Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-10-07

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Esfl2SR There is good information in the
1>I-NS1 interview for those who want to
teach dog to retrieve bird with broken wing.
We prefer to pick out Of this gamekeePer's talk
the very good suggestions which he makes uncOn-
siously to the fathers and mothers the trainers Of
human children.
Says the traiReF-( Parents please pay att6ntion)
'Ihe dogs have managed TO train easily have
been high tempered and strong afraid Of nothing in
the world, and working for me more because they
wanted 20 please me than because they were afraid
Of q whipping H'they didn't obey"
Does any father or mother ask what this has to
do with the training Of childreOa Tthas everything
to do with the training Of children far more than the
training Of puppies of whom it is Ouly asked that
they SHALL not be afraid Of gun and shat they shall
have good eyosight.
How many parents realize the truth of what this
dog trainer eaysi
The gamekeeper handles the NEST highly bred,
intelligent sad sensitive dogs
he has found that these aDimels do their best
work becaUse they want to please the Cne above
them.
And he finds that the instinct Of ambition result.
ing from encouragement makes fer better dog thaa
any dread of a whipping or other punishment.
We shOuld like to ask the father or mother who
takes pride in bis child's instantaneous obedience
whether that child is not at leastas sensitive and
high strung ss young setser or spaniel.
We shOald like to ask parents in general bow
maay OF them train their children by making them
vast to Obey, and how many hurt their Chidren's
cha8ces for life by crusling originality, courage
and enterprise in them By forever imposing upea
then the will OF an older and stronger person.
This gemekeeper-u -uncOnsciOus teacher Of parents
goes onto say:
@Find me young setter or spaniel that's bo16
ana intelhgent with good nose and plenty 81 stay
ing pOWeEs and pll guarsutee g'll make something
ont OF bi@ in couple Of imontbs-aye, even ia :
iOrBite, II he's the proper age. But If pups beea
kept close in the wretched kennels that breeders
oitea put up, and IT, before he,c to 8 trainer
hand he's been, into the Bargain bullied for every
little falling, it's next to impossible to make muCA.
Of him"
If setter pup is spoiled by being 'bullied iorl
every Oitbie falling" do you not think that child
with brain ten thousand times more highly devel-i
Oped than that Of any dog is discouraged and kept
down by being bullied seOded fer his little fall
ings2
Very little, as we have said, is demanded Of 81
setter pup n after years. He has not got to fight
fierce competing animals. He has only to run atI
his masters will and pick up faithfully the birds
that cannot hnTt him. But even for this mild, gen
tie career bullying and scOding spoil him. If he Is
discouraged he has not even the heart to grab al
wounded bird and carry it to his master.
Then what can be expected Of unfortOnate child.
rem OF whom so many millions are bulled and
schodPd and trained and criticised 10 a way that
would hOpeleesy ruin young dog or q young colt9
How many children have their life taken away
because the vanity Of their parents demands an i'm
plicit obedience, doghke submission, a quietness
hat is absolutely foreign to the nature Of a child
hat amounts to anythingl
H0R many children are spoiled by the mere
worry "a anxiety Of taking care of preposterOusly
elaborate clothing that ought never be put upon
heml
How many children are driven into insincerity,
ying hypocrisy because parents demand Impossible ,
Qualities with severe punishment as an alteFnativei
Many are the crimes Of ignorant men and women
ringing up children in violation Of the chlldrens
ights.
Every child isentitled to absolute justice. And
very child is entitled to his personality and to
Is expression.
The only punishment Tor a Child's act snoud be
be natural result Of that act. he should never be
made to feel the consequences Of his parenta temper
Ie should never be scOlded for hurting the foolish
anity cf 8 foolish father and mother
The trouble with many parents is that they know
luch less than this gamekeeper, who replies that
puppy works we'll when he wants to please the
erson above him. ana that he is ruined through I
az Of whippings.
All children could be made 0bedient through their
imiration and love Of their parents-far more than
trough fear.
The trouble is that to make your children mind
scause they admired you and love you means that
Du have got to set them good example always,
Bat You have got to be even and just.
And ii 50 much easier to punish child arbitTari-