Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1875 — Faults of Training. [ARTICLE]

Faults of Training.

At present there is in the National Capital a grand-daughter of Thomas Jefferson, who, with her young son, is pleading and begging for an office for one or the other as a means of support. The daughters of ex-Sec-retary of the Treasury Robert J. Walker, and those of Chief Justice Taney are doing copying as a means of livelihood, and there are the grandchildren of ex-Presidents, Generals, and hundreds of other distinguished people pleading for labor at even the smallestrenomerar tion, so that they may be able to live. All of which shows that people are just what they are trained and educated to. The sons of the wealthy of this generation, as a rule, are the poverty stricken of the next. Too often wealth pampers, and begets indolence and idleness. A boy needs good practical, tugged training, to teach him self-reliance,, and make him useful.— lnd. Farmer »