The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-23
RANDOM REMARKS.
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mo talking back.
A strange trinity of words, but they make
good common household law They haven't the
fascination of sweet and mellifuous sound, but
they are better than a volume of the best ser
mons on home-life, and they can be the means
of more good than yard of statutory
penalties for the punishment of abusive
spouses. They are infinitely better than an ad-
vocate's plea for divorce. Their practical appli-
cation to marital relations is an open sesame to
at least harmonious if not happy, domestic
life.
mo talking back" is the family law in the
household of a well-known newspaper man in
Indianapolis who has been married twenty
three years. He is of a usually
genial disposition, but he is sometimes wretch
edly nervous and disagreeably freJful. If he
goes homes wearied, and worried, and i'll
naturally kicks the dog, scolds the children, or
complains about his good wifes bill of fare-its
all right. The day is indisputedly his, and
there Is mo talking back" If, however, he
comes home and finds that everything has
gone wrong in the household during the
day, and his wife is fretful, she
has the prior claim for indulgence and there is
mo talking back" The same simple law applies
to the children, and the penalty of its violation
is punishment 1--WE have no disputes and no
quarrels in our family" this man says, and it
is because we allow no talking back" THE
tongue" Rev. +. w. Robertson says lis an IN
ruly evil, full of deadly poison" and another
writer adds that no an 'can estimate
produced in society by merely idle words, ut
tered without malice" A poet has wildly painted
the effects OF such utteranees:
"a frivolous word a sharp retort
fash from passing cloud
Two hearts scathed to their utmost core
Are ashes and dust forevermore.
"a frivolous word, a sharp retort,
Are canon at random sped;
1t has cut in twain the mystic tie
That had bound two souls in harmony"
One of George Washington's virtues was that
he knew how and when to be silent John Ad-
ans once said that he had the most remarkable
mouth in the world he knew how to con
troll his lips. 1t was an infexible
rule of David Hume never to reply
to anything that was said about him.
The last word" in family circles, it has been
sagely observed, is 1.-THE most dangerous of in
fernal machines"
No talking back" is a bulwark against do
nestle infehcities.
The story is told by Hughes East, the inspired
oracle of the Indiana Democracy. The story is
''coincident" and doesn't rhyme. Last sum
mer," Mr. East says, Il was a passenger
on the Grand Rapids road, and was on
my way to meet Mr.. Hendricks at some place
where he was to speak up near Fort Wayne
The train stopped for moment at little vii
lage by the classical name of Avilla, where the
inhabitants were full of spirited enterprise and
not very full of the spirits of Democracy 1
didn't get off During the moment that the
train stopped at the station my attention was
attracted by the pretty poles in the village
from which the beautiful flags of great
free country and solid South foated proudly
and grandly in the zephyrstirred air, illumin-
ated by the shimmering CLEAN of sunlight The
devotees of ST John, was told, had struck
vein of clear, sparkling water in making an ex
cavation in which to erect their pole. 1t
strikingly significant discovery The disciples of
water bored a hole in their pole to a height of
three feet above the level of the earth, and it
placed in position over the spouting vein of
water, which now flows in GENTLE continuous
stream for ALL"