Show children of bf the period i 4 I 1 EUROPEAN politeness iva VS YANKEE ize ICE emy SMARTNESS I 1 I 1 I 1 pans 4 in lif your issue of saturday last about children aie nie are true to the letter ietter so far as my experience ghei goes if you will allow me I 1 will give you an illustration of the manners mannen of some of the present generation of american children being called upon n to attend professionally a gentleman en ta eman in this city eity who is cursed C ased blessed would eig cit be e a most improper word in this case with three children aged eight ten and twelve years respectively during one of my visits the father was lying upon a couch conversing i with me when the eldest i boy betat twelve years bounced into in to the room and coming up to the lead head of the couch addressed his father in these nora vora words cc say give me ten cents I 1 want to buy a whip 11 I 1 father to boy godaway go away do you not see I 1 am talking with tile tiie the doctor boy bos ah who wiio cares for doc lies hes nobody wont you give us its ten tell cents father no I 1 will not 11 boy take that that then lyl ill at the same saino time tune this young scamp actually boxed ills liis fathers ears the boy ran from the room I 1 saw the tiie fathers color heightened and after the boys departure lie said really leally I 1 dont know what must be done with these thes c children of mine they are becoming a perfect curse and I 1 firmly believe sending them to tho tile public schools makes them much worse than they otherwise would be when they were younger I 1 had no trouble with them but now neither their mamma nor myself can keep them within bounds I 1 remarked that T frequently noticed that the elied child on ett of yow yew york were not so obedient or so well behaved as in and on the continent so I 1 bave have heard before poster rj although you must own that our children are aro very inual much si smarter here than they are in ili the old bid country I 1 rc marked remarked if rudeness and vulgarity in speech cursing and ill lil behavior generally constitute smart smartness iless the tile american children certainly carry off the palm palin but jf one ernly of my clil children lanen laren had spoken to me rne in ili the manner blaster mator willie lid iid did aid to yoi you yol bread and water would have been his llis diet fa nor for r twenty four I 1 hours i ours at t the 11 e least I 1 could give 1 ve you several instances almost as a s bad as the above but your space will not admit of or it and in in conclusion would earnestly beg of the god iyan ilan lan to let the parents of the children ind and their teachers in ili school know that float I 1 there is 13 stamn still existence ae a commandment that says honor thy father and thy mother th that at thy days may bo be long in the tile land ac I 1 sincerely thau than thanking king you for your court courtesy es 3 a and 11 d Pait danfor for his 1 C 0 a I j D april 15 1873 ll 11 JY y Q |