, 1905-11-30
GIVE LAsSIES FREEDOM
Burbank Declares Against Keep
ing Girls Housed Up.
SHOULD lie TRAINED LIKE BOYS

Eminent California Horticulturist
Asserts That the Country Is the
Best Place For Growing Children.
I.iGtIc Ones to Posies In
Development.
Following along the line of former
expressions Oh children and the i'm
provcment OF the human race, Luther
Burbank iii a speech delivered iii Santa
Rosa, Cal. recently gave his IDEAS of
the training of children i'll order that
they may attain the higher standard
desired, say the San francisco Exam
mel. Burbank spoke Oh the subject
Our Flowers, the Children" He said
i'll part:
1T is natural that we should associ-
ate flowers ana children, as they are
SO much alike i'll many respects, and
they should i'll some points be treated
very much alike. III dealing with how-
erS we are obliged to somewhat adapt
ourselves to them; so with children.
al 4 ~ " .iA-AS.
They have their peculiar habits and
tendencies, II utter failure would be
at once encountered il we attempt to
treat them all alike. And another fact
applies to both. You must be sincerely
honest with them if you would expect
the best from them. Plastic child ma
ture intuitivcly absorbs your intent,
not your words. 1t is naturally reSpon-
sivc and constantly strives to get ut
facts and the truth, and any deceit,
though perhaps aiding your selfish
purpose, will only react on yourself
later.
Il believe in the barefoot boy. The
country is always the best place for
growing children. London statistics
show that 10 child lives in hat great
city whose great-graudparents We're
born there. The country must con-
stantly be drawn upon to furnish Ihe
brain and Drawn for the city. City life
and our forcing educational methods
are the most destructive agencies of Il
normal physical and mental growth
and perfection.
Education should always be the
guiding of IL natural appetite for facts,
never Il fastening, forcing process,
which is the surcs means of procuring
u uniform product OF nervous wrecks
and Il painful lack of the power to
grasp. digest and assimilate and make
use of the facts of life which always
surround them and to which they must
learn to adapt themselves and to make
the best use of.
Our educational system is perhaps
the best in the world, but it will in time
adapt itself more to the individuality I
Of the children. The quaint remarks |
and straightforward honest questions
of children usually strike ut the very
heart of things. Subtcrfuge and deceit
i'll dealing with them will i'll the end
bring regret to all concerned. Let us
make them as joyous, bright and happy
as possible. Teach them by example
th"t it is safe to trust you always, ev-
erywherc and Oh all occasions.
The training of boys and girls
should in all essentials be the same.
Outdoor exercise does not make n girl
any less sweet, gentle or tender, while
it does give physical integrity, sound
health, beauty IL happy, serene
nerves. Children should have some
thing of their very own. 1t is not a
sound business policy or fair treatment
to give Il boy or girl Il pigeon, a lamb, a
rooster or Il calf and then sell it and
put the proceeds in your own peck
ct. 1t does not provoke 4 tendency in
children TO follow the Golden Rule, and
1t seldom enhances their admiration
and respect for YOU.
children and plants should If posi-
bic have nouriShinS food. Only by a
we'll balanced ration can they develop
normally. If you will notice, hoodlums
are generally i'll nourished. Lack of
nourishment produces unnatural, pre-
mature development, with a dwarting
of the intellect md with abnormal
tendencies Of all sorts