The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-03
Teach Children
to Respect All
Others Rights

Copyright, 1910, by the New York Evening
Journal Publishing Company.
! n EAL good motherhood must include
X the universal motherhood. 1t must
make a woman love her child so
unselfishly that she is willing it should
suffer while learning its lessons of kind
ness and thOughtfulness and protection,
rather than to enjoy itself while taking
away the toys, the privileges or the rights
! OF other creatures-human or animal.
Almost every half-civilized woman to-
| day shrinks from the sight of a cruel
driver beating horse, or from seeing
the kicks and blows often given wretched
street dogs and cats.
| They are ready to report such cases
| of cruelty to the society. But hundreds
/ OF good women are permitting their chill
| dren to grow up with cruel instincts;
worse yet, they are teaching their chill
/ dren cruelty in the cradle.
Before you question this statement.
| listen and think.
Do you not, over and over see a mother
whip hobby horse to amuse her child?
/ Do you not see her punish an inanimate
object, over which the baby has fallen,
in order to distract The mind of the baby
/ from its hurt?
l have seen rag dolls spanked, over and
over again, and Teddy bears beaten by
mothers to make a baby laugh.
What can you expect of that child when
| it grows up, save that it will revenge
| itself upon anybody who annoys ii by
| physical chastisement? The boy who has
been educated to beat his hobby horse
will beat his real horse when he drives
one.
The Time to Teach Kindness.
The time to begin to teach a child kind
ness and sympathy is in the cradle. Say
to your children as soon as they are able
to play with toys:
BE good to your toys; they need love
and kind usage. Let your dolie rest
] co nd
Teddy bear and your hobby horse are
needing your love-"
If your baby stumbles and falls over
a chair or rug, instill pOliteness and con-
sideratiOn into his plastic mind by teach
ing him to apologize. He will be quite as
much amused and distracted If you say,
Excuse me. Mr.. Rug, or Madam Chair,
for my awkwardness; / hope l have not
seriously hurt you as he will be if you
say, Naughty old rug, or chair, to hurt
baby" and then proceed to rain blows
on the poor, inoffensive object
Teach your children to address their toy
animals in a kind and well-modulated
voice instead of loud screech You will
benefit both the people of today and the
animals of tomorrow by this course.
Tell them the truth-that animals are
very sensitive to noise; that a horse Is
timid and loving creature. and that a
loud, harsh voice frightens ii and him
ders 1t from doing its duty or obeying its
owner. A low voice and a gentle hand
VIII make any horse, if taken in time,
faithful, willing and safe.
A horse will do twice the work and live
twice the time in good health, If 1t is
treated with respect gratitude and love
by its owner
Teach this to your children while they
are playing with their toys. They will
never forget it.
The warden of the Connecticut state
prison is a wonderfully good and wise
man. He is a student of human nature
He said to visitors one day:
IF a child is properly educated to the
age of 10, no matter what it's inheritance
it never becomes a criminal
He did not mean that children sent off
in schools, and given tutors and great
advantages, never became criminals. He
meant that children guided in their
thoughts and ideas by wise teachers and
parents, should have right ideas, right
feelings and right desires.
Children should be taught consideration
of the rights of other creatures.
That sentence includes all the needed
preVentiyes of crime.
Luck is the tuning of our inmost thought
To chord with Gods great plan.
Soxy