Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-25

city infants belonging to the middle
classes often suffer because of the Strug-
gle OF their parents to maintain a foot
holg III society, and to mount the steps in
social life which viii bring then distinc-
ton. W hat an evil Inheritance will do
for children was shown by 300 wears of
the health history of the reigning house
OF spain. The children. though born to
It klhSdom and crown, were cursed with
an hereditary nervous faint which some
umes passed over a generation only to
appear again in various forms and in
tehSities, as epilepsy, hypochondria, mel
ancnulla, mania and imbecility. till at
length it extinguished the direct royal
me. CITY children are deprived of the
sunlight that gives vitality, and they are
eherYated by the excessive heat of sum
mer. If they lived in the country. the
children OF the very poor would escape
me heaviest effect of poverty, and the
children of the very rich would find a
counteracti0n to the evils of misused
wealth.
There is something about city life that
predlSposes children to the commission
OF CRIME. The secretary of the National
Ifison association writes: Il looked
over. my list Of cases which | have in
T,estlgated personally, and find that more
than tour-nfths of the wrongdOers were
born either in cities or had become resi-
dents of cities when very young. If You
had asked, as between large town and
city and country bred children | should
nave been obliged to add almost the 9TH
er fifth
II has repeatedly been noticed that the
city child has very obtuse ideas of prop
erty rights, fact that is strange when
we note that in cities the arm of the law
is above and around all property in a
conspicuous way. Country villages,
where Improvement has done away with
front fences, have some need of their
restoration to restrain the trespasSes of
the city children who come out for sum
mer living. The country child is Il better
respecter of property rights and of per-
S0nal rights. He is less an intruder;
he is far less disposed to insult those who
are passing along the street or road; he
IS more liberty towing, and decidedly more
democratic, than the city child The best
blood in city business and professional
life comes from country bred children.
The thought and the feelings that lie be
meath appearances and the surface of
things are weak in the city child. The
philosophers, the poets, the brainy men
OF action, mostly passed their youth in
the country. We take from country chill
dren the men who manage our railways
who conduct our great enterprises, and
who renew and increase the vital ener-
gies that develop into industrialism.
Anu IHen the CnllurenS pleasure OF
living in the country. No one is more
keeGly alive to the delights of country
living than the child. His good health
brings abundant spirits, ana, :rith sutfi-
cient growth to enable him to move free
ly, his muscles harden and he lays the
foundation of Il strong, elastic comstitu-
ton. A volume could be written on the
benefits that may be derived from con-
tact with nature. The artificial environ
ment of the city confers benefits which
are recognized, and it would be we'll for
the country youth to get them but. as
between one place and the other, the in
fluence CT living nearer to nature is much
to be preferred. The city child has few
er mysteries to solve, but in the country
the child finds many of the same kind
and is confronted by thousands of mys-
teries unknown to his less fortunate city
cousin, which constitute a never-ending
source of investigation, knowledge, deep
interest and mental cultivation The
happiness of the child in his country
life, his sports and his duties, and their
beneficent reaction upon him physically.
morally, emotionally and intellectually.
make the country as a place of residence
for him, vastly more preferable than the
city.