Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-06

Election or counteraction. Impress the
young mind with your own admiral
tions-being first sure that your ad-
vibrations are right. Give him SYM
pathetic companionship.
1.-THE great privileges and RESPONSE
bilities of life are choice and initiative.
So lead and direct your child that he
will learn to exercise these privileges
and be able to walk in the right way
by his own free choice.
"In the present time as in the days
of old we must set little child in our
midst.
1.-The eighteenth century was the age
of man, who achieved his purpose by
the violent methods of revolution The
nineteenth century belonged to wo-
man, who walked in the peaceful paths
of revolution. The twentieth century
promises to become marked as the age
when men and women lifted childhood
to it's proper place as the one impor-
tant factor and the most valuable in
the world"
Parenthood and Citizenship
Applause, frequent and hearty, in
terrupted the next speaker, Mrs. Jessie
Chave. The paper, which received
most enthusiastic Endorsement, is given
in full below:
Speaking of the wave of prohibit
ton which is sweeping over our land,
Il heard President Gates of Clare
mont college remark that while
manifestly a great variety of forces and
agencies have contributed to the situa-
ton he believed that the success at the
polls was due in large measure to the
fact that the boys who had been taught
scientific temperance in our schools had
arrived at the age to vote.
] believe our hope for great reforms
lies in educating the conscience of the
young. 1t is generally conceded that
the school Is a greater force in the
moral training of our children than the
home. If parents did their full duty
this ought not, to be so.
The seeds of good and bad citizen
ship are sown so very early in life
and we are often slow in realizing the
full Importance of those early lessons.
AS a rule mothers do not realize how
far they have progressed in the making
of a desirable citizen when they have
taught baby the real meaning of yes
and no. All law hinges on these two
words thou shalt and thou shalt not.
How often we hear a mother say to
her child mo, no, you must not have
that" and then deliberately work on
and watch him have it and maybe de-
stroy it right before her eyes.
1t were infinitely better not to give
it a command at all than to give and
have it disobeyed
The laws of the home are the laws
of the country in miniature, and If we
do not teach our children to respect
and obey parental authority how can
we expect them to respect and obey the
laws of the land?
Bringing home those little lessons
takes time OF course it does. Did
you ever hear an eminent professional
man begrudging the time spent in per-
fecting himself in knowledge of his
profession? Is not motherhood your
profession and should you allow any
other calling to supersede or even to
encroaoh on it?
No nation is higher than it's domestic
life. Undermine that and the public
health is impaired.
Key to Problem
The home is the key to the solution
of our most perplexing problems. The
Christian home is an institution of
Christ and the little ones have a cozier
corner at the hearth there than any
where else in the world. This is as IL
ought to be. We want the children TO
be happy, but just as the gardener
prunes the vine, cutting off a limb here
and shoot there, which if left would
sap strength from the vine, so the wise
parent must prune as carefully the
olive branches, that childhood may lie
a discipline to fit our boys and girls
for citizenship citizenship which
should include two worlds.
The reproaeh of Ell was His sons