Show every child has a right to a happy childhood the recollection of a sunny childhood is an auspicious inheritance and a splendid preparation for far the strain and burden of life in china the first four or five years of a girls life are a continual agony all the children in india are born old go among the submerged mas ses sea in any of our large cities and you will find childhood barren and desolate beyond description to have this joy crushed out of a little life is a sorrowful tragedy that will shadow all its future gray skies will often weep above them in the after years see to it that so BO far as possible stil these early years are un I 1 clouded let them have their childhood the annual stories of produce going to waste in the country are about due consider the wastefulness of mo der darn life folks buy lawn mowers and burn up arm and leg energy 0 pe rating them when if they kept a cow it would mow the in lawn just t as effectively and produce r milk at the same time the natural health and vigor of children reared in the country are superior to city raised children country cooking with wilh fresh vegetables eggs milk butter and bread made by the farmers wife far surpasses in health producing attribute style 0 of living in cities Ithe in the coun eun try the atmosphere is clear while in cities it is hazy with coal smoke and clouds of dust swept up from the macadamized streets by every wind that blows the country la is the ideal place to grow healthful bodies bodie sand and develop strong minda the c child h ild with a robust body trained to do things hasa has a confidence in him self that cannot be acquired in any other way the child reared in the country develops the qualities of a leader and from rom the farm have come the hills Harn Harri mana mans and morgans that are now the worlds cap bains of industry the contact with nature not only instills the principles of honesty and morality in the mind but brings them closer to their maker without which contact enduring success la is impossible there is a a structure which every graduate fro our or school is a build mg ing young and old rich and poor each one for himself it is called character and every act of your life is a stone for this structure if day by day you von are careful to life with upright deeds at the end you will stand a fair temple honored by god and man but as one leak will sink a ship and one flaw break a chain so onezean one mean dishonorable act or word will forever leave its impress and work its influence character then let the several deeds unite unit to form a day and one by one the days grow into noble years and the years as they slowly pass will raise at last a beautiful edifice enduring forever to your praise and you will cherish with the utmost tenderness the memories of your school life the old school house the familiar walks about the place the desk up on which you wrote your name all indelibly stored away in memory never to be forgotten the fighting and q quarreling ling of neighbors is 13 a foolish and costly pas time you will lose a friend or two a whole lot of self respect and a whole lot more 0 of f the respect your acquaintances h had od for far you and very likely have to your discredit a long list of cuss words and foul epithets if you come to think about it in nine out of ten the cause of it all is 13 so childish that any sensible deno must afterwards honestly blush for shame A farmer who was the father of twelve children had rocked each one in the same cradle with the same great toe he was rocking the newest arrival one evening when his wife remarked william that cradle is nearly worn out im afraid it will fall to pieces it is about used up replied her husband then handing her a ten dollar bill he remarked I 1 the next time you go to town get a new one a good one one that will ill last |