The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-30

| Are you teaching your children to
form good habits while they are young?
| Nothing is more important. Good
habits are crutch to lean on; prop
to weakness; a brace to the wobbly;
an understudy or all the cardinal vir-
tues, and an ever-present help in times
| of trouble.
| 1t is a bromide to say that we are
| all victims Of our habits, but 1t Is one
| of the eternal truths whose Importance
we can not over-estimate. For we
| don't often really reason out our course
| of action In life. We are mostly guided
by our impulses, and these are Simply
the sum of our habits.
| We are courteous and polite, and
| considerate to those about us, or we
| are rude and brusque and overbearing
| according to whether we acquired the
| habits of good manners or the habits
| of boor in our youth. And we are
| hated, or loved accordingly.
| lnasmuch, then, as habit functions
| automatically in US, and, to large ex-
tent, takes the place of both intelli-
| children should have cultivated in them
| this mysterious faculty that will be a
| good angel to them, guiding them into
| the right road and steering them away
| from the pitfalls of life!
For the habit of modesty has kept
troll has kept more boys sober and
moral than all the ten commandments.
The right habit is a guarantee of
success.
Once I asked very famous man
the secret of his achievements. 81 owe
| everything that l am to the habit l
| acquired in childhood of sticking. to
| thing until it was done. My father
| instilled that into me from the cradle,
| he replied.
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out to the end. If began a book I
had to read 1t through, If / started to
a place had to go to it. No matter
| how trivial the matter | undertook
had to see 1t through. That habit be-
came so ingraiRed in me that l can't
l start. I can't give up, and so | hold
on, and work on, after other people
get discouraged and quit, and nine
times out Of ten just that last fina!
| squirt of effort Is the one thing needed
| to carry me on to the goal"
| This mans tip is worth taking. Try
| it on your little Johnny the. next time
| he starts to build a blockhouse, and
| gets it half done, and drops that Tor
| his marbles, and discards them in two
| minutes for his choo-choo train.
| And what is laziness but bad haolt!
What is industry but good habit?
| Teach your child to work while 1t
| is young, fill in its days with some
| useful employment, and it will form a
| habit of industry that is unbreakaole,
and makes idleness intoleraole. ,..
| Any child that can not have the haplt
| of industry fastened on it for lie by
| the time 1t is 10 years old has need
| of the nearest hookworm expert. IL
| is merely a matter of directing lts en-
| ergies into the right channel, and par
pardonable sin against their sons ana
| daughters If they fail to do this, and
let them grow up to hate work IN
| stead of loving it. /,
| Do YOU desire your children to be-
| come rich and prosperous? II SO, you
| have only to cultivate the habit OF
| thrift in them while they are young.
| wasting money is a bad habit just as
saving Is good habit. And the one
means poverty, and the other means
| riches. Teach children to take care OF
their pennies and they WI Win d Rnow e'o0si
Saving can be made just as inter
esting TO children as spending. as was
proven during the war when thousands
| of girls and boys put the money they
had been throwing, away on cahay anu o
soda water into thrift stamps ana SO
| formed, let us hope, habit OF thrllt
| that will make their whole future happy
and more prosperous; o,,.oo,,
| Teach children habits OF accuracy
to do whatever they DO properly w Ire
and and poorly paid work is the difference M
in the quality of the work The di d.
ference between the man with the
$4,000 salary and the man WIN hetwe eee
| 81 900 wage is the difference between
efficiency and inefficiency
1t takes just as much labor to COOK 100 (
a mean dinner as a good one me
Girl who spells every other word wrong,
and makes a failure of her letters
pounds the typewriter Just as sscr tnary
does does So the people who never learn
TO do anything well escape nothing but