Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-11-12
Mrs. LivermOre's Lecture.

Notwithstanding the inclemency of the
weather last evening, fair audience
assembled to hear Mrs. Livermore of Bos-
ton, whose reputation as a lecturer is popular
| throughout the whole country. If the
weather had been favorable she would have
had large house, and it was great dis
appointment to many who anticipated attend
ing. Promptly at o'clock she was intro
duced by Mrs. G. w. Quinby of this city,
and Immediately proceeded to her subject.
The following are some of the practical and
instructive points which it would be well for
many of our people to impress upon their
minds and the minds of their children Our
country is fortunate in its remoteness from
foreign empires; science, inventive art and
capital labor are progressing; we are too
much for show and gilded pleasures; there is
vast population swarming to this country;
shall they dominate the country and have
everything their own way or be naturalized?
| Negroes are fleeing from bondage; shall they
be educated, protected and civilized, or re-
main ignorant! The boys in the homes of
to-day are to be the men of the future genera
tiOns; they who appear clumsy in the house.
whose mothers are forever aggravated bv see
ing them smoke sweet fern cigars, who dodge
church doors and engage in other rude
actions, are the ones who are to be brought
to the front; immense possibilities will some
day depend upon them. Our country is sail
ing on unknown seas; it is not inferior to
| the wealth of Europe, the richest nation in
the world. The men of the future will be
more than the men of to-day, who are not the
men of moral excellence. How must the
boys of to-day be trained so to be able to
| succeed our men? They should be trained
in bodily education and physical culture so
as to have superb bodily developments.
People of the present time are more extrava-
CANT in the use of their bodies than in the
use of their property. There was not a
National law but what Chas. Sumner under
| stood perfectly, but he neglected Natures
laws and died in the prime of his manhood.
The Duke of Wellington lived to the age of
SO years, but he never allowed day to pass
without properly caring for his body. The
education of the street will ruin the boys
| The great care of moral conduct and efficiency
must be looked after; the human race should
be improved. Mothers, bring up the boys to
know the right; never call him tatherless
who has a God and a mother; train the boys
that they may grow up in purity like the
girls educate them with respect for women
train them in etiquette; teach them to enter
the house decently, hang up their coat and
nat anu keep tHlIlgs Ill iSdIH tueH hot
to cut their finger nails nor comb their hair
in church; don't let them handle their knife
and fork in the manner that Chinaman does
his chop-sticks Good manners is matter
of great consequence; trustworthiness is
| matter that needs to be cultivated more than
ANYTHING else to-day; trustworthness in
small things is what we want to bring our
bows up to know; teach them moral courage;
we have not the courage to do as we ought
to do. think every boy should be taught
| in our public schools what the great issues
of the country are, and should also have an
industrial education; they should not be
| allowed to grow up without some business
whereby living can be earned: no one Is
thoroughly educated without he has trade
| toiI and labor are honorable. Educate the
bows in the loftiest type of exalted manhood,
so that we can commit the responsibilities OF
this great nation to their care.
The efforts of the Universalist Ladies' Aid
Society in having lecture given in this city
by a lady of such popularity are well deserv-
ing of merit.