The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-03-06

The system Under which They Are
Trained by Their DemoustratiSe
Mother~-Admtrable Features of In
uer NOnnestie Life.

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their emotional and sensational faculties,
This development exists In both sexes. but
Is far more evident among the women than
among the men ; IL acquires force With Ell
u~cation. and il most glaringly conspicuous
in the highest classes. depression OF man
ifestations of feeling forms no part oil
French teaching on the contrary, those
manifestations are regarded rs natural anu
desirable. We therefore find that French
mothers rather encourage their children,
and especially their daughters. never 10
conceal the impressions which may agi-
tate them. providing always that the im-
pressions are honest and real, and are not
of a nature to shock either coHreadnccS or
principle. IL follows that the impulses OF
children remain unchecked. that they rush
into light directly they are felt and That
the influence Of mothers II governcsses
is employed to guide such impulses to a
faithful and graceful form of expression
far more than TO suppress, or even control
them in themselves.
There is a vast deal to be said in favor Of
this system. Ii stimulates individuality,
il fortiiies the affections. il develops sensl-
bility in many of its varied forms. Ii has
been applied for generations. and IL has
produced AN hereditarily acquired capacity
WI ~tiAliNfiAA Nlit'lt ~ hhAR 49, ''
is certainly greater than that possessed by
any other nation. The range of this ca
pacity is most extensive. Ii applies TO al
most every position and almost every ac-
cident of life. to art, and ever 10 science !:
but It's full effects. its full consequences,
are naturally observed in the tenderer
sympathies. in the emotions md In the
gentler duties which fall particularly on
women. THERE'S in most French women.
a gushingness, an unrcstrained outpour-
ing of inner self, which is reproduced
in their daughters as abundantly a. in
themselves. Girls. from their very baby
hood. live side by side with demonstatiye
mothers. who show and say what they
think and feel with a natural frankneSs of
which they are scarcely conscious. The
children not only inherit this disposition.
but are aided to develop it in their own lit
tie hearts by example. contact and advice.
They are bornimpulsivc. They are shown
how to be 80. They are told that. provided
impulse be well expressed. and be di-
rected to worthy objects. il is a source of
JOY. of tenderness. and of charm.
The English theory is very contrary To
this but such matters are questions of
race and of national habit. And. further
more, if we are honest. we shall W thata
ht'H Nu>'tDllDlilN VI tii'Ai'h = iihliN'ig
attractive in a true woman. Young
French girls have it to an astonishing ex-
tent, particularly in the upper ranks.
Their heads and hearts live in the open
air; their natures are all outside. They
have no place where they can hide away
a thought from their mothers sight II
must come out. Ii l. easy To understand,
even at a distance, how this simplifies the
guidance of "A child. Its merits and its de-
fleets come right into it, mothers hand.
She has not got 10 hunt for them. and to
doubt whether She sees the truth il glares
at her in the hundred little acts and words
o finer expansive girl The French child
wears no mask.
And the direct action OF the mother be-
comes all the stronger from the almost
universal custom of keeping her children
with her day and night. Many "A girl in
France has never slept outside her moth
er's chamber until she leaves il To be mar
ried and. nj the worst. she j. no farther
off than the next ROOM, with the door open
between. such unceasing n~eighborhood
brings about an action which may be not
only intellectual and moral. but possibly
physical and magnetic too. The mother
passes into the daughter, the daughter abb
serbs the mother-their essences getmixed;
anu itUtf IL l. Aldt IitItn MNiI'h ~
else such singular power over their girls,
and that the girls SO generally become an
exact reproduction of the mother, under
whose constant eye they have grown to
womanhood.
Between the transparent frankness of
the child's nature and the indefatigable
proximity of the parent. we get the ex-
PLANTATION Of the regular transmission of
those types of character which seem to re-
main UNMARRIED in so many French families
of the upper class, and which may almost
be said to belong to them a. their names
do. The same qualities and the same de
fects are reproduced among the old nobili-
ty from generation to generation.
When a wife comes in from another orr
gin. she may try perhaps TO Introduce new
elements but they get affected, or, at all
events. weakened, by the old traditions
with which they have to contend !: so that
the main features Of the house continue 10
be- recognizable: the child %appropriates
them. and hands them on again when she.
in her turn. becomes a mother. This is.
however, true only of the highest classes,
where pride of race. and their supposed
obligation to maintain ~preconceived no
tons, still exist with wonderful vigor. In
the middle and lower stages of society no
such religion could be found. There the
operation Of modern developing Is seen in
It's fullest force there, no ancestral theo-
ries compete with nineteenth-century ten
denotes there the modern woman and
her modern child are fashioned as the mod
ern man requires, but always, though in
varying degrees. with emotional hearts
and unchecked sympathies.
The general result Is, that, wherever we
look throughout France, in chateaux and
In cottages. IN the ''hotcis" of Paris. and
IN workmen's lodgings. we see the girl
children echoing their mothers. sometimes
with absolute exactness. sometimes with
merely approximate resemblance. but al
ways with "A sort Of outbursting natural
truth, which Is singularly winning, and
which inspires very thorough confidence