The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-21

they are tossed ABOUT on she WlnoS oil
adversely until some one oilers them q
safe haven. We pick up the papers and
are shocked to see that An estimable
young lady has committed suicide for
love. Think of it, hurting themselves
into eternity because they were disap-
pointed in some affair of the heart or
something worse. Mothers cannot make
their daughters too strong-minded in
their relations to the other sex. Young,
beautiful girls compelled to seek their
own livelihood are very much exposed
to the gaze and Establishments of the
opposite sex, and, am sorry to say, that
same other sex are not all gentlemen.
The only way that girl can protect
herself under such circumstances is to
be proud and strong Her unerring in
stinct will teach her who are proper
companions, and her very strength o.
character will repel familiar advances
from base men. L have heard parents
say that they were afraid of rearing
their daughters in the city for fear oil
their going wrong. And yet she who
has no temptations will have nothing
to resist-will have no exercise for her
| will. Girls eau be brought up in the
city and become good, pure women
but you must make them able to say
"No"-to flee from evil as they would
from pestilence; and in all things
show that they are actuated by
power that is strong aud firm, and
underlies all their actions. Wo-
men, too, by the very force OF
nature, are compelled to undergo
more suffering than men, and
self-control is one of the greatest aids
to endurance. Women are not built sc
strongly as men, yet they suffer great
deal more, and to their credit be it said
more uncomplainingly. When we lool
around us, we are surprised to find the
great number of women who are strong
and self-reliant, who go through theil
everyday trials with no fuss or bother
who have strength of will enough t.
bear all and not complain; and yet 81
strong willed as not to allow themselve'
to be soured or made cross by these
enormous cares that would harass
weak woman to death. Weak, fickl,
characters, who never have any opin
ions of their own, who never are firm
on any one point, do not make GOOD
wives. How can a man expect to b'
happy with vacillating nature tina
sways with every breath of public opin
ion? How can you expect the children
of such mother to amount to anything
in this world, if she have no firmness o
purpose, no vigor of will to enforce he
commands? Children learn to respec
the calm, quiet tone of command, tn,
firm glance of the eye that carries con
viction with it. A mother that say
yes one minute and no the next vii
soon lose her control over her littl,
ones. A strong-willed woman is not
braggart, she doesn't boast of what sh,
can do. Oh, no! That very strength
of character makes her circumspect il
her language and actions. She will
know just how much to say and whel
to say it, and even if she says nothin,
at all we intuitively feel the effect
of the great force that penetrates he
entire being. How often we hear TIN,
following said of lady: ooh, she is {
very nice woman; but there is no char
acter to her." Let me tell you, ny
sisters, that, although it may be charm
ing to be dependent and submissive, i
is grander to be strong and reliant.
woman who has a firm will that il
steered in the direction of truth anC
goodness, regulating all of her actions
will make wife of whom any man ma,
be proud, and a mother whom children
will call blessed. Brooklyn Times.