Milford chronicle., 1906-03-30
Ne Intelligent.

As intelligent parents you nave no
right to blind your eyes to the physlcal
necessities of your offspring. is II
well with the child? Is it well with
the food he eats and the clothing he
wears and the room in which he sleepsf
Is it well with him in the exercise he
takes and in the games he playsF Are
Won developing good health in the nurs-
cry and in the playgroundf hemem-
her the body is the temple of the Holy
Shirt. Are you building the right
kind of physical cathedrals? II your
children are not strong physically, what
is the reason? Are you to blame? Are
Won like Ralph Waldo Emerson's moth
or who thought so much Of his brain
that she forgot that a brain without a
stomach is Just as useless as a 81.
Marks campanile with walls totterlng
on account of the loosened cement
which should hold its stones together.
as it we'll with the child?
But our home greeting should not
sion here. If 1 enter your domestic
circle and as a pastor become one OF
your family practically come into
your children's mental existence. see
the BOYS and the girls sitting around
the library room, with their books In
their hands. 1 ask: "How are the chill
dren getting on at school? Do they
like their teachers? Is their wori; salts
factoryY "Oh, finely" you may an
swer me. "They are intensely inter-
ested in their work. They are laying
tbe foundations Of their education Sc
curely." But another parent may an
swer: "Well, to tell the truth, / do not
know much about how they are getting
along. The simple fact is am so busy
at the store or in my social engage
ments that have not time to look into
their studies"
What. I say, can it be that you have
no interest in your children's mental
growth? Can it be that you have more
interest in the overseer of your rancl
or in the foreman of your factory ol
in the coachman Of your horses thar
YOU have in the schoolteachers who
are placing the stamp of their intel
lectuality upon your boys mindF AZ
YOU look into the past you fully realiz'
that all you are, in mental way, il
due to the training you received fron
certain school or college teachers nov
in glory. And can it be that you hav'
no interest in and no supervision o
those later teachers who are moldlni
, YOUR children's future lives? If tn
) colt is once broken in the wrong wa.
: it will never amount to much. Thu
! the owner of a stock farm carefull
: watches every movement of his traiI
] ers. Can it be that a Kentucky horst
man is more careful of training hi
| thoroughbred colts than you are Of th
E mental development of your own fies
! and blood? Is it well with the child?
0 In this age of rapid advancement an
v of the specialization Of talent no chil
b has any chance for success in life II
d less he is developed Alright for life
l. struggle. There is a story told TIL
many years ago fallen obelisk WI
about to be raised in Rome. The ri'
1t was very great. for if this Obelsk WI
d partly raised and should be allowed
IS fall it might be shattered into tho
t sand pieces. The greatest architect
is his time. Domenico Fontana, prepar
lie special machinery for the work. I
le momentous day arrived. The gre
s. pulleys were put into their places. 7
er heavy ropes were placed around
y. backbone Of the fallen monster. His
r. er and higher the mass Of stone W
IN lifted: higher and higher it rose.
re most it was lifted to the perpendicul
ne when the cable refused 10 bulge
re other inch. Then it was that sal
as cried out at the top of his lungs, w
nd the ropesw Promptly Fontana gra
" ed the mechanical truth. The rol
re were soaked. On account Of the W
es ting these ropes contracted II
'es slowly. but surely, the obeiisk