The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1909-03-19
THOUGHTS
ON BOYS
By J. S. KIRTLEY, D. D.
Author of the "Youns
Man and HIMSELF" etc.
JUSTICE BY JERKS
Copyright, by Joseph B. BowIes.)

He loves a free foot, yet, in spite of
II, II there is any one thing he bankers
after and dotes on, In a superlative
way, 1t is firm hand that guides him
steadily and not spasmodically, not
steady by jerks He is not at all
out of harmony with Solomon In his
sage instruction to parents. in which
he mixes up the words rod" and
child in rather striking ALLEGATION.
Considered merely as symbol of au-
thority, welded with intelligent love,
he has nothing against the rod.
He wants the one who reigns over
him to hold the reins over him in a
regnant way. Therein he discloses a
similarity to his equine brother. There
are two ways OF driving a horse,
right way and a wrong way frank
ly and humbly confess that | always
drive horse-the right way That way
is to hold the reins slightly taut. so
that the horse will feel the faintest
pressure upon either line. AS you en-
JOY the drive your pleasure will set
the nerves athrill. leap from your fin
ger tips down the lines. strike the sen.
sitiEe nerves of his mouth-for
horses have sensitive nerves in their
mouths too-dash to his brain and
You will give the horse the time OF his
life. The other way Is to leave the
reins loose, let him go as he pleases
till he sweryes In the wrong direction
or stumbles. then jerk him till his
mouth bleeds and his heart grows
profane and he is restrained from VIC
lence only by the fear OF greater vio-
lence. Whenever / have been riding
behind horse whose driver handled
him that way | have always felt that
the horse would confer a highly
priced favor on me II he would only
stop long enough for me to get out
and then would kindly kick the dash.
board off the buggy and the dashboard
OF the man
The boy luxuriates In that sort of
steady direction OF his life, but it
takes true heart. level head and
stern hand to accommodate him.
Dickens, In his Great Expectations,
tells OF the boy Pip. who was reared
by his sister, and she slapped him so
much, he said he was brought up by
hand. And Beautiful Joe" the title
OF a dogs autobiography. said his
original owner kicked him so much, he
was brought up by foot. Some boys
are brought up by hand, some by foot
and some by both hand and foot, in
order to make perfectly sure OF him.
Little Henry's mother was nervous
that afternoon, and she kept nagging
at him-"pecking at him." as some
one with rather fowl propensity has
phrased 1t. (Now. let us hold up this
procession long enough TO say that II
you have your own choice between
nagging and killing him. the latter is
less criminal, by odds-thats ALL
At last. weary and discouraged. Henry
one of those country houses that had
a foundation pillar here and another
there, with place between for boy
to crawl in. When his father came
home, he inquired for Henry. but the
mother knew not his whereabouts.
He searched for the lad awhile and
then suddenly rem .mbered something
Stranso as 1t may seem. he remem
bered d at he was once boy. Then
what? Crawled under the house to
hunt To- him. In whisper that would
have done credit to a transformer
Henri cal ed out: Pa, is she after
you, foo?"
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beconae unjust. and authority so au-
thoritative as to become lawless, and
the boz always knows It, Bill did, that
time his mother slapped him because
the baby cried. 1t was this way:
She had set him TO "minding" the
baby, as she called II. Now. boy
does love to mind the baby-that's
what his mind was made for. that's
the way he likes to work his mind
the 1ore baby brothers and sisters
the better he likes II. or course. And
II there IL not baby In the house Dor
row enc or lend tho boy to some one
who lss a baby. - tAat he will not be
denied the joy Of putting his mind"
upon the fascinating and absorbing
thing. She slapped hin when the baby
cried. Later, when she called him to
dinner Re replied. sulkily: Nav. you
slap, . me for notAin' and I Amt
axoir /? eat" He made 4 mistake.
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man. hon you see him ceminS
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