Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-10-11
WOMAN AND HOME.
eOClAL PURITY AT THE BOTTOM
OF ALL ETHICS.

The Old Roof Tree-A Band Of Heroines.
A Box on the Ear-Southern Women.
Fast and FashIonabIe-Outdoor Cooking
Out6t-Hints, Etc.
It has taken the race a 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
gay world laugh such prudery to scorn.
And they who preach against Mormonism
with holy horror regard evils much more tre-
mendous 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,
most worthy association, for whenever
temptations exist 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
q 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
for the quaint description by Betsy Babbitt:
"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
babe with hand soft as woman's or who
would die with his feet TO the foe"
Mr.. and Mrs. Southnayd's 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 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 be 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 transmissibls
as that of genius The latter is n culmina-
tion of favorable conditions aud qualities
which can occur only infrequently. The
former is the adjustment of life to those
ethical laws which are the bcatings of that
infinite heart from which all life proceeds.
1t is possible to the majority of civilized
people
The Transmission Of great qualities to tR
son, rather than to the daughter, has been
remarked 1t could not well be otherwise.
The one has had Il 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 n TRANSPORTATION, if both lived in the
Nineteenth century. Caroline Herschel in
herlted her iaJner's love for astronomy
equally witt ner brother and ought to be as
famous. After his death, and at the age Of
rs, she completed the catalogue of stars he
had begun. Hester NJ Poole in Good House
keeping.