| Show b Author 0 1 to 0 Win Friends d 3 and Influence Peo Peole aTILE a i TILE THE T TI TYPICAL I re X BOY hoy t Some time ago I 1 served ser as one ot of eight judges to 0 choose the typical American hO boy Well Vell a boy thirteen years old l living on a farm ten miles miles' from Louisville Kentucky Kentuck won the Ule honor plus mone money amounting to to 1500 1600 He was chosen from I contestants The Tho boys boy's name waa was Karl McCready 1 His father is a letter lettel let let- ter tel carrier The thing that Interested me most was the training the mother had given en this typical American boy She told me mc some surprising things The first and most important Sh She has let him do things for all his life The value of this sh she sa says has been to make him 5 self self- elf elf- reliant For Instance six boys bors were chosen I as ns the final entries in the contest i and brought to New York where the tho I I Judges saw them After Arter the decision was made a candy company compan invited I the six boys to go through their I plant and then go Into their prem- prem prem-I prem lum tum department and choose any gift they wished What a moment this I Iwas I Iwas was for fOl the boys Every single ho boy boy- I chose a camera The boys hoys after the I cameras were given them started to I load them Well Vell Karl McCready was I I 1 the only one who could load hU i I camera unassisted Then he had bad to tl help the ethers others I I Karl just didn't happen to be able to load his camera alone His lesson lesson lesson les les- les- les son for loading that camera bad had begun be i beigun I be-I beIgun gun years before It had begun when when his mother first trained him to do things for himself She told me that when he heas was as a baby he fell and she did not run to pick him gyp up She was tempted to do doso doso doso so hut but she was thinking into the fu fu- fu ture She let him him pick himself up She has followed that principle all his life and the tho result Is that ho Ito can take care of himself in almost any situation Would rould you like to know kno the dally daily American schedule of this typical boy Five A. A M. M Gets up thirty Five-thirty Eats breakfast Six Milks 1 cow ow thirty Six to thirty seven Practices e es violin EIght Gets on his bicycle and amI rides three and one-half one miles to school Four Gets home from school on his bicycle and eats a snack then lies down and takes a rest thirty Four-thirty Practices on his vio vla- lin Un Five Flye Milks the cow again and l helps his father with the chores Six Su Supper The rest Is freetime free froc time till till till- thirty Eight Goes to bet bed How does tills this compare t to your sons son's dally daily Its It's a stiff s he- he duJe but the valuable thing is that the boy has certain family responsibilities responsibilities responsibilities and has to meet them And he has to depend defend upon himself For Instance he was taught to milk a 3 cow when he was six and he has 1119 been milking ever since Tho Important Mrs McCready McCready Mc- Mc Cready holds Is to resist the tho mother temptation to do everything c for your you ou child and to let lel him him do It Il for tor him hint self How wise Its It's painful at time but bUlt It yields big returns |
