Milford chronicle., 1905-11-03

2 70 be q poet.or q musician. He is Z,
/ ing to be a plain, practical bushes
man or lawyer or q doctor or nil
lister. He must have a good, sounl
common sense name that will no
make him laughngstock among hi
associates and one that can easily b
remembered Call him Joseph O
james or William OF Edward or John
The planning Of the parents for Oh,
child starts at the christening.
Then comes the question Of school
Perhaps the father has amassed som,
wealth The money question is not a
pressing one in the home. Where shall
the boy get his education? The mother
may desire to have her son go to one
Of the aristocratic private schools OF
the city, where he VIII have for com
panions the sons of wealthy families.
Again the hard headed common sense
of The father comes to the rescue.
mo" he says NO private school for
my boy. My father sent me to pri-
yate school There I dabblcd a little
in a dozen different studies and did
not master any one of them My boy
shall go to a common public school.
where the foundations and the rudi.
ments OF an education are pounded
into him. I want him to master the
three Rs'-readingi writing ana arith- /
metic- I want him at fifteen years Of /
age TO know how to write q letter. /
That is what thousands Of college bred /
men do not know I want him to learn 1
to spell and punctuate correctly. After
the rudiments of an education have
been soaked into him. then we can talk
about private schools or university
course"
Learning Self Reliance.
After the school days are over what
happens: The common sense father
makes The boy start out for himself.
If the lad enters business. he makes
him work in another store where the
father is not II possible he sends the
son away for Il little while to work in
another city among strangers. so that
he boy learns to think for himself aud
tand upon his own feet. The wise
ather does al this not because he is
ard hearted not because he wants to
.et rid of the boy lie puts the burden {
# life upon the boy because he is a
rue friend to The child, planning his a
est Development He wants to make O
ne most out of his son and bring him Il
the highest physical mental, moral D
nd spiritual Development God is do u
Ig for MS in a wide sense what the III
Tthly parent is doing for his child in tC
limited sense. He is placing his bur Ii
'ns upon us to develop us. He is not d
aking us struggle for the mere pleas N
e Of seeing us suffer He is com tn
.lling us to be caretakers that we th
ny grow in strength and climb the III
CHER mountain peaks of inspiration st
d power which he has lifted for our dii
tones, ana yet today there are but
ry few who have grace enough to
INK God for the divine hand which
smitten them as well as for the dis
me lip which is ready to speak the the
rds Of comfort and good cheer. to
Spiritual Growth. the
piritual growth is not deveIoned so the
lily near the perfume of flower az,
den as among the thons and the en-.
erations, the agonies and the suffer As
S Of Il ravine of thickets. The stron- by
[ wing, the keenest eye, the swift. Cm
foot and the sharpest intelligence / her
not found in the meadow lands but and
he deserts. There the lizards must mu
ike the lightning or the strong wip
ked road runner will snap them reas
vain. There the buzzard. with his is I
1t wings spread abroad as the sails dian
ship, must be able to course on is b
after hour in search Of food and help
almost Omniscient eye watch the Chri
ing wings Of other buzzards miles sion
y to see whether they have found self.
meat or else that buzzard must the
starve and die. There the coyote to OF
have the wisdom of the SERPENT. Writ
he stealthiness of the fox, all the Of t
d Of the deer, the olfactory sensi- salv;
less Of the hound, or else the rab- won
md the ground squirrel can never ing [
S. To live in the desert the spring the
be as swift ms the panther's: the ing
rance must be so great that wa man
hundred miles away are not out grom
ach to quench the parching thirst. the Il
Y ear must hear the slightest whis- bling
every intelligence must be the their
far reaching, or else the beast. the next
or the serpent will die. In the to ov
is Of life God best develops US, own
D the meadow lands. Not in the But
places do we become the strong temDt
pure, good and noble men he in are n
d us to be. In the desert places on Go
nd the highest development Of his st
and spiritual life. The strongest when
IS grow not as dollhouse plants, to sur
Ike the trailing arbutus and the tbrott
!, scenting the hillsides near tim " cor.
mes, whose lullaby is the whis- him :,
wind of the early spring and tba+ !
soft couch is not the green grass, Eno,v
white quilt of drifting snow. voars
thou not realize that the harder mini
md blows the more easy is it for oovor
a captain to trim his sails and ~, o.
litter the SbiD'S eDapd tor-or1 fbo - -