Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-08-21
EVENING STAR.
a Ttsilf Refn.

We 60 not say anything very original when
We say that tie chief object in the government
hirseIf- we know that most people think diff
FereutIy. or rather they believe differently. One
can not dignity their mental process with the
Ieas. feel, that the business they have in hand
IN tie government OF children l. 70 conform the
chilt's will to their own. What is falsely called
family government Is in most families selfish
struggle between the willfulness OF the parent
and TIE WilifUlDesS Of the child, a struggle be-
tween the strong and the weak, in which the
weak goes down. "But have not right to be
Cbeyed'' asks some indignant parent who has
AZ thus Tar. We answer that your very quss-
ton GetTays the seifshness OF your dem and.
You are thinking Of your right, and not OF the
catlds good Halt your failure lies just there
AEd AZ you insist on 4 categorical answer 10 your
question in regard 20 your right, We answer with
more indignation than you asked IL, tnat you
have no tight 10 exact obedience unless you ex-
&C. the obedience Tor the chiid's good instead OF
ty- Your pleasure. Marx, we 90 not say that the
child. exert IN fragrant cases has a right TO re-
fuse obedience. The child has no right to judge
G! yOgr motives OF OF your wisdom. But you have
general night TO eEeTcse your authority Tor the
rs IL SAKE Of being Oheyed. For, let US repeat,
the chef Object OF family government should
BE- C. 'larL p Cf-!i 20 10 without your authority.
liz BTtCles Las sa'd IN his quaint way that
there g. ig>i g. much family gOyeTnm ent now as
there wa formerly, but that more of IL i in the
Ialf- 81 the children. Which Is q mater not
Q, re regretted. The shoot must one day be
severed HOE ,Ee parent stem; the sooner II gets
-Cof- enough TO live by itself, the better. UyOG
lave child CAPABLE OF governing himself al
.ltCeu. = CiCe- Throw the Teins upon his neck
and let him 60 his gait. Self-gOveInment Is
only learned by exercise But If You wall
child in, and ClTcumvent him always by the re-
StEaiH.s CT your own will, how shall he ever learn
to stand alone" We have seen a pine-tree thai
grew tai and slender in q dense forest, holster
e. or every hand BY Us fellows, so that il did
not need q acquire hardness OF fiber. And then
when a road vas cut tErOugh the forest, we have
seen that se.f-SsEe slender, supple, upright tree
lett standing without support upon one side.
And at the ErSt wind it bent itself down across
the road, making itself into a bow from sheer
lack OF 9Th 20 stand up. And we have seen
young men checked and governed like infants,
never allowed 20 stand upon their own respOn-
si5Ety-we have often seen these weakly-up-
right young men, when lett without the support
O. authority, fan from lack OF moral stamina
! hey had never learned 10 stand alone. Gov
eminent in the family should be administered
iii brandy in the famiiy-it is to be reserved
.or cases OF necessity.-HSOrtl and H,He.
DIDN'T GIVE IT UP-One OF our citizens is
blessed, OF otherwise, with very stubborn
wife. H. his case he finds that when woman
VII she will, yo1 may depend ont, and when
she won't she won't. and that's an eud ont.
This popularity Of disposition in his wife is no
secret among bis associates, and one Of them
meeting LiTn tie other lay. asked:
Well =, ID you know why You are like q
''Like donkey. echoed W, opening his
eve WIDE. ''NO, DON'T"
DO you give It up"
'.Becausa your better half is stubbornnsss
-t-eIf"
That not bad. Ha' ha, III give that 10
~ wife when 20 home"
'Mrs- W be asked, ne sat down to
supper, Edo YOU know why | am ike a don
kew
Re waited moment, expecting his wife 20
give q UT. but she didn't, she looked At him
somewhat cOIEmlseTaSHEiy p she answered:
y SUPPOSE its because yCu were born So"
W has abjuTed the habit OF putting cOnun-
drums l. Ei- Wite-LdrFsH.s IueyicIn.
EF-A Detroit gentleman one hundred and Eve
years OLD has lately been troubled with failing
ID his eyt-siSht. ana his doctor thinks it's the
result Of smoking 20 excess fOT the last ninety
wears OF 80.