Wichita eagle., 1888-06-17
WOMAN AND HOME.
6OCtAL PURITY AT THE BOTTOM
OF ALL ETHICS.

The Old Roof Tree-A Band of Heroines.
A Box on the Ear-Southern Women.
Fast and Observation-Disclosures Cooking
Outfit-Hints, Etc.
1t has taken the race long climb through
''the SLOW notified, trivial years" for man
| kind to see that there cannot be two sets OF
moral laws, one for men and another for
women Even yet people belonging to the
I gay world laugh such prudery 20 scorn.
/ And they who preach against Mormonism
with holy horror regard evils much more ire
mendous In their effects with the most aston
fishing indifference
/ Many who lock upon this question Of social
purity as at the bottom of all ethics have
united TO WORK in the white cross movement,
g most worthy association, for whenever
temptations exist a man viii hunt for them"
| In the words of Professor Dowdin, 1.-The sad
6est ordeal of love is to witness the dinin-
ishing purity and splendor OF star like
soul. the clouding over Of heroic nature by
q film of dishoucr."
That need not be- Ii appealed to the spirit
Will command the senses. 1t will be remem-
bercd with thankfulness that never before
have there been many who could stand
for the quaint description by Betsy Rabbit:
"a good, true. noble man is the best job old
nature ever turned of her hands or ever will
man who would wipe away the tears of
babe with a hand soft as wosnans or who
would die with his feet 10 the foe"
Ar and Mrs. Sonthmayds teachings to
their sons were in effect: Look upon any
woman as possible mother or sister If she
be weak you must be strong. Never soil the
self respect of your young manhood. Moth
ing can be meaner than Tor one having power
to employ it basely Live SO that you can
meet your mothers eye, frank and fearless,
every morning of your lives. God never
meant that man and woman should have two
seUs 0: morals. and the opposite belief is the
curse of the world"
As the result Of good training, filial and
fraternal sentiments viii be strongly devel-
oped No words Of Carlyle burn with more
fire and nerve than those in which be de-
scribes his parents: 81 have a sacred pride
in my peasant father, and would not ex-
change him for any king" OF his quaint
Old mother ne was equally proud. In this
case, as in others, two characters stamp
themselves upon the young life. The nobi-
ity or degradation Of the father is likely to
be reproduced ID the SON
The lineage o. goodness is as transnissible
as that of genius. The latter is a culmina-
ton OF favorable conditions and qualities
which can occur only infrequentlv The
former Is the adjustment OF life to those
ethical laws which are the beatiugs of that
infinite heart from which all life proceeds
II Is possible to the majority of civilized
people.
The transmission OF great qualities TO the
son. rather than to the daughter, has been
remarked 1t could not well be otherwise.
The one has had d fair field for the exercise
OF native powers the other none. Raphael
inherited from his father proclivity toward
art, but his sister might possibly give to the
world TRANSPORTATION, if both lived in the
Nineteenth century. Caroline Herschel in
herited her fathers love for astronomy
equally with her brother, and ought to be as
famous After mis- death, and at the age of
rs. she completed the catalogue of stars he
had beg7ln.--Hesser 81 Poole in Good House
keeping.