MORE ABOUT THAT BOY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 666, 6 May 1914, Page 6

MORE ABOUT THAT BOY.

(By Nannie C. Smith)

What are you doing to make your boy's life a success, to make him love Home and take an interest in the farm and think it the best place in all the world for him?

Have you given him a choice room, or does he lhave to claim tha attic and have it furnished with ail the old, worn-out furniture, faded curtaina and worn-oat ruga that will no longer do duty in any other p3rt of the hou3e? All boy 3 admire beautiful things and enjoy comfortable things aa much as a girl does. Every mother knows that environments greatly influence the young of either sex, and that the early years of a child's life are the most important ones. If a boy's surroundings are of a refined nature,he will be a refined boy. Teach him proper manners and encourage manliness in him. Respect him and he will respect himself. Just to feed, clothe and shelter him is not sufficient.

Make a companion of him. - Right here apply the old adage: "An ounce of prevention is worth a. pound of cure." Unless he can have comradeship at home he will seek company elsewhere. He will not care co much for outside attractions if you are companionable and if home ia made pleasant and attractive. Take a boy's paper and get books especially for him. Boys usually like books of travel, adventure and frontier life. Let him entertain hi 3 friends; the visitors he will bring to your family circle will belong to a better class than be will be with if he seek| company on the street corner or around the country ntore. Don't be forever nagging at him. Nagging will drive a boy away from home quicker than anything under the sun. God's holy book tells you riot to provoke your children to wrath. If the boy blunders or forgets, reprove bins in a kind manner. He will be grieved but not angered, an>l will be more careful in the future.

From the very beginning of life teach him obedience, truthfulness, orderliness. Teach him to put away his playthings and clothing. Require him to brush and fold each article and put it in the proper place. Orderliness is of the greatest importance in every line of business. Let him have a bed of iloweri to grow,inculcating in him a love for the beautiful in nature. Give him a tree to plant for his own. Let him have a plot of ground to grow some kind of crop which he may sell and have the money it brings. Don't think you are wasting anything on your boy; every effort and painstaking in his behalf will prove a good sstd that will germinate and grow an abundant harvest to gladden your heart