The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-08-06
a PLEA FOR
Offered to n Woman Lectur-
er,a huuIcn

Amenunnent tNered to q woman Lectur-
er's Advice.
A few evenings ngo n Boston woman
journalist who writes tho essays about
bookmarlis, gluten bread, dress-rcform
c%orsets, and tho like for the woman's
column of IA Boston Sunday paper, cad
n lecture to a parlor full of Harlem
womcn Her subject was 'IIow to
Bring Up Children"
One thing that she insisted on was
that children should he taught to "do
things" to be prepared for emcr-
g%encics.
For example" said she. 81 would
teach a child what to do in ease of II
%fainting fit. ] say to my girls:
"Girls, ! am not much of Il hand at
fainting, but if | do take a notion To
faint some day when you are about,
get me some cold water. Pour it on
my head and face. Cold water, girls,
not hot water
"Fm sure that if the unexpected
comes and l fall in n fainting fit some
fine morning the girls, if they happen
to be near, will know what to do, and
will do it promptly"
MAY / interrupt you for a momcnt?'
asked Il little brown-haired woman who
looked to be about fifty.
"Why, certainly" answered the lee
turer.
well, what ! wish to do" said the
brown-haired woman, sis to taken issue
with you on this proposition of yours
that it is the proper thing to instruct
children what to do to their mothers
when they faint. On other points | have
nothing to say. Maybe you are right in
the general proposition that children
should be taught to do things, but rs to
this matter l wish to utter a warning
word, to offer an amendment, SO to
speak.
81 used to think as you do. remem-
Der as well as can be how l used to tell
my girls to do the very thing that you
say you told yours to do. / thought as
you do, hat it would be a shame to
leave any person who should faint in
the presence of my girls go without
proper care. So / used to say, 'Remem-
Der, girls, to use water. That's the
thing when a baby faints."
well, one day some n came to my
house and told me hat a little boy had
been hurt in the next yard. l was al
most i'll at the time, but just the same |
rushed out to the scene. The little chap
was badly hurt, and it ooh me quite n
while to get him in such n way that
could safely leave him. But the time
came at last and l started for home.
''When l was within about a rod OF
my own house l grew dizzy and saw
stars and then fell in a heap in the gut
ter.
"a couple of Irishmen picked me up,
each taking an arm and dragged mt up
my front steps and laid me out on the
piazza. And then they rang the bell,
and when my daughter Isabelle came
to the door, one of them pointed to me
and said:
"'Good avenin', Miss, an is that yer
mother there, lynn all in a hape dead
tainted away?'
Isabella gave one look and Their
called out to her two sisters: Quick
girls, mas tainted"
AFTER that the deluge.' Yes, that
tells the story. Isabelle got the ice
pitcher, Mary a foot tub, and Kate ;
ten-quart tin pail. | consider it almos,
a miracle hat Pm alive to-day.
"Of course, I'm telling all this from
hearsay. l didn't know anything from
the time that l tainted until l heart
Kate frantically crying out, Water
More waterl Quick, Isabelle, NOR
waterr and just after hat one of tn,
Irishmen saying, BE aisy, darlint, o
yen be afther drownin' yer oult
mother!"
wet! Well that doesn't begin to tel
the story. l was soaked, and grea
streams of water were running off tn,
piazza and down the stairs.
"'You did just right, girls said a
soon as / could speak. You did jus
what your mother told you to do, blu
don't do it again
"Then I got down on my knees ant
wrung out my skirts as well us 1 could
and while / was in that position I coul,
hardly keep myself from saying, 'Ol
Lord, 1 thank Thee that they didn'
call out the fire department
Nov, I've taken up lots of you
time, but | wished to make an amend
ment to your proposition. What
would propose is that every mother saw
her own self from the danger of drown
ing by saying to her girls when sh
bids them pour water on 'fainters,' %
sure, my dears, to try the remedy 70
the first time on somebody else thai
your own dear mamma.'"-N. Y. Times