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There are Sinners--and Sinners. There are the obvious crooks that the "law imprisons and the obvious crooks it doesn't imprison. But today I'm going $0 speak of a class of Sinners who have hitherto been exempt from even the suspicion of Cfime, I refer to Parenis. Yes, I observe your start of bor- , ror. Nevertheless I persist. No sin- ner in all the world is more harmful than the Parent, when he is a ein- mer. And most Parents are -alnners --although they do not dream of the fact. And now I can see you settling con- tentedly In your armchair as you read, ~ondering which one of your neighbors I am now about to "show up." Do not be so comfortable, my friends It may be that I am about to show you up. The sins of parents are not always blatant and vicious. Not by bea'ings, nor ignorance, nor fan- sticlsm are the worst parental sins mrought--but in the name of love. The very foundation of your "'rights and duty as a parent'--the belief that the child is yours and that you mus' train him in the way he should go, is evil. The child is not yours. He belongs to himself and God. You have no right, or duty, to mold his soul or shape his career. His soul's integrity ehould be es sacred, as Mviolable, as the soul of an utter stranger. He is a stranger to you. For he must take up life where you have left it off. He mus. succeed where you have failed. He must be witer and stronger and bet- ter than you. He will be all of these things if you let him grow as Nature futended. Your only duty is to be a Comrade--to show him what of fife you may--to be loving and dharPable and good-natured when he takes joys which are not joys to you and endures pains you would Save spared him. He is Bis own. You oan only give first aid. And now let's come down to cases ~4t0 you in your comfortable chair and your kiddie out in the backyard eating the 'cake you told him nat to touch, In the firs® place, what is a Child, A Child is the Next Step in the Human Stairway. That sounds simple but what a re- volution would be caused if we really acted as if we believed it! George Folks Back Home . Bernard Shaw, in his remarkable es- fay on "Parents and Children," says that the child is "a fresh at'empt to produce the just man made perfoot --that is, to make humanity divine." Do we try to make that bit of human- ity divine? We may say we do, bu" the chances are we try to make him like Uncle Amos or Grandpa or our own eelves. Do we treat him as someone capable of far more inter- esting and advanced life than our- selves? We do not. From the day that he ts born, we consider it our duty, our Duty--to "ry to mold him in the form of our individual concep- tion of what is agreeable, efficient and proper That is all very well when he is a tiny mite, Someone has to do his thinking for him when he is a babe. Rut as soon as he begins to do his own thinking and desiring along Mnes alien to our though's and de- sires, do we "lay off" and let him - buy a little of his own experience? Do we treat him as an individual with an individual's right to self-ex- | preasion? Generally we do not. We try to mold harder than ever. Some- time we do it with bea'ings and nag- gings., Sometimes we do it with lov- ing and tears. Sometimes we try cures, Sometimes we try prayers. Kut either course Is blasphemy against the plan of God. Love all you waat, advise all you want, help all you wan'--but do not try to hold that child after your idea do not take advantage of his cred- ulity, ignorance and affection to con- vince him that your standard ds the only one to be followed or 'hat he must do what you say 'if he loves you." Again 1 quote from Shaw: "Every child has a right to iis own bent. It jae a right to be a Plymouth Brother though its parents be convinced athe- It has a right to dislike its i ists, WR! TTEN AND ILLUSTRATED DY ELSIE ROBINSON THIS TALK IS ABOUT PARENTS miother or father or sister or brother or unele or aunt if they are antipa- | thetic to it. It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether shat way seems wise or fool- ish to others, exactly as an adult has. 1t has a right to privacy as to its own | doings and its own affairs as much | as if it were its own father." \ That doesn't mean that the child has a right to make an infernal nuis- | ance of itself in the home or out-| doors. "Its own father" hasn't that | right, either--ailthough he often Lakes It doesn't mean that the) child has a right to waste, or aunoy, or destroy, or interrupt or lose all self-restraint. © No adult has a right to do these things, either. Society restrains the silliness and violence of "he adult, but it never- | theless respects the individual right | to the pursuit of happiness." Par- snts, as mepresentatives of society, { it. should restrain the silliness and viol- 1 WONDER HOW THE WORLD WOULD SEEM IF PARENTS, FAT OR THIN, WOULD ACT UKE INSTEAD OF GODS OF TIM ! 1 WONDER IF YOUNG BILL WOULD NEED SO0CH WOODSHED DISCIRLINE, IF MA AND DAD WERE CAUMS INSTEAD OF ANGRY GODS OF TIN! FOR I AM SURE THE BLACKEST LINKS OF SIN, ARE FORGED BY THEYRE SACRED GODS OF TIN! @ KINDLY HUMAN FOLKS I EARTHS SAD CHAIN PARENTS WHO BELIEVE '1 WONDER IF THEY EVER WAS A LITTLE T30Y LIKE ME. \ = ih - fa loam (ncle Gus. Uncle Gus sat by the stove, wadly polishing a cow horn. "I ain't got nothin' '0 call the dogs with," he complained bitterly, "on account o' me bein' a good feller. Last October Jim Barnes come over to borrow my getter $0 go bird huntin', an' I let "im have her. He put a load 0' shot in her defo' night. He was pow'ful sorry, but he Jdid- n't say nothin' about payin' fo' her. An' then last week he oome wantin' to borrow my torn, him an' the boys bein' a mind to go 'pos sum huntin'. I knowed I wa'n't never goin' to see the horn mo mo," an' sure enough he dropped it In the woods an' come back full o' grief an' explanations. "I've knowed a sight o' chronic borrowers in my time, an' I ain't ever knowed