Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-02-26


none can estimate it. Don't stint or
stunt the boy. Select good stories
and poems to read to him. While lit
tie forming the taste for pure reading,
later read to him and he to you. Talk
over the improbable things teaching
him to think and reason independently.
There are few who do. Provide read
ing of their very own in their own
name. Watch that others do not loan
bad reading and be wise in your hor-
row if they do. You will have to
think twice to know just what to say.
Above all things do not expect your
boy to grow up without guile if you
have supplied him with no other read
ing than the comic Sunday papers for
Sabbath devotion. They teach disre-
spect to old age, low cunning and con-
tempt for parental control that is sure
to work out during the week. When
the child is five years old make him
birthday gift of dollar or more and
deposit in the savings bank, bank
book of his own, teach him TO carry it
himself for added savings and COM
putting of the interest, thus fostering
the financial instinct. Teach economy
but not stingyness for stingy person
is not happy and cannot be honest.
Brothers and sisters honesty is COM
ing in. fashion. To learn to spend
wisely is more conducive to happiness
then the power to pinch.
Now fathers if your boys are build
ing steady bank account, buy their
clothing without grumbling and let
them save. Rejoice in the bank book
growth and give it boost, you'll never
miss those little helps 1000 years from
now, and perhaps you will be amazed
in the next life to find the things you
deemed trivial will bring you the rich
est harvest when He who knows all
hearts judges you.
Fathers get up close to your boy and
keep there if every hog on the place
. dies. You will have an aching, empty
heart some day if you don't.
h Talk with your boys from boyhood tt
n manhood. Find out how things look tt
him. 1t will be bond nothing cal
break. Talk over his schemes, if the.
!. are wild ones, help him tame them
How will he ever develop plans to rul
the ship of state or control the gigan
tic enterprises of the future if yo,
;. destroy his schemer Ask the boy
q questions you are neither well poste
on, both look it up, you can do som
guessing and specializing which will b
: good mental drill. Then things kinde
. come to folks too.
l reckon the silence is chuck full o
s thoughts and knowledge we mortal
e can lay hold of if we are striving t
f grow higher.
o Be thankful your boy has will an
e determination, don't try to quell @
t break it, but teach him to "sick it
IN on to the right thing and it will be hi
making not maring. He needs it fe
KS success. If he has firmness don't ca
m it stubbornness, even if it is, but pt
Is your own stubbornness aside and teac
IS him to modify his opinions and get
G view point from the other feller's side
it He will need all his firmness to will
S, stand temptation, hold fast to the goo
re out in life's battles and billiards..
ut Teach him an open mind to all thing
ar good in what ever place or name but
n a closed mind to lower rude things +
Us matter in what beauty they be a
es rayed. If you have a boy slow to mi
ture take comfort with his calmne
an these strenuous times and enjoy kee
er ing him with you longer.
de Many boys are extremely sensiti'
he and they will make the grandest mt
er if not spoiled in the training.
be Your best colts are the ones tn
be have to handle with the gentlest tou'
st and wisest manner. How much mo
We consequence is the training of yo
ce spirited high strung boy. Oh! but "
re. will be proud of him when he grows
ng be a strong, sympathetic man with
to heart as well as head.
Id, Don't call everything you do not fe
an yourself or understand temper or sulk
.ct A proud boy will hide his misunde
if standings and cover his hurts in silenc
ur Be sure you are calling things
ic- the right name to him before y
do then don't. Its bad enough to ha
,es stone bruises on the heels, but it's har
i'd err and more lasting to have them
ire the heart.
full Certainly all this takes time, pray
ak and study, but you are mellowing a
Ire developing yourself while helping t
~, boy.
So Anyway Father for what are y
cry living and striving after in Heave
SKIS Your stock will die, your bank accou
we be fought over and scattered, you "
or leave your farm on top the grou
nen when you go beneath. And actua
on, all you can take with you is the GO
est you do, the lessons of love you teae
we and the everlasting results of what y
on. make of yourself, wife and childrt
Gus Farmers have been mourning t
sell scarcity of hired men late years. f