The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03
Managing
Willie

II was over at Mrs. Kershaw's the
other day" said the woman with the |
little boy who was calling on her next |
door neighber. and | must say that
she has changed of late years! Why, |
when | knew her as a girl she had |
such ability and was such manager
and you ought to see the way that |
house is run and the perfectly dread
su way she has with her children!
81 don't believe in the old fashioned
way of frightening children to pieces
and making them obey you because
they are afraid. | never have the
least trouble with my Willie. because
treat him like human being DaTl
ing, don't handle the fern. for Mrs.
James may not like it. Everybody
isn't like mother. who understands
how interested little boys are in ma
ture. Stop bending the leaf, dearest
oh. now, see. You've broken the whole
stalk off! There. Willie, you see
what happens when you don't obey
! mother,
Its perfectly wonderful Mrs. James,
the reasoning power displayed by that
child You wouldn't think it, but he
understands cause and effect perfect
~. He bent the leaf-and 1t brcae-
an act and a result, you see. Willie,
why did you break all those other
leaves, too? Oh, so the plant would
be even all around. Now, did you
ever hear anything cleverer than that,
Mrs. James? Willie has such an eye
for form am sure he is going to be
something wonderful, aren't YOU?
always believe in encouraging a child
when he shows any signs of develop
ing particular faculty.
There Willie is investigating your
cuckoo clock now. He has a passion
for finding out the reason for things
Willie. darling. you mustn't swing on
the weights of the clock, you really
mustn't
There! What did mother tell you?
You swung on the weights and now
you've pulled the whole clock down
off the wall. You are likely to give
people headaches when you make a
big noise like that Every one hash t
the perfect control of her nerves that
mother has.
There's everything in control, don I
you think so, Mrs. James? | never al.
Oh, is the clock broken? Well,
don't believe it is very bad break
and a clever clock man can easily
oh, you say you brought it from Swift
zerland and it has complicated for
eign mechanism? Well, it does seem
to me that Americans ought to be
able to find enough goods manufectur
ed in this country without encourag
ing anarchists and paupers abroad
I've often heard my husband TAX
about political affairs, so | suppose
am better informed than most women
The way Mrs. Kershaw let's her
children run over her is perfectly
dreadful. She didn't seem to have the
least control of them at all. L
Willie, you must't scratch the pi
ano with that pin. Mother means what
she says, darling, and / expect you tc
obey. Not another scratch after tina,
one you are making! I've no doubt
if your furniture polish is the right
Kind, Mrs. James, 1t will rub The
scratches out perfectly and anyhow
they are such delicate ones. Willie
has such a dainty touch with every
thing that sometimes | think he is go
ing to be an artist.
hear me say not another scratch ARK
you've made at least six more! Now
| simply will not be disobeyed tha
way and you may go sit in the greer
velvet chair Climb back and si
there! You see, Mrs. James, | Away.
punish promptly when Willie doesn'
mind me.
IF you had children yourself you,
understand how 1t warns a mothers
heart to feel the little things depend
ing on one and taking ones word al
gospel law Why, Willie would n,
sooner think of going contrary to m.
wishes than he would think of flying
, would you, dear?
, MY goodness, where is Willie? II,
, isn't in the green velvet chair. You
haven't a cellar door or anything open
, have you, Mrs. James, that he nigh
: fall down? | can't UNDERSTANDABLE
, you say he is on the other side of the
, piano scratching 1t with another pin
, Willie, come here-at oncel Don
: you know you grieve mother terribl.
when she finds that she can't trus
, you? oh, you say you wanted to SCI
If black pin would make the sam
kind of a scratch as a white one! Di'
, you ever-that investigating min'
, again! 1t makes me feel terribly re
, sponsible, Mrs. James, to think tina
1t rests with me whether that shall al
be mistakenly crushed out or en-
cuuraPed