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Show M Environment H Character Is formed In the home. H What Is associated with childhood Is H never forgotten. If a good man, that H he would not have turned out if he H had never known love as a child. If H a child sees cruelty practised In the B j home, ho Is likely to develop Into a H cruel man. Knvlronmcnt counts for so much that If a child Is surrounded by evil H ' ho will turn out an evil human being; i If he Is surrounded by good people, H performing good deeds, ho Is likely to H prove a good man. H Hence ono can rcall.o the response K blllly that rests on parents' shoulders H They have the making of the home good or bad and how they conduct that home depends whether their chit. H dren will turn t it good or evil. Theic Is real i nn n r rtween; a man Isclthcr H good or not g !. t-ad nrnotb.iri; there H may bo (lcgices, but there Is no inter- H If parents would only think. If a H father would but sit down and con- B sidcr how his every action may alTcct B 7 the after life of his child, It would be H a good thing. For no amount cf pre- H cept can equal an ounce of example; H the one. as It were, Is tangible, the B ' other fl A mother too often sows the seed of H bad habits In a girl. A knock at tho H door and a mother In an untidy state H may do much moral damage to a girl. H She is sent to the door to say that 1 "Mother Isn't In." In other words, H she Is deliberately Instructed to tell a B Or a tradesman calls with his bill. f "Father Is not at home," says the B daughter, well knowing that he Is In HbW, tho H The real truth Is that tho fathers B' and mothers In our land have every- J thing to do with the making of these J no'cr-do-wf.lls wo hear so much about. If young boys sec little else but bad J example in tho home, how can they be expected to turn out well? The clean cat about the home, will J bring up a cleanly kitten, but the dirty cat's kitten will bo dirty also. That Is a pretty broad way of putting things, i but It explains matters fairly well. A child, In other words, takes Its pattern from the parent. If the pat- tern bo a bad one, so much tho worse for the child; If It bo a good one, all tho better for tho youngster. HBhB The religious instruction of children , goes pretty much unheeded nowadays, but It's a valuable Instruction, and It ' dues not matter whether a parent be- HBhK llevos In It or not. Hut tlx religion In a child's mind, bring it up in religion, ( and it is great aid to It later on In life. Let a parent scotf at religion, but if hhhh he has a child's Interest at heart, let him not scolf in front of the young one; let him rather teach It all about religion, and so give the child a chance. Remember that religion well Instilled Into tho mind In youth has a restrain- log inllucncc In after life If evil Is BbKV i W As regards a man's usefulness well, If a boy Is allowed to spend Ills even- Ings in Idleness, the parents are mak- V Ing a useless member of society. A h boy or girl should always have some- H thing to do. That instills tho good V habit of alwajs being Industrious. B Teach a child to paint, to draw H anything, so long as It has something H to do; you thus teach a valuable les- H son. Let a child sit gazing at Its ling- K crs In the evenings, and there before K you, In embryo, is a coming slave of V Most great men men who havo "got H there" have excellent early training H to thank for It. Note tho words "early Numberless parents arc In the habit of saying, "Oh, we'll begin Tommy's training In a year or two; he's too young jet." Yes, but by that time habits arc formed. Sheer laziness may have got the upper hand. Method and order arc things which cannot be Impressed Im-pressed on a boy If he has been allowed too much ropo as a little thing. A child, indeed, cannot be taken In hand too early. Kvery day lost In beginning be-ginning the training of a child Is a step toward his ultimate ruin. Unhappily, Un-happily, the real, earnest training of a child Is usually taken up only by worthy parents; tho others let their children go. It is the boy who is taught to be tldv, to do things for himself, to be punctual, to bo obedient, to be honest and truthful, who turns out the real man of the world. Not that type of man who Is learned In every vice, who Is called "a man of the world," but one of the men of the world whose lives are ordered correctly, through seeds of good being early sown by parents Gain a child's love and conlldrucc and tho rest Is easy; make a boy or girl love j ou and come to you with everything, and you have found out the secret of making a good man or woman. It lies with the parent. If the child Roes wrong, It Is not tho child's fault, but the parent's |
