The Marshall republican., 1909-10-29
Home Training
of Children
A Story With Marshall Setting
by MS. N. G. Bishop

her second child and son, by the
grave of one God had taken in child
hood, and heard her say, at SEEM
ed SO hard to part with him when
we laid him here, but ! re joice now,
for / know where this one is. God
knew my weakness, and took him
away from my misguided training,
and l am thankful"
The living son, now twenty-five
years OF age, is a very handsome
man in face, figure and carriage,
but the beauty stops there; drink
ing, gambling, carousing with his
own kind, sporting and eating, are
the only things worth living for,
Judging from his life.
"What was the matter with his
training?" you ask.
want OF study on The subject,
The training of children in the
home " is my answer.
In the whole round of good
women that I know, there is not
one who is kinder, or leads a no.
bier life,-S life of sacrifice for
others; and in this spirit of maxi
ing others happy, INDUCED in the
wrong way, without studying her
child as she did her cookbook,
lay the mischief which made her b,
loved son a leprous blolch to his
family and community.
~ felt" she said, "when my
boy was growing up that 1 wanted
him to know that l loved him, and
1 gave him everything that l pos
sibly could for his pleasure"
Right there was the trouble. She
served him, instead of training
him to serve her. When he took
his bath, she brought the tub, and
the water, and the clean clothes
when his had finished, he left all
for her to remove. Breakfast
was kept waiting for him, till he
chose to arise-dinner and supper
until he was ready to come; and
there was never a reprimand, SO
that he might know his mo hen
loved him.
The mother or wife has no right
human Or divine, to e herself
out. True, her life must be one o.
sacrifice, but she should aim to be
looked up to as a queen in "the
realm called home" and not dowr
upon by the husband and children
as a "householj drudge and slave"
How many, many times has my
heart been saddened by hearing
, misguided mothers say, ooh, my
daughter cannot help at all; shC
is going 80 school,"
} Mothers, if you have to worl
either constantly or temporarily
your child should give you sub
stantial aid. With like abil
ity, the pupil who works faithful
ly three hours each day at home
gets along faster, digests acquire'
knowledge better, is healthier ant
=, much better better developed al
around than the one whose mothe
unwisely excuse him or her from
all duties.
/ have in mind the history of
boy whom / saw several times
day during his college preparation
life. This boy was kept so bus
with horse and COW and lawn an
homework, and keeping up tn
furnace fires at home, and i
school and college work, that hi
mother remarked, ut is not miraC
ulous that Will is not wild. w
kept him so busy he never foun
time to learn to be bad"
Wills parents, though wealth
we're far beyond average men an
women in boy training .wisdor
This, their only child, "a the dea
est object on earht 80 them, an
they reasoned that if he did hi
part of the worlds work when h
reached manhood, he must do whs
his years and strength would allo'
as hewent along, and be taught t
feel that Labor, all labor is nobl
and holy" At the age of fiftee
he had finished the high schot
course. At nineteen he graduate
with honors from his home colleg
which m~atriculates with Harvar
University. He entered Harvard
1898, with A. B. to his name, and {
the end OF two years that gres
school added A. M. to his title. III
record for perseverance, scholar
ship and honor, easily o. for hi
the position of teacher of Lati
and Greek in the st. Paul and Mir
ne4polis public schools where }
taught very acceptably for tw
years, and then secured one OF II
best situations in the Kansas Cit.
Mo-, school. Mind and body a