The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-02-21

into the inner soul Of that boy, read
I what Is written there, answer his ma
tural and perfectly normal pleadings
for a larger life and you have solved
the problem. Just as sure as fate
| the time VIII come when he no longer
will a + solely for the creek on Sun
| day, when he will no longer think
with his father that his whole goal
in life must be to raise more corn
to feed more hogs to buy more land
to raise more corn" Anticipate that
time by the many little ~forerunners
of its approach. Give the closest at
tention to every act and within and
idea and you will be ready to meet
the crisis and tide your boy safely
over it when it does come and that
means you have kept your boy on
the farm.
1t means that you will give him
some place to sleep besides a few
discarded quilts on a bundle of straw
in the windowless attic. 1t means
that some one besides Son will
climb those rough steps and smooth
his bed for him, just as sisters bed
is smoothed each day by loving hands.
It means that Dad will buy his boy
a nice dresser and give him a rock
ing chair and a rug and a pillow and
"a comfortable room and a good light
and IA new book shelf with some
books on it and a magazine or a pa
per of that boys own choosing. 1t
means that he will have as good
clothes to wear on Sunday as his city
cousin. 1t means that he will uncon-
sciously be brought to search out for
himself the "why" of his cor crop,
to compare his own hogs with those
offered for exhibition at the last
county fair. It means that he will
be encouraged to grow and to grow
naturally as God intended that he
should grow.
The narrow, self-centered, city
bred young man will laugh at the
farmer boy when he passes him on
the street, only because he has no
better sense. You may give that
sturdy young farm lad the o%pportuni-
ties Of books and proper training and
communion with the grand wisdom
of nature in her own realm and you
will see him and not the sissy city
boy, bloom into the grandest of u
men.
Yes, the boy will want to Ego with
the girls" some too, and he should
do so, for the company of a good
girl is more uplifting to any young
man than anything else in the world.
Let him have young friends. Give
him a party Of his own liking, invit-
ign young men and women who will
be pleasing to one another and serve
to make him really better by their
contact.
Some sort of musical instrument
should be kept in every country home,
even in the back woods country
home, for music is like the breath Of
flowers lifts the soul to higher
things.
Educate your boy by all means, but
be sure that education is of the right
kind. 1t is the young man of the fu-
ture we are now looking to, and if
he is given the proper attention and
training, he will rise to any emer-
gency the future has in store. He
will cease to look over old Beck's
ears and will turn toward the sun as
his source of inspiration; he will ply
his brain along with his hoe; he will
elevate his former tendencies into
clear life purposes and we shall have
a fuller, a larger, a better, a grander
and a nobler existence. Keep that
boy of yours on the farm; keep him
there for it is the only right place for
him.