Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-21
TRAINING CHILDREN.

TRAINING CHILDREN.
The activity of childhood requires va
riety of activity to meet the demands o.
mind and body. The duties imposed upor
children, whether OF mental or physical
character, should be made as pleasant and
attractive as possible, and the healthful
needful plays of childhood should never be
ignored.
Manual or mental labor should not be
assigned as penance for some unwise
speech or act, because it creates a dislike
for the tasks, from unpleasant association
If the ofense be serious one, fifteen OF
twenty minutes of quiet reflection, seated
by parent or teacher, is, l think, the better
remedy. To know how the children are
employed is the duty of parent or teacher
We recall the satisfaction expres5ea by
mother that her little girl, an active
child of twelve years, caused her so little
trouble during the long school vacation,
consoling herself with the thought that
the little daughter was so content to re-
main at home, and spend hours alone and
with her books. Had the mother accom-,
panied her child and investigated her
reading, as she should have done, she
would have found it to have been from
magazines and Ledgers, which were the
property of an older brother, who, upon
the false theory which is now rapidly los.
ing ground, that boys can be allowed to
read and be engaged in many pursuits that
would be considered morally detrimental
for their sisters, was the possessor of many
of such books.
The effect of light reading is to unfit
the mind for study requiring close appli-
cation. 1t requires years of careful guild
ance under religious influences, to eradi-
cate taste which should never have been
acquired. Feed my Lambs" was the in
junction of the great Teacher whose pre-.
cepts and life proved that he loved the
children. Both soul and body require
that they be fed from the wells of supe.
rior intelligence, resulting in salvation
from ignorance and sin.
MISTAKES IN MARRIAGE.
Of the three great epochs in a mans
life, birth, death and marriage, two are
entirely beyond his control and interfer-
ence, and the third is so lamentably mis-.
understood that it may have been better
had it been arranged as arbitrarily as his
entrance and departure from this world
Upon no subject, probably, are more nox.
ious and fallacious ideas entertained than
concerning marriage, the most vital event
in mans career. Many of the false mo-
tives that influence this decision are fire.
quently lampooned, many patent mistake:
are held up for a caution; but the mos
hurtful and woe-begotten error of all i;
usually commended as the right thing
| Does any one remember to have read ol
heard of an individual warned or rebukec
who was about to contract an indissolublt
union with one Of marked social, mora
and intellectual superiority? Nay. 1t il
the fashion to call such one fortunate
blessed, enviable. That is, great felicity
is to be expected in close associations 0
taste, habits and minds that are utterly a
variance. The law that all creature
flourish best in their native element is
universal law. 1t sounds very hard
hearted to say so, but Maud Muller wa
happier in the meadow than she woulC
have been in the Judges mansion. Will
sad effect would you take her away from
her hay, her apple blossoms and her "torl
straw hat to deck her in the habiliment
of a fine lady. Not without reason dit
the Judge surmise that there would be
lack of congeniallty between his rusti
wife and elegant mother. Then the sailo
brother and the father, proudly resplend
ent in his broadcloth coat, would cut bu
a poor figure at the Judges dinner parties
No, barring the pipe and mug" Maud
lot was
BETTER AS IT WAS
Than as ''it might have been" 1t j
greatly to be lamented that so much tina
is beautiful in. song and story may not b
practically construed. The fresh rose c
the wilderness blushing and sweet"
never so sweet and blushing as in tn
wilderness where it grew. You transplan
it to your peril. Coarseness and vulgarit
intensity with age. A fair, young face
independently attractive; the durablenes
Of its fascination depends upon qualitie
at first not in sight. Unless marriage
based upon approximate culture, prime
Piles and preferences, the delusive glamo
of the honeymoon will soon fade away
and what was intended for divine unio
must inevitably degenerate into mer
civil connection.
The domestic infelicity of distinguishe
men is notorious. So rarely have grea
poets and authors lived in peace and jo
with their wives, that connubial discord
tacitly understood to be a concomitant {
genius. Over-strung nerves and acute ser
sibilities, the standard apology for this oil
iectionable trait of celebrities, is not altt
gether satisfactory. Often, while poor an
obscure, men of great mental endowment
are married to women OF commonplace
and simple minds; afterward, when the
latent talents are developed, they feel a
fnity with higher minds, and seek con
munion and fellowship with appreciatiy
friends, or find solace in books. The III
lettered wife, with no appreciation of il
tellectual work or enjoyment, will regar
her husbands labors and pleasures wit
mingled contempt and jealousy.
WHEN GREAT MISFORTUNE
Or calamity darkens the life of man, con
passion and sympathy are tenderly la'
ished; yet from such strokes men general
recover, or at least rally; time rarely fai
to ameliorate, and hearts once utterly ca
down are again tranquil and Cheerful
There are none to comfort, none to pit
those who are bound in uncongenial wee
lock, though such sufferers are bitterl,
hopeIessly and interminably Athlete,
Mind, heart and soul, dwindle under til
baleful influence of continual incivilitie
reproaches, chickering's and the unsymp;
thetic ideas and inclinations of hetert
genous natures. Did Robertson state to
strongly that there are only two rocl
upon which the human soul can suffs
hipwreek-marriag and in6delity?
THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.
Those who believe that English is to /
the universal language of the world wi
find their theory strengthened by the faC
that in the negotiations recently conclude
at Tientsin between the Chinese an
japanese with regard to Corea, tn
! discussions we're conducted wholly i
English. The Chinese COMMISSIONS
knows no language beside his own, but h
secretaries and interpreters have been i
Europe, and acquired English thorough,
AS consequence he spoke throughout
that language; and it was agreed on bot
; sides that this course was advisable, inss
, much as there was in English an ampl
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