Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-03-04
TREATMENT or BOYS,
Let Them Alone, Advises a New
Jersey Father.
HIS HAVE SEPARATE HOUSE

To Have Peace Mutually Agree MOI
20 aButt In" William Jeffrey Tells
Harlem Liberal AIIianes--How ths
''Indspendsnt Five" Like the Life.
william Jeffery Of Berkeley Heights
N. j.. addressed the Harlem Liberal
alliance the other night at 100 West
One Hundred and Sixteenth street
New York, on How to~Live In Peace
With Children" says the New York
Times. The meeting room was filled
TO the outermost door, The essence Of
Mr.. JeHery's teaching Is:
"Don't butt In on the children II
they viii agree not to butt in on you"
Jeffrey IL the man who built a small
bungalow out In his back yard last year
for four Of his sons and a nephew. The
independent ave. have been running
their own affairs. Mr.. Jeffery made a
sort OF report Of progress. He said
that 1t was a bowling success, al.
though, thank heaven, he and his wife
didn't hear the bowls. And be was go
ing to add his other sons to the indie
pendent back yard group as fast as they
got old enough to endure the wear and
tear Of the life in that climate
II used to live In Manhattan" went
on the speaker. But had to move.
The landlords got after me too hard.
I went to Plainneld, N. j., and that
week the rents were raised there. One
OF my boys was iii. / decided to live
out in the open, and that's how / got
10 Berkeley Heights.
I'VE liked the land, and decided to
replace the tent with a house. So
built one as / want It, It's framework
being Of hewed oaken beams. We com.
pleted 1t last summer.
''Then one day my wife raised an
unusually loud protest about the boys
coming into the house, tracking up the
carpet and breaking the furniture. You
zee, have six boys and one girl, With
. nephew from Brooklyn. He Is nine
tsen years old. My boys run down
from tifteen. Four Of them are above
eight years.
These last named young persons
were the chief offenders. so l decided
that there would have to be another
bungalow. The question arose as 10
who was to occupy It. The boys said
that they would take Il, agreeing not
TO butt IN on my wife and me II we
would agree not to butt In on them.
And we did that
"And 50 we put up 10 by "a foot
bungalow In the back yard. The four
older boys and the nephew took charge
Of IT, OF course they eat with US. but
they take care OF their own house. II
they don't, 1t gets no care. It's up to
them. They may turn the stove upside
down; they may stick their heads out
OF the window. It's their own funeral.
and they know 1t.
AT arst | thought that l would in.
spect their bungalow once day to see
that they kept II clean. gave that up.
There Is no more reason why should
inspect them than that they should In
spect me and my wife.
This arrangement has been kept up.
! like It. Ny wife likes 1t. The boys
like II. We call 1t the Plelades bunga.
low out there In the back yard"
Mr.. Jeffery then read some testimo.
mails Of the ave independents. The
Brooklyn nephew. who had asthma,
testified that be had been cured OF 1t.
While. aged ffteen. bore witness In
writing that he had farmed two acres
Of land and raised pigeons last year.
he had furnished vegetables to the
family and had a bank account OF
S1O0
Charlie, aged thirteen, testified that
he had no trouble waking up In the
morning. because II he was inclined to
sleep somebody was sure to throw a
piece Of coal or a water bucket at him.
AZ for worldly goods, he had begun his
new life with hen and Il rooster
Now he has thirty-four chickens. feed
in stock for them and money-a little
in his pocket.
Fred, aged eleven, who Is described
by his father as zone averse to work,
bore witness that no liked the life IN
the Pleiades bungalow. its freedom be
ing very eongenial to him. He told nj
stories Of wealth accumulated. Hi
parents viii give him a course In for
oatry.
Richard. aged nine. testified a. to hi
enjoyment Of the Sunday night con
ferencea with bis parents. He declaret
that at such times the back yard colon,
asked their father questions Some
times be couldn't answer. Then h
went on and asked somebody else ans
answered next time