The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-22
Know Your Boy

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ing up of the boy to the mother
This is sinking responsibility ant
care, but while this is bad enough
the worst is its effect upon the boz
himself. We feel sorry for the faith
erless boy, and he needs our pity
He misses much that a father car
give to make him a man, but he
feels keenly the lack of companion
ship that the father is privileged to
supply. If the boy has father and
that father fails to take an interest
in him, the boy feels the lack even
more keenly and in his heart, at
least, is inclined toresantit. Mothe' S
are all right for a time, and all the
time when supplemented with the
fathers intereat and Influence, but
there comes a time in boys life
the time when he is growing into
manhood-when he longs for the
attention of father and would be
delighted to have him take notice
Of him and his achievements, Nheth.
er they be his lessons, or games, or
wild projects, perchance, for many
are the vagaries and imaginations of
the boys heart at this time. He
fs he is too big now for m o ther
t-r~.ahd fondle; he resents too
much attention from her. W am
neither baby nor girl" "he thinks,
and he is apt to get the idea that
she is the weaker vessel. and he
does not want to be bossed by a
woman. Happy is the boy who in
olbyhood and childhood has his
fathers hearty, COED comradeship
and companionship, but there is a
time when he feels the need of it
and Graves it, it is when he is
merging into manhood and from
then onward, and happy the father
who keeps the friendship of his boy.
An editorial in The World To- Day
gives fathers some good advice, a
little of which is given here:
The ordinary father could know
his boy better if he chose. Not,
in deed, just as he comes to know
hin in vacation; not, possibly, as
his mother knows him, but none the
less he can know his boy.
"Ifhe takes time. And, as this
is lay sermoo, after the manner of
p preachers, il should be added, he
ought to take time. If a father is
g9od for anything, he himself is the
best gift to make his boy.
"We have act yet reached that
otear-eyed Utopia in which parents
oeeed children and society brings
sem up. Despite the polygamy
lad polyandry of the divorce courts
We are still Nation of parents and
:hildren.
"And just because we are thus
ettled in families, fathers and moth
RS ought to be friends OF their chill.
rsn, The more complicated our
ocial life becomes, the more inper-
tive does this duty and-as all
ermons say-this privilege become.
is notmerely that such ndships
lake parents better parents and
hildren better men and women;
icy will make more gentle that
oproaching usurpation which for a
loment startled us when we saw
II boys could run almost as fast
We, and could plan almost as u
i'sly. For we shall surrender to :
ends" o
Fathers get acquainted with q
'ur boy. You will be surprised In
my respects and at first may feel
sappointed and may be discouraged
1t it you find it bad case il is
Ost likely because you have post q q
med the acquaintance too long. W
1ery father should know his boy. is
he is hard to get acquainted with, O.
rsist. Study him from every 10
int of view and do not be afraid N
get down on level with him
casionally. 1t will do you both IT
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