| Show BRINGING UP THE BOY Some Suggestions on the Education and Develop Development Development Development ment of Your Son T fifteen eighteen or twenty AT a boy may wish to decide on It his future career and should have intelligent sympathy from his parents His father should not insist that his son should take up a business which he himself carries on if the boy has bas opposite tastes As far as possible a boy should have liberty of choice in seeking an occupation or a profession If he has his own definite tastes he should be helped to carry them out If he prefers to have decisions made for him lie he may be guided toward a useful career This is often a time of trial or dis disappointment disappointment disappointment appointment to parents who may have other wishes for their boy from those he prefers to follow It takes love wisdom unselfishness to help a boy to decide He has to live his own life and to decide under what conditions he will live it He needs help helD encouragement encouragement in choosing what he has a bent for Then he must do his best If Ii he is is of the material that makes a man of character he is on the way to success A Good Son Eon EonA SonA SonA A thoughtful son realizes and appreciates elates that his parents have given their best efforts their best years in making snaking a home and in providing for him edu educating educating cating eating him training him in character j and habits and fitting him for life It may be that it is necessary for a boy to help toward the support of home to contribute by his labor Jabor toward the family purse Cheerfully and with high resolves a good son begins to relieve his father of burdens He takes pride in being able to buy his bis own clothing He takes pleasure in devoting some of his earnings to making m king gifts to his mother father or sister r He enjoys the feeling of responsibility and self reliance which his work wort brings firings and that i his parents can can depend on him a little During early boyhood he has been taught thrift and now he saves something lays aside every month part of his earnings I he never runs in debt never borrows he heis heis heis is generous but never wasteful reckless or extravagant He begins to under understand understand understand stand values to manage expenses to toI keep within an income and to realize I responsibility in From a fathers influence his son learns that the secret of achievement is is I in iii faithful work honesty good habits concentration tenacity of purpose the overcoming of obstacles that the best life is not one one of ease but of effort and that happiness comes from the sense serie of having done a difficult work that was worth doing The Dangers of or Modern Modem Life Lifo Modern Modem life is hard for a boy There arc are many degenerate ideas wrong stand standards standards standards ards There are subtle ways in which S wrong things are made to seem right The rush for pleasure and wealth makes people careless about higher things The fault of the times is in irresponsible self will willA A boy who has been trained by good I parents knows the value of a good con conscience conscience conscience science and that in times of trial or responsibility it will solve problems and deliver him from temptation He re remembers remembers remembers members the simple but clear teaching of a little verse on character Build it well welt you do Build it straight and strong and true Build it clean and high and broad Build it for the eye of God GodIn GodIn GodIn In a good home ho e a boy learns that everyone is under a law and that on his 0 good conduct depends the welfare of all allI I When he enters the larger duties of life he will find that the same laws that he was taught as a boy make for far happiness and helpfulness in the world Thus he heis heis heis is equipped to be a citizen He country looks forward with I pride to the rights and privileges he will S have as a voter understands that it is a duty to have moral courage in time of 1 I peace as in time of war He is a true I i patriot and realizes that national holi holidays I days are days not merely for parade or orI I fun or excitement but b t days to remember i i the heroic men who helped to make snake the country and who gave their lives for it and so he determines to help to keep the I nation pure in laws and noble in its aims The Tho Coming Generation Boys are to be the fathers and home homemakers homemakers homemakers makers of another generation They arc are areto to be the lawmakers the citizens who are to uphold the great principles for which pur our country stands They need to be inspired with thoughts of their high destinies duties and responsibilities A Use for tor the Dish Ho Yo HoHE YoT Mop T HE best thing to clean a gas or gaso gasoline gas gasoline line stove is a string It Itis Itis Itis is is effective and saves your fingers and finger nails n Swapping Garrets That is our merry name for the neigh neighborly neighborly borly bony exchange which we instituted a afew afew afew few years ago at housecleaning g time It was an inspiration due to the toe fact that my neighbor was preparing to store away a little crib which was as just the right size for our little and concerning which I instantly broke the tenth commandment A bright thought thougH came and I said What do you say to swapping that crib for my that you always liked so much I had bad to carry it yesterday because it was Vas in the way of the new The trade was made immediately and nd ever since we have made a periodical periodical clearing out of our respective garrets to the saving of both our pocketbooks Even old things get et t a sense of newness and value in different environments The thing that is rubbish to the owner often becomes a great convenience to someone who has been longing for just juit that article of household furniture Tho Savings Savin s of Carefulness You cant nt save where theres noth nothing nothing nothing ing to save savel said a woman the other day with gloomy petulance Johns wages just go round and theres not a 3 cent left for Cor the savings bank I longed to tell her how she might save sava something every day of her life That day I had seen her wear a fresh dainty muslin gown into the kitchen without a protective apron Result an sary trip to the laundry costing exactly cents she had a I fabulously cheap laundress aundre which might have haye been spared to the savings box A hasty trip and tunable on or the thc stairs that th t same sarra day tore off ot o a n yard cf of ac ac from ruffle of a petticoat to which took a c piece which flan o par ir or not might have helped to o c th fund Th W to stub be les rr re er e hen second cond best were the th me appropriate te footgear i inice nice hate hat on dull days till tili till ribbons ibbons stringy and laded faded |
