Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-10-12
WHAT WOMEN WANT TO KNOW.
Kiss the Children Good Night.

Kiss the Children Good Night
Send the little ones to bed in happy frame
Of mind. 1t requires some discipline and self
denial On the part of weary parent to answer
all the foolish questions and attend to the many
wants that multiply SO fast as the hour Of bel
time draws near, but it is a labor of love that
will bring a large recompense. Children never
FORGET They will carry with them through
ife's long and weary pilgrimage the remem-
brance of the face that bent over them at night
and that WAS ever associated in their immature
minds with heaven and God. And the little tire
some last questions mean 80 much to them.
What if we should not answer them and they
never awakened here? Unanswered questions
and unanswered problems have followed mon
and women through life with harrowin per-
sistence And never give a thoughtless answer
to child's question. Nsver tell the little ones
that the thunder is The voice of God! Thuk
what an idea they must form Of such God
DO not tell them petty vague stories that will
mislead them into tangled paths. Hood says
pathetically of his own childhood:
remember, I remember
The fir trees dark and high.
used to think their slender Tops
Were close against the sky.
1t was childish ignorance
But It's little Joy
To know I'm further off from heav
Than when was boy.
No one can so gently and kindly prepare the
NAS>A~ oAN>H phSAAeASS
fnents OF life, which are inevitable, as the
fathers and mothers to whom their education
should be first consideration. The mora!
lessons taught at the mothers knee or by the
bedside can never be forgotten, nor can the
father shlrk all responsibility in the matter of
home tutelage, That is a child to be piled
who is afraid to ask it's father any question
which arises in its young mind; who dare not
climb to thu parental knee and challenge the
world to dslodss it. d.. Holland, in his iine
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his own father, says:
He had some notions that did not improve him,
10 never kissed his children. SO they say.
We feel sorry for the children Of a father so
austele, but we can afford to pity one who lost
SO much beauty and value out of his own life.
morning and answer all their questions, aud
you will find that in such WORK two are blessed
One in giving, the other in receiving
Brio a. Brac
Cabinets in larger houses are found only in
reception rooms or libraries, where the back
parlor forms the library Very often they
of com bination style, and the most popular
form of libraries to-day is that which presents
the convenience of book case and cabinet in
one. In framework Of carved or Or
namental woodwork, shelves form the
ceuter, and small alcoves at either
side serve for The reception of ornaments.
Some OF the most beautiful specimens to be
seen IN the city are copies OF old sixteenth CEN
fury Cabinets which, however, are only suta-
bic for foUInS where everything can be made
harmonious with them. It is quite strange to
note the different effects antique piece of
furniture has in store aud when it
is transferred to modern apartment.
All at 0nca it's rich, dark carving
seems to have lost it's effect, the article which,
others of its kind, was unique and seemed
priceless, ~lpears to decided disadvantage in
room full OF ts.a latest specimens OF nineteenth
century manufacturing skill 1t is like an
old fashioned child, and 80 we'll is this under
stood to day that perfect copies of old world
at best adaptations Of old ideas to the modern
standard. 80 we find to-day that while the
Moorish is the style most in demand it is so
adapted and conveutionatized by the intro
duct;on of beveled mirrors aud other mod
ern innovatons that it can insinuate itself into
the most elaborate nineteenth Century recep-
uon room without appearing homogeneous.
1hese Moorish cabinets are very handsome.
III many the effect is greatly heightened by the
uso of drapery. The archway which usually
surHounts the structure is often decorated
with hangings Of embossed velvet or plush,
which serve TO relieve the severity Of the out
lines.
1Iuch-Lectured Mothers.
There is a suggestive story told by Helen
Campbell OF Lydia Newman, whose old Quaker
uncle 80 cling that she fastened her pretty little
Newport ties with poppy red ribbons frowned
and told her it was not seenly. II don't care
for them myself" she said, shut l want my
little boy to aemember that his mother wore
red bows on her shoes" The old friend re-
torted that the reason was much worse than
the offense; and so Lydia received lecture,
but kept her ribbons. The moral of this story
is directed against that lectured- every body
class, the mothers of families. When we think
of the ceaseIess labors of q good mother of
her efforts to guide wisely her household, to
be her husbands best friend, her cbldren's
| most interesting companion. it seems shame
full thing to find any fault in her:
| really wise mother will take time to dress
herself tastefuly, to be fair aud lovely in the
eyes of her children, to read and even to study
! for their sakes, to learn aud to talk on higher
subjects than the plague and curse Of Ameri-
| caa servants, to live in the present, to keep
step in the march of civilization. Very diff
cult, almost impossible at times, it is to be a
child's confidant aud companion, to make home
| the dearest place in the world to him, to dress
becomingly for the small lover who dotes on 8
| s'pretty mammal" but mothers who have done
all this are the mothers who have best cause
| to be proud of their grown-up boys. 4
I Good Sense About ChiItlren's Clothes.
| There is very likely no conservatism more
difficult to deal with than that displayed by the
young BOY in regard to any change in his up
pareL '.If must wear these cuffs said an
eight, year old boy, on Sunday morning. II am
not going to church. " The cuffs in question
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