The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-04-12

Swedish blood believes in intellectu-
ality,
The Jews are famous for their facul-
ty OF making money, from the days OF
Abraham, who was rich in silver and
gold, down until today.
! have travelled up and down this
land and have met every form of man
n beast that you can think of, and
the longer I live the more thoroughly
I become convinced that no law or
gospel will make a nation great with
out home in authority. Judicious con-
troll and moral training are absolutely
indispensable to such surroundings.
The boy brought up in such a way will
not find his way into a reformatory.
but that doting parent who can't bear
TO see their child punished win some
day possibly have to bear seeing him
punished in a reformatory, by the laws
OF a state. Anarchy is not premature
" born in the Haymarket riots of Chi
cago, and obedience to the laws of God
or mar is settled Beneath the roof OF
the home. The question of obedience
rules there. If children will rot obey
their father or their mother, they
won't obey the laws of God or man
nine times out of ten, and it is a dan
gerous sign, in our day, when we see
our homes neglected as they are being
neglected. You neglect your home by
living at your club. You neglect your
home by spending your time at your
lodges. You neglect your home by go
ing to j~ackrabbit literary societies, and
while you are living at those places
hell goes in your home, the devil fore
closes a mortgage and gets your child
rem, and by the time they are is years
of age they have gone to the devil.
Make companions out of your child
rem; that is your business.
There are fewer things more import
Fnt in the home than conversation.
Think of the good you can do in your
homes with your voice. You use it to
give pain. but the conversation in your
home ought to be loving. IN many
homes they have no conversation.
There is no a~ffectionate greeting in the
morning when the children start for
school, no little kiss to linger on their
lips, and when they cone home at
/, noon, hungry, there is no kind greet
ing. The old mar never says a word
unless he growls for vol to pass some
thing, n so far as any one woulj
know, you would think you were in a
deaf and dumb asylum. No freside
chats with the children. No! You
are down at some fool club, some
lodge; you are off to some literary so
ciety or card party or some social beer
and wine drinking hell and you let
your children go to the devil. You
turn them over to some nurse whose
only interest in the children is SO
many dollars a week.
And there are many homes in which
there is perpetual nagging and scold-
ing. Don't. Don't. OF all the devil
inspired sentences that ever crawled
out of the pit of hell that which says
a child should be seen and not heard
takes the cake, / think. Supposins
on would gotout this spring when the
plants are beginning to bud, and you
pinch one bud off, then another bud
eff. How long do you think it would
take for it to blossom into a dover
I'll tell you a few donts:
Don't tell your children what you
don't mean. That's one don't I don't.
and
Don't wait on the children too much,
Don't make them wait on you too
much; even it up.
Don't break a promise to your child
ZEN; keep it.
Don't talk about your n~eighbors.
Don't perpetUally scold children.
You drive them away.
Don't hurt their ~self-respect by
Furnishing them in the presence of
company. Wait until the company
has gone, then lambast 'em.
Don't o~verdress our children. Many
a fool mother overdresses her little
brat so that from the time she is 6
years old she is pulled up.
Don't lie to your children. Don't
have them like the little boy who was
asked, How old are you?p and he said
I'm 5 at home, 6 at school and a on
the street car" OF all the rotten, dirty.
sinking money you have in your
clothes, it's that nickel about which
you lied to. h conductor. OF all the
cirty, shrinking money you have, it's
that piece you beat the railroad COM
pany out of when you went to st. Paul
or some other place. No wonder the
children grow up to lie.
/ read of a woman down south who
was going to make a call. The wo-
man she was going to see sat in her
home looking out of the window. and
when she saw the carriage drive mn
she said; "My, is she going to inhict
her presence upon me with an those
brats?" She tells her children to re-
move all the bric-a-brac out of the
parior. Hurry up. / know I shall die
OF nervous prostration." Presently
the door bell rings, she goes to the
door, a~ffectionately greets them all
and says. I'm SO glad to see YOU.
Now children, ana play and have
a good time" and the children skin
the rope, play hide-and-seek. school.
drop the handkerchief and London
Bridge Is Falling Down. BY and by
they have lunch and the visitor saws
she must go. Her hostess says. "Oh,
don't gas you have been here only
q little while" "Oh, / must go:
promised my husband I would be
home early So she couples her train
and prepares to steam out. The host
ess says Don't wait SO long untiI
you come back. Goodbye" AS soon
as she has gotten out Of sight the
hostess sinks into a chair and q y
Bring me the smelling salts quick
The children bring 1t to her, then they
bring back all the furniture and bric-
a-brac, and it is discovered that a
china dog has been broken. AWho
broke that dog? Tommy, did you? ~
No ma'am. Charlie. did your No
ma'am. Harry, did your No,
ma'am. Carrie, did youg' NO,
ma'am. zone of you children is lying
to me and / propose to find out who