Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-06-14
A Word for Parents.

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To expect to dam a river with a feaih-
e., OF stop an earthquake with a plaster,
Or drown a hurricane with a tin ahistle. .
IS about as reasonable as to expect by ar
gumeut or advice to change the inclina-
tons Of young people, when they are un-
der the influence Of the passion which they
call love, and are determined to mstry
the object Of their desire.
"Say what you will, and Do what you
will, I0iU 6abe him." said Ohe girl, and
she did have him, with intemperance, pow
erty, bcggary, insanity and death to close
the scene.
"Would you marry him If you thought
these stories were true ?" said Christian
minister to a young relative, who was
committing her heart to the keeping Of
one against whom evil charges were brought
by mutual friends, who had opportunity
to know the truth.
- No, | would not, said she but no
one could convince her of the truth of the
statements, Twenty or thirty years of
pain and sorrow, and broken heart and
broken spirits, have done the work for her
at last.
"Would you marry him if you knew
he drank liquor ?" said woman to fair
young girl.
Certainly | would-marry him and
reclaim him" was the answer, and she
did marry him; and ere she had passed
month with her husband, she was ad-
vised by her friends to leave him, and
after year and half of abuse and sor.
row, she returned to her fathers house
poor wrecked shadow of her former
self, fleeing from her brutal, drunken and
adulterous husband to save what little life
she had left.
Ten thousand girls stand on the verge
of the same abyss to-day, and nothing you
can say, or | can say, will affect them in
the least, except to hurry them on tC
their terrible doom.
Why is it? Partly because they have
never yielded their wills to parental con.
tro!, and have always had their own way,
and partly because their parents have
never warned them of this danger, till il
came upon them like an over-ruuning
food. Parents do not win or encourage
the confidence of their children. Old
people forget that they were ever young
and young people do not remember that
they may yet be old Mutual confidence
is needful to mutual comfort or improve
mcDt
If the mother would say to her daugh
ter, in early life, long before the danger
GUS period comes, MY child, there vii
come time when new feelings, impulses
instincts and emotions will sway yol, ant
when the opposite sex will awaken in yol
passions which often prove stronger thar
Judgment, reason, and conscience and
coming under the influence of some young
man you will be liable to lose your self
control, and be swayed by his will, and
think his thoughts, and feel his feelings
and say Yes to his requests, because i
is his will and mind that makes ycr
speak the words he desires to hear; al
this will come and you will be liable t.
be swept to ruin by the force of an inau
ence which you do not understand, anC
can neither control or resist and which
may be strong in proportion as its sourc,
is vile and worthless; and your only Sc
curity from it is to place your future il
the hands of God, and watch your path,
and thoughts, and avoid even the quite
circles of this dangerous Whirlpool by in
vestigating, and judging first, and loyin!
afterwards; and only yielding your afec
tions when and where unbiased iudgmen
will declare that it is safe and right t,
yield them"
If such warnings and instructions al
these were given from day to day in earl,
life, how many young girl would ponde
the path of her feet, and walk carefully
that she might escape the ruin that at
tends so many in their wayward course.
Mothers and fathers, begin in season
with your children Prepare them tt
rightly estimate the new instincts anC
emotions of maturing life ; not by jokin!
and hectoring them, but by wise, loving
courses. Min their confidence and keel
it. Paeserve their privacies shield tn,
secrets of their hearts from the rude gaz
and mocking laugh, and let them feel tha
it is the safest thing they can do to shov
their first lovc-letter to their father, O
whisper their first tender secret into thei
mothers ear; assured that they will int
for such communications patient, cour
teous, reasonable and tender reception
and have the best of counsel, with N
danger that their confidence will ever b
betrayed. oh 4i
Parents, train your children in time
They have this sea to sail oversee to i
that they study the chart and know th
rocks beforehand. Tell them the thing
they NEED to know. Guard against th
wreck and ruin that destroys so many o
the young. :" Train up child in tn
way be should go and when he is old h
will not depart from it."
! To be forever watching and think
/ ing Of self, even for the purpose of i'm