The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1869-04-29
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ooh, Egcrton you, with all your fastidi-
GUS IDEAS, not to know servant woman from
Nj ss Mountjoy. Why, Ida is tall and pale,
with face Like a Greek statue, and this girl
is-oh, goodness gracious gm-ls
Some people would have groancd in theat-
rical despair. / only sncczed, and better
sneezed, as the canny Scots say.
''Scd be up sub bustard water, ad a bowl
of hot gatnip tea-ad In go to bed = l
said, curtly. 49,, als a
"And not see Ida at all and Grant Nor
rail- has been here two days"
Grad BorrcI be haggedH'
So turned Lcone out of my room be-
fore she could utter any further remonstran-
[ kept my room one week with that Influenza,
cheercd only by aching bones and throbbing
temples. Mary Jennings, the "new cook"
sent up several dainty dishes, "and hoped the
gentleman that wasso kind to her was BETTER"
but I deigned neither to taste her knick-
knacks nor answer her message; and when
at length l emerged from my apartment,
looking very much the worse for wear, Miss
Ida Mountjoy was receiving the congratula-
tons of all the guests at Knelford. She had
promised to become Mrs. Grant Morrall
Of course the pretty country place had no
further attractions for me! but when [ cas-
ualy spoke of my intention to take an early
departure, Grant Morrall looked very wise,
chopped that Mrs. Wharton's discharging her
new cook so suddenly had nothing to do
with mig going"
I looked daggers at him, but condcscended
no reply. And Miss Mountjoy's soft little
laugh added to my, discontinue. Women
never can keep secret from one another,
and dare say Leonie had told her all about
it.
But what matters it? Don't VIC all know
that, in this world, 8a sa Q3rt III
''The best laid plans of mice and men
Gang aft agley? % t-..,f .--.
True Education.
True Education begins, not with the prm-
er but with our entrance on this "visible di-
urnal sphere IF, indeed many Of the infu- .
ences which powerfully affect it do not take
rise even antecedent to this. And as it be-
gins with our mortal life, so does it co-cxist
and end with it; though for certain purposes
it may be said to be concluded when the sub
ject is fitted for useful, honorable, manly Cor
womanly) career. la.- bis
by keeping these two ideas distinct, it will
be easy to solve some of the most difficult and
stoutly contested problems-as, for instance,
whether religion should or should not be
taught in schools, and whether the State
should or should not provide for moral as well
as mental training; thus placing itself in a
most important paternal relation to every
child.
Viewing Education then, in it's broader and
truer sense-as the forming, training and
araing Of the man for Life aud for Eternity.
beginning with the mothers cradle songs and
ondips with the Gnal prayer by tho bedside IF
approaching death, let me enquire, for how
much are parents responsible? How far are
they best efforts liable to be thwarted by the
maign influence Of want and misfortune p
How much IF it should the State undertake?
How far may VIC hope to overbcar malign
circumstances by the force of a happy con-
stitution, physical and moral? What light
is shed upon this great theme by the obser-
vations of sagcs and the lessons of History?
1t cannot be denied that many inherit Vi
cious constitutions from their parents-not
merely defective or deficient senses and phys
ical frames, tainted and corrupted through
paternal error or vice, but moral natures also
deprayed and inclined to chicanery, theft,
debauchery and crime, from the same source.
Let those who would understand and respect
the fearful truth ON this subject consult the
standard writers on the human physiology,
phrenology, and the less timid writer's on
marriage. as. ts.i aq -..a.-'i lns ,uy
think paternal responsibility for the NOR
al infrmaties Of the children is not yet sufi-
GENTLY realized and considered. We need to
feel its full force, in order to imbuc us with
adequate charity for the faults which strike
US so unpleasantly. Here is one-bad-tem-
pered, or gluttonous, or cnvious, even at the
mothers breast; do we readily and uniformi-
" remember that some parental vice or error
was the cause of that misfortune? Do the
parents themselves always realize that they
owe more to the unfortunate, and should treat
it With greater tenderness and forbearance,
than the morally healthy and sane brother or
sister whose life is perpetual JOY to itself
and all around it? l-al 1i .1
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