Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-09-27
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It Is Believed In Minneapolis That the
s FIouring Industry OF the City Has Been
Disposed OF. ss5!E..: 81 3s5% 5
& 81. PAUL, Sept. 19.--The Globe says it
= generally believed among milling and
grain men that the vast Pillsbury -four
mill plant has at. last been sold to the
British syndicate, about which so much
has been heard here in the past few
months Rumors to that effect, and also
that the Washburn, Crosby & Co. inter-
ests We're included, have become current
and created great excitement on Change.
Ex-Governor Pillsbury is in Europe, /
and G. A. Pillsbury left short time ago
for New York, both Of which facts are
interpreted as H., -
Giving Color to the Report, j:
it being believed that the two gentlemen
are engineering the European and Amer
lean end of the deal respectively. The
local representatives of the firm are some
what reticent regarding the matter, but
claim to disbe]ieve that the deal has been
closed, while they admit that it is still on.
William De La Barre, in charge of the
West side water power, received tele-
gram from a gentleman in New York,
stating that
The Sale Has Been Made. -.
How reliable the New York mans infor-
nation was not known, but it is certain,
or practically SO, that the deal is still
pending, and that its completion or
abandonment is a matter to be settled in
the very immediate future.
There are already established abroad
certain schools for mothers, in which the
duties Of motherhood are taught, together
with all the technicalities Of work con-
nected with those duties and various of
the moralities of the situation, including
not only the proper training and treat
ment of children in other than physical
matters, but training also Of the mo-
theirs themselves in the difficult arts of
| knowing how to refuse, to prohibit and
punish. without injuring either the moral
nature of the children or themselves
Unless we are willing to let the state
take charge Of the children eventually
and relieve the mothers of their dear
| duties, as some social reformers, so called,
have dared to suggest, there are plainly
things in which these mothers should
perfect themselves in order to do justice
to the children and to the future careers
of those whose charge they have assumed.
Were such schools established among
ourselves, it would not be the material
part of the work and duty, in which we
should advocate effort half so much as
the immaterial, that immaterial which,
under certain views. becomes tho one
| material.
All very well as it might be that the
mother should go to school, in order tt
learn how to cut out the little frocks and
pinafores, make the little f1annels, knit
the little socks. and that with the Least
effort and waste conceivable; very well
too. that she should be taught how tt
give the bath, to keep the skin whole
some, to judge Of tho food requisite ani
to prepare it. to remember the first treat
ment Of the little sicknesses before thu
physician can be summoned, and Il
make herself a competent nurse for sucl
occasion; and indispensable as it is alst
that she should be informed as well as t.
the food and sleep and exercise necessary
for herself in order to perform he
own part wholesomely-it is still NOR.
absolutely necessary that she should b
taught also how to treat the ckild's pro
pensities toward wrong doing, and t
encourage all its tendencies toward vel
doing; what to do if the child's imagina
ton runs to lying, how not to intimidat'
into lying, how to foster in it generosity
purity. truth, steadfastness, sweet tenn
per, love of humanity and alteration O
God.
And when the mother has learned how
to encourage the germ of those qualities
already existing, to cre4ee them possibly
in their absence, has learned how K
teach the child its rightful relations tt
the universe, she will have learned ais.
how to repress and control and sweete1
her own temper, how to be Transparent
and truthful as light herself, how to low
her race in trying to perfect this young
member Of it, how to be unselfsh in tn
daily practice Of the art, and in giving
the child God to adore, will have fount
God hersef.-Harper's Bazaar.