The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-10
WHAT EVERY CHILD MAY CLAIM
 MARRyrNG-THE TO sUNsMNETHD PRIVILEGES LONG GARDEN 

to fulhi to the utmost every obligation that they fail through the intensity of their vigilance and wear out their own nerves, the patience of their friends
 and the tempers of their children, by ! too much fussing. nagging and man. agement. The right to grow as a plant grows in the sunshine, Is a right never to be withheld from happy child. When we come to the question of privilege. we turn the shield to its other side. The privileges of an Amer ican child are manifold, not merely Is
 the child of good home. of such a
 home as yours and mine, sent to school and taught the rudiments of book learning. but In these days the path of education Is strewn with flowers The tyrannical schooImasfer of the past who was more or less an ogre Is an obsolete figure, and although we find him occasionally in literature, he has vanished forever from life. MT squeers. of Dotheboys Hall would not
 be tolerated today. and though in for eign lands school discipline is more autocratic and more severe than with us, yet the English and French masters of the present century are miracles of gentieness as compared with those de- scribed by Thackeray. and Charles Lamb.
 It is the privilege of children to be contented and happy in the school room
 and to find the ascent of the hill of learning graded so carefully that their feet never know fatigue. I sometimes wonder If we are not over-doing the
 thing and making our school books too simple and emitting from the curricu- lum the harder struggles that toughsn
 the muscle and strengthen the endu-. rance.
 art-In cherished privileges are the opportun- ity of athletic sport that develop the body and make 1t a fitting home for the mind. Games of every kind, field and track athletics. friendly contests with others and the training necessary to success in sport of every kind help to make young people strong and beau tiful Girls are not debarred from the gymnasium and it Is their privilege to compete in many physical exercises with their brothers. not indeed as ri- Vals, but as comrades
 A privilege of childhood is to share the pleasures of grown-up people in family life at least as spectators. if not as actors in the daily drama Without intending 1t, there are parents who quite exclude their children from the realities of the home. Either they look upon their children with too much ten derness, or they regard them with too little understanding, and therefore the children are kept on the outside of ev- erything Where the conversation in a cultivated home ranges over many topics of the hour, where guests come and go and meet with cordial welcome and are speeded away with genuine re- Rret, children acquire early the gra- cious manners and gentle arts of friendship. When there Is trial and trouble in the household, 1t Is not alto kether fair to children to shut them entirely out of 1t. Their little hands should be allowed to minister to those who are older and their little cups of cold water should never be thought lessly declined.
 A privilege of childhood Is to re- main as long as possible in the Garden of Eden. which is the garden of inno- cence Not too soon should we tear away the wells that hide from chill dran's eyes the evil that is around them. To hasten the day when they shall be aware of the baleful effects of sin and to show them the misery that stalks abroad Is far from kind or wise. They will learn all too early about the presence of evil, and the