Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1899 — CHILDREN AT TABLE. [ARTICLE]

CHILDREN AT TABLE.

Th* Idiot mod the Ptdagog Compare Xotee am Training. #> John Kendrick Bangs advances some original ideas on home discipline in the Woman's Home Companion while describing a successful dinner party given by “The Idiot.” “Most certainly,” said the Schoolmaster, “I certainly do approve of having children at table on all occasions. How rise are they to learn how to conduct themselves? The discipline of the misery Is apt to be lax, and it is my belief that many of the bad table manners of the present-day child are due to the sense of freedom which eating in the nursery naturally inculcates.” •Three is something in what you ay.” said the Idiot. “Tommy, for instance, never learned to throw a French pancake across the table at his sister by watching his mother and myself here In the dining-room, yet in the freedom of the nursery I have known it done.” “Precisely ” said Mr. Pedagog. “That very little incident illustrates my point exactly. And I have no doubt that in the nursery the offense seemed less heinous than It would had it occurred in the dining-room, and hence did not meet with the full measure of punishment that it deserved.” “Well,” said the Idiot, reflectively, "I quite agree with your proposition that children should dine in the diningroom with their parents, and not upstairs in the nursery with a lot of tin soldiers and golliwogs. And as for the ■tern father who says his children must dine in the kitchen until they learn better manners I never bad much confidence in him or in his manners, either”