The ESTEY staggering before the gale. A strange coast of dark forest and stormy headlands. Surf booming upon a desolate shore. There is magic in this music-magic imprisoned in a paper roll, ever obedient to your mood and will. That is the wonder of The Estey Residence Organ, an open sesame to the best music of all lands and all ages. The Estey Residence Organ is a true pipe organ, orchestrally voiced, designed and built especially for the home. It reproduces all the tonal effects of a full orchestra, including violins, viola, harp, cello, flutes, reeds, wood-winds, brasses and chimes. The Estey Organist, an integral part of every Estey Residence Organ, relieves the music lover of all the difficult technique of the Residence Organ instrument. Rolls may be obtained for any musical composition, and may be used in either of two different ways. With one method, it is only necessary to insert the roll. Without any further attention, the roll will play the entire composition, regulating tempo, stop combinations, swell shades, etc., according to the interpretation of an expert organist. Using the other method, the roll assumes the entire operation of keyboard and registration, but permits the music lover without technical skill to give his own interpretation of the composition, with complete control over tempo, phrasing, tone coloring and all that gives life and individuality to music. The mechanism for operating the rolls may be instantly disconnected by the pressing of a button, and in no way interferes with the practised organist's playing of the instrument by hand. In artistry of design no less than in splendor of tone, The Estey Residence Organ is an appropriate part of a beautiful home. It is readily installed in houses already built. By the utilization of waste space a satisfactory installation can almost invariably be arranged. When building a new home, the co-operation of the architect often makes possible a more comprehensive instrument. To families interested in the musical possibilities of the orchestral pipe organ, we suggest a visit to one of the Estey Studios in either New York, Boston, Philadelphia or Los Angeles. Appointments may be made for a private recital, and special programmes arranged to include your favorite compositions. HE father or mother who doesn't sense in its full the God-given responsibility, of bringing up children is making a mistake which may easily lead to everlasting sorrow for both parent and child. Character is not born but builded. You as a parent are the architect of your child's character-the constructor of its future career, for upon character depends success. Abraham Lincoln, perhaps our greatest American, once said: "All that I am and all that I ever hope to be I owe to my mother." Great men before and since Lincoln have said the same thing, and how truly they spoke! Reversed methods of training could have turned many a ditch digger into a financier and many a financier into a ditch digger. And this difference is not one of school training but of training right in the home from the time the child is born until it leaves home. And yet we have never until recently given any really scientific study to this great question. Thousands of parents are daily using wrong methods, which can easily destroy their children's chance of happiness and success. And the pitiful part of it all is that they don't realize the irreparable harm they are doing. The trouble has always been that we have not searched for the cause of disobedience, the cause of wilfulness, the cause of untruthfulness, and of other symptoms which, if not treated in the right way, may lead to dire consequences. Instead, we punish the child for exhibiting the bad trait, or else "let it go." As a result, we do the child an actual wrong instead of helping it. What we should do is to attack the trouble at its source. The new system of child training is founded upon the principle that confidence is the basis of control. And the five fundamental principles involved are: suggestion, substitution in choice, parental initiative in cooperation, parental expectation and parental approval. Under this new system children who have been wellnigh unmanageable become obedient and willing, and such traits as bashfulness, jealousy, fear, bragging, etc., are overcome. But the system goes deeper than that, for it instills high ideals and builds character, which is of course the goal of all parents' efforts in child training. Physical punishment, shouted commands, and other barbarous relics of the old system have no place in this modern school. Children are made comrades, not slaves, are helped, not punished. And the results are nothing short of marvelous. Instead of a hardship, child training becomes a genuine pleasure, as the parent shares every confidence, every joy and every sorrow of the child, and at the same time has its unqualified respect. This is a situation rarely possible under old training methods. And what a source of pride now as well as in after years: To have children whose every action shows culture and refinement, perfect little gentlemen and gentlewomen, yet full of childish enthusiasm and spontaneity with all! To put in practice these new ideas in child training, strange as it may seem, takes less time than the old method. It is simply a question of applying principles founded on a scientific study of human nature, going at it in such a way as to get immediate results without friction. The founder of this new system is Professor Ray C. Beery, A.B., M.A. (Harvard and Columbia), who has written a complete Course in Practical Child Training. This Course is based on Professor Beery's extensive investigations