The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-16

when we older ones are ue8O anu SoHe.
My answer is, The young race is 60
ing to progress on; also the churcaes
ana even better than they. are toiay.
Quite, often older people are hindrance Ga ..'
TO the saving Of the young people. Ihey,
constantly criticize every, little. wrong
they do and seem to forget that they
themselves were once young and dld
some Of the same things young people
are doing today, as far as the opPof'u-
nitv allowed. We realize there are more
evils now confronting young folks IMAM
there were fifty years ago, hence :t -
more necessary that older people should
be more precarious and better examples
than our foreparents. 80.
Young people are like young animas,
they must have SO much run ana pay
and if you do not give them some1hlng
uplifting to run and play with, chey are
al;nc to find something else and tao
often to their detriment. When child
;s horn into the home, preparations are
rade to care for the little one. Ine
habe is placed in a crib with SIDES
around to keep it from falling out;
little Later the child sits alone, but IL
lows are placed around for support; then
the child begins to crawl and al! IN
iurious things are put up out OF ltS
reach. Next the child is placed IA
Iigh chair at the table and fastened IN
SO it can not fall out, finally It oen1rs
to walk and the screens are fasteneu ~
1f no screens, chair ls Piacea aci
the door to keep the chdd IN. men -.
= short time the child is allowed to go
cut in the ward but care is taken to zee
frat all the gates are fastened so the
little one can not get outside, Tor "
might get run over, kidnapped or s'he
other misfortune happen 70 II. We
might follow the child on through rev
aoriv wears of school life and ind the
child well guarded but look few years
later. at the critical point OF life, "hen
the child should be well guarded ana
too often You will see the sides taken
from the crib and the child alioweo ~
fan wherever it pleases; the pillows arc
taken from around and 1t mas no o,.s
to properly support IT, 5ne ;,,s
around through life and the lnJuiDuss as
and noisonous things are not put OUT ~
az Ieonh hnt are constantly confront
ing it. 40 taken from the,
high chair and the child is allowed 10
seaf and drink what pleases nam anu ~
ono "a check. The chair is taken from
AZ door or the screen and gates un-
fae+aned and the child is permitted 70
~ ana come at will with no restriction,
Which usually ends in q ruined nIe aLu
one q that could have been avoided II ,:ee tee
child had been guarded All through A'o
:as in.the earlier years. t.rr
- TOO often we hear parents say,
nv neiphbor g children were not 80 oao
nd there were not 50 many ent'clne'
niaces ni of evil for my children to SO %,
they they would not be 50 bad and whas .s;as are
they doing to help make Their n,as ne'Eu the
~, m;n5. ! Of their own children, Yo1
NAV mianuS say, uwhen 1 was young ! was not !
saay 80 much sa trouble to my parents and d,,d !
was not allowed to go and 90 ,as,ad 80 anu
!, "a and when my parents spoke, .,.ee heedda 90
to what they said but now m sn,lenen h,ao,aS ~
Ms.. a. iha narents of course. You are
y 10th others and fathers just as your FAR.
ents were and why can 7 You be Jus. -. -
ns; nos;t;ye with your children as you say
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