Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1884-04-15

The child wAs four % ave, the moihet
At leas, twenty years older. but he ~a'
the master in iha, family. and he kne~
nt Ano,hsr child in my nsisheo'hood
died from no other reason-sinee IL all
men, wasa Sigh, attack q fevef-ihan
Il. per.i.,an, refusal 20 obey orders. s'ay
IN II. room aad swallow hi'le medi-
cine.
How often does a physician hear such
aaire..c. a. this. Come. Freddy here's
.ome nice melie.ne drink Il uP Ani se'
the sugar
II wo-o-oat
80 FREDDIE. dear DO be good nov =
yoa don't want % be- sick, mammAh
give YOU a stick o. candy II yoa'll take
,h.. spoonful
81 woa't I Won, IAin'tA goia' TO-
and 3, on ,.ll either the dose i split in
the conflict. or the weary mother. tired
on, With the struggle. puts down the
nedicins and yields.
D5at yoa think. Rachel, that l may
have come pretty near the truth when !
a.ksd Why yoa killed your child
Ba, there are other Ways Ia which
children die from their PArents fault IN
no, teaching obsiiencs.
Hos many Young girls wreck their
health because they do no, think of obey
In, the mother ~hose wisdom and eSPe-
rance warn. them q their danger How
many wear ia.afh.isn, elo;hias Ia Order
20 have a .ligh, waist. thin shoes 10 adofn
their small feet. aad hands freezing IN
Id slove.. With the weather belos rero.
paying the penalty in those dread dis
ease. of the vital organs which result
from sudden cbill. Anl exhausted vi'ah-
~,
How many more make utter ship
wreck Of character because they have not
been brogsh, up 10 obedience and IN re-
spec, for pArea,Al governmsn,' fihA,
poor girl. whose lie Anl character aad
yiolea, death have recently been laid
bare With Disgusting detail. in order to
eonvic, her murderer.. had been seeas-
toned 10 obey her mother. would she ev'
er have lef home as she did, OF been re-
turned 10 i, dead and dishoaored , Moth
ins in all the ghAs,ly revelations Of the
,r.l was 80 signifcAn, TO me a. the pa
,he,ic avowal Of the mother that she
tried 20 preysn, her child from going out
A. night with the comrades who a. last
beguiled her % ruin aud death bat the
girl would no, mind bet.
Then again. Rachel, you mourn oysr
the spiritual death Of your boys who are
no longer the dear honOr Of your age,
bat a Sc, Of drunken. Profane, loanging
fellows. . Disgrace 10 you to society "a
the state Why are they 50 Did you
train them 70 self-oon,rol, to a respect
for law. for honor. for industry OF did
YOU bring them up to eat whatever they
/ liked on your table; TO drink the daily
.amulenu Of eofee and tea you use
yourself: to indulge their eager appetite
for food a. improper for them then a.
whi.key and cigars are now Did you
not. in the abundance Of ,ha, foolish
weak. self-pleAsing. ,hA, You choose tc
call mo,herly love. make !, your delight
10 give them anything they wanted to eat
or drink
D,d YOU not when they were sick give
up your time. your sireng'h, and youI
lie 10 nursing and waiting on them, be-
cause they screamed Il any other hands
lifted OF any other lips sung to them
Have not you yourself done the task
they should have done. TO let them go
nu,ting OF hshing or shooting You has'
, rained them to be ~iibou, self eon,rol
wi,hou, an idea Of unsel6shness, or low
Of labor. You have turned them on, in
TO the temptations Of the world wi,hou
any sOr, II strength TO reels, them; Il
live and die a curse 70 Others As well a
themselves.
Oae such man comes back TO me as
write. among the thousands I have seen
a man who from iafAney Was spoiled
wrecked from hfs's beginning BY the foil.
ofa mother; man whose utter selfish
ue.. and self-indalgenee ruined o,he
lives TIA, bu, for him, might have beel
noble and useful; from whose moros
temper his family shrsnk as from the fac
Of "a sid beast. aud who has lived lonl
m. with scarcely friend to regret hin