Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
IN BRIEF.


# thoughtful people knew any way to
emphasize a protest, it would be used
against a commonly uttered sentiment that
boys must have their Cling 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 10 save their children from the hardships
that cnvironed their own childhood, but
how far this guarding process is to be car
ried in the real interest of the
child is the question for parents
10 consider. The topic is by no
ment," because, that now as ever it is the
mothers hand which must guide, and too
often must restrain; fathers as 4 rule, in
this graspin-; age, being too much cngrossed
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
ccssity of tho fling" So much ridicule is
heaped upon any reference TO the past that
there is a shrinking from making any allu-
sion 10 it, ana yet 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 IN assurance that in
after years there would be no wide de-
parturc therefrOm. It is possible there
might have been too much rigidness and
that the present laNity is the reaction, but
parents of the age 10 which reference is
made must admit that although occasional
black sheep were in the focks, theirs was
not a generation OF oilers, 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 i right degree OF discipline. laxity
in the medication of respect to age and
want Of veneration for higher things has
wrought much of the evil over which par
ents bow their heads and wiring their hands.
The horticulturaist begins with the
twigs If he purposes 10 have Il symmetrical
tree. The keeper Of the vineyard bestows
his unrest care on the tender vine. that it
shall be trained 10 bear perfect fruit, and
Vet the o'er-fond parent says let youth
have It's fling" and when habits are
formed and viciousness rooted there will be
reaped harvest of good things. Alas, the
reaping is the whirlwind and the fruitage
The apples of Souom. Boys ana girls have
reached maturity, they have had their
fun, the unwise guardians have waited,
and bat i-A only 70
petiteS craving and never satisfied, and
natures hardened 10 4 degree that is I'M
moved by good counsel Childhood in 1891
is as much sowingtime Us 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
target for shafts of ridicule than that
known as ''woman'S rights Its advo-
Gates, it is true. have fallen into mis-
takes that is common TO 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 rs those of business of which their
industrial art, such as the one at Wilkes
barre, Pa, have opened way by which 4
girl skiliful in designing patterns for fab
RIGS or clay can earn L handsome salary,
and the art school OF Tulane univer-
sitN now gives women the opportunity
10 perfect themselves in this art so remu-
lucrative. 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 entertainments of
ancient prejudice. The problem that Just
al this time presents itself 10 women is not
so much how 10 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 10 her becoming q well-informed, self |
respecting woman, capable Of self-main- |
tenance, or of discharging intelligently the
duties involved in wifehood and maternity. |
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The divinity that doth hedge in royalty !
seems 10 be an insufficient barrier against |
cares, or the propenslties that |
drag men off their high pedestals. Queen |
Victoria, who has queened it for more than |
a 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 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 20 rule: ''You may all of you be
very devoted TO the young king, but not