The Jasper news., 1907-05-16
WORK ANDTHOUGHTE
.aocD THING 10 TEACH coy USE
or HIS HEAD. ;S3


Once N vviIlle.
4 know man, father Of five chill
1dren, who has Ideas about bringing
,lthem up, writes Robert Carlton
4 Brown. Not one minute Of the day
are they Idle. II this father should
happen to find one OF them unem-
ployed he would Immediately expand
his chest and give a long lecture on
the perniciouss habit OF idIeness. II is
a strenuous household. indeed; no
member OF 1t is allowed one moment
Ito himself--it is all do, do, do Now,
don't know how this mans theory
will work out, but / do know, at pres,
ent that his children are about as
Iprosaic and dull as any In the neigh
borhoed 81
/ Let the boy dream, Let him, alone.
Point out the usefulness OF work to
him, but show him rather the. use OF
This head than the use OF his hands.
Il There are more hands In this world
than heads, and usually hand1abor
does not come so high as the other
sort. Il ,,st3 !" " u sssaa ;ssaa
AS man thinks, SO is he. II man
does not think at all--draw your own
conclusions. Il teach my boy to think
II want him to get the thought habit.
In whatever he does there must be
somewhat of originality. would not
lcare jot how we'll he could copy a
picture at the age Of ten years, but II
1 he made an original little sketch.
which showed an idea, no matter how
crudeiy 1t was done, L would have.
l.someNhopes of him. s.-s...
II you will think back to the days,
when You went to school you probably
Will remember, your dreams, before
your sums, In order to put the system
OF sums to work man must first
have his Dreams his thoughts. BY
schooling child to work for works
own sake you may make a business
man out of him, but you can't make a
real man that way. A real man makes
himself If he has the guidance of a
thoughtful parent. SO much the better
for him; but, remember at all times.
YOU can't make your boy what you
want him to be. You can help-but
that's all.
Don't make the boy dependent on
You for thought. Teach him to think.
Give him time to himself in which to
think 1t all out, and the chances are
he will develop into something. Let
the boy dream. Don't worry II he
shows disinclination to saw wood
and pile 1t up in the cellar at ten
cents an hour. Maybe the reason he
doesn't care for this is because he is
thinking up ways to make other ,peo.
pie saw wood. And they say that is
the better plan.
/ remember boy back home who
had that faculty Of making others saw
wood. He worked on the younger fell
lows in such a way that they consid.
cred it great privilege to be allowed
to do his chores for him. Whenever
his father caught him directing others
In their task OF joy he thrashed him.
as dutiful parents did In those days.
But this boy could not be downed so
easily. He made man of himself
In spite of his father. Now he has
about 100 men saving mental wood
for him, while he sits in the mahog.
any-furnished Office two or three hours
a day.
| Let the boy dream. Give him a
chance to think; guide him If you will,
but don't drive him. That worn.out
proverb, You can lead a horse to wa
| ter. but you can't make him drink"
could he remodeled into useful
maxim for the parent. "You can lead
how to work hut vou On n Il m a ~ hin,
think"
4 There is no cearth Of dramatic va.