Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-27
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s1rq 1nspfts bly, wide for friends and sd-
rirers Papilis enters he- kingdom with he
telling that It lie special creation for
ber, and ter only, and those who gave her
NE are chie!est among her courtiers.
me is never SC fresh and fair to any
otber Of her fathers children as to her at
Ssr debut. Sac seems to herself to begin
then reslly to live.
Progided-aer wings have not been IN
folded before they were grown.
The proviso is grave aid broad, and
narils more than q passing remark. AS
Drsmsturely ripened fruit, as blossoms
tEsried in the forcing,a as all kinds of man
Uhcture turned out in haste from crude
u,terisls-so is the girl mot Ours this
time, thank HeavenD who at fifteen as
sunsS the place and prerogstives Of
twenty.
How well we know her through much
.eeng Knowing, pert, self Satisfied,
slow to hesr and quick to utter her whole
mind, she sets our teeth on edge after the
manner OF esrly summer sppies, tough
with thin, uncuFed juices. Sac is gener-
IlV the eldest or the only girl in the
bome. Mothers are unfortunately prone
to nssten the maturity Of such in the de-
sire 10 have young lady in the house,
Back Of this superficial and childish de-
sire to set tne pretty toy in place lies the
nItursl and touching longing to relive
her own life, Impotence to islsify the
psssimistiC sigh:
There Is in Life but one short Spring,
And It can ne'er return"
The mother would see herself take root
,gsin and blossom anew in autumn. This
reproduction of our individual girlhood,
with its fRpcies, hopes, loves and rap
lures, is one of the sweetest OF the pc
culisr joys Of motherhood. 1t is not 6
1gEe of poetic speech that We are
"cGurted in our girls" A cool head is
required for the patient waiting until
tine brings the consummstion to us Of
he beautiful dream, and q strong hand
must hold back the eager, ignorant child
who would overlesp the boundary set by
nsture and reason.
Miss Pert keeps grown peoples hours
,nd looks older each day for the loss of
beauty sleep" She reSds grown pso-
PIES books, has her ssy-snd liberal
share Of tin grown peoples talk, snubs
her mother uHspsringly, schools her
fither, hectors the younger children, and
orders the servants; is delighted when
she Is mistaken for nineteen, especially
,sscts the society of men, and in nothing
else Is so successful SIS in making herself
he most disagreesble specimen or ami
mated nature thst ever invited classifica-
ton from 8 modern Goldsmith or Cuvier.
She has her basux at 9 preternaturally
early sge, and is omniverous Of admlra-
hon. By the time Oar Glrl-Who has
been sent to bed at O'Clock and other
wise treated es growing student until
'1e is eighteeE-is ready to take her place
AIyoung woman in the society selectt
o7 heI mother and entered under her
nlotaer's chaperonsge, Miss Pert is olase,
al'cOntented, and already beginning
70 Ego off," Critics, who remember
ael as ION the course four years
sso," sre skepticsl SIS to her reputed age;
"elg!bles" begin to look away from her
70 "EcSebuds" snd gessips hint that she
H"A long time on hand" She lost the
oest things Of childhood; she can never
use the morning freshness Of girlhood.
aer hasty foot has brushed the dew from
gieVeF snd daisies; she never filed her
hp with violets and her roses are sill
u.blowu.
II is cruel, cruel! and so impolitic when
LEVIED from a utilitariSn standpoint that
ne siliest mother might see the unwis-
son Of running her child's prospects"
=. . lle oy croWdlng her, unfinished, into |
u: snoT-Window.
ond the mother OF grown girls to me,
'aenty odd years ago:
Take all the comfort you can get in |
!guf daughters while they are babies.
naen they are grown to womsnhood they |
VI! oe nothing but care snd anxiety"
-! tuld not credit the statement then, l |
a"efly repudiate it now. But it is easy to
&c why she and others should hold the
vptnlon. Our Girl is made queen when
i i4s should be only princess and sub
!.'1' Her dominion is violence done
uttursl laws. Her mother may be
VT 1ieflor to her in intellect and educa-
W. s.a The disparity may be so far on
=, as wrong side that the daughter bushes
=, present her parent to her choice
s.snos. The case is by no means uncom
avn, 'a, We rise fast in America, each gen.
SsAon recording 8 higher water-mark
nsau Inc preceding, and old-fashioned
sopie soon get out of their depth. The
\, ny nouse-mother hiss not lime to keep
y, y with the ege [or so she thinks when
~, children are small, and when leisure
s sles she is old and cannot Cor will mott
spstt from her wey.
eo auafe ssy the royal family Of England
W.. uu tell some odd tales of their intoler-
me-; NJ "ith the Queen-Mother's obsolete
4. as, out there is no talk OF regency
So,oi aodicaton. The mother of every
sSo. s is born sovereign, and only desth
g,n Glo Wrest the sceptre from her hand
,rN fe TO comprehend and submit to this
,so.e clause of home rule explains the
e.;alous condition of many households.
h - Ogeniture is dead letter, or ought
Ss, curing the parents lifetime.
an o9eolence 10 this principle is for the
~ OF the daughter no less than for
ssna nother's comfort and happiness. The
ss nttures evenly and gradually in her
isonted corner of the home garden.
&c &c practice of docility does not impair
ssngth. The first duty of one born in
s,parple and destined to rule in time is
y earn how to obey. Gentle Difference
parental authority imp sa,harm
ou Girls deporH s~dtssa is
~. sss.;aIl