The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-04-24
Environment


What Is associated with childhood is
never forgotten. If good man, that
he would not have turned out II he
had never known love as a child. III
a child sees cruelty practised in the
home, he is likely to develop into a
cruel man.
Environment counts for so much
that II a child Is surrounded by evil
he will turn out an evil human being;
II he is surrounded by good people,
performing good deeds, he is likely to
prove good man.
Hence one can realize the responsi.
bility that rests on parents shoulders.
They have the making OF the home
good or bad-and how they conduct
that home depends whether their chill
dren will turn out good or evil. There
is really no n. between; man is either
good or not good cad or not bad there
may be degrees, out there is no inter
mediate state.
II parents would only think IL a
father would but sit down and con
slider how his every action may affect
the after life Of his child, IL would be
good thing, For no amount CT pre-.
cept can equal an ounce OF example;
the one. rs IL were, is tangible, the
other is not.
A mother too often sows the seed Of
bad habits in a girl A knock at the
door and mother in an untidy state
may do much moral damage to a girl,
She is sent TO the door to say that
mother isn't in" In other words,
she is deliberately instructed to tell a
lie.
Or tradesman calls with his bill.
Father is not at home" says the
daughter, well knowing that he is in
the parlor,
The real truth is that the fathers
and mothers in our land have every
thing to do with the making Of these
neer.do wells we hear so much about.
If young boys see little else but bad
example in the home, how can they be
expected to turn out well?
The clean cat about the home, will
bring up clearly kitten, but the dirty
cats kitten will be dirty also. That
isa pretty broad way Of putting things,
but it explains matters fairly we'll.
A child, in other words, takes its
pattern from the parent. If the pat
tern be bad one, so much the worse
for the child; II it be good one, all
the better for the youngster.
The religious instruction OF children
goes pretty much UNDECIDED nowadays,
but it's valuable instruction, and il
does not matter whether parent be.
lieves in IL or not. But fix religion in
chiId's mind, bring II up in religion,
and 1t is great aid to II later on in life.
Let a parent SCOT at religion but IL
he has child's interest at heart, let
him not scott in front Of the young
one; let him rather teach IL all about
religion and so give the child a chance.
Remember that religion well instilled
into the mind in youth has restrain.
ing influence in after life If evil is
meditated.
AS regards a mans usefulness-well,
IL a bog is allowed TO spend his even.
ings in idleness, the parents are max
ing a useless member of society. A
boy or girl should always have some.
thing 10 do. That instills the good
habit OF always being industrious.
Teach child TO paint, to draw
anything, so long as IL has something
20 do; you thus teach valuable les
son. Let child sit gazing at its fling
ers in the evenings, and there before
you, in embryo, is a coming slave Of
Incidence.
Most great men-men who have "got
there"-haye excellent early training
TO thank for 1t. Note the words "early
training"