1903 
343 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Hope Farm Notes 
Educating the Bot. —Here la a. not* 
from a New York woman which interests 
me: 
“There is a question in my mind. What 
is a cultivated mother to do where the 
boys are past 12. very helpful and willlngr, 
can do all sorts of work on a farm, but 
the father, being burdened with a heavy 
mortgage, cannot afford to hire necessary 
help. The boys must work in early Spring 
and Fall. How can they go to school in 
graded schools, whore attendance must be 
continuous?” 
That is a hard situation for a mother 
who desires that her boy shall have a fair 
chance. I'erhaps the mother is an old 
school teacher who knows the need of cul¬ 
ture and constant application. It is hard 
for her to face such a situation, knowing 
as she must her husband’s necessities, anu 
yet with worthy ambitions for her boy. 
Our country owes an endless debt of grati¬ 
tude to such women who in the past have 
kept hold of the best that is in their sons 
and fanned the little spark of ambition so 
that the sweat of drudgery never put it 
out. Why, some of these mothers can 
make the lamp of hope burn so brightly 
that even this toil-wrung sweat will be 
burned for fuel. I have been reading an 
account of Poland—that most unhappy 
land where people still dream of a free 
and united country, though the nation has 
been cut up beyond all possible hope for 
reuniting it. Still the Polish people refuse 
to give up their ideal, and live on with 
tlieir dream of liberty. It is said that this 
ideal is kept alive by the women, and I 
can well believe it, since I have seen 
women toiling bravely on, surrounded by 
hard and depressing conditions, yet still 
true to the ideals which they hope for in 
their sons. Educators and preachers re¬ 
ceive credit for much that farm boys ac¬ 
complish. This credit does not belong to 
them as it does to the mothers who hold 
on to the boys. 
INTEUUUPTED SCHOOLING.—The Madumc 
and I have had many an argument over 
this idea of keeping a boy at school. W’e 
do not agree. 1 am ready to admit that 
she is a far better teacher than 1 am, but 
1 have the advantage of her in the fact 
that 1 have been a boy myself, and that 
I had to earn the little schooling I have 
had—before 1 got it. 
Ah. ha! So you don’t agree? 
Well, when you lind two people who 
agree to a hair about everything you will 
lind a couple of angels or one big, power¬ 
ful brute who has clubbed the other into 
abject submission. A healthy disagree¬ 
ment is the grindstone on which mental 
and moral axes are ground! 
The Madame, as 1 understand her, thinks 
it a mistake to break into a boy's school¬ 
ing. She would make almost any sacrifice 
in Older to have his school or college 
training go in a steady and continuous 
growth. The boy may not fully under¬ 
stand the importance of his study, still, 
she feels that he should, if possible, finish 
before life becomes wholly practical to 
him. On the other hand, I would give a 
boy a fair, common-school education and 
then put him at work. I would do my 
best to give him ambition and show him 
how knowledge will give him power and 
ability to master himself. I argue that if 
the boy is worth an education this course 
will make him work for it, and there is 
nothing that will purify knowledge as 
sweat will. The Madame thinks she is 
right, and my own experience gives me 
some conlidence in my side of the case. 
For nearly nine years of hard work 1 had 
110 schooling at all. Then I entered college, 
because 1 knew that my powers were scat¬ 
tered and untrained, and I had become 
convinced that I could not concentrate or 
train them alone. I felt the need of a 
college training. I think I got more out of 
the college course that I could have ob¬ 
tained as a mere boy. 
So you think you are about right? 
Well, hardly—not a day passes that I do 
not realize how I am handicapped by a 
lack of early training. It is true that I 
acquired an ambition for study, but I did 
not know how to search for knowledge. It 
is as hard for a grown-up man without 
studious habits to satisfy his thirst for 
knowledge as it is for a man whose fingers 
have been stiffened by years of hard toil 
to learn to play the piano! 
Then the Madame is about right, after 
all? 
She generally is! It all depends on the 
way the boy is trained and the influences 
that surround him. All boys are not alike. 
It is folly to lay down one rule of training 
for all children. Some can be guided en¬ 
tirely by gentleness, while others— 
Bot Training.— But hold on— I am get¬ 
ting into a dangerous position. I have 
been requested at times to take the little 
boys out behind the shed and give them 
what I thought they deserved. I mentioned 
that fact once, and if ever a man got 
bloodthirsty letters to pay for it I was 
the man. Several good-sized men said in 
effect that it would require less than five 
cents to induce them to come and thrash 
me well. 1 am a man of peace, and w'as 
once a prominent candidate for deacon, but 
my curiosity is quite strong, and I came 
near offering the five cents to see if tho.se 
gentlemen would not require a doctor’s 
care by the time they finished their job! 
My father was killed in the Civil War. 
1 have only two mental pictures of him— 
one as he stood bidding us all good-bye, 
and the other what I will now relate. I 
was lying in bed with my brother. We 
were in an attic room. It was late In the 
afternoon, and patches of sunshine came 
through the western window and lay on 
the bed. Mother had sent us to bed as 
punishment for some mischief, her last 
words being—“Wait till Father comes 
home!” 
We heard him come in, and a conversa¬ 
tion about like the following sent fear and 
hope through us like alternating currents: 
“Now, Joseph, I want you to go right 
up and whip those little boys. They dis¬ 
obeyed me and did just what I told them 
not to!” 
“Oh. well. Mother—they are pretty small; 
I guess they didn’t mean any harm!” 
“That’s it; you’ll ruin your own chil¬ 
dren,” 
“Well, Mother, I must say I don’t like 
the job, but if you think they need it-” 
So he came slowly and heavily up the 
stairs, I can see his head as he mounted 
through the dusty sunshine. He tried to 
look stern and scold us, but he knew that 
in a short time he was to go to the front 
and leave us behind. He struck some 
pow'erful blows at the bed—just where we 
were not, and we helped him out by yell¬ 
ing with every lung we possessed. Then 
after it was over up came Mother and 
carried us down to supper! 
The Madame rather shakes her head 
when I tell this story—but I don’t know! 
I am glad Father didn’t give us what we 
probably deserved—just at that time. Later 
in life the old gentleman who undertook 
to bring me up gave me several dressings 
with an aim far better than Father’s. I 
have absolutely no resentment toward him 
for doing it, for I have no doubt it was 
less than I deserved. Some sentimental 
people seem to think that a child lives to 
hate the parent who punishes it. I should 
say from my own experience that this is 
not so at all. 
But does punishment ever do a child any 
good? 
I have known children so naturally con¬ 
scientious that severe punishment, and 
certainly one that was unjust, would quite 
break their hearts. I have known others, 
especially “institution” children, who come 
to one’s family with evil habits already 
formed, and who cannot inspire real love, 
who cannot, as I believe, be reached and 
disciplined by “moral suasion” alone. 
H. w. c. 
A 12-YEAR-OLD BOY 
Can do more and better work with thi.s 
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TWO CROP ESSENTIALS 
are cultivation and keeping down weeds. 
More important than deep cultivation is 
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