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

and promoting the interests, conolClon
and prosperity Of their children: are
to be discouraged, checked or olsap-
proved. .a+a
But would it not be better II, lnsteau
of drudging like slaves. they Woulo
make their children work with them'
and so tighten their own burdens
while disseminating the value ana
honor of real, honest, true lapoI,
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 thelr
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
rapiditv to an tltitude from which
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 sollcltude
| for the welfare of their sons ana
daughters, hoping to live to see the
day 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 Dosh
of an 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-brained 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
I'D 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' (D and
gentlemen (D
Heavens how these words are
misapplied, the modus 0per0ndt 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 a
Young lady she must be taught to
wriggle and twist herself out of shape
5 as much as possible, to wear tight
5 shoes. tight gloves, tight dresses, to
pile on any quantity Of false hair and
frizzes, to paint and powder we'll, SO
as to close up the pores and hinder
perpiration, to gain a superficial
knowledge of redl young-lady-ism,
| which thing she can pick up only
, from observation, therefore must OF
: necessity be very shallow;'to take q
+ term or two of lessons from third
@ class musical teacher.so she may have
@ the shadow of an excuse for sporting
g the title or appellation OF muslclan;tt
Il make some tides, mats ana other
@ little fancy things, such being among
q the required accomplishments: to take
r a few lessons in drawing, that they
NAV enjoy the society of artists; to bt
+ able to exhaust the whole vocabular.
f of American slang, to vie with hel
Is companions when speaking OF thf
a fashions of the day and get all tn'
$ ..pufectiy Splendid the ''Pufectf!!
a elegants.' '.pnfectly awfuls. put
l. fectiy beautifuls, ''pnfectly absuds,
..pufectly handsomes, ''pufectly hor
y rids.' with the usual amount of 'Oh
q mvs." "Oh, deas.' Abs s'Ohs,
% with the additional Accomplishment
y of opening their mouths and rolling
N up their eyes until they are as prof
lie cient at making faces as Soul Smitl
is Russell himself.
e Then, too, she must promenade. tn
t. streets, giggle and laugh at everythin
" or nothing, firt with Tom, Dick an
Sc Harry, go to pic-nics, theatres. re-
,d taurants, parties, balls. out for drives
10 out on boat rides, out on excursion
ir leaving her mother at home to do To
I'd work for family of eight or nln'
" winding ND the whole week S yariatio
q nv taking three or four hous on SUI
DAY morning SctllLS iici oCii W Iva .
re exhibition at church, where she ca
rs show off before the congregation I
e other girls, the furbelows and fineri'
e. which her poor but indulgent paren
nd have supplied her with. for the so
no nurpose of making lady (0 of THEl
to daughter.
The boys generally come up throue
nd different course.
ut Firstly, they are allowed to rule I'll
h. household. especially the old man al
to the old toman, who. OF course ha'
m. whispered loud enough for them
no hear that they were sure tobe Ere:
re- dents sometime.
-es Secondly they smoke. chew drink al
re swear as they please-"damn' beil
81 as easily spoken by them as any 9th
em word, that they understand as we
70 such as cram, slam, jam.
nv This course of -training is t
r. foundation or groundwork of swell
affor y2rlouS 9cU11