Wichita eagle., 1888-11-01

dren-A Wife's Rebuke-D-essing-C
dren's Happiness - Unseifshness - Mar
riase-Hints for the Household.
4 good home has unity Of purpose. A bad
community is in it when children do not find
their Joys in company with their parents.
find this. that children are often sent 70
school to set rid Of them They are ordered
TO bed TO get rid Of them They, ii turn
ike nothing so little as the company Of their
parents It is an error TO believe that uatur
ally the young dislike all company not Of
their own age. Friendship of the finest fervor
exists between the young and the old Yet
we should never be seclusive, hoping TO keep
our children as q kind Of private property.
You and begin our education over again
when the babes begin 70 come. We thought
we knew something, but now there IS an
other whole world open before Us. Our new
lessons are self government and self restraint
only got too much OF IL Parents do not
always let loose enough rein 10 themselves.
They grow reserved, formal, prin, old. and
the young do not fall il with them One
who thinks herself immortal should be very
ioyish at 50.
4 good home needs stouter mothers and
gentler fathers No, do not mean geutler
mothers a1d stouter fathers; but l mean ex-
accly as | said Robust health IS the first
requisite 10 robust souls. More misery Is IN
tae'worId today from unhealthy motherhood
than from all other sources combined Merry
Gus disorders, diseases Of the brain, unwIse
ambitions, feeble frames to sustain ambitious
purpose, come from prenatal starvation
Oxygen is the mother Of wisdom. Mothers
need mora field life. They cannot grow
good children when they cannot grow good
roses
When ! find in a boy q clean, healthy or
ganization-that Is, rudy cheeks and an eye
looking cut from a skull full Of brains-I e1-
rect to hear Z good deal about mother"
Mother IS q marvellous work IL means
maker, creator, moider-naksr Of souls and
bodies. The mother il her child IS reproduc-
ing herself, her moods, her passions, her
powers, her honor, or her shame.
But l said, also, gentle fathers. I DO not
know what should lead US to call Philip sgd
ney the ideal gentleman If our husbands are
ashamed 70 De like him The word gentle
man was well born, and there is no need for
q better i man should be gentle; geutIer
than hen are, as they average in best society.
Women should be stouter and drmer than
they average as mothers. OF course, If
Rsrhetics OF either sex, on backward march
toward the monkey, assume 70 be typical
Indies and gentleCen, they do affect the real
thought bodied n those words, lady and
gentleman IN modern life, more and more,
the man and woman must interchange work
L IS not that woman ought TO have right TO
be q physician or a speaker, but It Is that
society needs her as such. Man also IS claim
ing certain rights or cc1fessing certain duties
In the other direction. He is more Of 4 home
builder than IL olden tiEes. Woman be-
comes stronger and more self reliant, men
more gentle and true 20 the amenities OF home
lie, It Is only in the middle passage be-
tween barbarlsIn and civilization, where
woman IS throwing down the blankets and
traps Of her master, that she has 10 contend
Cor the privilege Of doing something intel
lec.ually 20 her taste At tie same tine man
slowly leaves his drunken b-awls 70 sit beside
his wife when tie angels are born--A2ry z
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