Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-04-20

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vote your time to - VI ~
stuffing 1t full to
bursting of polysyllables and facts at 4
time when other children are still lisp
ing and looking for the man in the moon.
instead OF discussing about the probs-
bilities of there being canals on Mars.
Personally / am an unregenerste cave
women when 1t comes to babies. adore
them when they are pink and soft and
cuddy. and l think a 5-year-old who
hasn't got a single piece of information
concealed about his person is the most
entertaining human being on earth, and
il / had baby that couldn't rock to
sleep, or who didn't believe in Santa
Claus. or who didn't talk baby talk, l
should feel that 1 had been cheated out
II the very best thing that life can give
TO woman.
Zone of your little SoIomons in the
cradle for mine. And I should have a
clear conscience about letting my baby
be a baby, and my child be a little I'M
taught child through all that beautiful
Gown OF life, because I was brought up
on a race horse farm, and I know what
happens to the 2-year-olds that are raced
too early. Also 1 have seen so many
narvellously precocious children who
turned into commonplace dull men and
women.
However, these be heterodox views, and
am not going TO argue them with any
expert child culturist, but what l do
want to call attention to are these two.
coninandments TO mothers:
s,Thou shalt not say don't unto they
eiiid.
f.Remember never 70 say thou rnustS "
Not say dong to child. Not say
thou must" to a child. when one-half
of life is don't to us. and the other half
is Thou must"
why that's the trouble with the world
today Men and women have not had 1t
ground into their consciousness since their
earliest childhood that their inclination
and desires must not govern their &C
tions, and that they are certain things
that they must not do, and other things
that they must do simply because one is
right and the other Is wrong.
There is not a man in the penitentiary,
there is not a girl on the street, who are
not there because their mothers failed to
say to them often enough and impress
slvely enough, Don't do that" and you
Mus, do thiF other" 1t is the mothers
wao have said don't" and must 70
their children, and enforced them with a
strong hand, who have raised up the men
AHA women who have done the big things
IN the world, and who keep law and
order in II,
You dent train the prizefighter who Is
Going into the ring to battle for the
championship on lollypops. or by en-
courag ing him TO sill. around on silk cush-
ions. and telling him that his opponent
win be dead easy and he won't have TO
exert himself much to win the purse. On
the contrary, you harden his muscles by
every known method and impress every
ounce of strength that's in him into his
punch. or else he'll be beaten to pieces.
Exactly the same method applies to
children We foredoom them TO failure.
if we do not strengthen their moral
muscles, and II we bring them up 10
believe that they can do whatever they
desire. and leave undone the things that
10 not appeal TO their tastes. And that
is exactly what we would do II we failed
TO say don't to them. or must to
them.
! never hear a mother lying to child
Pbout taking a dose OF medicine. and tell
ing him that it isn't bitter when she
knows r. is, without feeling that she is n
criminal. She is weakening the child by
lust that much. She should say. Ger
tuinly tile medicine is bitter, but you've
got to take It. All your lifelong you will
have to take bitter medicine, and II you
make a man worth while, you've got 20
learn TO take your medicine. however Bit
ter. without making faces"
Who arc the men who are the drunk
ards. the rogues. the gamblers. the
spendthrifts. the neer-do-wells?
Without exception they are the men
who were not taught the don'ts of life at
their mothers knee. and who did not
Rave enough moral fibre inbred i'm them
TO make them able 70 resist temptation.
Who are the men who are failures in
the world. the men who fit from occupa-
ton to occupation. and office to office.
uecause when the thing they have I'M
dertsken to do loses its novelty. and set
Ties down TO the hard. steady pull OF
everyday toll. they have not the grit
and endurance 20 90 on with IL? II IL
those nten who have never been taught
in their childhood ''musts' OF life.
Who are the women who go running
home 10 mother and the divorce court the
minute the romance vanishes from mat
rimouy and they find out that It means
seif-denisl. and self-saeritce. and work.
and worry, ana patience, instead OF Just
being ali billing and cooling. and flattery?
II is tho woman whose mothers haven't
said don't" to them and must" to them.
who have never been taught that duty
comes before inclination
Don't" and must" these words are
heard far too seldom on mothers lips. n
Won abolish them altogether we shall re-
vert TO savery. for all civilization il built
upon dents" and "mustE