The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-11

and promoting the interests, COhuAo1o
and prosperity of their children. are
to be discouraged, checked or d1sap-
proved.
But would it not be better if, instead
of drudging like slaves, they Woulo
make their children work with them,
and so tighten their own burdens
while disseminating the value anu
honor of real, honest, true LABOR,
without which many become utterly
worthless or insane.
Children who find everything pre-
pared for them, seldom take the
trouble to prepare anything for them
selves. rather looking upon their
parents rs individuals whose sole duty
it is to supply all their wants however
unreasonable, thus acquiring con.
tempt or dislike for the authors OF
their being from these very facts
considering themselves superior by
being promoted with such ease ana
rapidity to an tltitude from when
they look down with horror at the
WAYS. tastes, habits and apparent
Ignorance of their ancestors.
Are there not thousands OF families
in this America that can bear lndls-
putable testimony to these facts!
Thousandy of mothers broken down
with hard work and years of solicltude
for the welfare of their sons and
daughters, hoping to live to see the
dav when one of their boys would I'LL
the highest office in the nation, ana
one Of their girls married to MIL
lionaire, or better still, to some oosh
of ~, old country Count
Phew! What land Of Presidents
this would be if all such mothers
should have their dreams realized,
and what lot of stupid, self-concelted
lazy, ill-shapen, empty-bralned girls
would be transplanted from their
native soil to ornament the mansions
of foolish men who might have been
attracted by the faces and figures OF
whose real hatching-together or make
up they knew little Or nothing until
too late.
And here again let me say there are
thousands of men in the United States
who Wills be willing to swear to
these facts also. How can it'be other
wise when fathers, but more especially
mothers. inculcate the ideas and
notions which they do into their
children. the first and foremost OF
which is to get ahead of every other
child by being ''little ladies' () and
gentlemen GO
Heavens! how these words are
misapplied, the modus operandi they
take to make such articles being
| strangely at variance with the laws OF
| God or nature.
, For instance, to insure the proper
} deformity of body and mind Of
Young lady she must be taught tt
| wriggle and twist herself out of shape
5 as much as possible, to wear tight
5 shoes. tight gloves, tight dresses, tt
pile on any quantity Of false hair ano
| frizzes, to paint and powder well, Sc
as to close up the pores and hinder
perpiration, to gain superflcla
knowledge of real young-lady-ism
| which thing she can pick up onl!
, from observation, therefore must O.
). necessity be very shalloW;.tO take
+ term or two of lessons from third
g class musical teacher,so she may have
@ the shadow of an excuse for sporting
g the title or appellation Of musician;t'
Il make some tides, mats and othe
g little fancy things, such being among
q the required accomplishments to tax
+ few lessons in drawing, that the.
NAV enjoy the society of artists; to b
# able to exhaust the whole vocabular.
# of American slang, to vie with he
IS COMPANIONS when speaking of tn
q fashions of the day and get all tn
S .spufectly splendid" the ''pMtectl
a elegants.' s.pufectly awfuls, ''pu
l. fectiy beautifuls," '.pufectly absuds,
.'pufectly handsomes, ''putectly hol
e mvs," "Oh, IDEAS, ''Ahs, s'Ohs,
,e with the additional Accomplishment
" of opening their mouths and rollin
m up their eyes until they are as prof
lie cient at making faces as Soul Smit
is Russell himself.
70 Then, too, she must promenade, tn
t. streets, giggle and laugh at everythln
ty or nothing, flirt with Tom, Dick an
Sc Harry, go to pic-nics, theatres. re
ID taurants, parties, balls. out for drive
ne out on boat rides, out on excursion
ir leaving her mother at home to do tt
nd work for a family of eight or min
" winding up the whole week 5 variatlt
q. bv taking three or four hous on Su
day morning getting herself up for
70 exhibition at church, where she ca
rs show off before the congregation
e other girls, the furbelows and tineri
e. which her poor but indulgent paren
nd have supplied her with, for the so
ne purpose of making a lady (!) of THE
to daughter.
The boys generally come up throu:
l:Faronf ennrSp
hit Firstly, they are allowed to rule T
n. household. especially the old man a.
to the old ,coman, who. of course ha
m. whispered loud enough for them
no hear that they were sure tobe Pre-
re. dents sometime.
-es Secondly, they smoke chew drink al
re swear as they please-''damn' bel
en- as easily spoken by them as any 9th
am word. that they understand as we
70 such as cram, slam, jam.
nv This course of straining is t
70 foundation or groundwork of swell
till in the end, after various acqul