Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-01-16
WOMAN AND HOME.
SOCIAL PURITY AT THE BOTTOM
OF ALL ETHICS.

The Old Roof Tree-A Band of Heroines.
A Box on the Ear-southern Women.
Fast and FnshionabIe-Outdoor Cooking
Out6t-Hints, Etc.
It has taken the race long climb through
''the slow, mottled, 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
CAV world laugh such prudery to scorn.
And they who preach against Mormonism
with holy horror regard evils much more ire
rnendous in their effects with the most aston
ishing indifference.
MANY who look upon this question of social
purity as at the bottom of all ethics have
united to work in the white cross movement,
a most worthy association, for whenever
temptations exist a man will hunt for them"
In the words of Professor Dowdin, ''the sad
dest ordeal Of love is to witness the dimin-
ishing purity and splendor Of a star like
soul, the clouding over of heroic nature by
film of dishOnor"
That need not be. If appealed to the spirit
will command the senses. 1t will be remem-
bered with thankfulness that never before
have there been so many who could stand
T Tor Tue quaint ueSCIlpJlOu ny DCIoy LlLDluU'
"A good, true, noble man is the best job old
nature ever turned off her hands or ever will
a man who would wipe away the tears of a
babe with a hand soft as a woman's or who
would die with his feet to the foe"
Mr.. and Mrs Southmayd's teachings to
their sons were in effect: Look upon any
woman as a 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 for 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
| sets of morals, and the opposite belief is the
curse of the world"
As the result of good training, filial and
| fraternal sentiments will he strongly devel-
| oped. No words of Carlyle burn with more
| fire and nerve than those in which he de
scribes his parents: 81 have sacred pride
| in my peasant father, and would not ex-
! change him for any king" OF his quaint
| Old mother he was equally proud. In this
case, as in others, two characters stamp
themselves upon the young life. The nobil-
! ity or degradation of the father is likely to
be reproduced in the son.
The lineage of goodness is as transmissible
as that Of genius The latter is a culmina-
ton of favorable conditions and qualities
which can occur only infrequeutly. The
! former is the adjustment of life to those
ethical laws which are the beatings of that
infinite heart from which all life proceeds.
1t is possible to the majority of civilized
people
The transmission of great qualities to Tn
son. rather than to the daughter, has been
remarked. 1t could not well be otherwise.
The one has had fair field for the exercise
of native powers, the other none. Raphael
inherited from his father a 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 will. aer brother, and ought to be as
| famous. After his death, and at the age of
IS, she completed the catalogue of stars he
had begun. Hester NJ. Poole in Good House
| keeping.