HOW TO TRAIN THE YOUNG.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20274, 7 April 1934, Page 28 (Supplement)

HOW TO TRAIN THE YOUNG.

The following is taken from an English horticultural periodical:-—ln at least one respectable suburban home my /name is mud. And' this is how it happened, An adoring mother brought her rather weedy looking offspring to me to see if I could give him a job. Mamma wanted him to “grow flowers, it was such nice work,” and he was such a good boy, and so interested in flowers. He was so clever, too, he had just passed his “matric.,” and his schoolmaster had been so proud of him, and anyone who got him ought to be so pleased ... and so on. Pasty youth stood silently by. Mother talked and talked, until the paragon of all the virtues asked what he would have to do if he came to the nursery. “Keep the stokeholes clean, sift the ashes and wash pots,” said I. That it. Mother looked horrified, gulped for breath, and half shrieked, “My boy do things like that—you must be mad; my boy, with nil his ability, clean out stokeholes. Never, never, never!” and off they trailed. How does one train a pasty youth who wants to grow flowers 7 I know how they used to do itl