Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-12-09

I'm so blame glad it's boy that Pm
getting over feeling sorry it amt a girl, |
and I'm almost reconciled to its not
being twins. Twelve pounds? Bully
Maybe that doesn't keep up the Gra
ham reputation for giving good weight
heft him myself, because | never knew
q fellow who wouldn't lie n little about
the weight of No /, and then,
when you led him up to the hay
scales, claim that It's a well known
scientific principle that children shrink
during the first week like ham in
smoke. Allowing for tare, though, If
he still nets ten I'll feel that he's a
credit to the brand.
It's great thing to be sixty minutes
old, with nothing in the world except
a blanket and an appetite and the
whole fight ahead of you, but it's
pretty good, too, to be sixty years old
and grandpop, with twenty years Of
fight left In you still.
l want to raise our kid to be a poor
mans son, and then, If it's necessary,
rich ones Child nature is human ma
ture, and q man who understands 1t
can make his children like the plain,
sensible things and ways as easily as
the rich and foolish ones. l remem-
Der nice old lady who was raising a
lot of orphan grandchildren on
mighty slim income. They couldn't
have chicken often in that house, and
when they did it was pretty close fit
and none to throw away. So, instead
of beginning with the white meat and
stirring up the kids like cage full o.
hyenas when the Feeding the Carniv~
ora" sign is out, she would play up the
pieces that don't even get mention op
the bill of fare of u two dollar country
hotel. She would begin by saying IN o
please don't all speak at once tone,
Now, children, who wants this dear
little neck?' and naturally they all
wanted It, because it was pretty plair
to them that it was something extra
sweet and juicy. So she would allot
it as a reward Of goodness TO the child
who had been behaving best and throw
in the gizzard for nourishment. The
nice old lady always helped herself
last, and there was nothing left for
her but white meat.
1t isn't the final result which the
nice old lady achieved, but the first
one, that l want to commend. a child
naturally likes the simple things TIL
you teach him to like the rich ones,
and it's just as easy to start him with
books and amusements that hold sense
and health as those that are filled with
slop and stomach ache. \ lot OF
mothers think child starts out with
q brain that can't learn anything but
nonsense, so when Maudie asks sen
sible question they answer in googoc
gush And they believe that child
can digest everything from carpet tackf
to fried steak, so whenever Willie
hollers they think he's hungry and try
to plug his throat with a banana.
You want to have 1t In mind all tho
time while you're raising this boy ina
you can't turn over your chllureh u
subordinates any more than you car
your business and get good results
Nurses and governesses are no doup
all right in their place, but there
nothing "just as good" as father ant
mother. A boy doesn't pick up GUS
words when his mothers around o
learn cussedness from his father. ie
a lot of mothers turn over the children
along with the horses and dogs, to b.
fed and broken by the servants, AM
then wonder from which side OF tn
family Isobel inherited her weak stom
ach, and where she picked up he
naughty ways, and why she drops tn
his from some words and pronounce
others with a brogue. But she needn
look to Isobel for any Information, be
cause she is the only person about IN
place with whom the child amt o.
free and easy terms.