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MAT, 1909.
tion and improvement are always to be exacted of
the children —never of the parent!
When will lathers and mothers learn that only
by the close companionship of their boys and girls,
by working with by daily living before them in
strict obedience to the laws of refinement and con
sistency and right that are preached to these boys
and girls —they can hope to rear broadminded, well
balanced, attractive and useful men and women who
will forever be an honor to ever-honored parents?
How may we expect every parental command
to meet with ready and cheerful obedience when
every request of the child is cruelly ignored? How
shall we look for willing, energetic, useful boys and
girls of parents who never set them such example?
How may we hope to see the little ones grow up
skilled in the practical accomplishments which best
adorn manhood and womanhood, when the first ef
forts of these babies are so often discouraged be
cause it is “too much trouble” for the parents to
look after them or to correct what the untrained
hands have done? God speed the day when the early
energies of our little ones shall be daily appreciated
and encouraged!
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Occasionally we find a girl who has had
drudgery piled upon her young shoulders
until she knows nothing of the beauties
ut life, rebels against the slavery so long
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Average
Child.
endured, and harbors disgust for all things domes
tic —as she knows them. It is a dangerous attitude,
and, alas, it may bring both parent and child to the
bitterness of disgrace! The average young girl is
not a slave nor drudge, but a misguided drone, She
may at one time have been thoughtful and willing,
but the mother has been “too busy” (whether with
work or with play) to teach her, the daughter has
become indifferent and lazy, and—the sins of omis
sion on that mother’s part must follow her through
life and follow her child and her grandchildren
after her.
Here and there is a boy who is being reared under condi
tions'of servitude that are enough to dwarf every sentiment
of love and loyalty; but far oftener in this day of false pride
and foolish training our boys grow up in the fixed belief that
hard work is dishonorable, ana most of them are firmly con
vinced that all work is hard. The greatest business successes
ever achieved in this country of big successes, have been by
those who as Loys and as men were not afraid of labor, and
who recognized the impoi tant truth that all labor is honorable.
But this fact is entirely forgotten by our town bred boy
of the present age. He does not want work, but after a num
ber of ill-spent years of desultory dragging through public
schools he may very timidly inquire for a ‘ situation”- to be
held as long as he ‘likes it;” and he is sure not to ‘‘like it”
unless it is a very “nice” place, with easy duties and liberal
pay! If he is not very promptly promoted and placed higher
upon the pay-roll, he is thoroughly convinced that his pro
digious abilities are not appreciated, and he becomes thor
oughly disgusted with his entployer’s obtuseness. He is
•usually envious of the boy who succeeds, and attributes such
success almost entirely to “luck.” Think you that I have
overdrawn the facts? lhen you do not know the average boy
who grows up about town, Try to get acquainted with him,
and try to encourage him to a saner view of life.
The boy of even average ability will succeed in life
if he has good health, good principles, plenty of
energy, and no foolish pride. He does not place
pleasure before business, but makes up his mind
that work will give us pleasure if our mental atti-
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tude is only such as to appreciate it. He is not envious of
the boy who succeeds, but is determined to emulate his good
example. He does not waste time in complaining that it
takes “pull” to get desirable positions, but recognizes the
fact that it does take push., and that he must do the pushing.
He does not timidly ask for work as if he knows it will not
be given him and is rather glad ot the fact: instead, he ap
proaches a business man in a pleasant, business-like way,
and makes the impression that he not only deaires a job, but
is going to have one somewheie. If asked what kind of work he
is seeking, he will reply that he is not particular what sort of
work is offered, provided it is honorable. If asked what pay he
expects, he will say that he is willing to leave that for his
employer to decide after he (the boy) has proven that he is
not afraid of work- that he wishes no more than he is worth,
and recognizes the fact that this can be better determined
after he has been tested.
There is no danger of any over-supply of such boys as this
and business w ill never be so dull that they cannot find some
thing to do. Business men are on the lookout for them;
they are so rare that they are in demand, and a man of affairs
wilt “look them up” for the purpose of getting acquainted.
In the beginning such a boy may work for small wages, but
his greatest concern will be to earn more than he is receiv
ing, with abiding patience and full faith that he will after
awhile receive all that he earns. He knows that to any boy a
good name is worth more than all else, and his central pur
pose is to justify his employer in giving him a good name.
The world needs these faithful boys, and they will never
have to beg for jobs nor plead for higher pay. If it is the
misfortune of such a boy to commence work with a man or
firm unappreciative of such faithfulness, let him labor on in
silence, all confident that after awhile other and better em
ployers will find him out and call for him. If you have such
a boy as this you may well feel proud of him. If your boy is
one of the great majority instead of belonging with these
select few, you should ascertain the cause: if it is your own
fault, promptly acknowledge it and in future set him a. good
example; if it is his fault, get close to him and help him to
overcome it.
Woman’s Work.
