Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1910 — American Children. [ARTICLE]

American Children.

There are two classes of rich Amerlean children. One is never heard of. To this belong those children who are being brought up on a sensible,healthy, simple life plan, being trained by English governesses and tutors, who come from a country where the training of children is a very fine art. These youngsters will grow into strong wholesome men and women with healthy bodies and alert minds, eager to enjoy those pleasures and interests which will be theirs when they grow old enough to appreciate them. The children of the other class are always in ol “Die Goetterdaem* merung” and “Elektra,’’ read grownup books, and mimic the world of their elders to the detriment of their minds, manners, and bodies. What will the world have to offer these young people when they grow up? Every luxury which their elders have enjoyed they are tasting of. In greater or less degree, and most of the excitement as well. They have got so far away from the simple tastes of childhood that they can no longer understand its pleasures, while all the edge has been taken off the amusements to which their elders look forward.