The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-17

are other forms of fear that will do quite
as we'll, and are less brutalizing than whip
ping. have heard little Jennie cry as il
her heart would break because / told her
she was a naughty girl. Indeed, [ think
she would rather take a whipping from
any one else than a naughty girl from
me-"
"She must be a very sensitive child, -
said Mrs. Grier.
81 think she is" said Jennie; "but then
| very rarely say that to her. 1t is my
last resort"
"Fhat don't do no good with nay boys"
said Mr.. HardcAp. t'Pve tried that, |
have scoldcd 'em from morning till night
and if didn't dono good
"And has the whipping done them much
good, Mr.. Hardcap? ?" inquired the dca-
con.
"WelI, no, Deacon said Mr.. Hardcap;
''to tell the truth it hasn't, and I don't
know what TO do; I'm at my wits ends"
Gle hadn't far to go to get there" said
the deacon's wife to me in a furtiyc
whisper.
Il wish you would expound Your text a
little more fully" said the parson.
"Well," said the deacon, eswhat [ sup
pose the good book means is that we
should look forward, see what we want
our children to become and train them for
that; who never ought TO allow either
their present pleasure or our present
| pleasure to interfere. For instance: If my
boy is to be a useful citizen of this grand
Empire State he must learn to obey; he
must be a l~aw-abiding citizen; he must
know how to have a strong will, and yield
it to tho will of others. And now is the
time for him to learn that lesson. The
mother who lets her boy disobey because
she can't bear to compel him to obey is
training linn for a law-breaker, or at best
leaving him to learn in the Office, or in the
c~ounting-room, or in the school-room, of
hard, nnsympathetic teachers, what she
ought to have taught him herself. So,
again, ! want my boy to be brave, court
tp'iS hho Oit7hNh MS W. W "'ib w Dh"i
all his share Of the burdens of life and
rather more; to be heroic wherever a
chance of heroism offers itself, as chances
occur to every one sooner or later. But if
! take all the burdens off from him, throw
| on him no responsibilities, tand between
him and all disappointments, cuddle him
whenever he is hurt in mind or body, | am
training him to be a coward, not a hero;
to be n burden to others. not to carry for
others their burdens. | want my daugh-
ter to be a good housokceper; to learn how
to darn the stockings and to make the
beds, and to sweep and dust the parlor,
and to cook a good breakfast. And | want
her not only to know how to do it, bnt to
have a habit of doing it. And | would
rather have her practice with her bad coffee
on me than practice on her husband after
bad Interference with the honeymoon.
Look ahead, gentlemen, look ahead; i'm
agine your son in business and your dangh-
ter a young wife and mother. What sort
4 iitil diiu hbiiittt Wv YOU o'ht W
be. Get that clearly in your mind, and
make your home a training-sehool for that,
and you'll do better by your children than
most Of MS do. And Mr.. Hardcap do |
understand you to say that you are really
at your wits end about your children?"
81 am that, Deacon said Mr.. Hardcap.
"And may give you a bit of nnasked
for advice?'
81 wish you would, deacon" said Mr..
Hardcap with unwonted humility. But,
somehow, no one ever resents the deacon's
advice.
TRY your wife's wits for a year"
Mr.. IIardcap looked surprised at the
deacon, and thon with a p%erplexed ex-
preston from under his shaggy eyebrows
at his wife as though it was a new idea to
him, and l guess it was, that wives have
any wits. Bnt Mr.. IIardcap's is a slow
moving mind, and he did not look up soon
enough to see the quick glance Of gratitude
with which poor Mrs. IIardcap expressed
| her thanks to the deacon Christian Ad-
U0cate.