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Show H j Dorothy Dix Talks j ! FORM GOOD HABITS IN YOUTH J j By DOROTHY DIX, the World 'a H ighent Paid "Wowa" Writer j IaBH Are you teaching your children to form good habits while they are JjSTlB Nothing ll more Important Good -(mM hab.tb are a crutch to lean on, a prop ferM lo weakness a brace to the w obbly ; ':JJ an understudy of all the cardinal vir- Ifl tuei . .in cver-pf nt help in Uine JH of trouble. It Is a bromide to pay that we arc U 3 all victims of our habits, but it Is one; US of the eternal truths whose Import-1 I ?j ance wi cannot o r-estlmate For we ' don't often really reason out our, j -VH course of action in life We are most- ', jy guided by our impuless, and these iwaHP are simply the sum of our habits. FP We arc courteous, and polite, and considerate to thoso about ue, or we. S are rude, and brusque, and overbear- ytcS i,,g according to whether we acquire -"'Wm? ,,ie habits of good manners or the rl3 habits of a boor In our youth And i --3f3 we arc hated, or loved accordingly. j :;, lg Inusmuch. then, as habit funciions iMfjSJ automatically In us, and to a large aTii extent, takes the place of both Intel-j llgen.ee and conscience, how vital that children should have cultivated in them this mysterious faculty that Will be a good angel to them .guiding them ; 'i-'ifca into the righl road, and steering them! SaJfjlj away from the plt-f.ills of life' I For the habit of modest has kept more girls pure; the habit of self con-J 'fciji trol has kept more boys sober and; fJAjfcJ ill hi .ill ill-' t.-i. ' ni'.ini-iiN sfLVl The riSl11 lla-blt 18 a guarantee of JwH ice 1 asked a very famous man' HjH I owe al 1 am to the hat.lt Bl until il uas done. My father om lied that into me from the cradle," a . f replied, D It" li was a game. I had to play; .1 out to the end. If I began a book 1 had to read It through If I started! a to a place 1 had to go to It. No mat-; ter how trivial the matter I undertook 1 had to see it through Thai habit j became bo ingrained in rin thai l can't, MWk break It, I hae got to finish what 1 I . start. I can't give uj. and so I hold ; QK on, and work on. after other people I B get discouraged and quit, and nine times out of ten Just that last final! HMn spurt of effort is the one thing needed I Ry& to carry me on to the goal." " . m This "man's tip Is worth taking. Try, B it on your little Johnny the next time jSpcgV he starts to build a block house, and j Jm ets it half done, and drops that for, his marbles, and discards them In two minutes for his choo-choo train. Atjd what Is laziness but a bad u hat Is Industry but a good I V hab 1 CJJ a h mr child to work while It Is young, fill in its days with some useful ip . mplOymt nt, and It will form a habit oi Industry that is unbreakable, and mk makes idleness Intollerable 1 Any child that cannot have the BITlfit Industry fa tened on it for -:JKVV years old has tSJp need of the nearest hook-worm ex- EIIH pert. It la merely a matter of Ulrect- Jj IH lng Its energies' into the right chan- IH ntl, and parents certainly have com- kjW m it ted the unpardonable sin against IS By their sons and daughters if they fail lo do thin and let iheni Kiow ur to I hate work Instead of loving it. Lo you desire your children to bc- IJI! ) come rich and prosperous'' If so, you! p3j have only to cultivate the habit of ka thrift In them while they are young; ij Wasting money is a bad hublt Just t3 as saving is a good habit. And the Efl one means poverty, and the other j : ., i. hes, Teat h children lo lak la care of their pennies and they will fcj know enough not to throw away their 1j dollara l Saving can be made Just as lnter- ,.i j i ting to children as spendln as prov- n 1 ii r In ; l!ie w,n- wh.-n tin i ...i i, Ski girls and boys put the money they 'jStz bad been throwing away on candy and ffi soda water Into thrift stamps and 10 .i' formed, let u- hope, a habit of thrift happy and more prosperous gC Teach children hubits of accuracy V 1 to do n bal o er they do i i opt riy The m$ , difference between highly paid work and poorly paid work Is the difference mm ' iTi the. quality of the work The d'.f- . ference between the man with the ten f 3 thousand dollar salary and the mun with the ono thousand dollar wage Is mm tin dilfenence between efficlencv and I Inefficiency. jJl It lakes Just as much labor to cook ili a mean dinner aa a good one The HEH , girl v. ho -pells every other word wong, and makes a failure of her let- M slMfVsLLBBsseass iters pounds the typwriter Just as manv 'hours a day as the private secretary dpi ?V the people who never learn I to do anything well escape nothing but the reward that goes to the accuracy accur-acy that can be depended upon. Doing things slap-dashedly, hit or 'miss, any old way. Is nothing but a bad habit. Just as doing them properly prop-erly is a "ood habit. Cultivate In chll-the chll-the love of turning out a good Job for the Job's kike and vou have put the guide to success In their hnads For the whole world is on a still hunt for efficient people whose work can bo relied upon dressmakers who can fit, stenographers vho can spell, carpenters whoso work holds together, doctors who don't guesn about what jails -oil, lawyers whose advise Is ! sound, and uhen we find them we pay them Joyfully whatever the ask, jand ulng their praise In the market I place Teach children habits of order and promptness. Teach them the habit of self control. Teach them the habit of "smiling instead of whining, ind you will have given them an armor that will be proof against the slings anil arrows of outrageous fortune, and that will enable them to win out In the battles of life. It ah t enough to break children of bad habits. You must fortify them with good habits that they will Instinctively In-stinctively fall back upon In the crisis of iheir fate. |
