The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-26

is the busiest man in the land. What
he does, other fathers in some measure
may DO
In deciding what looks a boy or girl
may read the question arises whether
so much care may not be taken that
they VIII read nothing at all Instead
of resolving that the children shall
read no books which have not been
pre- .iously read by their PARENTS. " nv
not make selections on broader lines?
Provide literally that which is God.
Set aside Il certain sum, even il it cost
you self-deni /, for subscri tons 10 in
terestinS papers and ma Lines Keep
sensational stuff and gross fiction cut
OF the house. 1t is char, and life is
too short to be choked with chaff Your
growing child, Intellectually and spirit
udlIy, should be fed on wheat There
are weekly papers ana monthly N ga
zines for the young, which have sus-
tanned the highest lcputa tiol and MAZE
tanned the hi hest standards for thirty
years or more. You read them our
selves IN childhood and they are not
less fascinating to the chi dren % to-
day. Let the 10y have his own weekly
paper, coming TO him through the mall.
the girl her own magazine vita her
name on its cover. Ii there is no GOOD
a. " tt~i al - AlIell gOus 1 dg IOl "a llChek
in your boys name in the nearest town
library, ana fee certain that the usual
good" censorship is keeping out the
chan.
Encourage talk about what is read in
the family and at the table
IL you value the highest development
possible for your son and daughter, sec
that they devote some time 10 the daily
reading of our English Bible. The BIZ
hie is too much overlooked in this day.
IL is fountain of beautiful English, q
guide To pure ethics, and the one book
which no one can afford TO neglect.
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The question is somewhat more COM
plicated when il presents itself as hav-
ing 10 do with associations Naturally
we all wish To keep on good terms with
our neighbors. Few things are more
embarrass ing than to show a neighbor
that YOU do not care TO have Your boy
friendly with his whatever fault We
may find with our children, we are ex-
treniely quick to resent criticisms of
them by other people.
The obvious remedy for an associa-
ton which may be disadVantageous is
TO bring it into the full-orbed focus of
home life and light. Let the home be
free 10 the boy and his friends Let him
feel that he may invite the latter to
LltdlS ana 10 Sptiiu an evening, ana let
father and mother be present ana take
part in whatever is going on. To live
with our children and with their friends
is TO safeguard them against evil COM
panions. Nor need we be phaiicaicaI,
for
There is so much good in the worst Of
us
And SO much bad i'm the best of US,
That it little behOoves any of US
To talk about the rest of US"
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Young people demand entertainment.
You cannot put old heads on young
shoulders. nor should you desire 10 do
SO. What you and / need 10 do is to
Keep an even balance, 10 adjust work
and play, to remember that recreation
is as rlghtful a thing as labor, but that
excessive devotion 10 amusement leads
20 wasteful dissipation. A boy who
can never spend a quiet evening at
home, q girl who Graves continual ex-
element. is in peril of losing the best
that can be given him or her and OF
making shipwreck. Notwithstanding The
fairest opportunities.