Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-10
Broken Homes and Broken Lives
Go Hand in Hand, Says Sunday

, devil-nspired sentences. this 10 the limit.
| "a child should be seen and not heard"
Were you seen and not heard when you
were kid7 always feel sorry for the
J boy that wears long curls. when he goes
down the street they'll say Pipe his
, nibs."
/ will give vol some don'ts
Don't tell tho children what you don /
] mean.
| Don't wait on them too much.
| Don't make them walt too much on
, you.
Don't break your promises TO them.
I Don't hurt their seif-respect by punish
ing them when company is presents wait
until the company goes home and then
give them what is coming TO them.
And for heavens sake, beg OF you.
don't overdress them II your husband
II rich enough and you can afford TO buy
them fine clothes. IN heavens name don't
do II.
Don't send them 10 school all decked
out like a French doll, because that
makes the other kids dissatisfied, makes
the girl discontented-
Don't be a big fool and overdress your
kids Don't do Il. Don't do Il. Don't
be a fool
trhrr Salaries for Teachers.
How old are you, little boy7" asked a
man OF a little fellow. He said: Five
at home, at school ana 4 in the street
car"
The trouble IL you let the most OF the
moral training 90 20 the school teacher.
I never aspired 20 but one office in my
life and that was q member OF the school
board, and n / ever were 10 become
member the fret thing would do would
be 10 pay teachers twelve months in the
year instead of nine.
II IL a disgrace the miserable salaries
we pay our school teachers In this coun-
try. They go In the fall with their cheeks
looking like roses and they come out In
the spring looking like lilies They spend
their lives trying 10 make something out
OF that nonentity that bears your name.
The average yearly wage OF the school
teacher in this country IL 5000 g day
for the school year. and the average wage
In si.e0 q day for the calendar year.
There are eleven states In this union that
pay teachers less than $500 year; two
states that pay less than $50 year.
Children Initiate.
Children arc all imitators. A man gave
friend of mine a water spaniel and
another fellow gave him a rat terrier.
Later on the fellow said, How are the
dogsT My friend said they we're get
ting along all right The water spaniel
was n better rat dog than the terrier.
The water spaniel had watched the rat
dog and had Initiated him. We are all
imitators.
Themistocies said. MY children rule
Greece" How 10 that2' he was asked.
MY children rule their mother and
their mother rules me; I rule Athens,
Athens rules Greece; my children rule
Greece"
They are uncontrolled when they are
9 and are outlaws when they are l6
was In a town In Minnesota and was
being entertained at the homo OF
banker. He had two children, a girl and
q big sort of q Clydesdale kind of boy.
One day the door blew open in that
home-a Minnesota blizsard was raging.
The father said. Donald. will you go
and close the doorf''f mo, / won't; /
want to play with my blocks" III you
don't papa will have 10. and he IL tired.
working all day" 'T don't care" Dom
aid said. "No. won't do It," and the
fool father shut that door.
l wanted 20 borrow that kid for about
ten minutes. When got through with
him he would be like Buster BrOwn-hed
rather stand.
Copyright. william A. sunday)