The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-02

I'm SO blame glad its boy that I'm
getting over feeling sorry it amt girl,
and I'm almost reconciled to its not
BEING twins Twelve pounds? Bully.
Maybe that doesn't keep up the Ora
Lam reputation for giving good weight
But I'm coming home on the run to
ieft MIN myself, because never knew
q fellow who wouldn't lie Il 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 tie first week like a ham in
smoke. Allowing for tare, though, II
lie still nets ten I'll feel that he's a
credit TO tie brand.
It's great thing to be sixty minutes
Old with nothing in the world except
Il blanket and an appetite and the
who.e fight ahead of you, but it's
pretty good too. to be sixty years old
and srandpop, with twenty years of
fight left in you still.
want to raise our kid to be a poor
mans son, ana then, if it's necessary,
we can always teach him how to be Il
rich ones Child nature is human ma
ture. and Il man who understands it
can make his children like the plain
sensible things and ways as easily as
the rich and foolish ones. | remem-
Der Il nice old lady who was raising Il
lot of orphan grandchildren on Il
mighty slim income. They couldn't
have chicken often in that house. and
when they dh it was pretty close fit
and none to throw away. So, instead
of beginning with the white meat aAd
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 Oh
the bill of fare of two dollar country
hotel. Size would begin by saying in a
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 plain
to them that it was something extra;
sweet and juicy. So she would alloi
it rs Il 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 fol-
her but white meat.
1t isn't the final result which the
nice old lady achieved, but the frs
one, that | want to commend. a chilt
naturally likes the simple things til
you teach him to like the rich ones
and It's just as easy to start him will
books and amusements that hold sens
and health as those that are filled will
slop and stomach ache. A lot o
mothers think Il child starts out witt
a brain that can't learn anything bu
nonsense, so when Maudie asks sell
sible question they answer in googo
gush And they believe that 4 chill
can digest everything from carpet tack
to fried steak, so whenever Will
holers they think he's hungry and IT,
to plug his throat with banana.
You want to have it in mind all tn
time while you're raising this boy tina
you can't turn over your children t
subortlipates any more than you ca
your business and get good results
Nurses and governesScS are no douE
all right in their place. but there
nothing lust as gooi' as father an
mother \ boy doesn't pick up Gus
words when his. mothers around c
learn cusse.lnesS from his father. "
a lot of mothers turn over the children
along with TIE horses and dogs, to b
fed and broken by the servants. an
then won'er from which side Of tl
family Isolel Inherited her weak ston
ach. ANA where she picked up lie
naughty ways. and why she drops I'll
his from some words and pronounce
others With brogue. But she needn
look to ISobcI for any information. b
cause she is the only person about Il
place with whom the child amt Q
free and easy terms.