East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-01-14

I'm so blaDe glad it's a boy that I'm
getting over feeling sorry it amt girl
and I'm almost reconciled to its moi
being twins. Twelve pounds? Bully
Maybe that doesn't keep up the Ora.
ham reputation for 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. l, 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 a 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.
want to raise our kid to be a poor
mans son, and then, if it's necessary,
we can always teach him how to be a
rich ones. Child nature is human ma
ture, and a man who understands it
can make his children like the plain
sensible things and ways as easily as
the rich and foolish ones. l remem-
Der a nice old lady who was raising
lot Of orphan grandchildren on a
mighty slim income They couldn't
have chicken often in that house, and
when they did it was a pretty close fit
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 Carniv-
ora" sign is out, she would play up the
pieces that don't even get a mention on
the bill of fare of a two dollar country
hotel. She would begin by saying in
please don't all speak at once tone,
Now, children, who wants this dear
little -neckT and naturally they all
wanted 1t, because it was pretty plain
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 want to commend. A child
naturally likes the simple things till
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 filed with
slop and stomach ache A lot of
mothers think a child starts out with
a brain that can't learn anything but
nonsense, 80 when Maudie asks a sen
sible question they answer in googoo
gush. And they believe that a child
can digest everything from carpet tacks
TO fried steak, so whenever Willie
hollers they think he's hungry and try
to plug his throat with banana.
You want to have it in mind all the
time while you're raising this boy that
you can't turn over your children to
subordinates any more than you can
your business and get good results.
Nurses and governesses are no doubt
all right in their place, but there's
nothing "just as good" as father and
mother. A boy doesn't pick up cuss
words when his mothers around or
learn cussedness from his father. Yet
a lot Of mothers turn over the children,
along with the horses and dogs, to 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 brogue. But she needn't
look to Isobel for any information, be-
cause she is the only person about the
place with whom the child amt on
free and easy terms.