Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-03-31

to simply say, III is not wen WIN l"S
child" as though the child was re-
sponsble for all his physical weak
nesses. There Is many a child physlc-
al weakling today merely because the
parent Is no more competent to take
care of him physically than l am COM
petent to remove cataract from
blind mans eye.
blographer OF Ralph Waldo EN-
PRISON tells us that Emerson had three
beautiful brothers, all as gifted as
himself But all found premature
graves. with the exception OF halpn
Waldo Emerson, who, though he lived
10 be seyenty-nine years OF age, yet
lived for the most part life OF lnYa-
lidism. All this shortening OF llIe as
we'll as the suffering from physlcal
main can be traced for the most part
to the Indifference of the mother to
the physical health of her boys. Ihis
can be readily seen from the following
LETTER which Ralph received from Ills
mother. The young man had just ma
triculated AS Harvard student. Iho
boy OF fourteen years wrote home' aS
the biographer says, telling his molh-
or about his furniture his boarding
house and other details OF his corporeai
existence" This was the letter Mrs.
Emerson wrote back to her Drllliant
son: MY Dear SOn-You did right 10
give me so early a proof OF your al
faction rs to write me the first week
Of your college life. Everything re-
spectIng you is doubtless Interesting
TO me, but your domestic arrange
ments the least Of anything, as these
make no part Of the man or the char-
motor any further than he learns nu-
mility from his dependence on such trl-
des as convenient accommodations Ior
his happiness. You, | trust, VIII rlse
eunerior to these little things, tor'
though small indeed, they consume
much time that might he appropriated
TO better purpose and far noDler pur-
suits What most exctes my sollcl-
ude is your moral Improvement ana
vonr progress in virtue" Do you won
dor n mother who would be so indlner-
ent to the physical welfare Of her boys
should lay most of her children In pre-
mature grayesF
BE Intelligent.
AS intelligent parents you have nc
right TO blind your eyes to the physica,
necessities Of your offspring. Is II
wclI with the child? Is it well wltL
tbe food he eats an, the clothing ht
wears and the room in which he sleeps
Is il well with him in the exercise III
tol,es and in the games he playsF Ar'
Won developing good health In the nurs
cry and in the Playground kemen
ber the body is the temple Of the Hol!
Shirt. Are you building the righ
kind of physical cathedrals? II you
children are-not strong physically, VIVA
: ia the reason? Are you t, blame? Ar
Won like Ralph Waldo Emerson's motn
er. who thought so much Of his orai
: that she forgot that brain without
} stomach. is just as useless as a .
Marks canipanile with walls totterin
) on account of the looscned cemen
-, ~: toSeti tiiel
as II well with the childr
Rut our home greeting should nc
). ston here. If enter your domesu
$ circle and as a pastor become one
d your family l practically come III
Il vour children's mental existence. st
: the bows and the girls sitting aroun
n tbe library room, with their BOOKS
n thair hands I ask: "How are the GU
y dren getting on at schoolF DO lnt
?. like their teachers? Is their work sati
3 foctory?v "Oh, finely you may a
II swor me "They are intensely lnte
VI osted in their work. They are layil
le tho foundations Of their education
curelv." But another parent may d
to ewer. "Well. to tell the truth, DO Il
IN know much about how they are getul
u along The simple fact is am so pu
S. o+ the store or in my social engae
III ments that have not time 10 LOOK IL
% u their studies"
III What I say, can it be that you na
VI No interest in your ch fren's men
ne Growth? Can it be that you nave m'
al interest in the overseer of your ran
nc or IN the foreman of your Factory
y, in the coachman of your horses ID
l. Won hnve in the schoOlteachers
ne are nlacing the stamp Of their III
he Iectnality upon your boys mind!
1,o 6
lSe that all you are, in a mental way
iei due TO the training you received II
W. certain school or college teachers Il
III In glory. And can it be that you III
- no interest in and no superN 'sion
ln' those later teachers who are molu
',0 vour children's future livesF II
10 Golf Is once broken in the wrong '
~ ~ II will never amount to much' l.
l'n +bo owner of a stock farm careI'
'Ho watches every movement OF MS III
'ou ' ors Can it be that a Kentucky no
i'I man Is more careful Of training
- thoroughbred colts than you are OF
ln1 mental development of your own 1
'l ~ and blood? Is it well with the cnli'
% In this age of rapid advancement
-oM '.T, Of the specialization of talent no c
sH Ia has any chance for success IN lie
4 nnu less he is developed Alright lot
49," struggle. There is a story tolu
many years ago fallen obellsk
, - about to be raised in Rome. Inc
o,I was very great, for if this oDellsK
''- Is partly raised and should be above
cot fall it might be shattered into
- sand pieces. The greatest archite'
4,,o his time. Domenico Fontana, prep
t,lo tho special machinery for the work
,,oS momentous day arrived. Inc
tran ue nulleys were put into their places
'Tr ' heavy ropes were placed around
Ivy backbone Of the fallen monster 1
~ or and higher the mass OF stone
u !, ona ~ lifted; higher and higher it rose
rTho lrho most it was lifted to the perpendic
ino when the cable refused to bulge
90 other inch. Then it was thal
"a "a cried out at the top of his lungs
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