Some men and women are so very sensitive
that they do not wish to be told of a fault,
even in the kindest manner. They seem to
prefer continuing in the wrong rather than
have any suggestions from another. I have
The
Sensitive
Person.
always wondered how such persons can consistently correct
their children. They are constantly setting before those
about them an example of rebellion against all authority,
and yet (as a rule) they are disposed to exert authority arbi
trarily and to an extreme degree. Find a man who is not
willing for a preacher or teacher or wife or mother or anyone
to point out his faults—even in a spirit of most considerate
affection and for his own good—and you know an individual
whose disposition it is to tyrannize over and to exact the
most abject obedience from any and all who are subject to his
authority. Show me a person who is quick to notice every
“slight’ and to take umbrage at every criticism, and I will
show you an individual who is prone to disregard the wishes
and feelings of others—who is ever ready to criticise all per
sons and all things.
I wonder that such men and women are willing to as
sume the responsibilties of parenthood, and how they can
ever expect that tender love and sympathy and thoughtful
ness which should exist between parents and'children. The
spirit of considerate obedience is not meant to be cultivated
by little ones alone: it should control every one of us in our
relations with all persons and all things. The truly refined
and the truly affectionate nature will show a delicate regard
for the rights and the wishes and feelings of others.
It would make wonderful differences if we could only see
ourselves as we are seen—if we could see our faults as we see
the faults of those about us. It would make this beautiful
old woild seem almost equal to oiir fairest conception of
heaven, if we would —one and all, now and always—do unto
others as we would have them do to us. Try it in your home,
in the schoolroom, in social and business interests —in your
relations with young and old, with rich and poor—and see
what a transformation it will work in your life and in other
lives. Os course you will encounter some who will not ap
preciate such consideration (some few persons do not ap
preciate anybody or anything save self!') but the results will
make the effort more than piofitable,
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Next to good character I know of nothing that
will more surely promote success and happi
ness in this life than will good manners and
good nature. Greet the world with a smile, with
cheerful words, with pleasant manner—always.
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Good
Nature.
Popularity is an important thing to every man and woman,
and it may be won without any flattery or deception. Occa
sionally an ill-natured cynic will attempt to convince us that
to be popular we must resort to hypocrisy, but such assertion
is not true: indeed, sincerity and true worth are always
necessary to a favorable impression if we would have same to
prove more than fleeting in its effects.
No person in society, in business, in any of the walks of
life, who is too busy or too indifferent to be couiteous, need
expect strong friendships nor many friends of any kind. 1
would rather send a boy or girl out into the world equipped
with a happy disposition and under all circumstances show
ing the blessings of refined training, than to endow them wilh
large monetary wealth and let them go forth in life bearing
evidence of ill-breeding; I had rather instill within them a
delicate regard for the rights and the happiness of other per
sons, than to give them great riches in material things and
leave them deficient in those finer qualities of mind and
heart and conduct that go to make up the genuinely cul
tured man or woman.
Cultivate in your daily life —in all the little things of life
—the so-called small courtesies of manner as well as the large
ones of character, for all these are necessary in the best type
of men and women. Many a person who would not steal
money under any circumstances will, by indifference or rude
ness or lack of consideration, steal and destroy the rights
and the happiness of those who should be nearest and dearest
in this life.
Teach your children that ill manners and selfishness are
the surest destroy ers of friendship and love and happiness
and usefulness, leach them that good cheer and unfailing
effort to impart it to each and every one with whom they
come in contact is a priceless possession that is within easy
reach of every individual. And be sure to remember that the
best of all teaching is by example!
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I know a certain man whom the world has nev
er looked upon as a success in life—and it is
thereby proven that the world is not always cor
rect in its estimate of men and things. This
man owns no lauds, no stocks and bonds, no in-
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dustrial enterprises. He works for a moderate salary- just
about enough to support his family in comfortable but simple
style. People speak of him as being poor, but I have often
thought that lie is the wealthiest man of all my acquaintance.
The question of wealth is solely a matter of the stand
point from which we view it. My own idea is that a person
may own millions in mere dollars, and yet be poor indeed—
that a man may be without a resting place that he can call
his own, and at the same time possess riches beyond the pow
er of men to count. The wealth of the friend to whom I nave
refeired is not recorded on County records, but is all secure
in his mind and heart and soul: it is a wealth of happiness,
and of all riches a contented life is greatest and best.
Looked at as a matter of eternity we have scriptural re
minder that it were foolish for a manto gain the whole world
at the cost of his soul’s welfare. Looked at from a temporal
standpoint we have but to glance about us aud discover per
haps greater discontent in palaces than in humble abodes.
Watch the newspapers and you will find in their awful record
of tragedies a far greater proportion of suicides among the
financially independent than among those who must labor
for their daily bread. It all proves that true wealth is a mat
ter within ourselves and cannot be judged by outward ap
pearances—except as the happy smile, the hearty handclasp,
the encouraging word, may tell us in unpretentious but un
mistakable terms that an individual is happy, or except as
the absence of these evidences may make known the fact that
a man or a woman is miserable.
We are told that contentment with godliness is great
gain—the proof of which is all about us at all times—aud it
is a serious question if the one is ever present without the
other. Did you ever see a godlike man who was not content
ed? Can a man be truly contented who is not godlike?
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