The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-12

will affirm that children, viewed in the
most favorable light, are little less than
nuisance, and cost tremendous
amount of money.
Of course, it does cost lot of money
to bring up children, and your ordinary
mother is person very much restricted
and tied to the house. She may not
nay, cannot have anything like the lib
erty, after a family begins to appear,
which she enjoyed prior to the advent
OF little ones. Her worries, too, are le>
giOn, and her anXieties innUmerable,
what with sickness and many other kin
dred evils.
1t is something more than joke to
bring up a fairly large family from
childhood to maturity, and the strain IS
very great; but one cannot shut one S
eyes to the fact that woman is on earth
for a definite purpose, and, i'll view OF
that fact, all the worries, troubles and
anXietieS connected with children are
viewed by your average mother with a
very tolerant eye.
On the other hand, there can be no
doubt about the fact that a child or two
about the home refneS man and Wom-
an, and keeps them purer than they
would ever be were the children not
there. Thus, language is moderated IN
their presence, temper is kept in check
oy the thoughtful father or mother when
a little one is looking on, and this moder-
ating of language and keeping the tenn
course.
In an all-around way, therefore, a
child in the home makes for its better
ment and improvement.
And, moreover. children teach one the
value of patience. A parent is much
more tolerant after the advent of little
one. than he or she was prior to it's ar
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| lected if one is among children. Some
how, they soOthe in a marvellous way.
A chubby little hand stroking ones
cheek has peculiar effect, and it is only
the parent who knows what it exactly
means-it cannot be explained in print
Then. undoubtedly, great pleasure
comes with the knowledge that you have
fine, healthy youngsters, who make a
lot of noise. and keep on tormenting you
all the time; but they are yours, and
you are responsible for their young lives.
And the knowledge which comes of
! responsibility, after children are in the
home. has a Christening effect so far as
the right-thinking parent is concerned.
1t is true that the childless couple
can jaunt about. visit this place, that
place, and the next, and in way enjoy
themselves as they could not if they had
been blessed with one or two children
but it almost goes without saying that
they would enjoy each others company
all the more if that eternal bond of love
existed between them which binds the
man and woman together after a child
enters into their life. The couples who
have no children pity those who have,
and speak vaguely of the worries and
troubles that must be their lot. They
never think of the other side, about
which they know nothing.
And the couples who have children
speak in pity of those who have no
young ones to liven up the home of an
evening with shouts and laughter.
1t may be that a child On occasion
proves a thorn in the parental flesh.
Here and there is to be found the lad
! whose parents wish he had never been
born. but, happily, such cases are eX-
tremely rare; the great majority of boys
and girls, too, prove blessings to parents.
And assuredly, it is nice to have a
family around one, if only for the pros
pective pleasure of seeing little ones
playing round ones knee in old age
ones grandchildren.
Perhaps there is no other way in which
children prove such blessing as in age,
when happy little ones are always pop
ping out and in to ask how grandma
and grandpa are keeping today.
The childless couple, when aged, know
nothing of this. True. they may have
plenty of young ones popping in to see
them. but that extraordinary thing, the
close blood bond, is lacking, and the
young ones can never be the same to
them as grandchildren are to the others
M. Wyckoff. in Detroit News Tribune