The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-07-20

Childish rage unchecked will,
after while, become a hurricane.
Childish petulance will grow up
into misanthropy. Childish re.
belliOn will develop into the law
leSsneSS of riot and sedition. If
you would ruin the child, dance
to his every caprice aud stuff him
with confectionery. Before you
are aware of it that boy of six
years Will go down the street,
cigar in his mouth, and ready on
any corner with his comrades to
compare pugili3;ic attainmentS.
The parent who allows the child
to grow up without ever having
learned the great duty of O5edi-
ence and submission has prepared
a cup of burning gall for his own
lips and appalling destruction for
his descendant.
Every father and mother who
reads this paper and have a child
III the home have enough on hand.
a throne, a crown, Il SCepter, a
kingdom under charge. BE care
full how You strike him across the
head jarring the brain, What
you say to him will be centennial
and millenuial, aud hundred
years and a Thousand years will
not stop its echo and re echo.
DO not say, lit is only a enid !"
Rather say, 1t is only an i'm
mortal" 1t is only a master
piece of Jehovah. 1t is only
being that shall outlive sun aud
moon and stars and ages quadri-
lennial. God has infinite re-
sources and He can give presents
of great value, but when He
wants to give the richest possible
gift to household He looks
around all the worlds and all the
universe and then gives a child.
The greatest present that God
ever gave our world He gave over
nineteen hundred years ago, and
he gave it on a Christmas night,
and it was of such value that
heaven adjourned Tor a recess
and came down and broke
through the clouds to witness it.
Yea, in all ages God has hOnored
childhood. He makes almost every
picture a failure unless there be g
child, either playing on the floor,
or looking through the window,
or sitting on the lap, gazing into
the face of its mother.
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What absurd little things PEG
pie quarrel about What trivial
matters cause i'll feeling in fam
lilies. The mutton being roasted
too little or the beef too much;
an opinion about the temperature
of the house, the style of curtain
that ought to be bought for the
front windows; the definition of
word, its pronunciation are things
that might be argued about, but
surely are not topics worth
quarrel when peace and good
humOr are of so much Importance
III the home. a little i'll feeling
is like a seed that may grow into
large tree that will shadow
the whole house. Many men and
women must look back with re-
greet on the hasty word or the
cold reproach which was the en-
tering wedge that split the house.
hold in two, and yet how few
make IA point of uttering the soft
word that turneth away wrath.
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Your wise mother is not given
to worrying over trifles. She does
not expect perfection in a day.
And she has put from her, as far
as the east is from the west, the
CHASTITY possibility of setting van
ity up in the room of love. SO
she does not begin with exhaust
i've attention to the multitude of
etiquette, knowing that that way
lies the danger OF making her
boys prigs and her girls Self-con-
sciOus society misses before they
are out OF theil teens. She lays
down as the laws of her house
hold the broad principles of re
spect for elders, reverence for
women, kindness for all; and
she permeates the home atmOS
phere with the finest conceptions
of the Difference and sympathy
due from soul to soul. Her chill
dren very early delight to place
char for grandmother and to
save father steps. They learn to
be proud of that restraint which
enables them to keep self in the
background, and to defer 20
brother and sister. 1t never en-.
ters heir heads that servants are
less worthy of respect than other
people. They are unabashed in
the presence of wealth and power
as they are tender toward suffer
ing and poverty. When she
teaches them from time to time
her code of manners-and she is
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