Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1886 — A Word to Mothers. [ARTICLE]

A Word to Mothers.

I Teach yonr boy to be courteous and obliging. This you can do in the nursery by precept, but can also point out to him when! abroad the courteousness of other gentlemanly boys, and show him how muoh you admire it. An unselfish and non-self-indulgent boy will generally grow np a gentleman in manner; at all events, the converse is true. Teach your child to be honest and honorable in all his doings and dealings with his brothers and sisters; and teaqh him, too, that rare virtue, charity, which ever follows at the heels of truth. Order and regulation are no mean acquirements. If they be not taught early they will never be learned. A child should be made to put his toys away, each in its proper place, and even to know where he puts his clothes, so that he could find them in the dark. So will he be tidy in person, tidy in the apartment he occupies, and orderly and tidy in life. I need not tell yon to teach yonr child to pray, nor remind you how religion softens one’s path through this world, and lengthens life itself by giving hope and calm in the hour of peril and sickness.