The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1915-04-29

When he was at the zenith of his
popularity Roosevelt wrote: What we
have a right to expect from the Amer
lean boy is that he will turn out to be
a good American man. Now the
chances are strong that he won't be
much of a mar unless he is a good
deal of a boy. He must not be a cow
ard or a weakling, a bully, a shirk, or
a prig. He must be clean minded and
clean lived, and able to hold his own
under all circumstances and against
all corners.
1t is only on these conditions that he
will grow into the kind of a mar Of
whom America can really be proud.
In life as in a football game, the prin-
ciple to follow is:hit the line hard;
don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the
line hard"
All wise teachers and observers of
boys like to see them work hard and
play hard; but while you work don't
play at all.
Every home and every school and
every church and every city should
have places and times to play; but the
recitation hour in school is not the
time or place for a sensible boy to
play; and neither is the house of God
and the hour Of worship or Bible study
the time or place when a we'll trained
boy will want to play antics.
When fathers and mothers occupy
the family pew with their children at
public worship, and when they prayer
fully and lovingly oversee them every
where, nobody else will ever have
much trouble with them;for they will
know too much to be unruly. To neg
lect such parental example and over
sight is a very great and inexcusable
wrong to childhood, and it puts a
needless burden upon the self-sacrific-
ing christian workers in the Sunday
school and elsewhere, and it is likely
to give the civil government trouble
in The public aEools and in all the
complex relations & society.
At a party composed of ladies and
gentlemen a few years ago at which
was privileged to be psesent, part of
the entertainment was making pencil
drawings to illustrate the titles of
books, and then letting others guess
the titles of these books by looking at
these drawings. A literary woman
was present and she naturally thought
of her nine children, six of them bows
or young men whom she hoped to
bring to maturiety free from the fiji
thy tobacco habit in spite of the wrong
example of her husband and their
father. She drew a schetch of a
man making long strides through deep
snow in the scattered forest, smoking
a cigar as he struggled along; and aft
ter him was following a boy making
desperate efforts to step long enough
10 light in the tracks made by his
father, and he too was smoking a ci-
gar IN imitation Of his father. 1t was
not difficult to guess the name of the
book she had in mind; for the title of
DR.. Sheidon's book "ln His Steps" was
thus so well illustrated. A boys
golden rule is not the one the mother
and Sunday school teacher try to i'm
press upon his mind, AN things
therefore whatsoever We would that
mel should do INTO you, evenso do We
also unto them: for this is the law and
the prophets" 1t is rather one which
no does not put into words but into
actions, All things Whatsoever l see
my father do, that is what | am going
TO do.
The greatest school on earth is the
nome, the most influential teacher on
earth is the mother, and the best ex-
ample on earth should be the father.
Some time ago on a train a number
OF men were discussing the sweeping
gains for prohibition in many states.
and one remarked that he occasionally
took a glass, but that he had a boy
growing up and that therefore he must
set a better example for his son to
follow.
On man, your example is ALWAYS
good or bad before somebody's son;
and the One whose name we bear said,
whatsoever shall cause to stumble one
of these little ones which believe in
me, it We're better for him that a mill
stone We're hanged about his neck, and
that heshould be drowned in the depth
Of the sea-"
The poet wrote:
TWAS a sheep, not a lamb, that wand
cred away.
In the parable Jesus told,
A grown up sheep that had game far
estray