and wide practical experience, and provides a well-worked-out plan which the parent can easily follow. The Parents' Association, a national organi- Life membership in the Parents' Association-which has no dues-entitles you to a complete course in child training by Professor Beery, in four handsome volumes of approximately 275 pages each. This course must not be confused with the hundreds of books on child training which leave the reader in the dark because of vagueness and lack of definite and ation, thus keeping each member informed as to the progress being made in this important and far-reaching work. Third: Authoritative advice as to the children's books, schools, camps, and all matters pertaining to educational methods. Fourth: Unlimited free use of the Association's Purchase Service Bureau, through whom all educational books, whether school text-books, or books treating on the mental, physical or moral development and training of children can be purchased. This service will be free and members availing themselves of it will find by comparison of prices that they secure the benefit of publishers' trade discounts. Before becoming a member of the Parents' Association you are privileged to examine the four-volume Course in Practical Child Training without the slightest obligation, and without even making a deposit, in order that you may be sure that the work of the Association is along the lines of which you approve, and that the course contains exactly what you want. Do You Know How practical applications of the Do You principles laid down. It does not deal in glittering generalities. Instead, it shows exactly what to do to meet every emergency and how to accomplish immediate results and make a permanent impression. No matter whether your child is still in the cradle or is eighteen years old, these books will show how to apply the right methods You merely take up the particular trait, turn to the proper age, and apply the lessons to the child. The younger the child the better. You cannot begin too soon, for the child's behavior in the first few years of life depends on the parent, not on the child. at once. Membership in the Parents' Association gives you, in addition to the special Four-volume Course in Practical Child Training, the following privileges: First: Unlimited free use of the Association's advisory service in the solution of perplexing problems in Child Training. Second: Mail service which will consist of Special Bulletins to be issued from time to time, containing the newest findings of the Association's Board of Experts and relating the experiences in child training of other members of the Associ to instruct children in the delicate matters of sex? to always obtain cheerful to correct mistakes of early to win confidence of chil to keep child from crying? to teach personal courage to suppress temper in chil- to overcome objectionable to make firmness unob- to dicourage the "Why habit in regard to com- to direct children discreetly to train child in neatness to prevent quarreling and to cultivate ideal temper- to deal with supersensitive to cure impertinence? Discourtesy? Vulgar. ity? to deal with boy who is a to eliminate all forms of to replace disinclination for same? to encourage child to talk? to inculcate respect for to overcome obstinacy? to prevent and correct round shoulders? Slouch- to cultivate mental concen- to engender interest in to combat various juvenile to teach honesty and truth- to insure your child's fi. to treat child that runs away? to cultivate cleanness of to prevent fickleness? Jeal- to strenghten memory? to induce child willingly These are only a few of the hundreds of questions fully answered and explained, in a way that makes application of the principles involved easy through this course. Here is the offer the Association is making for a limited time: If you will fill out and mail the application form printed below, without any money, the complete Course in Practical Child Training will be sent by return post on five days' approval. Examine it carefully and then, if you feel you can afford to be without it, send it back and you will owe nothing. on the other hand, you are as If, well pleased as the thousands of other fathers and mothers who are turning to it each day for guidance, send only $2 at the end of five days and $2 a month for four monthsonly $10 in all. On receipt of the first payment you will be enrolled as a member of the Association, and will receive a certificate of membership. If you are truly anxious to make the greatest possible success of your children's lives, you owe it to them to at least look at this course, which you may do, in accordance with this offer, without risking a penny. I must urge you to act promptly, however, as this offer may never be made here again. APPLICATION BLANK (NO MONEY REQUIRED) THE PARENTS' ASSOCIATION, Inc., Dept. 1711, 449 Fourth Avenue, New York City. You may send me, carrying charges prepaid, your complete four-volume Course in Practical Child Training, by Ray C. Beery, A. B., M. A., for five days' free trial. of the four-volume Course, and $2 a month for four consecutive months in full payment for Membership and Course. If it meets with my approval and I decide to become a member, I will send you $2 five days after delivery subscribe, I will return the books within five days after their receipt. It is agreed that when I send the first payment you will at once send me a life membership certificate and that the $10 is payment in full, and there are no additional dues or assessments whatever. If I do not care to Name. Address -50 SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE ADVERTISER |