The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-02-03

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of kindness. Tell him he must not
hurt the smallest creature about the
place. Let the fowls walk about his
feet as he passes along the paths
about the premises. Instead OF
making him a sling-shot and bows
and arrows, and traps and snares
for taking or manning every sort OF
thing, teach him gentleness. When.
you 60 to town do not buy every
toy pistol and cannon and spear you
happen to see, but turn them down
and take home the mother animal
with it's young protected at it's side,
the picture of the lad in his garden
or field, the painting of the boy with
his well-groomed horses, the photo
of the focks of birds in the trees,
the squirrel playing on the porch
railing, or the child with his flocks
of fowls at feeding time.
Keep papers filled with marching
soldiers, and smoking cannon pict-
ures, and falling braves, away from
the lad. There will be plenty of
others to teach their children murder
and bloodshed and war. YOU teach
your country lad industry, gentle
ness, frugality, innocence, and faith
| ~ ga ood uoovon
When you select the calendars
don't go to work and bring your
quiet country boy "The Girl Clerk, "
or 1.-THE Banker sitting in his rich
office, with stenographer doing
his writing. Don't select the calen-
dar with pouch of dollars splitting
out into a ten-bushel box. Get the
one with poisoning trees, with fat
cows and frisking lambs and running
waters. Do not do all you CAN do
to arouse in him a feeling of dislike
for your rural home, and then pray
that God will enable you to keep
him at home with you and away
from the sin of the town, or city.
Take time by the forelock. do
not mean that you must keep him
in ignorance of the world about him,
but I do mean that you must keep
about him the world you know is
best for him to imbibe.
When your paper has two pages
filed with Uncle Sans ads for
young men to learn target practice,
for young men to join the navy, for
boys as recruits for rifle practice
dispense with this magazine at the
first opportunity. There will be
plenty of parents who do not care
for gentleness and quiet dignity who
will send their sons in answer tC
the advertisements of this character
and when the mind is in the period
of formation is the time to tell the
absolute truth concerning wars and
bloodshed, and conspiracies, and
marchings, and tumults, and deaths
and maimings, and disciplines OF
armies, ETC., etc., and YOU will dc
we'll to inform YOUR 10y of the
} better way, if in your inadvertence
YOU permit pictures of this nature
to creep through your censorship
and reach the holy of holies.
, There is enough of the whip ma
/. ture" in every child to justify YOU
in making a special effort to teach
YOUR child to govern his fowls and
animals and friends and enemies by
the rule of kindness. 1t is the con
trariwise to this that fosters within
J him a desire to quit the quiet farm
| and get to where there Is uproar
, He is losing his gentleness. Not tina
. there are not some in the cities witt
: retain their gentleness and modesty
: but this is said from the basis o
! the truth that the children of tn
, towns and cities are rapidly becom
: ing bold and emboldened, brazed ant
=, holy, and unruly, and untruthful
t Why should they not? The parent
! of these same children came from
t their quiet homes in the countr!
, and took up residences in the cite
for exactly the same purpose tina
y is now causing others with thei
!. children to do the same thing; tn
e intoxication and Turing calls of
!, supposed easier. and better way O
3 life and education.
e The writer of this article quietl
. passed along the streets of this cit
to observe the real impulse-engin
behind so much social animation
Two little girls met him. Contrar
t to- his usual custom he did not Sc
Y them as they rubbed by. Can
J wear them as early as this?" wa
a the partial sentence. Two youn
!, ladies slipped by unnoticed. "The
Q will do little later, but they woul
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