Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1911-08-04
Rifhts OF Children.

1t has been asked when should
the education Of a child be begun?
would say with his grandmoth-
or at least. When we educate
the children of today we are edu-
eating the grandparents of the
future. We foreordain and de
termine the future of the home
and the veal and the Woe of fu-
ture generations by our intelli-
gent guidance of today
We cannot over estimate the
influence of the home. in child
life. The child born into a home
of culture and refinement, sur
rounded by good books, music
pictures, where life is made
beautiful and every influence for
good is felt where the best on
earth is brought together for
his enjoyment and appreciation
is in sharp contrast to the child
born into a home where squalor
and vice reign supreme. The
former child is on the road to
making the best Of life while the
latter, unless he be strong enough
to overcome early influences, has
beginning that ends in failure.
The first right of every child
is to be well born. The science
of Eugenics is beginning to re-
ceive the attention of thinking
men of today. For many years
men have taken care that their
cattle be we'll born while the
child has been of secondary i'm
portance. The llbOrn child is
foreordained to failure. The
Greek mother sat for hours day
after day contemplating the beau
tiful statues that her child might
have their perfection of form.
The child has a right to live
and reach maturity with health
and vitality-in short to be a
good animal. Many, many help
less children die of preventable
diseases and we are too prone to
call it the providence of God
when in truth it is only the i'm
providence of man. God is not
an Orge that loves to destroy lit
tie children. The mother who
allowed her child to drink from
the common drinking cup where
turks the deadly diptheria germs
was comforted by by the thought
that it was taken by the providen-
ce of God but it is possible that
Gods providence would have
allowed that child to live to ma
turity had it not been for the i'm
providence of man.
Teach the girls home santa
ton, the care Of the children,
home keeping and domestic art
instead of how to translate Latin
In future years when she holds
her sick babe in her arms dis
tracted with fear and sick with
a sense of her incompetency she
cannot turn to Vergii for conso-
latiOn.
A story is told of the highland
boy who went down to the great
university and won all the prizes
in Latin and Greek and came
home to die. The neighbors
came for miles around and spoke
to the parents in highest praise
of the dead boy and how proud
they ought to be of the honor he
had brought upon them. That
boy would have made a great
success of life had he remained
among the highlands and never
heard Of Latin and Greek for
health is one of the most price
less heritages of mankind and
without it life is a failure.
The child has right to a good
name. No child should have
cause to blush for the name it
bears. The man who places a
spot on his good name is com
mltlnR a CRIME against the
children of the future.
The child has right to a hap
Ply childhood and this is the most
important of all. All things
grow in JOY except vice. He
should be able to recall pleasant
associations of his childhood, the
songs his mother sang, the tunes
he whistled by the old mill poud,
the FLAPS he played, the dreams
he drenmed, the happy visions
he saw. The great undertones
of life are founded in youth and
these are determined by the in
huance he feels. DR., ClaxtOn in
College Journal.