The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-04
nrs. Pcrry's Boys.
BY LAURA L. LYMAN.


"What beautiful family of children
YOU have, Major Perry said |, as a tall,
sodiery looking man took his seat in the
omnibus beside me bound for City Hall. |
had dned at his house the day before. and
been introduced to three fne-looking young
men and two lovely young ladies, who, in
the fifteen years since had seen them, had
grown out of my knowledge.
"Ies, they are nice children" said he
but those boys are Mrs. Perrys boys.
don't deserve any credit for raising them Mt
all, and the girls | only saw once in while
from the time when they were babies till
they finished school. You know I've been
in the service all my life. and it is only two
or three years ago that bought on Clinton
Avenue and settled down at home, as man
ought to, with my wife and children.
Mrs. Perry has certainly been very sue
cessful in raising her family said |.
''Well, you see, said the Major, Mrs.
Perry is a very uncommon woman, very
she has way of managing everything, and
everybody around her, that's really remark
able, and she's the pleasantest woman in
the world she never frcts or scolds. bat
somehow she makes us do just as she wants
lis to, and we think we're having our own
way all the time.
II must find out her secret said |, as
babe him good morning.
a few days after my interview with the
Major, | attended Mrs. Everett's excellent
lecture on the management of Girls" be-
tween ten and twenty-five, the manageable
age as she ayers, and chance or Providence
seated Mrs. Perry and me together.
As we walked homeward, exchanging
ideas, discussing and endorsing the thor
ough sensible and practical views OF the
lecturer, turned the subject of converse
ton on the raising of boys. major Perry
SAYS you deserve all the credit of raising
those boys so well, said /. land / would
like very much to know how you conduct
their social and domestic education"
"There's great deal to be said on that
subject" replied Mrs. Perry, "but here we
are at my house; come in, and we'll have
long talk together. The summer after
left school visited Mammoth Cave, and
extended my tour to Nashville. There
met a lady who cannot, think, be alive
now she was the sster-in-law of old Gen.
Carroll, of Tennessee. A very amiable,
lovely-spirited woman she was, and quite
advanced in years. was asking her about
the Inhabitants of the city, knowing that
she had lived in it from the earliest date of
its settlement, and in replying, among
other things, she said this : I've lived in
Nashville for fifty years, and there's one
and ,hot is Tho srncoss that yridn,ro ' hoYo
LoJ H., ro;s;n1r ,La;r fo,e,i;o, IN, at,o
went IN ~ reconnt tho nro,,irort ,,,a,, H.,
Nooh,,;llo ord II eeamad hot Iorrro no
ior;tv of thon, boI hoor Ioft fat6o,lns,
carly in l;fa and heen raorod eololv nv thoir
,,'a,Iars r dnn,, rnn,on,har ~, e,,,, ri'o'
said sho .uhero ono &c nnr Vosh,i,la ,do,,,'s
has had prodral SON
s.At thot t;nIo tool, of oo,rso e,i,h,
interest in this stotemn,, bnt af,or,1aris
whom found mvsoIf the p,otbor Of n ILL.,
fam,;iv of ch;ldron opd 90 ,o;r fotha .,,.ae
ahsont naori, al, tha ti,'o n,,, oi a.,
,ho roononsih;i,,, of ra;s;,q ' , "'''v
Mrs Carrnil sn;3 cave " hnnE 0m,, VIVA.
and ogo;n and roynlved in nv, , ,,';nT oil
,ho aion,nnts that NET h,,;a - 49,
the success of those Nashville mothers,
They must have inspired their bows, rea-
soned, with a love of high and noble man.
illness, else, when the bows reached an age
to throw off maternal authority there wonld
have been trouble. | read very carefully,
too. the manner in which George Washing.
toms mother trained him. and gradually NV
mind grew clear ms 70 NV hest course with
regard to nv sons. In the first Mace I re-
solved that home should be the very cheer
lest and happiest place in the world |
asked a CLERGYMAN once why ministers
children were so often rcnroach to their
parents. The answer is easy, said he !.
God has placed the family first and the
church afterwards; ministers too Orion 70.
verse the divine order. and ostnom tbe
church of paramount inheritance. and thev
suffer the inevitable results of changing
the natural order of Times
81 resolved in the next place that |