The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-08
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WHAT GIRLS MOST NEED.

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WHAT GIRLS MOST NEED.
Come Advice to Mothers Upon the Train.
Ing Of Their Daughters-The Sunny At
mosphsre the Homo should Furnish.
Girls, like roses, grov best for those
who love them. Love, warmth is as
necessary for the budding soul as the
opening rose, and whoever watches the
girl-soul with eyes of love will see
therein a responsive growth, deepen
ed coloring, tender unfolding of the
many petaled heart
No crime can be surer of Gods con.
sdemnation than that Of bringing into
this world an unwelcome life and then
abandoning it to the slow torture of
soul starvation The tender plantlet
that finds the skies of April and May
drear and chill may cling to life even
though its young leaves are frost-bit-
ten, but all it's life will be weakened
and its symmetry and beauty lessened
by that early blight.
A little girl of or years came up
the aisle of Northwestern train the
other day, and the old little face with
the lines of pain and anxious thought
already beginning to mar it's young
beauty made one feel sad, as if one
were looking upon a blighted flower.
But the cause of it all was only too
evident as we glanced up into the out
-of-tune, falsetto face of the woman who
jerked her into seat, and whom the
little one miscalled by the tender name
"Mamma." Maternity and mother
hood may be terms widely different in
meaning. The maternal parent of a
child may have no right to the holy
name of mother.
The girls first supreme need is home
sunshine-that is, mother sunshine.
You might as well expect rose to
grow and bloom in perfect beauty un-
der the lowering gloom of perpetual
thunderstorm as to expect girls to
blossom out into q bright. lovely girl
hood in cold, chilling atmosphere of
constant censure and fault-finding.
To be welcomed into an atmosphere
full Of soul sunshine is the divine right
of every young soul. To have that at
mosphere kept warm and sunny during
all the early years of growth is debt
owed by parents to their children-a
debt for which we can not but believe
they will be held accountable.
If the atmosphere of the home is
warm and sunny and pure the young
girl soul may be left to develop in it's
own sweet way, and it will be found
budding and blossoming at every happy
nod. For it seems to be law of ma
ture that children born of strong, pure
and loving parents, with such a sun
ny home atmosphere, instinctively
choose the best elements for their spirit
nal growth. In the early years of soul
growth there is often too much we'll
meant but ill-timed solicitude on the
part of parents and teachers. rcmem-
Der, one springtime, to have had my
soul sorely vexed by precious young
botanist of three years who insisted
upon pulling up my tender plantlets
. ''to see how the woots 60" Some we'll
intentioned people are perpetually pull
ing girls up by the roots to see how
they are growing. 10 such soul-in-
qaisitors we feel like saying: ''Do let
your girls alone" There is a divine
mystery of growth in every soul which
even the nearest and dearest, the moth
-er, may not penetrate. 1t is something
too sacred for any other being To know,
save God alone, and this is the reason,
it may be, that in His wis
dom i. is forever hidden from
any eye but his And your duty as
mother seems to be to keep the home in
which they live and move and have
their being" warm, sunny and whole
some, so thut they may reflect your soul
light and absorb it's warmth and quick
ening power, just as the planets reflect
the sunshine and are quickened into
life and beauty by their mother sun,
And this home sunshine, this mother
sunshine, means that home must be the
brightest and sunniest spot upon earth.
1t means that all the spites, and envies,
and meanness of the world shall be
kept out of the home as sedulously as
you would keep poisonous weeds out of
your garden. IL means that there the
young girl always feels the better, no
bier side of her nature expanding. 1t
means that there the natural language of
her heart is love, and song, and prayer,
1t means that the whole wide world
can hold no place for her comparable
to that home however simple and low
1y, which is warmed and lighted by her
mothers smile. 1t means that for her
girl mother, comfort, peace, sun
shine, and soul rest are synonymous
terms. 1t means that she can only think
of heaven as longer and brighter
dream of home.-Chicago Tribune.