The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-05-19

A letter has just come to the Home
Corner from one of its friends in far
away Boston, and it contains bit of
pleasant news. Miss Adele Lucas,
an American art student in Paris,
Madrid and Rome, arrived in New
York April 8, and at the residence of
the groom's sister, Mrs. Henry Eicke,
she became Mrs. Charles Deane
Hughes. The happy young husband
is a newspaper man, known to many
Texans, "She Is handsome, says
this letter to the Home Corner,
talented, accomplished; speaks Eng
fish, French, Italian and Spanish; an
artist of no mean ability; fine mu-
stefan with the violin, guitar and
piano; good singer, thorough Bo-
hemian, a born newspaper mans
wife, and an absolute good fellow, so
much so that her intimate friends call
her Dick" And then this jubilant
letter adds: "Think of me, news
paper man, homeless all my life,
for l have lived in hotels since my
childhood; and now
"The happiest man in the world,
Charles Deane Hughes
The best that one can wish the two
Bohemians is some happy home COR
ner, with the world shut out and love
an dpeace shut in; and this Home Cor
ner sends that wish with the heartiest
good will.
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We were passing family group on
the street when one of the children
persistently blew tin whistle and
one OF the parents persistently COM
manded, "Don.t blow that whistle on
the street ! The police will run you
in if you do! 1t was worthy of notice
that the child paid not the slightest
attention to the paternal warning.
He had beard such things before.
He plainly showed that he did
not believe the statement.
Have you ever noticed how much ly-
ing goes on in the nursery? How
children are brought up in an atmos-
phere of lies? Mothers and nurses
brighten babies into obedience by
threatening to call some wild animal,
or some unreal and horrible thing,
which, in the child's vivid magma
ton, must DO grotesque and terrible
beyond description. Children are
threatened with tremps and gypsies;
and told that the police will arrest
them and take them to jail for any
and every slight offense. They are
promised punishment, which is not
given; they are promised pleasures,
which are afterwards set aside for
some trifiing cause. The mother going
down town promises the child that if
he will be good while she is gone she
will bring him some candy. He is
carefully and conscientiously good
during the long hours of her absence,
and when she returns she meets
his eager inquiries with the
careless reply: "Oh, 1 forgot it,
You'll have to wait till some
other time ~ After a few years of
such training as that, the child learns
to lie little on its own account, and
is promptly punished for it.
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"Train up child in the way he
should 60, and when he is old he will
not depart from it," That is a wise
saying. Pesple have learned to find
fault with it, lately, and have asserted
and appeared to prove that great
many good parents have been disgrace
ed and di-honored by children who
went very far astray from the paths
in which they should have walked.
But am not sure. That word "trainn
means a great deal. Think of the
pains and time that are put on the
training" of horse for a race-a
single race, over in few minutes, and
with nothing but money interest in
volved! Think of the labor
and care with which the young ath-
letes "train" for the regatta or the
ball game! Such training do men I'M
dergO for mere business or social
pleasures. But when it comes to the
training of child, that is another
matter. Turn him over to the schools
for his education, to the Sunday
schools for his moral and religious in
structi0n, and during the short time
you are at home, at the close of your
busy day, send him to bed or into an
other room, because no makes you
nervous!
"Train" up child. That word
"train" comes from an older word,
which means to draw along. Not to
lead along, because that implies that
you are walking by the side of the
one that is led. To draw along. In
order to do that you must go before.
Go before child in the way he should
gO-the whole secret lies in that. We
have no reason to believe that where
the conditions were carried out the
promise has fai ed of fulfllment.
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had a little talk, the other day,
with lady whose fortune it was to
tramp about from house to house try
ing to sell books. Certain words of
sympathy for the hardships connected
with the life of book agent brought
from her beautiful and voluntary
tribute to the southern people, which
went to the heart of her listener. 81
wish you could know how kind and
considerale the people are to me! The
north is m. country, but assure you
1 wouldn't dare to canvass for books
there. A canvasser can scarcely get
into home, through the army of SER
wants; and even when he can gain ac.