Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1917 — KNOW HOW TO RAISE A BOY? [ARTICLE]

KNOW HOW TO RAISE A BOY?

If You Did You Would Solve All the Problem* of Mankind and Conquer the World. "How to Raise a Boy? Why, If anybody knew how to raise a boy he would conquer the world. He would take his place at the head of all philosophers —and stand as the most exalted of men! If there could be written rules of rearing children, all problems would be solved. There would be no distress in the world, no crime, no blots upon the whole face of the earth,” says the Dayton News. “Boys are born and proceed to grow. They have heaped upon them from their earliest understanding all manner of admonitions. They have showered upon them more human love than any other creatures that are born. They have more care and attention — and pay less attention to It —than any other things that come into the world. Now and then one develops Into a criminal; now. and then one breaks the hearts, of all who have had anything to do with him. But none of them follow precepts or advice. None of them develop along lines they are taught None of them turn out exactly as those who have them in charge expect them to turn out “It Is this way: A mother has two sons. They receive the same care and attention. Their environment is identical. They eat the same food. They have equal opportunities or advantages as regards education. They study under the same teachers —or refuse to study under them. Theoretically, they ought to make the same kind of men, for they have been brought up together. But they don’t. They are nothing alike when they are grown. One is good, the other bad. One is studious, the other refuses to study. One is reliable, the other unreliable. No, there is no way of telling how a boy ought to be raised.”