Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-03-14
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vent death. Some do this by their writ
ings, some by paintings, some by sculp-
tors art, many by heroism, and so on we
might enumerate the many things for, or
by which individuals are remembered By,
posterity. But there is another way.
Some OF the above are beyond the major
ity.
We may live again in the lives Of our
children. Now on this subject have been
called an extremist. Be that as it may I'll
still hold to my present convictions which
are:
First, that parents should lead their
children, and not be compelled to be led
by their children before they are out Of
their teens. Parents should know some
thing of everything of which they want
their children to know a great deal.
Second. Parents should keep abreast
of the times they live in. Don't expect
to raise Nineteenth Century children in u
Seventeenth Century atmosphere.
Third, the paramount obligation in this
world, is the obligation which the parents
are under to their CT ildren. We used to
hear only of the duty OF children to their
parents; that was held before us as being
the obligation Of most Importance, but
say, while that is proper to certain extent
the burden OF the debt is on the parents
side, OF course the child owes the par
ent great deal for love and care but
have faith that the debt will be paid in
full, il the parent is not remiss in duty
which can only be performed by looking
after the childs mental, moral and physi-
cal needs.
would even modify the old command
Children obey your parents" while the
balance OF intelligence and judgment are
on the parents side.
Parents is a plural. It may be divided
equally into father and mother. Is the
care of the child divided equally? Never.
The mother is the one who assumes the
responsibility. Do you see our opportun-
ity? Isn't Martha Washington more
famous as the mother of her illustrious
son than il she had pieced quilt of such
intricate pattern and Of so many patches
that posterity would have lost itself in its
mazes?
Has not the the mother of Goethe
ulOTG DIdlSO IOI TIC COuCol4OA
she gave her son than if she had led the
fashion at Frankfort-on-the-M Main or for
the whole German Empire? It was the
pride of her life that "Wolfgang and
were Young together" They read and
studied together. There are many such
examples. The mother cannot further the
child's education by forgetting her own.
Have l not given reason enough why
Tho nathan chnF1lH lnne ofhar hor
mind?
Can any one think that mother is full
filling her mission honestly and faithfully
when she simply cooks, washes, irons aud
sews for her family. Kills herself men,
tally in few short years and then awakes
to find out that she is only half being,
waiting for death to end what she wreck
ed as far as was in her power. Don't
think that I am depreciating homework,
but that ought to be a means to an end
and not the Hbe all and end ALL" It will
not be public record in few years that
your family had pie every day for dinner
and of the mothers own making too; that
your children were the best dressed of
those who attended the public schools
here. There is no one who believes more
firmly than I in this that:
We may i've WITHOUT poetry music OF
We may live without conscience and live without
heart;
We may live without friends and live without books;
But civilized men can not live without cooks.
No, but the trouble is apt to be this; we
forget that we eat to live. We crowd our
meals. Breakfast upon the heels OF an
elaborate dinner, which is already stand
ing hand in hand with an elegant supper, as
though we had pasted up as a motto
which we are bound to live up to, I'VE
Live to Eat"
If this were a meeting of the fathers
which it isn't-no we hear of the "City'
Fathers" Fathers of the Country" and
that is eminently proper. Cor heaven
forbid that we should have "City's Moth
ers," etc.. And they haven't time to care
for to any great extent any thing so small
I should say to them. See that the
mother looks after her own mind. You
look after her enjoyment little and see
what a difference it will make In the
minds Of your children, whom you expect
to be proud of when they amount to
something.
And now to two little schemes which I
want to leave with US to be decided on at
our convenience.
l. Let US have paper, a news paper In
our society. It will furnish a field for
everyone, then there will be no idle brains.
Everyone in her work finds recipes worth
saving. Discovers something for herself.
Everyone sometime during the week has
a thought purely original worth saving.
Let us make record Of such in manner
to be decided upon. Don't you believe
that there are many women on ranches
who would be glad to find at least half
column in the "WoRLD" which was writ
ten for our country friends?
2. Could we not have corporate Lib
rary?
Get an Office; there are plenty at our
disposal think. Buy few books and
keep it open say half day every
week. We need not confine ourselves to
such literature as the North American
Review and Lttell's Living Age but read
those when we feel like it. Get good PAM
phlets, newspapers and fashion papers too.
We could incorporate this and have q
regular library association.
As for funds. Well we'd accent. I don't