Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-03-29

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himself. But oil found premature
graves, with the exception OF Ralph
waldo Emerson. who, though he 'ived
to be seventy-pine years of age, yet
lived for the most part life Of inva-
lIdism. All this shortening of life as
well as the suffering from physical
pain can be traced for the most part
to the Indifference Of the mothDr to
the physical health OF her boys. This
can be readily seen from tho following
letter which Ralph received from his
mother. The young man had Just ma
circulated as "A Harvard student. The
hoy of fourteen years wrote home. as
the biographer says, telling his moth
or about his furniture, his boarding
house and other details OF his corporal
existence" This was the letter Mrs,
Emerson wrote back to her brilliant
son: my Dear Son-fou did right TO
give me SO early proof Of your af-
lection us to write me tho first week
of your college life. Everything re-
speeding you is doubtless interesting
to me, but your domestic arrange
ments the least Of anything, MS these
make no part of the man or the char
acter any further than be learns hu-
milty from his dependence on such tr-
nes MS convenient accommodations for
his happiness. You, I trust. will rise
superior TO these little things. for,
though small indeed they consume
much time that might he appropriated
10 better purpose and far nobler pur-
suits What most excites my solicit
tude is your moral improvement and
your progress in virtue DO you Won
der mother who would he so indiffer-
ent 10 the physical welfare Of her boys
should lay most OF her children in pre-
mature graves
Re Intelligent.
As intelligent parents You have no
right 10 blind your cyes TO the physical
necessities Of your offspring Is it
we'll with the child? Is It well with
! tho food he eats and the clothing he
wears and the room IN which he sleeps
! Is it wcl with him in the exercise he
/ takes and in the games ne plays? Are
Won developing good health in the nurs-
CRY and in the play ground Rcmem-
| Der. the body is the temple Of the Holy
| Spirit. Are Won building the right
. kind of uhvsicai cpthedraist If your
| children arc not strong physically. what
! is the reason? Are You TO blame? Are
! YOU like Ralph waldo Emcrson'S moth,
or. who thought 50 much Of his brain
that she forgot that brain without Il
. stomach is lust rs useless as Il St.
! Marks campanile with walls lettering
on account of the looSoned cement
! which should hold rs stones together.
rs il we'll with tho child?'
Put our home greeting should not
stop here If enter your domestic
circle and as a pastor become ono Of
your family | practically come into
your children's mental existence. see
the boys and tho girls sitting around
the library room. with their books in
their hands. ask. How are the chill
drcn getting on al school: DO they
like their teachers: Is their work salts
l"''or! w ""'''' !'' ma! '''
S""r me i"'H "'c u'''"9''H l",''
eStcd in their work. They arc laying
the foundations of their education Sc
cur'IE' nut "h"'H't P'''u' in"F an
SNer' N'''' 10 '''I ''o u "''' VIZ i'''
kn"" niue" "noui INV "''H "'' ", ''''S
along. The simple fact j. I am so busy
~ III" s'orc Vi !" Wy "''' 'ie"s
! menus ''"t nave h"' l'"' 10 i"oN '"'o
th''r S'""'oS'
what say can II re Una you nav
no interest III your 'hli"f'HS n''l'a'
growth; ''h II NJ mat you nave more
interest ia me "N'rS""F on your Fahcl
or III the foreman OF your factory OF
IN 'h" c0achmah or Your horses IMAM
Nol nave IN the S'Ho"i'each'rS Nh'
are placing the stamp OF their intel
lcctuallty upon your boys mind: rs
You look INTO the past YOU fuilN r"allN
that all Won are. in mental way. l.
due 10 the training ION received iron
certain school ur CoucG" teachers nov
in glory. And can ii be that You have
no interest in and no supervision ol
those later teachers who are moldin-
your chldrcn's future lives: If III,
colt is once broken in the wrong way
il will never amount to much. Thus
the owner of stock farm carefully
watches every movement Of his train
org. can it be that \ Kentucky horse