The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-09-14

aoreeabIe condition. When the scholars have {
NAMED in such room for several hours,
agreeably entertained by the pleasing pictures
and drawings which decorate its walls, or the
neat furniture which he uses, is it astonishing {
that he should find repulsive his own dwelling
where he finds ell SO diffsrentf And yet lis
there any excuse for the difference in the con-
dition of things. The dwelling may not be as
fine as the school, but it can always be as neat
and as attractive. Beautiful paintings, at
tractive illustrations are SO cheap now that
no one can pnt in the plea of poverty as bar
rior to his procuring them. great mistake
it is, under which parents labor, when they
| imagine that they can give to any teaeher or
servant the home education of their children.
This must be done by parents; it is part OF
| tkeir duty, inseparable from their position In
| the economy Of creation Teachers may In
struct and partially educate; servants may
| restrain and prevent evil, they may oven in
j struct, but parents must take upon themselves
the greater portion of the home education of
| their children. Under the false impression
that the responsibility of the home training
may DO transferred to some one else, parents
belonging to what is commonly called the bon
ton. frequently leave their children for year
after year at boarding schools, never allowing
them home for more than few days, perhaps
not that length of time even, under the plea
that business calls for all the time that can be
spared, never thinking for moment that
} wealth without the knowledge of the proper
nae of it will be a curse rather than o blessing
to their child rem
child who las beeu sent away from home
i at q very early age, who is kept away year af-
l ter year must necessarily become estranged.
: He or she looks upon parents as sort OF pay
}, ing teliers, whose only business it is to make
q money and spend IL for them. For this reason
t it is that some institutions refuse almost posi-
d lively to retain students during vacation
?, They do this at loss to themselves rather
IL than encourage this growing desire among
l. parents to escape the responsibilities OF por
ut ton of the homo education of their children
ut Next to tho education which should be giSer
DC through tho eye, should be that ct selection
at sc e.rvants. whose morals and manners vii
le be such as to FAY orably impress youth. AS
of rn1e no servant should be taken into fatnll
bit without first inquiring closely into their ante
Ia cedents Tho same holds true OF professors
ely music. who are in troduced particularly to tn
er- lady portion of the family. This may see'
Die severe, but to those who have read st. Liquor
on this very subject, it will be admitted In'
ch we have given the position its mlldesS EXPIRE
by sion. At the same time, and the remark
Or particularly forcible toward American famine
ley children should be taught that servants haH
my certain rights which neither yoang lads N
sA- fair damsels controvert. One OF the vel
ten hast methods of teaching children the forbe;
I'D, ance thew will need in after-life may be Incl
to Gated by their requiring them to act or epe
T a defersntialy to domestcs. Villemain has So
be TINT "nothing SO tries man as freedom
lid 10 force in conn
his tion with the point arc analyzng. Free
8 it ON is the characteristic of our country
ged day. Unfortunately among American child'
, in this freedom degenerates in many cases il
elli- imnudeuce and iutolerable overbearing.
the yards none is this manifested oftener by you
hat, American boys and girls than to their
Ject wants.
any Those who have travelled on the lakes Oh
Won Nv of the fashionable routes, OF who b
dc. spent few weeks at the seashore, will
, the fail to have noticed this popularity in
en- q bows and girls. While thus teaching then
arks resnect those whom circumstances have pla
what beneath them in the social scale, child
en- should likewise be taught to compassion
the sufferings of the poor, the aged, or the
d be crepit. Father Faoer says so"e"heto
D. young persons are naturally cruel that
VI he | take pleasure in inflicting pain. Taking
,hild. assertion qualheuly' o"h o"h CA
Prov out the broad assertion Oh the SANITY Su
f the of "All for jesus L MS disposition c"
5 not best eradcated by tho frequent PfAo''o
ed us tho opposite. This division of our subject
many more than oLce occuP'eu o'not' "'00N' 'ou
early we do not think tha' VIC eau soy ~uS'
4 who more to the purpose Una" "h1' "e N"''
rotify and chilled from eonUeu PoiAiS' ""O'o
It and is unknown to Us, though his sentimente