we imagine The boy who lost his ball and wept bitterly grew into the man who lost $50, 900 on change and immediately went into an attack of the doleful dumps-and barroom.
 You admit that your Jimmie is very bright, but have you noticed any of the neighbors rising to second the mo- tion?
 You can't always tell, anyway One Of the dunces of our school has since been a congressman. Still, do you con- sider that there is any proof that his mental characteristics changed as he grew older?
 And, again, you can't always tell Sadie vowed that she would be an old maid, and you ought to see her seven kids!
 If ever the gods on high Olympus enjoy themselves in these days. it must be when they hear a Wall street broker telling his little son that it is wrong to play marbles for keeps. It is dollars to nickels that your boy knows his fathers peculiarities bet ter than you know his Ef Nature sets her own stamp. If your child was born to be a hoodlum, no fine raiment will concea! the fact very long.
 If school-teacher does not feel pretty well acquainted with some par ents whom she never met, she Cor he) should retire from the business She 1 Cor he) lacks the deductive reasoning faculty which is essential to a success full teacher.
 The child is father of the man, but good many of him has no particular occasion to be proud of his progeny. Soap nnd Complexion. Soap is not the enemy to the complex ion that many people consider it. It is | infinitely better for the skin than the dirt which will collect in the pores after warm and dusty day with much