Show A GOOD G 01 0 D PAPER P A ird AE K 11 HAIT thu the regular meeting or of I 1 the 1 par 1 r ent teachers organization w was 1 held I d jail jant 23 A large crowie browa inas ft is present ent and it was the roost most enthusiastic meeting held thus far all joined in the lively round table discussion the fol loning program was rendered song america by audience prayer by mr louis bi blasel a eel Lucind les geography I lesson esson mrs 11 C rowley kowley song my aly dream ot of the U S A miss his ella dark clark talk duty of 0 parents mr but bullard A report of vist visiting rig committee was given by mr van tassel and sir mr bullard br alard A paper entitled practical value of habit was read by mrs S aus aug smith following is mrs smell s paper of habit there Is a persian table fable mat a loump arnce i aiice once allowed the devil to hiss him bm on oa the shoulder at each f tle tie two to spots fols N where the devils lips touched touche 1 there grew out two ser fief which attacked h hs his s head tile the prince seized the serpents with hl his 1 ard and tr trod ad to pull them loose hut but found that he was only tearing hs his own onn llesh flesh they were ere a part of him A great truth is learned from this lille lil le we ve I 1 icy amy repeat cc n acts fiill iocco no c completely comile tely woven into the fline ie of 0 our character sow vii iti nil one and acia reap rean a habit sow a hialit and you reap a character sow I 1 f cha character acter and ani i yon yo i real a destiny is an adage ot of cicat v worth orth i ow iper 1 r of shoes li ii the store stoe me ma itt iff well lel to of 0 a then tl oi rind feitl T ran hut but let them lie vi worn orn by one for a abek week and they become that tha mans shoes sl oes and it Is practically fin 3 to adjust them properly to ta i 1 nyoke ele eie they biant hao taken alien an in ili liol et ct alcy t cy have taken on character har acter so it i 3 with A ith the human 1 3 taint anit and it is N veil ell ali t s so the angle acts of our lives are th that t are woven into tile the cables of character habit 1 crin crini ns i lit in the child n small acts it t here liy by unseen degrees it is like ace ohp waters of a arver here it is a brook in the moun mountains tans yonder it it has tri feathered str engin until it has become a mighty river ing a great area of country or properly directed is spreading gently over great fields of growing crops bringing I 1 to the thirsting plants or again turning the wheels of industry to tile the benefit of thou canda of people Accord according ng as directed habu habit in ore one person may gather around alie 1 I 1 1 heart like a serpent to lie anaw S alfo 1 f and poison ip in another 1 ft may econie as 29 a stron strong g rudder of 0 a sap to i teer fafel y past the whirl oc of te temptation mutation to one it may tg be a souire of 0 weakness to another a source ol of strength what whal then Is iid habit it if is the involuntary tendency to perform certain actions which acquired by tre fre quent repetition or as we day say a fixed tendency to respond to a given there are three special values of 0 habit which I 1 will wili c mention here first habitual acts can be carried on with greater prom promptness add ease when the hand has been to act and the mind to think in a certain t way whenever the action or thought of that kind la Is called forth the mind Is ready to respond habit has made it so BO it becomes easier to do right than wrong when right has become the fixed habit of 0 ones life thought impulses find or make channels for or their outlet they prefer to use the ones already made acts become easier by repetition in the second place habitual actions require less cons conscious clodi attention in the child walking requires conscious attention but by repetition walking becomes a reflex and conscious effort may be given to bom something ethIng else it Is a true that we can not trust entirely to the reflexes or we may become absentminded and do things as amusing as the professor who lie it Is said return ng one night from a lecture through the rain put ills his um umbrella brelia to tied and stood himself up behind the door now lit in the third place habiC habat renders ler not nol only particular actions but particular kinds of actions thus thu d lit a ti n 1 berman and a botanist may trav travel e 1 through the same forest and I the an sees the trees with preference reference to their commercial value while the botanist observes tile the plants with reference to their classification fi environment etc habit del 1 eloped of a certain anci of 0 thinking or acting will nill ever make it easier tor for I 1 I 1 one to go into fields of thought or activity closely relocated thereto I 1 the training of 0 certain habits Is vastly important this training i should begin early habits are largely formed before the age of fifteen it is seldom tint that great changes come in affe after tile the age of 0 twenty it if a child forms incorrect habits of speech and later adopts better forms forma there will occasion occasionally aly cume come times when the incorrect expressions 0 youth will crop out certain kinds ot of lia habits tilts should be formed at certain etain ages the senses should be trained before the child reaches tile the aie age of leven and habits of reason later the chicci will respond respond to the call of the mother lien hen unless kept from her for a wee c or more arter hatching the right time of forming habits should le ile understood and made use of by both parent and teacher loeh loch the home aid aad the school bejla early and give careful ii attention tea lioi to tile the formation of habits of clein lieis re neatness atness order orderliness linese 1 actuality courtesy accuracy 01 olva fence temperance and purity and to tile the oTer overcoming coming of habits of their opposites some of these are taught 1 1 lar largely ely by example but mott of of them require precept drill and even positive 1 I e exactness I 1 n ler e Is a frev ing tendency toward a u acal eglit en lit ig 0 of respect arid and far authority and along A ith it i a a growing contempt tor for law and order manifest maril fest in the hoire hoice the hont nal in soe society ety this endens end enc should sh be cli checked cheeked che eckeL eked parents parent s owe it to their children and teachers to ihl ho state to tr trin n the child to tho fallt ha ait of ct respect and obedience olied lence to condit constituted tied authority this problem the parent and teacher should I 1 understand alike that they may work j along the same line A form of intemperance which I 1 wish to emphasize here Is the c cigarette habit much is being said about this terrible habit but too much cannot be said it if tobacco were not harmful to the body and mind it is an enormous 1 drain on the pocket book the annual tobacco bill of the united states has readied the astounding figures of twelve million dollars A large percent of 0 this bill 11 Is s paid by people who suffer tor for the real necessities ot of life the use this poisonous poisons als weed saps youth ot of the th health and vigor necessary to qualify themselves for some useful career statistics show that no american youth has received a college do degree gree who habitually uses cigarettes ar ettes A large majority of habitual 1 cigarette users drop out of school before they complete high school set sel dorn dom does a boy complete the eighth I 1 grade it if he becomes a cigarette user before so dont boins parents and teach era should do everything possible to keep this out ot of boys during the developing and formative I 1 periods ot of their lives another habit to which parents I 1 and teachers should rive give attention is I 1 that ot of purity rIty conditions have obtained that demand that the parents take lake their children into their confidence and give them wholesome instruction n st ton with reference to the mysteries of life and the necessity of pure thinking and pure living human hitman life la too precious and too eacret to be wasted and abused by evil habits let us remember the words of the poet bickerson W who he was a great educator and lover of children they are the ilie idols of hearts and of households they are angles ot of godin disguise his sunshine still sleeps in III their tresses tress cs ills glory still beams in their eyes those shouts of home and of heaven have made me more manly and all and I 1 know how jesus could liken the kingdom of 0 god cod to a child n lil my V heart grows as tender as womans comans and the fountains of feeling will flow when I 1 think th of 0 the paths steep steel and stony where the feet of 0 those dear ones must go 0 the mountains of 0 sin that oer hang them 0 the tempests of fate ate blo blowing wing wild n but t I 1 know theres nothing bothin g on oil dearth earth more holy than the innocent heat ot of a child |