The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-02-26
USES NEW SYSTEM
MILLIONAIRE TRAINS CHILDREN
ACCORDING TO OWN IDEAS.
PAYS Them for Services to Their
Mother and Himself, and Fines
Them When They Are Bad
Must Show Power to Earn.

New York. - For man, whose
wealth is conservatiycly estimated at
$4,000 .O00, and who lives like a grand
seigneur of the olden days in the
feulaI castle on the top of a plateau
in northern Italy, Louis Lombard, the
Franco-American musician, composer,
author and dnancier, who won Tor
tune from wall street and then sailed
, away. is carrying out The most remark
able and at the same time democratic
system of education for his eight chill
dren that is being practiced in the
world to-day.
Mr.. Lombard is staying for a lew
weeks at the Waldorf-Astoria, having
brought his eldest son and two dauSh-
ters over to complete their education
| in this. their fathers adopted land, ana
he is one of the most interesting per-
sonalities this country has ever had
a hand in producing.
Although French by birth, he came
| to the United states ponniless at the
| age of 14-he and his success are prod
l,cts of American conditions and he IS
proud to say so,
1t is due to his struggles as a boy
yiolinist. as a leader Of orchestras, IN
the law and last in finance that he
| became the man he is to-day-a phll-
anthropist, a philosopher, a worker
| for The common good of humanity as
we'll as one of the highest men on
! the continent.
Mr. Lombard married an American
woman he daughter Of Thomas Allen
who built the Missouri Pacific railroad
and they have eight children, and not
withstanding his luxurious mode OF
! life. he is bringing the eight young
Lombards up 10 expect nothing Irom
him or from the world that they do
not earn.
AS his children show their ability to
! earn and save money, so in that pro-
norton will he give or leave them
money This principle he has hound
cd into them from infancy From the
time they are able to talk he gives
them money for the services they rem
der to their mother and TO him, TO the
little ones pennies and increasing
amounts as they grow older and their
services become more valuable
To teach them the value of money
lie fines them when they are naughty
regular scale of fines, and this, he
saws. is a thousand times more bene-
fetal than any other form of punish
ment for it hurts their pride.
Mr.. Lombard SCOTS at the higher
education of most women in so far as
it pretends to make them mans equal
intellectually. He has dealt with TINS
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
them good wives and mothers. They
are taught the languages, the classics
but they are also taught how to con
duct a household in every detail.
Mr.. Lombard does not believe ID
placing a book in the hands of child
before the age of six or seven. Oh
course. this age limit varies with each
! individual. Little girls, he considers
are more precocious than boys; there
| fore he starts them at their studies as
. q rule year earlier.
| He has his children begin the prac-
tice Of languages almost from the era
die. Every one of them, with the eX'
ception of the two-year-old Zuleika,
| speaks four or five languages.