The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-02-22
THE FAMILY CIRCLE.

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THE FAMILY CIRCLE.
PUNISHMENT AND PREcEPT.-Parents
should train, and, when necessary, SO
punish child that the reason Of tho
child itself would approve Of that action
ii it we're mature. Ii parents would al.
ways ask themselves this question:
Would the reason Of my child, suppos-
ing it could see what was best for it;
approve OF what l am doing? Then
they could never go wrong You must
train Yourself in order to train your
children. Oh, fathers and mothers be
ye consilcrate toward one another in
your daily lives and you will not need
to teach one precept of love to your
little ones. They have keen eyes. those
children. Nature has gifted them with
the power of penetrating all wells and
masks and Of tearing aside all dissimu-
lation. You must be genuine, in the
presence Of those argus-eved judges
Prof. 4dler IN n Z. Herald.
The PETTEp CYN1c.-Look in many
households and you will find men
keen-witted and of pure taste in all
other matters-not merely making the
best" Of the fatal mistake they made
in marriage, but believing with all their
souls in their coarse grained, frivalous,
selfish wives, adoring them, gratefully
accepting pretty trick of expression,
kind word now and then, in place of
the noble, womanly heart, the self-sac-
rifice, the devotion which never were
and never will be theirs. This peculiar
sort of blindness, too, does not belong
alone to love or married life. In every
family it is the selfish, cynical member
that calls it forth. He is most tenderly
cared for; his rare words of affection
are remembered and cherished; young
women make hero of him wherever
he goes; at home the fatted calf is kept
ready to kill, and the gold chain burn
ished in hope that this unrepenting
prodigal may take it into his head to
come back, while the plodding, unself-
ish brother is set down for common
place fellow, and gets scant thanks for
spending his life for others
HoRRoRs OF THE KISSING GAUNTLET.
Il is common thing to have a baby
brought INTO room and-spite of kick
ing and whimpering-his way of saying
"you are doing an impertinent thing"
passed around to bo kissed. Oftener
the victim selected for this sort of holo-
caust is little girl, say two or three
years old, at what the mother calls tho
"cutest' age. This little victim is not
coaxed by unfulfilled promises Of fabu-
lous amounts of candy and nuts. but
is commanded to kiss, it may be three
or four strangers, bearded creatures,
with tobacco juice on their lips. Some
sixteen years should We suspect
her Of this sort of promiscuous gather
ing of sweets, We would reprove her
most severely, insisting that the rela-
ton must be very near and tender, in
deed, between kisser and kissed. Of
one of the most horrible recollections
of my childhood, is that Of an old wo-
man who used to come to our house.
And she had big hooked nose. And
she used snuff. And her big hooked
nose wasn't big enough to hold all the
snuff she tried to get into it. And I
had to kiss her. The way l did it, was.
pressed my lips tightly together; held
my breath rs long as could: made .
dab at ther-something in the way hen
pecks at grain Of corn-and walked
quickly away ,furtively wiping my mouth
on my little calico apron. Now our
folks didn't mean to be cruel, yet none
of them ever kissed that snuffy old
woman. 1t was only that the house,
hold gods called for sacrifice, and it
was so easy to offer up child.-Hetty
A. Morrison IN Indianapolis Herald.
BE SYMpATHETIc.-The expression Of
sympathy has many forms, but the SIM
plest are generally the most impressive.
A pitying look, or mere exclamation,
are the ordinary and most natural forms
in which sympathy is shown. A tear
full eye in visit to the afflicted is often
O benediction, when words would APP
! pear almost mockerv of sorrow. But
in some way, it is the duty of all to
show themselves tenderly pitiful to-
ward those in any kind of trouble. We
recently heard this good story Of lit
tie boy, the son Of minister, who, hav-
ing bruised his finger, ran into his
fathers study and, with an expression
of suffering, said, Look. pa, how ]
hurt it," The father, interrupted in the
middle of a sentence, glanced hastily at
him. and with just the slightest tone Of
patience, said, Il cant help it. sonny
The little fellows eyes grew bigger. and
as he turned to go out, lie said in low
voice, "Yes, you could; You might have
said OH" r"-Baptist Weekly.
An Age OF MOnOlOgue.