Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-25
IN BRIEF.

IN BRIEF.
If thoughtful people knew any way to
emphasize a protest, it would be used
against 4 commonly uttered sentiment that
boys must have their fling" The press
teens with accounts of Sons of wealthy pa
rentage who have had this Cling and
thrown away reputation and happiness for
themselves and those who loved them.
Perhaps the most natural feeling in parents
is to save their children from the hardShipS
that cnvironed their own childhood, but
how far this guarding process is TO be car
ried i'll the real interest of the
child is the question for parents
TO consider. The topic is by no
means out of place in the Ladies Depart
ment," because that now ever, il Is The
mothers hand which must guide, and too
often must restrain; fathers as rule, in
this grasping age, being too much engrossed
in outside affairs to give proper heed to the
ways in which their children walk, and not
infrequently holding to the belief in a ne
cessity Of the fling So much ridicule is
heaped upon any reference TO the past that
there is shrinking from making any allu
sion to it, and vet fathers and mothers of
grown sons must remember the old faith
that guided their parents who believed that
in bringing up a child in the way
he should go they had an assurance that in
after years there would be no vide de-
parture therefrom 1t is possible there
might have been too much rigidness and
that the present laxity is the reaction, but
parents of the age to which reference is
made must admit that although occasional
black sheep were in the fockS, theirs was
not generation of idlers, useless dudes
and peculating gamblers, that the scandals
now so common in social and business life
were in their day comparatively unknown.
The lack of proper restraint, the failure to
enforce right degree of discipline, laXity
i'll the inculcation of respect to age and Il
want of veneration for higher things has
wrought much of the evil over which par
ents bow their heads and wiring their hands.
The horticulturalist begins with the
twigs if he purposes to have a symmetrical
tree. The keeper of the vineyard bestows
his utmost care on the tender vine, that it
shall be trained TO bear perfect fruit, and
! yet the o'er-fOnd parent says let youth
4. have its fling and when habits are
formed and viciousness rooted there will be
reaped harvest of good things. Alas, the
reaping is the whirwifd and the fruitage
the apples of Sodom. Boys and girls have
reached maturity, they have had their
fun the unwise guardians have waited,
and now they wake only to see unholy APP
petites craving and never satisfied, and
natures hardened TO Il degree that is I'M
moved by good counsel. Childhood in 1891
is as much sowing-time as in the first
springtime of the race, and if youth is al
lowed to fling tares the wheat sowing of its
guardians will be of little measure when
the harvest is gathered.
Perhaps fewer movements have served as
n target for shafts of ridicule than that
known as ''womans rights It's advo-
Gates, it is true, have fallen into mis-
takes that is common 10 all initiators of
radical changes yet there has been gained
and still is much good accruing to the sex
because the still waters have been stirred.
Notably is this true in the educational field.
Colleges have been opened and professions
made attainable and the young women of
to-day have avenues of improvement as
well as those of business of which their
ancestresses never dreamed. Schools of
industrial art, such as the one at Wilkes
barre, Pa, have opened way by which
girl shiIlful in designing patterns for fab
RIGS or clay can earn handsome salary,
and the art school of Tulane univer-
sity now gives women the opportunity
TO perfect themselves in this art so remu-
nerative. The students of the latter are
particularly happy in wallpaper designs.
Even the old dons of Cambridge and Ok
ford, in England, the precise professors of
Harvard, and the doctors of literature at
Johns Hopkins can no longer stem the wave
that is washing away the embellishments of
ancient prejudice. The problem that Just
at this time presents itself to women is not
so much how to enlarge their privileges, as
what is the best way TO use those already
granted. Every woman cannot become
senior wrangler, but there is now no bar
rier to her becoming q well-informed, self
respecting woman, capable of self-main-
tenauce, or of discharging intelligently the
duties involved in wifehood and maternity.
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The divinity that doth hedge in royalty
seems to be an insufficient barrier against
infesting cares, or the propenslties that
drag men off their high pedestals. Queen
Victoria, who has queened it for more than
half century, is Inundated in her son
and heir-apparent to the throne. Her vir-
tuous life goes for little when her eldest
born frequents gambling tables and is
charged with a violation of his marriage
VOWS While one queen mother bushes for
the moral delinquencies of her son, another,
Natalie of Servia, mourns as did Rachel for
her son whom cruel counselors deny her,
and invoke justice in her behalf, saying
truly of her wish to remain in the country
her son is to rule: ''You may all of you be
very devoted to the young king, but not