San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-19
WOMAN AND HOME.
IMPORTANCE OF SYMPATHY BE-
TWEEN PARENTS AND CHILDREN.

About the Human Hair Market-Little
Stories About women-Female Prescrip-
ton writers-Chats with the House,
keeper and the Cook.
Giving our children sympathy is a subject
that should carefully engage our attentions;
too often we give them everything else but
our sympathy. A mother can scarcely real
lie the importance of bringing her views
down to the level of her children. Many a
Young girl whose mother has from earliest
childhood expressed sympathy for all her
childish troubles, has, found this the strength
and protection against the temptations Of
her young womanhood; for such a girl will
90 to her mother with every thought, know
loving heart, ready to feel for and advise
her. Never any danger for girl who
makes a confdant of her mother, and the
same may be said Of boy who has his
father for his boon companion. How beauti-
full it is to see father and son on terms OF
perfect congeniality; the father knows best
the quicksands and pitfalls into which his
boys feet may stray and fall-who so able as
him to warn and guard that boy-but can he
do it If the boy has feared and deceived him
from earliest childhood If the child makes
false step he is punished and looked upon
coldly as if he had committed some unpar-
donable sin; never encouraged to confess a
fault and make a confidant Of his parent.
Many boy has gone to ruin for want OF
sympathy from his parents; and many girl
has broken her mothers heart from the
same cause Sympathy and the encourage
ment to gain our children's confidence must
begin in early childhood. Let a mother i'm
patiently push off little fodder who comes
to bring little hand to be kissed, with, "Oh,
don't bother me now, am busy" or repulse
boy that comes to have the tail of kite
fixed with, go to some one else" How
long do you suppose it would take to wean
off these little ones, yet we see this every day
of our lives, and then when our children
grow from around our knees and take their
condolences to others we wonder why Some
may say you never had a half dozen at a
time around you all wanting something;
grant that such mother is to be pitied, but
she has still greater need for the exercise of
that great virtue, patience.
have always had peculiarly tender place
in my heart for little children. | never saw
childs feelings hurt or a blow given one,
that it did not cause me a sensation of as real
pain and suffering as II the blow had de-
scended on myself. | was walking alone in
comparatively quiet street in New York not
long ago, and as | was about to cross the
street saw a wagon coming and stopped a
moment; as | did so, was attracted by a
group crossing from the opposite side, large
fine looking woman with a baby in her arms
and little S-year-oid fodder by the hand
and quite an elderly Lady. As they were
nearly across the mother looked up and saw
the wagon; with the most impatient gesture
as if the child was in any way to blame, she
gave it jerk, landed it on the pavement and
then did the most unaccountable thing mag
Unable, gave tia hard slap. l never shall for
get the reproachful look the old grandmother
gave her, or the pitiful expression Of the
child's fearful face, as it gave dodge from
her as if expecting another blow, and went
around to the side of the old lady and put its
little hand up so confidingly into hers with
the look of perfect trust, knowing she would
be its friend | wondered why God gave
such creatures children. She only did what
many another impatient woman does, struck
her child for no fault of its own. She was
| startled when saw the wagon so near and
because the child did not walk as fast as she
could she felt it was to blame. for her fright,
when it was her own oarelessness If all the
useless and unnecessary blows poor little chill
dren get were recorded where we could see
them we would be astonished. Parents get
fretted and impatient with their children be-
cause they do not see and understand things
as they do, forgetting their age and expert
| ence.-Atlanta Constitution.