The Dickinson press., 1888-11-24
WOMAN AND HOME,
THE NEED OF sTouTER MOTHERS
AND GENTLER FATHERS.
Economics of Early ~Dnys-,Iorals of Chill
drcn-A Wifc's ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
drcn's Happiness - Insci!ishncss - Mar
~riaSc-Hints for the Household.

A good home has unity Of purpose. y bad
community is in il when r~l!ilirvn do Rot find
their joys i'll company with their parents.
l find this. that children are often sent to
school to get rid of them. They are ordered
to bed to get rid of them. They, i'll turn.
like nothing so little rs the company of their
parents. 1t is an error to believe that natur-
ally the young dislike all company not of
their own age. Friendship of the tincst fcrvor
exists between the young and the old. Yet
We should never be seclu~Irc, hoping to keep
our children as a kind OF private property.
You and | begin our education over again
when the babes begin to come. We thought
we knew something, but now there is an
other whole world open before Us. Our Few
lessons are sell government and self restraint
only not too much of it. Parents do not
always lei loose enough rci. 10 themselves
They grow reserved, formal, lllml, OLD, and
the yoIiu. do not fall il with them. One
who THINKS herself immortal should be Very
bovi>h at 81.
y. GOOD home rcrt!s stolter :.iothers and
gcnt.-Y fathers. ~. 10 not iacan scntlei'
lno..A riS and stoutcr fathers, but ! mcMn cS-
activ Us said. Robust i!ealt:l is lii" first
requisite IN robns:s souls. More misery is in
the world tod from unhealthy motherhood
than from liotl!.j u,lrcvS combined. Merry
ous d ~:or,lcr>, disease, of the brain, unwise
anl.,.i!J!Is. feeble frames toS>lStain ambitious
puii,1sa. come from prenatal starvation.
Oxygen is tie mother of wisdom. ~,.iotlcrs
need marr field life. They cannot grow
good c~nll,lreil when they cannot grow good
IpscS.
When | find ina boy Il clean, healthy or
Ganizat!oi-th is, rt:dl.y checks and iil eye
looLiu,, out from Il si;ull full Of bl9lins-l OK
Icrt To hear Il gonel ,ical about mother"
Mother i, II marvellous work. 1t means
mllic.'. creator, moi,;c.-nal:cr of souls and
bottles, The mother in her enid is Reproduce
ing het>cli, her moods, her passions, her
powers. her honor, oI Ter shame.
BIT | sad, also, gentle fathers. do not
li!o:" Wat sl'nl!d l,:ui u, tu call Philip SD
ncy t!r l,;o.l sti.ileniaH il or husbands az,
asllalacl l. IT,. Ia" him. The word gr!,le-
man was wei born, AID there il, IL, need for
better, y. man should he gentle: g4n.i2r
than i!!eii are. as they average III best society.
Women should b. s;olier and lirincr than
they average rs l!.uii!cr>. Ol course, il
;eSt!! l.ca OF cIt!,cI sex, on Il backward march
toward the l%nol!.c.t, asS.!!nc 10 lie typical
laIic, AID gentlemen, they ITO affect the real
tnon tt t""!r"i III those words, lady aad
gent !e.M;ti. In modern life. more and more,
the Nl1n aud wu!uan Must interchange work.
ii is no. that w"nlai! ought 10 have It III hi 10
be n physical! OF Il speaker, lat IL Is that
society lic"cl- l!eI' 10 such. :. :tl also j, claim
In certain !I.!lisur contrasting certain duties
in the ol!lei direction. He is !norcol Il home.
bl.l..;cr than in ol,!c!, Times. Wv:na!! !c.
comes stronger and Eiu"e selt iei:..nt, i..tn
MieIe gentle AID true lo1le am. ni':oso OF home
life. IL i, only in the middle passage be-
tween ball,arism and civilization, where
woman i, throwing down the blankets and
ti..jssul her master, that She has to contend
for the privilege OF doing something intel
l~ectua.lv To i."! taste. Al the same thine nan
slowly leaves l%.,druMbcn lsaMls 10 sit beside
his vile wien the angels are born.-llury +.
Spencer in Globc-Don.ocrat.