South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-11-14
WHEN MOTHER READS ALOUD

WHEN MOTHER READS ALOUD.
When Mother reads aloud the Last
Seems real as every day
I hear the tramp OF armies vast
] see the spears and lances cast
I Join the thrilling fray
Brave knights and ladies fair and
proud
meet when Mother read aloud.
When Mother reads aloud. far lands
Seem very near and true.
] cross the deserts cleaning sands
Or hunt the jungles prowiing
bands
or sail the ocean blue:
Fair heights whose peaks the cold
mists shrOud
scale when Mother reads aloud.
When Mother reads aloud I long
For noble deeds 10 do
To help the right redress the wrong
II seems so easy TO be true.
on, thick and fast the visions crowd
Ny eyes. when Mother read aloud
Most parents have the mistaken
idea that. n they feed their children
three times q day. and keep them
in shoes, they have done their duty.
That Is they leave the child-mind
70 develop as best Il can with prec-
ious little inspiration from the folks.
Beware OF Mental Woods.
Even then. children do grow men
tally. But often like uncultivated
flowers they are stinted in growth
by weeds. And no mental weeds are
worse once they get a start. than
the dime" novels. Filled as thesa
D. ranH
images. they often impress them
selves indelhly. So much SO that
years Of careful wedding in later life
fl necessary to dispose of them
You would not let your child eat
too much cake just because 10 is
spicey. Why give him mental indl-
gestion2 Know what he reads. and
give him the thrills ne requires I'm
good literature Children read
great many stories of their own ac-
cord. But the books that may i'm
press on character ideas of truth
honor. Justice heroism. and loyalty
must be introduced through tact
ful and enjoyable methods. Remem-
Der. There Is uo academy on earth
equal 20 a mothers reading 20 her
child"
When YOU think that the childres
OF today are the men of tomorrow.
you realize the vast import OF be-
ginning right. Lives or many great
men attest the iU 7ortanCe of books
read in tho h0.re iu childhoOd.
Gladstone is said to have wept over
the death OF Sir William Wallace.
while the same Wallace enraT urea
little Eobbie Burns Young Abe Lin
coin knew Burns by heart and
Shakespeare too. What a respous.-
"a Va nHt al
books
What arc Children Stories?
When some little person In whom
you are interested. SAYS in a very
pleading voice. Read me a story
just what kind of a story do you
choose. a story really for children.
or a story merely about children o
Children and grown-ups differ great
Is iu ideas rs 90 iust what Cousti-
tutes a good story for children.
II you are thinking Of yourself.
YOU will pick UP The PenrOd Stor-
les" but 10 you have the fltevest
OF the child az heart. YOU will Sc
tec1 a much worn Volume of Grimes
Fairy Tales Few people like 90
hear stories about themselves. and
The Penrod Stories deal with the
everyday life of the average boy.
they arc very interesting 90 grown
ups because they help him 20 re-
call the past
Hawthorne once said. When our
infancy IS almost forgotten. and our
boyhood long departed. though g
seems but as yesterday; when life
settles dsrkly down upon Us, and we
doubt whether 20 call ourselves
young any more. then 80 IS good 10
steal away from the society OF
bearded men. AID even OF gentler
women. and spend an hour or two
with children"
There are some stories ada ptable
90 both old and young but age sees
them from one view point and youth
another IN MaeteriinclS blue
Bird = child sees only two little
children IN search OF a blue bird
but Erown-ups see a whole life's
search FOR happiness we only bridge
the difference between stories for
children and stories about c1fldren.
when we catch an inside GLIMPSE OF
some child's fairyiand
The PrOntocring limit.
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