Evening star., 1936-01-30
Obligatory
Tasks Await
Every One
Children Should Be
Taught to Respect
This Basic Rule.
Star STAFF Photo Courtesy New Center Market
by ANGELO PATRI.

BY ANGELO PAIhl.
"HERBERT, are you going over to
see grandpa this afternoon?
You know he expects you"
20, I don't want to go. Why
should I have to go? I promised the
fellows I'd go out to play game"
"You knew very we'll it is your day
to visit grandpa. You had no right
to promise. What will he think II
you don't go?"
"Oh he won't mind. I'll go see
him some other time. Don't bother
me so much about 1t. I don't want
to 60"
Herbert picked up an apple and
went off munching it, all set for the
game with the boys.
"You know, Oracle, I'd have made
him go if I had been in your place"
said Aunt Carrie.
II can't be fighting with him. all
the time I have tried to make him
feel like going I tell him how much
his grandpa loves him. how kind he
is to him and all that, but he just
doesn't want to co.
Then make him. You have to
make him do some things even if he
doesn't like them. You have to do
lots you don't like, and he is going to
have to do the same. He might as
we'll begin with father. If father
wasn't good to him, if he didn't make
it pleasant for him, wouldn't say so
much. But anyway. he ought to 60.
He owes him that much because he
Is his grandfather" =
20, I know it, but I hate to make
him unhappy. Life is hard enough"
His life? Hard? Has he ever done
anything he didn't want to do in all
his life? He hasn't even had to go
to the dentist to be hurt or TO doc
tor, in his life. He doesn't think OF
a soul but himself from years end to
years end, and what will be the end
Of it is beyond me. 1t can't go on
like that. He has to have his share
like the rest Of us and he hasn't an
idea of how to stand up against it.
He just says, I don't want to- and
thinks he has said something"
I don't believe in making things
hard for children just to strengthen
their moral tone. I think that sort
of thing results in quite the opposite
But I do believe that all children
should be trained to take their share
of the bitter with the sweet A one
sided life Is not going to be success
full. There are duties to be done every
day by every human being-child and
man. The sooner the child knows this
to be SO the better.
Every child ought to know that food
on the table means that somebody
worked to put it there. and he owes
some service in return. Dishes must
be washed after they are used. Errands
must be done before the food reaches
the table. Countless steps must be
taken before the meal is served. The
child who is served owes some duty to
the one who served him.
That law cannot be escaped. 1t has
its word and its power in the economic
life Of the people, in the spiritual life,
in every phase of life. The child who
is not acquainted early with its work.
ings is certain to suffer by and by.
Duty is present every hour. Teach
each child to meet his duty and per-
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in the form Of attention to elderly peo-
pie, washing dishes, running errands,
cleaning a hidden corner, studying a
hard lesson or sitting patiently wait
ing. 1t is better to go along with duty
than to have her dray you along by
the hair of the head.
(Copyright. 1850