The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-22
get up at 5 o'clock and take a
-tWenty-mile ride before breakfast.
1t certainly gives n an appetite"
Your Sons Future,

Herbert Kaufman in Woman's
World: There were no fairy god
mothers present at the birth of your
son fairy godmothers have gone out Of
business.
The best of them was an old
bungler, and the few things they could
do with spells, magic rings, dodo-
down.. and other such tomfoolery have
been much exaggerated by legend.
A far more wonderful influence hov-
fereds over his head, the godmother
Twentieth Century was there - so
don't worry about his future. It's SO
filed with opportunity that he'll have
a lot left to will to his .grandchil-
Edren. -.~,g,a 81 - go d E5Tma 9 h
We're beginning to think a lot Of
boys and girls. We don't love 'em
harder than folks used to, but it's a
bigger and finer and broader and wiser
and stronger love-it's a more useful
and protecting and hopeful love - a
practical thing and noneithe less SEN
timental for all that. O..
Just imagine the world when your
father came into it. Many a Swear
old fodder driven out of bed at dawn
to serve apprenticeship in dank, mean,
unventilated n unseWered cellars
n factory shackS-the boot of his
taskmaster for a textbook working
q IOu1LSCll LOuIS lOUS sU
state ~paternalism to defend him from
baby slavery-no sanitary inspectors
to cleanse his surroundings-no COM
pulsoryt educational clause. to guar
antee at least the rudiments of an
education. ..- =. t"@" i
When smallpox or, scarlet fever or
diphtheria broke loose in the village no
health, officer was there to restrain his
fellow workers from carrying the IN
lection broadcast. F.
And if he We're a luckier boy than
the little sons of poverty, why, the
best schooling his parents could afford
was inferior to h education available
to the humblest child Of our time.
Free libraries were unheard of, play
grounds and ~gymnasiums were just
munities were isolated; the era of
munities We're isolated; the ara of
wheels and wires. still in the stage Of
crude experiment.
The doctors made fine mess Of
things; medicine was not on speaking
terms even with u most popular
| microbes. .Me d
We didn't worry very much about
youngsters--we 1ostsa good many, but
~theSputput wasbregular and steady, so
we maItaged to- Keep up the supplyain
spite of oufsearelsssness.
But we've suddenly awakened to the
| LCdilAdArUiI AAdl sFEISs SGtEIJlIC aSTlCuI-
ture oftboyS and girls is as profitable as
intelligence With4any other crop; and
were waiting and watching for that
baby of yours. iFs IA ~ 4
The nation means TO ~take4charge Of
him. We won't let the infant next
door divide disease with him, and
when his school days arrive every
youngster in the class room will be
SOUND and clean and wholesome, or
there willabe trouble in the camp for a
lot of negligent people.
If he's backward Wen investigate
his physical condition and try to locate
and correct the cause. 1T may be his
teeth, possibly his adenoids; there's a
chanceNtnat a gland needs attention.
1T won't be left to you; we're out to
raise. good timher for citizenship ana
we start at the sapling9 stage, when
flaws and twists can be controlled.
Step by step as he advances to ma
ljority, the good fairies OF legislation
will walk beside him, and while he IS
growing in manhood, inventions will be