The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-05-15
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Remember the Children.

MANY of our children in the home
are growing up with bodies well fed
and clothed but they are starving
for love. Their lives are so cheer
less, so unchildlike, can we wonder
that they grow into hardened men
and women? Now is the time to make
children happy, while they are chill
dren, and the memories Of this hap
piness in afterlife Will continue to
make them happy; be enthusiastic
with the children in their studies and
plays; do not be Indifferent or say
the cruel words that will cause the
countenan e to grow sad or dim the
bright eyes.
We are all living writer's, record
ing on enduring tablets history made
up of thoughts, feelings and aspira-
tions. Upon this depends to a large
extent, the character Of those who
come after US. In this lies our most
powerful training as well as the hol-
lest form it can take. Home is the
sacred portal to the outside world,
and to have and continue the closest,
highest influence on young Life is to
foster in all possible ways a love for
home.
We hear constantly of woman's S
rights; rights to compete with man
in every walk Of life; the right to
guide and guard the state, so that
the holiest, most sacred right is in
danger Of being neglected. The
world needs womanly women and
manly men; to produce them we must
give from eighteen to twenty years
of home life where abides love judlc-
iously seasoned with reason and JUS
tice. AS a rule, parents do too nlucn
preaching; talk is the weakest tool
that can be used in the home govern
ment. We need personal influence;
this begins before words can be un-
derstood and like all silent influences
will be the most deep seated and per
manent.
Children are investigators; and the
inner mechanism of many things will
theylay bare and understand just how
they are made, if allowed to follow
their own inclination. There are va
ried faculties latent within the child
that will lead him to the investiga-
ton of the phenomena of the world
he has entered. A child will grow
symmetrically if he is not pushed
too much by the ambition Of foolish
parents or by the teacher who desir-
es to push the child for show. We
must never forget tnat each child is
a peculiar king or queen in his or
her individual realm. No one has
ever come into the world with just
such combination Of characteristics
or possibilities. The child is broad,
deep and grand problem which we
are too weak to fully grasp. The best
we can do is to be all we would have
our child to be, to stand erect in our
own place, and hold aloft the light
that in the darkness he may see the
sunshine and the storm, and when
the journey is fairly begun, each
must steer his own boat.
We have many men and women,
who, when they arrive at the age of
maturity. are twisted into unnatural
shapes. and their sharp angles must
be jostled and rubbed into shape by
coming in contact with solid facts,
that nature gives us, for the correc-
ton Of those who are so unfortunate
as to be forced into illftting paths by
an unnatural training. Natural fit
ness for a vocation is a priceless ad.
vantage; mental tendencies usually
themselves early. But there
is vast difference between a mere
bent or taste for a pursuit and a tai
ent or genius for it; and for this very
reason many parents make a sad
in pushing their children in
to a life of their own choosing, Too
often by molding we perform an act
If robbery. Parents love should not
oush and control, so much as it should
inspire. Love must not fail to let
he soul work out its own salvation.
The Governor of North Carolina
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