The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-24
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 a man, whose
wealth is conservatively estimated at
$15,000,000, and who lives like grand
seigneur of the olden days in the
feudal castle on the top of a plateau
in northern Italy, Louis Lombard, the
'Franco-American musician, composer,
author and financier, who won a for
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 few
weeks at the Waldorf having
brought his eldest son and two daugh-
tiers over to complete their education
in this, their fathers adopted land, and
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 penniless at the
T age Of 14-he and his success are prod
ucts of American conditions and he is
proud to say so.
1t is due to his struggles as boy
violinist, as a leader Of orchestras, in
the law and last in finance that he
became the man he is to-day-a phil
anthropist, philosopher, worker
for the common good of humanity as
well as one of the highest men on
the continent.
Mr. Lombard married an American
woman, the 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 to expect nothing from
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-
portion will he give or leave them
money This principle he has hound
ed 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
he fines them when they are naughty,
a regular scale of fines, and this, he
says, 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 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
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 In
placing a book in the hands Of child
before the age of six or seven. or
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 a year earlier.
He has his children begin the prac-
tice of languages almost from the era
die. Every one of them, with the ex7
ception of the two-year-old Zuleika,
speaks four or five languages.