| Show POCKET MONEY foh BOYS cheru attend in t apon supplying bm with cah if you want to ruin an impulsive boy give him plenty of pocket abney the recipe is infallible it has often been tried and always same unhappy result eich parents are too liable to indulge in this killing species of kindness by the time he is eight years old the little scion of wealth begins to understand the soft side of pa and ma it both have soft side and if not the weak spot in the weaker of the twain it an only son he is usually irresistible alas bow many only sons havo the way to destruction made smooth for them by blind partiality young gentlemen of large expectations are accustomed to carry bank bills in their porte monn aies at the ripe age of ton in these days of at fourteen they are content with less than well stuffed pocketbooks pocket books which the governor is required to refill aa fast as they are emptied or if he demurs to the requisition the wherewithal must coma out of the old ladys pin money youth must be served especially precocious youth all this is wrong rivery father and mother knows it is wrong and yet such things are common says the new york ledger say what wo may about the harsh austere uncompromising old puritans their stern family discipline was better than the domestic andul in dul gonce by which children are spoiled in these modern days boys need the curb as much as fiery young colts and of the two extremes it is wiser to bit them heavily than to throw the reins on and let them gallop at their own wild wilL there is middle course however which conscientious tran trancha cra 0 youth find no difficulty in pursuing would there more of them |
