Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1905 — ADVICE TO PARENTS [ARTICLE]

ADVICE TO PARENTS

The national holiday is near at hand. If you are the father or mother of young children begin now to teach them a little common sense regarding the methods of celebrating the day. A year ago the “glorious Fourth” in the United States was celebrated at a cost of 467 lives, 3,967 persons injured by explosions and fire losses amounting to $250,000. Give your children no explosive instuments; give them no pistols, guns or giant firecrackers, which can maim, injure or kill by any carelessness or lack of caution. If any such things are to be used in their celebration, take the time and trouble to officiate yourself as chief manipulator. It will cost you less in the long run than the surgeon or the undertaker’s bill if you trust the matter to the management of your children. It is a great deal kinder to disappoint your children in denying them the use of dangerous combustibles than to allow them so much ■ freedom that they go through life with only one leg or arm. If there are invalids in your vicinity, make your offspring realize that consideration of other people is a greater quality than the patriotism which expresses itself in noise. Better do a little talking before the "Fourth” than a lot of weeping after it. Better look ahead with precaution on the third, than look back, with remorse on the fifth. Last Fourth of July 3,967 persons believed they knew all about celebrating and would have scoffed at any council. Look to it that you, or yours, do not help make up a similar list of unfortunates this year. The Perry Nursery Company, of Rochester, New York, one of the leading nursery concerns in the U. 8., writes us that they want a good live agent in this section to solicit orders for their products. Experience not necessary. They offer good pay weekly, and furnish canvassing outfit free. We advise any man or woman in our community, who is in a position to take orders for the above house, to write them for particulars immediately. Come to The Democrat office or all kinds of job printing.