Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-10-17

but think should tie MP the little truant feet
eyerg time thew haEsgTess prescribed bounds,
until they learn to obey. Five minutes l. Gan
age" for such a punish rent TO a small child.
Ibe object Is TO impress the mind, 50 that the
little one will net forget 70 mind, or 80 that il
WI see tbat olsobedience dOes not pay. thought
70 De core good usturedly, with tender pity ex-
pressed Tor the naughty little feet. Yesterday I
t'd up pair OF hands for striking brother. 4
hhgged the little sinner, while tied them up,
AID talked as though the owner of the hands of
course wished to correct such a naughty habit
or to refrain from establishing such A habit: and
she evidently rattle took my side as against the
the clock struck, or about five minutes. When
united them, kissed each one, because / twas
sure they would try to behave better now"
~ dearl 1t takes line upon line, and precept
upon precept, and 1 often feel discOuras ed
Chiefly on account of my own mistakes, which
almOet ali arise from a deficiency of patience
are not good enough to carry out our own
theories. Our little onts are chips of the old
blocks, and inherit from us and from the
sources whence we derived our tempers and
Compartments, many OF the evils which We de-
plOTe in them.
Itmsy be best II ''ruIe by love alone," never
appealing 10 a childs fears, but most OF us feel
hat we have not time We have TO deal with
our culpTits too hastily. When two get into a
quarrel, IL seems impossible to do exact Justice,
because we have not time and are pressed with
other cares. 1 can see clearly that il is best to
take time, and that we ought to remember, that
no other duties can exceed in Importance, the
moral culture of our children, but when il
comes 10 the actual case, alas
WOmaD's Judgment of Mrs. TiItOn.
BrE. S1ciSShsiBl IN the Chicago Tribune
OF all the moral lessons ever Henry Ward
Bseeher taught, the most impressive is con
tanned in those words which Mrs. Stanton truly
says must have fallen with whitening cruelty
on her whom he " casts aside like a withered
dover" "She thrust her affections on me
unsougbt." These are the most instructive
words, this Is the greatest sermon that ever fell
from the lips of the great preacher! Let al
women read and ponder They teach an old
old lesson with new and mighty force. They
say to every woman: The IN an who would induce
you to do that for which You would hang YOUR
head in shame, il known TO the world, is a selfish
egOtist, and a coward No matter how grace
fully he may kneel. how elOquently and pas
ziCnately he may plesd; no matter how thickly
he may paint his purposes with cOatings of
piety and philosophy, his nature and his pur-
poses are base. IL il himself he loves and
under sufficient pressure, he will sacrifice and
trample upon you. The man who can get his
own consent to live a life he dare not acknowl-
edge, cOnfessee himself a coward; and a coward
in presence OF danger, will betray any trust. A
man who would make dishonorable proposals.
under the plea of love, 10 a woman. is so essen
tally sneak, that sacrificing her 70 save him
self rs as much necessity of his nature az
lobster.
One must pity poor little Mrs Tilton. Think
OF the great mesmeTic force which holds h an
dTeds of thousands in spell, which makes
right wrong and wrong right with a word, a
look, and gesture; think OF the power of
Beecher being concentrated on one human
soul,-s soul belonging to the class of devOtees-
soul made for devotion, predispOsed to believe
in anything which took the form OF piety-and
what result could be expected? What man
cOdld resist BeecGer if he would concentrate
his power upon him? Mr. TiltoE ia surely right
in feeling that his wife's fall, under the circum-
stances, is no evidence of unusual weakness
ard he n y well pardon her on the ground that
he himself committed blunder worse than a
crime in COnsenting to the unusual intimacy in
MS family or such a mana man who had long
been charged with immortality. The world can
we'll afford 10 pity and pardon poor little Mrs.
TIltop. Those who were at all familiar with
the fragile, nervous, sensitive, affectiOnate lit
tie creature may well cover her with a mantle
of charity. The strong can afford to love and
trust her, when not under the baleful influence
that wreck ed her life; but she is no pattern of
EomsnhoOd to be held up for other than con-
tPmnatinD