The National tribune., 1909-08-05
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By sENoRA SARA.

bers all of the terrible stories in the pa
pers of what has happened TO women
who have been left alone in the house.
Some women will work themselves into a
perfect frenzy if they thought that they
must endure lonely hour or half hour in
big house, and yet / do know that the
same woman will threaten her little ner-
vous children with the .bogie-man," with
arrest by the police, and with one of the
| worst, absolutely brutal in fact threaten
| to shut them up in a dark room by them
| selves.
1t should be remembered that the iudg-
ment of little child is absolutely nil. 1t
has nothing to counsel with but its fears.
and is controlled by them to an even great
er extent than the mother is, who viii
not stay in the house alone. child
imagines all sorts of supernatural hor-
rors because the nurse and other servants,
ignorant and illiterate, into whose care
they so often are given, have talked to
them about witches and dragons, and told
them about all sorts of strange animals
and worked upon their sensitive feelings
until these things have become very real.
Children are very impressionable and
there is no knowing what these brutal
shocks may do to their nervous system.
There are plenty of ways to discipline
and punish children without working upon
their superstitious fears. / believe that
children should be punished, an3 often
very severely. One of the best ways ih
the world to punish a child when II is
extremely disobedient is to deprive it of
some of those things in which it takes
pleasure. For instance, when the other
children are permitted TO 90 ont to play
it can be kept in. 1t can be deprived of
sweets for a certain length OF time, and
nearly all children will succumb very
quickly to parental discipline when they
find that they are to have no more candy,
L.. hn. II +la
disobedient child has piece of clothes
of which it is particularly fond, give the
clothing to some unfortunate child. This
may seem expensive, but you will find that
it will work very well with child that
is vain and proud of its clothing, and it
will refrain from disobedience next time,
knowing that you will take something else
from it. There are seven fears common
to children from the time they learn TO
talk up until their Judgment begins TO e1-
pand. There is the fear of animals; the
fear of the supernatural, the firm belief in
a personal devil: the fear of ridicule and
the fear of the dark. OF course, all chill
dren fear corporal punishment. l am not
an advocate of beating child, but / do
know that judiciOus administering of
cottonwood switch will very often bring
a disobedient child TO know that it cannot
have its own will and way. The switch
does no permanent injury. but the remem-
brance of its sting is not forgotten. BOX
ing child on the ears is relic of bar
barism. There is no doubt at all that the
hearing of many children has been in
jured by boxing their ears. 1t also in
jures the eyesight and there is also dan
ger OF conclusion of the brain. Think
twice before you infiict n punishment
upon your sensitive children. which, if
administered to you by someone in au-
thority over you, would cause yon lasting
humiliation and perhaps bodily injury.
suggesting that children should not be dis
ciplined / believe in severe discipline
for wayward children. but. as / have
stated. this discipline should come more in
the way of depriving a child Gf personal
liberty and the delights of the appetite
and of the senses. A child very soon
learns when you are in real earnest, and
rather than lose its special privileges. will
obey yOur Instructions implicitly. If you
do not believe this, just try it on for 4
time.
1t is said that pennyroysl. properly
used, is sure death to fieas. Ii the green
herb is in season get lot of it and strew
it thickly. over the carpets i'll hea-infested
rooms. Shut the doors and windows and
keep them closed for day or two, leay-
ing the herb to do its perfect work. When
YOU open the rooms burn the greens. II
ou cannot get the green herb use oil of
pennyroyal in boiling water and scrub
your floors and woodwork with il. OF
course to some the remedy" will be al
most as disagreeable as the disease" but
the pennyroyal will do the perfect work
if YOU can endure it.