Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-01-19
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"Yoa cart most always tell abeat
children" sail Farmer Pewter % De4.
;eoa SMITH Some - en- turns cut
well aud sease doesn't Il allus seemed
! - NE that IN ny cAflrla I'D No 1se
for Ne oxcept what they sssld 81 cut
q ma THERE'S my sidest ~. 1eAa.
Seems = NE that bog was bskn esn-
trary.
II tried an sorts . ways maxim hina
obedient, but they failed-that 4, MI
sorts q ways except wmppin' hin.
That I don't believe In. I shut him sp
BY himself. deprived him Of those
little things children most wish for.
Then tried kindness. None o them
ways worked with Johnnie ,.:~.
"How about your other children"
asked the deacon. when they were:
hitler" i" .. =
'They didn't any Of 'em appear to
have much sense o. responsibility. II;
or their mother was sick and we ex-
pected 'em to give up anything they
thought o doin' to help US out they
didn't want to do it. Nothing must In
terfere with any pleasure they laid
out for themselves. My youngest boy
and my second girl was the best o. the
lot. They're with us yet. Billy's a;
fust rate farm hand, and his sister
Ruth is very useful, helpin' her mother
with the cookin'."
hot ~
ooh, John as he grew older he got
a lot Of all fired ridiculous notions In
his head and was worse'n when he
was a kid. He got an idee that
he'd like to be perfesser in a col
lege. Did = ever hear o. SIGH non
sense? He wanted me to spend all
the money [ could make on the farm
to edicate him for some useless Job,
and when wouldn't do it he got mad
and walked away, sayin' wouldn't
hear anything from him ever ag'in
onless he'd done somepin wo'th DOM
After all I'd done for him-keepin'
him in food and clothes-to treat me
that away! I tell you, parents are to
be pitied."
'Then you don't think children
pay2"
t*No, they don't in the long run.
When they're little tots they're kind
O. cunnin' and have spasms Of afrec-
ton in 'em. But never could make
out whether the spasms of badness OF
of affection was the principal part of
'em. Anyway, after all the pains
you've had with 'em they're sure about
the time you get 'em to be Of some
use to you to go off, the gals with
some Teller and the boys with some
girl, and you never get any return for
your trouble"
'Didn't it pay your father to bring !
you up2' .-a:::..-.:
II dunno as it did. I've often
thought that mebbe 1t didn't"
The gate clicked, and well dressed
man about thirty came up the walk.
The farmer put ON his glasses.
"Somepin familiar about him" he re-
marked. "Seems to me I've seen him
before"
"Hel1o, dadr said the newcomer.
"You don't know me, do your"
"By gum: You beant Johnny, be
you?"
"Certainly I'm johnny
'*Well, I want to know! Come back
10 see the old man, eh, my boy7 FIN
powerful glad to see you" And he
folded his arms about his son.
Eyes, I've come back, dad When
I went away think must have been
a trifle cantankeroua was determh-
ed to learn a lot of things that may
seem useless to you. But I've learned
them. I'm professor Of biology In
w. university"
"Do tell! What y learned, johnny.
"Why, I've learned that we are born
to nature, and our parents job is TO get
nature out Of Us as fast as they can.
We are all animals, only we humans
are capable Of a higher development
than those below us. But In the begin
ming there's not much difference be-
tween us and, them. Look 1T a new
born kitten and you'll see it clawing
the air. I've seen newborn baby do
ing the same thing. But the kitten
into man or woman. While the CIV
liked child is developing it is. simply
getting away from it's ancestral inner
itanee. II has little sense Of RESPONSE
bility, just as the puppy viii eat up Ill
the dinner provided for the family II
permitted to do SO. dare say, father,
you thought me brutal a. 4 boy, and I
was brutal. but was simply obeying
q natural, not refined, law. But I'm
doing pretty well now and have come
back to look after those left behind