Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-09-15

| think one Of the saddcst things in life is |
the very slight knowledge which mothers |
sometimes have Of their daughters charac-
ters, feelings, dispositions and pursuits |
Such mother has probably a large family /
and is perhaps burdened with the cares and |
struggles attendant upon a moderate income
and thus completely overlooks the girls real |
life in her care for her body. However It |
may be, the daughter grows to maidenhood /.
left pretty much to herself, so long as in all /
outward seeming she is everything that she .
should be. | mean by this, as to study |
church-gong, dress and behavior, both at |
nome aud in society.
By-and-by school days are over. Then /.
Susie begins to 60 out more, and have com
pany at home evenings. Mother satisfies !
herself as to the correct morals aud family |
of said company. but takes no further
thought or care. Finally, there is a partcu.
lar one. Somebody's bright eyes begin 10 /
look tcnderly into Su5ie's own. Somebody I.
takes her TO church very frequently makes I.
numerous engagements for croquet and skat /
ing parties, and is very anxious that Susie I
should possess all the new music, aud see all
the popular monthlies. Still mother SAYS
nothing, or il sometimes thought darts into /
her mind Of what may happen, thrusts it
aside with Pshaw they are such children"
or Susie is too sensible to think Of such
things, when Charlie has no business"
But, mothers, your Susies and Charles do
think of such things, Throw two young
people together, or keep quiet if they throw
themselves together and il is not their fault
If something much sweeter aud more tender
than liking grows up between them.
Parents should allow no young men 10 enter
their families, whom they are not perfectly |
willing TO accept as husbands for their
daughters. II is cruel TO wait until love |
comes, aud then strive 10 separate those /
who have become all in all 10 each other |
No; this work ought to have been done /
long ago.
Well, Susie won't give up Charlie, and so
there is constant strife, together with mis- |
understandings and heart-burnings, between .
mother and daughter. At last the young |
people, with heads full Of romantic ideas |
gathered from certain magazine stories, re- |
solve to take the law into their own hands |
We all know what follows-the runaway /
marriage tho d'solaie, broken hearts al /
home, and the hard realities and struggle, |
which are the portion of Susie and Charlie /
Well for them if their love is big enough TO |
cover up all the ugly spots and rough place, |
which they meet with rs they travel upon
the uutried path.
But, girls. things very. very seldom hap /
pen So outside OF the covers Of your mlga /
zines. Charlie does not have a little farm |
out West or the income which can all at |
once provide two persons with bread, butter |
and clothes, whereas it had scarcely been |
sufficient for one in former years lie used |
to think tt very meagre, even although he .
had fathers house TO live in, and no board .
TO paw.
But say Charlie possesses all that your
tayoute stories consider needlul. Keeping
house on only just so much per week. and
when one does not even know how to make
bread, is not poetic, nice, nor even funny
Then, when your pretty dresses. underclothcs
and shoes are worn out, are you ready to put
up with shilling caicns, upbleaohed nus
lin, and pehble-goat shoes ! am afraid
Charlie will not be apt to meet with the
kind-hearted man who can not only advise,
but lend a helping hand. Neither will you
happen to live near the dear motherly friend,
who takes such an active interest in and
sympathizes so with that poor little Mrs.
Charles Brown" who lives around the corner.
No indeed, Susie. You will realize then,
if never before, the preciousness Of moth
er's love, care and sympathy. The end OF |
such foolish marriages in real life is that the |
young people are very glad and thankful to |
return to the parents home, accepting OF |
just as much help As father is willing to
give. For here, too think that the stories
err 1t is an exceptional case in real life
when parents doors and hearts are closed to
erring, wayward children although know |
that there have been life-stories which far
exceeded book ones in their romance, sorrow
and strangeness.
wish all the Susies and Charles would |
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