TO TRAIN UP A BOY.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 934, 18 June 1878, Page 3

TO TRAIN UP A BOY.

Have you a boy from five to eight year old? It so, it is a matter of the greatest importance that you train him up right. Teuoh him from the start that he can't run across the floor, whoop, chase around the back yard, or uso op a few nails and boards to make carts or boats. If you let him chase around, he'll wear out shoes and clothes, and nails and boards cost money. Train him to control his appetite. Give him the smaller piece of pie ; the bone end of the steak ; the smallest potato, and keen tho butter dish out of his reach. By teaching him to curb his appetite you can keep him in good humour. Boys are always in good humour when hunger gnaws at their stomachs. If he happens to break a dish, thrash him for it ; that will mend the dish and teach him a lesson at the same time. If you happen to notice that your boy's shoes are wearing - out, take down the rod and give him a peeling. These were purchased only ten months ago. and, though yon have worn out two pairs of boots during that time, the boy has no business to be so hard on shoes. By ! giving him a sound thrashing, you will prevent the shoes from wearing out.

If you want him to pile wood, the way to address him is thus : ' Nowj see here, Henry, I want every stick of that wood piled np before noon. If I find you haven't done it when I come back, I'll thrash you till you can't stand up.' It is more than a boy of his size can do, in a whole day, but you are not to blame that he is not thirteen instead of eight. If you hear that anyone in the neighborhood has broken a window, stolen fruit, or unhinged a gate, be sure that it was your boy. If he denies it, take down the rod, and tell him you will thrash him to death if he doesn't' own up,' but that you will spare him if he does. He will own up to a lie in order to get rid of a thrashing, and then you talk to him about the fate of liars and bad boys, and end up by saying: ' Go to bed now, and in the morning I'll attend fa your case.' If you take him to Church, and he looks around, kicks his seat, or smiles at some boy acquaintance, thrash him the moment you get home. He ought to have been listening to the sermon. If he sees all the other boys going to the circup, and wants fifteen cents to take him in, tell him what awfully wicked things circuses are; how j they demoralise boys; how he | ought to be thrashed for even seeing the procession go by; and then, when he's sound a?leep, do you ./ssneak off, pay half a dollar to go in, ' and come home much astonished at the gymnastic feats. Keep your boy steadily at school; have work for him every holiday ; thrash him if he wants to go fishing ; or nutting; restrain his desire for skates, kites, or marbles; rouse him at daylight, cold or hot; cuff his ears for asking questions ; make his cloths out of your castroff garments, and you'll have the satisfaction of knowing, when old and grey-headed, that you would have trained up a Tiseful member of society had he not died just as he was getting well broken in.