The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-04-17
THE BOY AMONG THE MOUNTAIN
CRAGS AND PEAKS ABOVE THE
CLOUDS Is WARNED AND AD-
M0NISHED TO WATCH HIS STEP
AS HE CLIMBS.
The Venerable Guide Clothed With
the Power of Wisdom. Truth AMI
knowledge.
By N. W. Harllee.

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The child is father to the man.
This means that child is the parent
Of the great Nation just as the tiny
acorn is the parent of the giant oak.
But the growth of the oak must be
unhampered, this is one of the es-
sentials of the underlying condi-
tons.
The American house wife would not
think of making the oak pot plant;
but this is what the Japanese does.
The oak is the glory of the Japanese.
and in the admiration for the oak,
the Japanese house wife. places the
oak planet in flower pot to grace
her front porch, and you man mag
inc the size of the oak that she
raises in flower pot. Some per-
sons endeavor to rear children in
the same manner that the Japanese
house wife would rear and nurture
the giant oak in a flower pot, oaks
are not reared that way. The Jap
anese oak is a dwarf confined in
pot, having no outlet for the ex-
pansiop of the roots of the Oak Plan
let, the roots bend back. double up
and twist around themselves, dwin-
die for the want of space in which
to exert the pent up nature, thus
imprisoned, that which was intended
for growth is stiff and useless on
account Of circumscribed conditions.
Why talk about future oaks if we
plant them in flower pot. We are
not expected to raise oaks the size
of the California big" tree if our
purposes are to raise them in pan
or pot. California Big Trees are
not raised in a pot.
But these paragraphs are intend
ed to call attention to the boy Cues
ton that is up before the house,
the bar of public opinion. Some
thing has gone wrong in the rearing
of our boys, and we are to act as
does the skillful physician, the ply
stefan when called to diagnoise a
case that he does not know and
can not determine by any scientific
treatment in his experience, he first
of all treats the symptoms, and by
this method, reaches the normal con-
dition of the suffering patient, and
then treats the malady with which
the patient is afflicted. The same
methods are commencing the boy
Question" that is up before the
house. The only difference is that
the boy and his nurse are afflicted
in the same manner
Let's give the boy helping hand,
give full share, lions share to
the stuff which boys are made. There
is but one way to reach the right
solution, but there are many de-
vices and even facts, in the methods
that are to be applied. Kindness
If rightly applied is the ruling, prin-
ciples in childhood and in hoary
old age. Try it, if you have not.
While speaking of this boy Cues
tion," l am reminded of my first
visit to the mountains. 1t was a.
beautiful day in spring, not a cloud
could be seen, nothing but the green
virture on all sides, the humming
bees making music, their thighs are
covered with yellow pollen, the birds
gave ecstatic songs in the tall trees.
that waved in the savanas, the croak-
ing frogs, the meandering crayons
with long necks lowering about the
lake at the base of the mountain,
engaged my youthful attention.
There was not ripple on the placid
bosom of this lake that nestled at
the base of this mountain, for the
mountain served as a shield to keep
out the force of the wind, only
zepher stile in here and there as
the golden sun of that morning
peeped through the over hanging
foliage entwined with the evergreen
vine clad forest. This was the birds
paradise, the home of the mountain
nymphs, haven of elysian.
In those days it was the customs
of all mothers to have their sons
to climb the rugged mountain under
a skillful and experienced mountain
guide, and as my mother was a
careful woman and had the one
thought afire in her breast that her
son should scale the mountain, she