The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-23

he broadcast margin can, and say that circum-
stances have forced them from their natural
channel. am quite sure the woman is running
counter to her inclination and always hop. the
man is. The literature, whose burden is the
manner in which girls should be reared, and the
qualities which they should possess to fit them
for becoming good wives, is copious enough, but
who ever read single article concerning the
| correct method of rearing an old maid !?
The man is the head of the family. His
standing in the world, morally and socially,
fixes their position. If he is guilty of mean acts
he invitably drags them down with him. We
have plenty of instructions concerning the re-
quisites and duties of the mothers in Zion, but
never a word of the modls oleraadi of construct
ing tie fathers.
The similc of the oak and vine is very pretty,
but surprising the vine has no oak to which to
cling, or having sent out its tenderest shoots to
Irvine conidingly around the oak gets rudely
shaken off. The monarch of the forest from his
extended facilities for observation, sees some
tenderer vine which perchance he may think
more needy Of his protection-some prettier
not stripped of its beauty. The old vine has
grown aged in his service. It has beautifed his
home, by its grace and loneliness entced the
birds of the air to frequent his branches, and
covered with beauty his otherwise rugged ex-
terror; but its society is getting monotonous,
the tendrils cling very closely and are begin
ming to gall Our American oak thrives we'll in
new soil, and with the first propitious gale the
old vine is dislodged to make way for the new.
Or the vine which should, perhaps, have been
planted in a more congenial SOIL in closer prox-
unity to some sturdy tree, in sending out its
tendrils meets only stunted underbrush, poor,
weak saplines rotten at the core, which the
canker worms have stripped of all its beautiful
foliage. Would not discriminating vine rather
keep along close to the bosom of mother earth
than to trust its wealth of blossoms and fruitage
to the undeveloped tree:
The climbing rose leans confiding to its sup
port and, if not repulsed, will thrive and grow,
content to see the sunshine only through his
branches; but plant the rose by itself, clip the
delicate shoots, keep it from the shade and pro.
lection Of the tree and it grows into hardy
plant. Not so beautiful we will admit, but
self-susteining bush, casting fragrance and beau
ty on all around it. and dependent on no I'M
willing oak or elm for protection. Teach your
daughters 10 be good and true, and your sons
the same Don't teach your son tina: it is right
he should require OF his wife all the christian
virtues meekness, industry, frugality and chas-
tity, while he, dressed in little brief authority
plays tyrant in the day time and spends his
evenings and earnings courtezans and riotous
living. There is not virtue laid down in the
category of female excellences that is not equal.
" becoming to the masculine character, The
copy in one Of my first writing books ran thus:
"Modesty is a quality that highly adorneth
lady" Very true, o Wiseacre and did you ever
know masculine whose makeup would have
been improved by the least amount of that same
adornment? Although I have no wrongs that
could in any way be remedied by legislation,
and although l doubt the efficiency of the in
fuence for right of the ballot in the hands of
women, believe women suffrage to be nevita-
BILE. But while awaiting it let us look to it that
our dau ghters are taught that getting husband
Is not their beings end and aim. Our sons
Formed on the good old plan
A true, brave and downright honest man.
Earlville, La Sale Co. FIpEs