Show 10e ABOUT PERT CHILDREN + > f a Ie 1 German Professor Sharply Griticises the Young People of America Foolish Pride of Parents Much to Blame I e 9 IJ 6 K 1 Speaklne of I thc > Impressions which o varied him the most astonishment on his arrival In America a German prow 0 incidentally makes mention of lessor a little book which he kept somewhat in the style of a diary He divided hin rEmarks under three headlines prblls Doubtful Accounts and Credits In one place he makes the following t entry pblts Children Doubtful Accounts Ac-counts Men Credits Women I Kc then goes onto say This is I a simple formula of what ve all ferl 1 during our first I months lathe 1 la-the New World We are all amazed at the pert and disrespectful children and we are fascinated by the AmerIcan woman Now and then a slight suspicion sus-picion arises as to whether these two things can go together It seems so much more natural to expect that a perfect woman will provide also a pcr feet education for her child If these lemarka arc based upon truth the query naturally arises Why should such a condition of things edstIn the New World To answer this question fully would I Involve too deep a discussion The root of the evil really lies with I the parents The saddest part of it all Is that it should be due to the social so-cial conditions of our growing country and to the foolish pride and overindulgence overin-dulgence of the fathers and mothers which have made the children of America more pen and disrespectful than those of any other country Jn that class of society where wealth has come suddenly to the parents the custom has grown year by year of leaving the children entirely in the care and under the supervision of servants Naturally this tends to deaden filial affection How can one expect to find a love for father and mother In the hearts of boy and girls who have never known a mothers caress or seen the man whom they call father often enough to become intimately acquainted with him or to learn to look upon him an a confidant and adviser The man Is digging and delving In his office all day long to make the money for the luxuries which his reputation of millionaire calls for His evenings arc spent at the club to enlarge en-large his social circle and his home knows him least of all The mother has every moment of her day and night occupied by arbitrary social duties which she must fulfill In order to make her foothold In the fashionable world secure I The children were mistakes They happened early In the married llfobe 1 fore the parents became wealthy I They must be trained like little machines ma-chines for the duties which await them I by reason of their parents wealth Love does not enLer here hence respect Is not engendered The children chil-dren grow up to look upon the father as the governor who supplies the cash and the mother as the mater who provides entertainment for them Nine times out of ten the children are better educated and better bred than the parents and In the natural evolution of things they come to look upon themselves as being a little bit I 1 i G r i J L J 1L 1 I r j r T r 11 1 1 t if 1J J r I I I f I 11 I r I ii < t S I I iiI j S I a t 1 I 1 1 7 Li 1 A 1 I r Y y 1 i 1 S K f I k 7 I t I I H J I 4 i r I l Il 1 rt T r J h < J JI I I I I r roR DINNER AI TJlE RESTA77RANT I r tl 1 S CJ A 1 t t > 1 yrtY Y fl a 1 1 1 r ar w 4r S 1 r j 1 q rrr7 14 hrft f 137 t tit E P a s aE I v 4 S co Ic J2RGg 0 2 CZQ7li rANI2EQ i I 1 w better in every way than their parents We Ond the same explanation for this pertness In the lower strata of society and more especially among the forelgnboin population than among the native Americans It is really very easily accounted for The men or women whose early lives were spent in the treadmill of peasant life In Europe and who by emigrat ing have bettered their condition mnke up their minds that the children shall have something better With this end in view they are educated and taught to aspire to a higher social station For this the man will deprive himself him-self of every luxury in order to save 1 money for the chlldiena school and to give the boys a trade The mother obliterates herself and becomes a household drudge in order that the girls may dress wall learn how to play the piano and He real ladles The first result of this misguided course Is that the children soon got to be ashamed of their parents Then they begin to discover how lacking they are In education and they feel that the poor Illiterate old father and mother are beneath them All sense of llllal respect has been deadened in them for the simple reason rea-son that the parents have looked up to the children aa something superior to what they were and taught the boys and girls to look upon them not as parents to be rev rcnced but as menials to cater to their every wish Let a servant marry and have children Does anyone suppose for an Instant that her daughters are to be servants Far Crom It They must gto into a shop or learn typewriting or bookkeeping and bp real ladles The son of a day laborer must learn a trade the son of a mechanic must study a profession and so It goes on up the social ladder and the parent is always ou a lower rung than the child Suppose the mother wants a new gown or pair of shoe and the daughter daugh-ter should want some unnecessary article of dress at thp same time Is It the mother who get what she wants and the daughter who waits By no means Mother Is only mother No one sees her and she can gel along with tho old frock or shoes until the ship comes In When It is a question of a new suit I < of clothes or winter overcoat It Is always al-ways the son who gets the new and the father who wears the old This condition of things Is most In evidence among the newly rich and the foreignborn element It Is the natural consequence of the parents belittling themselves in the eyes of their children child-ren Some say this condition though much to be regretted cannot be helped and perhaps they are right To the credit of American children so bitterly assailed by the German professor pro-fessor let It be said that there are boys and girls children of American born parents In moderate and good circumstances of good stock of undisputed undis-puted social standing who are a credit to their parents |