one what could be trust- ed with nothin.' If they wa"n't shift- fess an' sorry, they'd have things o' the' own; an' bein' shiftless, it ain't reasonable to expect 'em to take care ©' things they borrow any mo' than they does the' own. "It ain't kindness o' heart what makes me lend 'em things; it's jest because I ain't got back-bone enough to ouss "em out an' send 'em packin.' An' me bein' soft-hearted that way, I'd a eight ruther have the itch than lve mext to a feller what's got the borrowin' habit. I sho' would." lines and possessed a flivver and wore a lodge emblem and thought very well of himself. And of the first | he said: "Poor gink! How can he be satisfled as he is?" A third man appeared. He knew nothing of international politics or 'psychology, but he used the right fork at the right time, bathed daily, read the best sellers and possessed a dress suit and thought very well of himself. He saw the second man and Sketches by . H. Striebel -h By Rob : eald: "Poor gink! Satisfied in his ignorance." A fourth man appeared--a man who knew history, the arts, sclence and polite manners. He could speak ten languages and could awe a but- ler. He observed the third man and sald: "Poor gink! He probably does- n't realize how ignorant he 1s." And the gods on Olympus observed the fourth man and sighed. "Poor gink!"" they muttered, Poor ignor- The Girl and the Butcher Boy In one of last month's magazines there was a piece written by a rom- antic fellow who held that one who is incapable of jealousy is incapable of love, and that a man no longer loves his wife when he ceases to be Jealous of her. The girl across the street read the piece and determined to try the the- ory at the Wharton party Wednesday night and test the love of Hiram, the butcher boy. One of Judge Ryan's boys was down from the founty seat for the party, conspicuous in tailored cloth- es and patent-leather hair, and the girl persuaded him to sit with her 'beneath the stand lamp and held him there by wiles known only to her sex, meanwhile observing the butch- er boy covertly to measure his Te- action. ~~ The experiment proved only 'that) experiments are dangerous. She told i Daughter about it next morning. | "Hiram sighed lots on the way home," said she, "and my heart was touched. I p his arm gently and asked him what his thoughts were, And the horrid thing said: 'I was just thinkin'. Gosh, wasn't that ice cream good!" What male is there whose heart Joss pny second fiddle to his mmm. ert - Quillen] ant a k. And yet the fool is content in his ignorance." ------ amr es Balances. Nature's system is an admirable system of checks and balances, If she provides an appetite, she provides the commodity wherewith the appetite may be gratified. And by reason of her nice economy, the strong that prey upon the weak breed but siow- ly, while the weak that are preyed upon keep their species alive by rea- son of their remarkable fecundity. This nice balance of need and sup- ply obtains also in the realm of mor- ality. Some men are morally clean for the same reason that they are ad- dicted to the bath habit: because they have a natural or acquired aver- sion to dirt. These have little capa- city for conscious wrong-doing, and therefore have little capacity for re- pentance. If they do wrong, pride comes at once to the rescue with a sophistry to excuse them, and they suffer no loss of self-respect. Men of the other type--emotional men with a vast capacity for repent- ance and a proneness to indulge in orgles of remorse, have this capacity and this proneness because they have also a vast capacity for conscious wrong-doing and are constitutionally incapable of resisting a temptation. The rabbit's ability to run fast af- fords sufficient proof that it will have frequent need of nimble legs. Willie Willis, While little Willie Willls was organizing his "Juvenile Klu Kluxers" at the cemetery, Momday night, a white mule appeared among the graves. 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To fail to do so is to sin against the || highest law between man and God--- {the right of every human being to find goodness in his own way, To fail to do so is a sin. The father who beats his child into submission is a sinner. The mother who loves and preaches and weeps her child into submission is a sinner. i The father who forces his child | into want and pain and sin by his | neglect adn hardness is @ sinner. The mother who keeps her child away from hardy contact with life by Ler fears and softness and coddling | is a sinner. ! The whole point is his. No mat- | ter how advanced youn are, how pro- gressive, how young in spirit---you belong to a day that is passing and he belongs to a day that is to come. The things that feed you physically and nourish you morally are not the things that will feed or nourish him. Justice and truth, courage, love and humor--these things are eternal, but their application varies with every generation. You cannot equip your child with his moral weapons, for you cannot foresee the fights he will have to wage. You can only live your own life with such purity, kindliness and honor that he will come to love pur- ity, kindliness and honor for them- selves, and wish to use them in his' own life. But what constitutes honor for him may not be what constituted honor for you--just as your idea of honor varies widely from your great grandfather's, Lay off, parents--Lay Off! Stop your preaching and posing and pre- tence, Stop telling what "you did as a child." You know perfectly well | you're fibbing. Stop pretending you | know it all. Stop pretending that | you're really "grown up." You know in your heart, if you have a heart. | that you're nothing but a helpless | blunderer and dreamer. You know = -- Dressed Spruce New stocks of select grades from the best mills in Quebec and New Brunswick. ALLAN LUMBER C0. VICTORIA STREET. "Phone 1042. PHONE 0&52¢ zme-s0s aveen see. 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