Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-03
Bringing
Up the Kid
liov to Raise Children, by Tho
Slockyards Philosopher.

I'm 30 blame glad IT'S q boy that I'm
getting over feeling sorry 10 aln't a girI
and I'm almost reconcIled TO It's not
being twins Twelve pounds2 Bully
Maybe that doesn't keep mp the Graz
ham reputation Tor giving good weight
But I'm coming home on the run to
heft him myself, because ] never knew
fellow who wouldn't lie little about
the weight Of No. 4, and then, when
you led him up to the hay scales claim
that lts wen known scientific prn.
clplo that children shrink during The
nrst week Ike ham In smoke Az
lowing for tare, though n he still
nets ten I'm feel that he's a credit to
the brand.
It's great thing to be 60 minutes
old, with nothing In the world except
a blanket and AN appetite ana me
whole fight ahead OF you, but IT'S
pretty good, too, To be sixty years old
and u grandpop, with twenty years OF
fight LEFT In sou stlll.
want to raise our kid 10 be poor
mans son, ana then, II us necessary,
we can always teach him how 10 be a
rich ones Child nature IL human ma
ture, and "a man who understands II
can make his children like the plain,
sensible things and ways as easily as
the rich and foolish ones remem-
her nice Old lady who was raising a
lot OF orphan grandchildren on a
mighty slim income They couldn't
have chicken often In that house and
when they did II was pretty close NJ
and none to throw away so, instead
OF beginning with the white meat and
stirring UP the Kids like a cage full of
hyenas when the Feeding the Carnly-
or" sign Is out, she would play up the
pieces that don't even get mention on
the bin OF fare OF a two dollar country
hotel She would begin by saying In a
please don't all speak at once tone,
Nov, children, who wants this dear
little neck?" and naturally they all
wanted II, because II was pretty plain
10 them that 1t was something extra
sweet and juicy So she would allot
II as a reward Of goodness 10 the child
who had been behaving best and throw
I'm the g2zard for nOurlshment, The
nice old lady always helped herself
last and there was nothing left for
her but white meat
II isn't the final result which the nice
old lady achieved, but the first one that
] want TO commend A child naturally
likes the simple things ull you teach
him 10 Ike the rich ones and its Just
~ easy TO start him with books ana
amusements that hold sense and health
as those that are filed with slop and
stomach ache, A lot of mothers think
q child starts out with a brain that
can't learn anything but nonsense, so
when Maudie asks a sensible question
they answere IN googoo gush. And they
believe that "a child can digest every
thing from carpet ldoks 20 fried steak.
so whenever Willie holers they think
he's hungry and try TO plug hls throat
with a banana.
You want To have II IN mind all the
time while you're raising this boy thar
YOU can't turn over your children TO
subordnatca any more than you can
your business and get good results.
Nurses and goycrnesses are no doubt
all right In their place, hut there's
nothing Just as good as Il father ana
mother. A boy doesn't pick up cuss
words when his mothers around or
learn cussedness from his father Yet
y lot OF mothers turn over the children.
along with the horses and dogs, 10 be
FED and broken by the servants, and
then wonder from which side Of the
family Isobel Inherited her weak stom-
ach, and where she picked up her
naughty ways and why she drops the
his from some words and pronounces
Others with a brogue But she needn't
look 10 Isohel for any Information, be-
cause she is the only person about the
place with whom the child amt ON
free and easy terms.