Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-02-24
How
Lombard Rears His Children.

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The birch, the ruler and the
dark closet barred.
Hear and speak five languages
from infancy.
Servants treated as members
Of the family.
Favorite maXim: Honesty Is
best policy for policy's>sake.
Children realize uncertainty of
any inheritance. y
VIII share in SIS, 100000 es-
tate in proportion to ability to
care for money.
Girls taught household duties.
Brought up with principal object
of making them good wives and
mothers.
Lombard believes that the man
who neglects the obligation to
make his children useful citizens
commits a crime
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A New York dispatch says: Louis
Lombard, Franco-American musi-
clan, composer, author and financier,
who won fortune in Wall street
and then sailed away, is carrying out
the most unique and at the same
time democratic system of educa-
ton for his eight children that is
being practiced in the world to-day.
Although French by birth, Lom-
bard came to the United States pen
niless at the age of IA. His wealth
is now estimated at SIS, 100000. He
lives as grand seigneur on the top
of plateau in northern Italy.
Lombard married an American wo-.
man, the daughter of Thomas Allen,
who built the Missouri Pacific rail-
road. They have eight children. The
eldest son and two daughters have
come to America to complete their
education, started under their ia
theirs peculiar system.
Living in princely little domain
Of their own. with scores of servants,
horses, automobiles and all the ac-
commodations OF wealth, the young
Lombards are made to understand
from the beginning their RESPONSE
bility to humanity as a whole. They
are brought up to expect nothing
from him or from the world that
they do not earn.
AS his children show ability to
earn and preserve money, so in that
proportion, will he give or leave
them money. This principle he has
grounded into them from infancy.
From the time they are able to
talk he gives them money for SER
vices they render to their mother
and to him, to the little one pennies
and increasing the amounts as they
grow older and their services more
valuable.
To teach them the value Of money,
he fines them when they are naugh-
ty, a regular scale Of fines, and this
he says is a thousand times more
beneficial than any other form of
punishment, for it hurts their pride,
1t brings them to sense Of their re-
sponsibility more effectually than
many spankings.
His discipline, Lombard says, is
nothing but the eye and firm word.
The birch, the ruler, the dark
closet? Never! All barbarous and
certain to coarsen a child, to destroy
it's fine sensitiveness.
Lombard SCOTS at the higher ed
ucation of most women in so far as
it pretends to make them mans
equal intellectually. He has dealt
with this subject in an emphatic
manner in one of his early books,
"The Observations of Bachelor"
His girls. are brought up with the
principal object of making Of them
good wives and mothers. They are
taught the languages, the classics,
but they are also taught how to
conduct household in every detail.
Lombard engages governesses and
nurses Of different nationalities.
From babyhood his children hear
five Languages simultaneously. When
they are four or five years old they
Know of the different languages in
their little minds, and at 10 there is
not one Of them who is not able to
speak English, French, Spanish, Ital-
ian and German fluently.
$ Thelr knowledge acquired
through their association with their
goyernesses and nurses of different
nationalities has been crystalized,
and they have the maternal accent
of the country whose tongue they