Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-14


drinking hell and you let your children
(; go to the devil. You turn them over to
some nurse whose, only interest in
the children is so many dollars.
| And there are many homes in which
there is perpetual nagging and scold.
ing. DON'T. DON'T. OF all the devil
inspiring sentences that ever erawled
out Of the pit of hell, that which says
child should be seen and not heard
takes the cake, | think.
I'll tell you a few dont's.
A Few Dont's.
Don't tell the children what you
don't mean.
Don't wait on the children too much.
Don't make them wait on you too
much.
Don't break promise to your chill
dren.
Don't talk about your neighbore and
| Don't perpetually scold the children.
You drive them away.
Don't hurt their self-respect by pun
fishing them In the presence Of COM
pany. Wait until the company has
gone away, then you can do the bust
ness.
Don't overdress your children.
Many a fool mother oyer-dresses her
child so that from the time she is six
years old she is pulled up.
Don't lie to your. children. Don't
have them like the little boy who was
asked, "How old are you?" and he
said, I'm at home, at school and
on the street car" Of all the rot
ten, dirty, shrinking money you have in
! your clothes, It's that nickel about
which you lied to the conductor. No
wonder the children grow up to lie.
Don't be Insincere.
/ read of a woman Gown south who
was going to make call. The wom-
an she was going to see sat in her
home looking out of the window, and
when she saw the carriage drive up
she said, my, is she going to inflict
her presence upon me with all those
brats?" She tells her children to re-
move all the bric-a-brac out of the
parlor. Hurry up, know l shall die
of nervous prostration.' Presently the
door bell rings, she goes to the door,
affectionately greets them all AMI
says: I'm so glad to see you. Now
children, run and play and have a
good time," and the children skip the
rope, play hide-and-seek, school, drop
the handkerchief and London Bridge
is Falling Down. BY and by they
have lunch and the visitor says she
must go. Her hostess says, 20, dom I
go; you have been here only little
while" 20, must go; I promised
my husband / would be home early
So she couples her train and prepares
, to steam out The hostess says
, Don't wait SO long until you come
back. Goodbye" AS soon as she has
gotten out of sight the hostess sinks
, into chair and says, Bring me the
smelling salts quick Soon she has
got back all the fusniture and bric-a
Drac and it is discovered that china
dog has been broken. "Who broke
! that dog? Tommy, did your enc
, ma'am," Harry, did you?" "Ne
!, ma'am.' Zone Of you children is lyins
, to me and propose to find out who
! did it." Finally, one of the kids turn
= ed states evidence and fastens the
!. crime upon the guilty one. The moth
er took him by the Land and said
Now, I'm going to punish you She
took him into the other room, took of
: her slipper and gave him a licking
She said to him: do you know VIII.
I'm Furnishing your Yes, ma, TO
breaking the dog" "No, although, !:
: was an heirloom, given to me by m,
grandfather, am Furnishing you TO
lying to your mother. wonde
where that child learned to lie? From
his old, lying moth~r, Of course. Sh
was the one that needed busting o.
I both hemispheres until, like Buste
Brown-shed prefer to stand.
Parents Are Neglected.
A great many parents leave tn
:. moral training of their children to tn
Sunday school teachers, and a Who'll
lot Of them are card players. I don
J. think you pay enough attention t
= your school teachers. There is onl
one office I ever aspired to hold an
= that is member of the school boar
{ and the first thing I would do woul
be to raise the salary Of the schoe
teacher. Don't you know that th
poorest pai,- people in this country t
day are the ministers and the publ
school teachers, and there are no tw
. classes of people more indispensable I
American morals and religion than tn
ministers and the public school teac
: err, and it is a shame the salaries "
pay them. 1t is an insult to America
n wealth. Why, did you ever hear of
4 school board saying to the teache
= when they quit In June, Come back
r September and we will pay you jul
y the same as If you were here N
They ought to be paid right throue
the summer just the same as any 9TH
I, time. 1t is an insult when a bar-kee
err can make more money than IL
principal of your high school, It's
l. disgrace.
l said to boot black, colored fl
a low at the Nelson house at Rockfor
y ILL.,, How much do you get a month
$40 and rake.off."
& What does the rake-off amou
. to-"
"Why, Boss, last month l made S4s
e He got more money shining sho
y than the principal of the high scht
got for shining brains.