The Marshall republican., 1913-02-28

and hold on TO. This, our twentieth
century, has started in with a tremen-
dous pressure along both lines.
People are spending at a reckless pace
and the grab and hustle to get more
TO spend Is diluting the milk of hu-
man kindness till IL threatens TO be-
come weak as water.
Our gr~andfathers saved their dimes,
put their dollars In the savings bank.
invested every few hundred In first
mortgages and died rich men because
they had a few thousands. Some of
us blame our boys when they are rot
willing TO follow this old-fashioned
plan: others see that II a mar is to
get or do much good in life he must
not be wholly out of step with his
generation. We want the rest for
our children: how are we to help
them to it? viii inheriting. some
time in middle life, the thousand or
so an education would have cost br-
ing the greatest good?
A few things are certain. We can
not do better than prepare our chill
dren to earn. encourage them TO save.
and teach them to spend. Now what
will you do with that boy or girl 81
yours? Have you a plan? The rea
son so few get anywhere IN particular
is because they never aim at anything.
If IT turns out that neither the boy
nor the girl wants to do the THINGS
YOU have chosen for them. your plans
have done no harm. They will hc
so much the farther along toward tn,
things they decide for. Nothing
learned Is ever wasted. II you have
taught the boy the elements OF good
farming. though he turn out a lawyer.
q store-keeper. OF u motorman. he will
be the broader man and touch life at
more points because he knows rural
problems aud conditions. And II he
lives long enough. he may find peace
and happiness In ending his days as
a farmer. II II something hair the
city men are dreaming of doing. And
let that girl OF yours study music. or
bookkeeping. or millinery. or steuo-
graphy II her heart Ii set on II. " I
mistake not. she is n chip off the old
block and will carr all II costs back
again. aud more too. II she happens
not TO marry. she will he forty times
the happier for her independent life.
and II she happens 10 marry before
the money has been earned back. why
lust look 10 see it, worth crop out In
her children and home. II will all
come 10 light there sooner or later.
or this last I ann positive. and could
heap M Instances IN proof.
Before YOU u teach u child 10
spend. YOU must see that he has the
saving habit. Nobody spends wen
who spends IN driblets. That IL one
OF the bad things about the paper Of
tobacco ami the pound OF candy. Thcy
build up a habit OF small spending gor
things that Mount 10 nothing,
would rather see a boy or girl extra
VACANT IN buying some really good
thing than know that the habit OF
petty spending had set In. Better
Judgment may come with g and G.
] pericnce, but a habit Is the mischief
and all "a get rid Of.
And how can You teach children IN
save and to spend with good sense nm.
less YOU let them have some handlinr
Of money? The farmhouse has the
advantage there over the city home;
there may be less cash to get hold of,
hut there Is not the constant oppor-
Wnity to ritter II away, and, best OF
all. the child can be put In the way
or earning by actual labor. The
lock of poultry Is the readiest thing
In personal property, but many small
animals can be made To yield q profit
n properly handled. And the farms
crying need In the way of labor. II
parents would pay a child half II
would cost TO hire an outsider TO do
certain tasks, the little ones own
purse would provide shoes and hats
and an excursion ticket when picnics
or IA really good circus came around,
OF thing We may all be pretty
certain the ext generation will spend
on a scale that would have staggered
it's grandparents. The best you and
! can do will be IN the way of heipjnl
Il 10 learn to get greatest possible
value for It's money. Don't blame
the boy or girl for mistakes; The time
TO get anxious is only after a child al
yours has made the same mistake two
OF three times over. There, You will