The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-05-15
Woman's World.
HON. E.IneatIon.

| IFrom paper read at wellesley, Mass. before
/ tho Farmersf and Mechanics association by
Abbie Fiske Eaton.l
According to my Interpretation,
home education does not mean a reg
ular, set time fer study and reeita-
tions, although such a course is some-
times pursued In some families as a
preparatory. II may be anything
learned at home, as well as taught,
by example as well as precept, or by
any Influence, unconscious, even,
either physical, moral, intellectual or
spiritual.
On the influence of parents on
physical education, Mrs. Eddy, an
exponent of Christian science, says
"Mind can regulate the condition OF
the stomach. bowels, food and tenn
peratdre of the child far better than
matter can do. Your views, that Is,
those OF the parents ON these, pro-
duce their good or bad results In the
health OF your child. Your child can
have worms, II you say so, or any
othsr malady that Is timorously
holden In your mind relative to the
body. In this way you educate your
child into diseord and lay the founda-
ton of disease and death. The entire
education of children should be such
as will form habits of obedience to-
moral and spiritual law, whereby to
meet and master that belief In phys
ical laws which breeds disease"
Frances Willard, president OF the
Woman's Christian Temperance
i Tr.F., Ia, ,.st & II Tt.a
ence" or "Home Education - Gays
" 1t would be easier to tell what were
not, than what have been. formative
influences. As Jagged bit of rock
is wrought upon by the many waves
and wavelets OF the sea, until its
angularity disappears, and it takes on
something of polish and ranges it.
self along the beach In harmonious
combination with the rest OF the
pebbles. so 1t Is with human life; all
influences combine TO make it what it
is She gives as her opinion that
"father and mother count more in
the training Of the child than all other
influences. They are the real univer-
sity. They are the great world and
what they do not plant in the nature
and nurture of the child the world
will never see.
In criticism OF her remark that
"what the father and mother do not
implant In the nature and nurture OF
the child the world will never see,
would say that the rule is proved ex-
ceptional when we remember cases of
children maturing from homes where
they have been taught habits of tenn
perance by example as well as pre-
eept, becoming hopeless drunkards.
The same is proved in regard TO re-
ligious education; we all doubtless
hear of ministers, children who have
been brought up in the nurture and
! admonition of the Lord, but who de-
part severely in the opposite direction.
} In the case of the sot who was the
outcome of training in the reverse it
} may be suggested that some remote
) grandfather might be responsible, the
J appetite being inherited although
perhaps skipping a generation or two,
as physicians say thatteonsumption
J and scrofula sometimes do. Even then
} it could not be charged to home edu-
cdllOH, uHlSSS, luuttu, utEeulby pC
pressed into the service as o home
educator.
Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer in her
remarks at n recent reception and
dinner given by the Mystic Valley
club, in speaking OF the college class
of 1900 said the fathers and mothers
+ before her who would go home to-
night and hurry to see that the little
ones We're sleeping we'll would have
4, more to do than any ether influence
I with the destinies of the twentieth
century.
3 Another branch of home education,
influence or bias, the existence OF
r which has my thorough disapproval,
e is when a parent chooses for 9
:, child the business or profession il
e shall prepare for without regard to
: the taste, talents or capacity of the
child 4 fond parent has great de-
sire that the boy shall become min
ister; said boy has great propensity
$ for business and trading, not much
for books and less for theology; he
7 wades through college and the sem
3 mary, in after years goes into miseel.
e laneous business, falling far short OF
e being u Christian minister and max
q ing very poor infidel.
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