The Big Sandy news., 1909-07-23

Why Do The Children LOvO Nou'

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Why Do The Children Loyo Noa?
As We look at some families where
the children seem to Just worship
their parents, and again we see Others
where the children seem 10 think
more of everybody else than they do
Of their parents, and we padse End
cxclaim why is il? Parents, do you
wish for your children to love and
respect you? II you do, when your
child con es to you for advice be sure
to give good advice dent say, oh
so way, don't bother me, go ask
your mother. or some such answer
Or II they come to their mother per-
haps she says, Go to your father,
am busy" The child will soon get
afraid to ask advice for fear of being
rebuked, and 1t will be apt TO seek
advice some where else. II you take
an interest In your children then
they will take an interest in you We
have seen little children while run
hing at play, or perhaps on an or-
rand !or their parents, get fall and
bump head or skin a finger, and
when they would 20 TO their parents
for a kind word OF comfort they
would say: well, next time look
nhere you are going and don't be so
awkward; go long now and hash.
That child will certainly find out
sooner or later that its parents have
no love or sympathy for It. and il
will grow up without any kind feel
ing toward that parent But on the
ether hand let the child come to
the parents for advice, and II kind
words are spoken the child will never
forget 1t, and will always look with
respect on that parent. II the little
child gets a bump, mother will say;
Come to your mother and let her
pet you" and she will kiss the bump
ed head and wrap up the hurt finger,
with few kind words. Then the
child knows you love it, and 1t will
love you and always respect you, and
when years have passed and gone
and they have grown to manhood and
womanhood they will look back to
their childhood days as the happiest
days of their lives
A word OF comfort kindly spoken.
VIII many moment cheer;
a word of scorn to a heart that's
broken,
VIII cause grief for many year
Hard though 1t be to love those
who hate you, it is harder still to
fate those who love you
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lOme Influences.
We may laugh at the manly WAYS
Of our boys, and make merry over
their attempts to copy our own ac-
tions, but when We reflect that. with
the manners OF childhood, they have
lost It's innocence, our laughter will
at once yield to bitter tears. The
rrecocious dissipation and vice Of
our youth Is frequent theme OF the
preacher and morallst, and is one
worthy of all their efforts, There Is
something more required, however
than the sermon and the lecture;
this something more is the influence
OF home, and we must Contrive some
means to keep the children there that
they may feel It's full force
Is 1t that the strict formalty Of
cur domestic manners is not sufli-
Ciently accommodating TO youthful
impulse? Is it that our youth Is
merely educated to the outward forms
"l regard Tor nome MS lads IN
school, VINO are only taught to con-
ldate l love and never feel IT.
Whatever may be the cause, there Is
no doubt OF the TACT that our young
People are In the habit OF seeking
elsewhere than under the parental
iooi Tor means OF gratifying their
taste ior pleasure 1t would startlo
mothers Gathers are too hardened by