The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27
Training Our Children.

recent lecture on IS Household Train
irg," presented this picture Of Ameri
can life: "The truth is, that we are
naturally becoming very impatient Of
details of every kind. We want to dc
up business, religion and education in
a lump. Such is the growing tendency
of the times, that are bringing in the
dangers of despotism. Generous senti-
ments are substituted for careful habits
OF discipline, which are abandoned in
favor of certain fine and general resolu
tions. It is the peril of our business
that men substitut show, and pay enor-
nous rents, and expect to make rapid
fortunes, and intrust it's manageme mt to
strangers, instead of having personal
supervision over it, and moderate ex-
pectations and patient industry and
life long labor. 1t is The peril of our
domestic life, and the cause of domestic
happiness being sacrificed, that people
are SO ambitious for splendid suites of
rooms and SNOWY carpets, splendid mir
rors and costly furniture. And it is the
peril of our education that it is in
trusted to costly teachers to perform
the duties which none but devoted
parents can SO properly perform. 1t is
obvious that in this state of things,
while parental and domestic teachings
is imperatively necessary it is also
peculiarly difficult. So deeply are
many parents impressed with the diff
fculty OF teaching their children sat
isfactorily under the moral and politi-
cal influences by which they are sur
rounded, that all sacrifices they flee,
like Joseph, into the interior of the
country, where there is some hope of
seciusion, or they 60 away to Europe.
1t is wise to run away from dangers of
the kind referred to. But young people
should be brought up where they are to
live. We cannot avoid our national
circumstances or our social and domes-
tic atmosphere. We must recognize it.
Do parents expect to set bad examples,
to hurry and worry through their bus
mess and exhibit want of temper to
their children, to bring anxious and
gloomy feelings home, and hope to have
their sons and daughters love their
society? Do they think to indulge in
Wholesale denunciations of their neigh
bors, to talk at home of political ex-
elements and of murders, of great in
surrections, of theatrical performances,
and have their young children sitting
round their table, and expect that thy
will cultivate a taste for history, for
painting or sculpture, or other elevating
influences 1t cannot be so. If our
natural circumstances have brought
our men and women up impatient OF
details, superficial in their knowledge,
fond of excitement, and Incorporate of
speech, if husbands and wives are not
what they ought to be at home, let
them not wonder at what they see in
their children. To train them up prop
erly first requires that we should train
ourselves. When we do this we may
hope to possess wisdom and power to
train our children to good and in ways
of virtue, peace, ard piety."
G1ApsroNE's retirement from public
life will be sweetened, it is said, by the
of Queen Victoria, who h.
offered a peerage in her own right to his
wife, and will confer a baronetcy upon
the young Gladstone. This is London
gossip.