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Show ! CHESTER f By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK I I DB ef Men, Uaiversity f 1 Illiaeli. I I dont know what Chester's last name la I could have found out but He went tearing op and down the aisles shouting and slamming the doors and tripping over feet snd suitcases and paying no attention to anyone. He was quite at borne wherever he went In the observation car where a number num-ber of people were trying to write or to read quietly, Chester moved constantly con-stantly from one place to another, trying try-ing this chair and then that looking at one masazlna and then tonnlna It I was not curious enough to Inquire. In-quire. He got on the train at one ot the Canadian summer places with an Impetuosity Impetu-osity and a furor which made ns ail aware of his coming and he remained with us until we reached Minneapolis. He w a a a well- aside for another, and all the time he was making a great racket "Don't do that Chester," bis mother would occasionally say, but her warning warn-ing seemed to act more as an Incentive, Incen-tive, to further disturbance than as a deterrent Chester had not yet learned the sound of hla master's voice. He went on as If nothing bad been said to him. At the table Chester sulked a good deal or ate as If the process were wholly to satisfy his appetite. Generally Gen-erally he did not like what was set heforfe him snil mnrt riernfvnfnr Mim. menta on the menu. Father and mother moth-er took little notice of thia attitude; they were evidently quite used to It and were neither surprised or shocked. Chester la the Illustration of one sort of modern training of the young. Be la being allowed to express his own personality, to develop without restraint It he learns good manners, or modesty, or self-control, or unselfishness, unself-ishness, or regard for other people's comfort or personal rights he will pick these things up himself through experience and bard knocks, and possibly pos-sibly through watching some one else whose example be thinks well ot If I may judge from the way he acted between Seattle and Minneapolis the parental, restraining band has not yet been laid on him. (Q till. WMtira Newspaper Union.) dressed and well set-up youngster of ten, I.Judge, and If be had bad any manners or had been tanght any aort of self-control he would bave been a very likable boy. He was apparently the only child of a prosperous-looking gentleman of sixty and a handsome woman considerably younger. I Inferred In-ferred that there were no other chll-dren chll-dren In the family from the completeness complete-ness with which he got what he wanted, want-ed, disobeyed all verbal orders given to him, and disregarded the comfort and the rights of every one on the train. Father and mother occupied a drawing draw-ing room at the end ot one of the cars but Chester seemed to feel that the whole train was his personal property. prop-erty. While bis parents were quietly engaged In a friendly game of bridge with some acquaintances which they bad picked up on the way, Chester roamed at large like a wild Texas ateer turned loose In a public street |