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rig he drives, and things lilie this. They seem to think more of his looks 

 and dash than of moralit3% They should be a little more strict on this 

 subject, and the young men would be more careful. 



Mrs. Gains: It all comes back to one thing and that is the lack of 

 training Avhen they are young. 



Mr. Hobbs: I feel as if I am not authority on this subject. I can 

 train trees better than children. I have concluded that the matter of 

 training trees is very simple as compared with the training of children. 

 I feel a great responsibility about training children, and I feel that we as 

 parents are not enough Avith our children. There is too much of a dis- 

 tance, especially between the father and child. We are too busy making 

 a living to pay the proper attention to our children, and we leave the 

 children to their mother and to the neighbors, and I have found that as 

 I have grown older and do not feel like working as hard as I used to do, 

 I give my younger children more attention than I did the older ones. 

 I can see a very marked effect on the child and it has a marked efifect on 

 me, and I think a beneficial effect on both of us. We are very chummy, 

 just as I should have been with my other children; there is a closer rela- 

 tionship between myself and the youngest child because we have been in 

 each other's company more. I think we as parents make this mistake in 

 not taking moi'e time from our business to be with our children. 



Mrs. Hudgell: I agree with what the gentleman says. I am the 

 mother of three boys; I like to hear of girls doing well, but I have made It 

 a rule all of my life to stay with my boys even if some of the work has 

 to go. Time isn't too precious for me to be with them. I think I am re- 

 paid for what I. have done for them in their loving way to me; I would 

 not take anything for the remembrance of my childhood days that I 

 spent with my parents. 



Mr. Stout: Twenty years ago I had this question all worked out, but 

 since I have two children of my own I am back in the primer class. 



Mr. Swain: I heard my father make almost the same remark and that 

 was that at the age of twenty-five he felt himself competent to give ad- 

 vice upon the training of children, but after raising a family of seven 

 he says, "I haven't a word to say." 



Charles Swain: I will say in this connection that I was sometimes 

 overtrained, but I think it is better to correct children than to be always 

 finding fault with them and upbraiding them. 



Mr. Milhous: I want to tell you that we have been busy at our 

 house, and I think our neighbors will tell you that we are very busy, but 



