The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-18
IN THE MILLIoNAIRE's HOME.

Another course of eatment that this
little lady undergoes is a system of filming.
Her income is IS cents a week, and when
she gets out with her governess she may
spend it as she chooses. If il is all gone
in one day, then she gets no more for the
rest of the week, and if, as children are
so prone, she starts to tell any story about
the servants, 8 cents is deducted and en-
tered on the fine book under the heading
of gossip. Yet she manages to give every
body a present on their birthday, and she
has learned the value, the inestimable
one, of minding her own business, for she
gleefully told me not long ago that she
hadn't had gossip fine for eight
months This is the child not
of clerks wife, but of a woman
worth many millions herself, who pro-
poses that her daughter shall know the
value of money, understand how to be-
have herself, and never repeat what does
not concern her. Everybody likes the
child, but by request of her mother. she
is not talked to much, unless, indeed, one
should be an intimate friend, and pay a
special visit TO the nursery to get a cup
of tea from the little hostess, who makes
it very we'll. Once she said with great
earnestneSS, Suppose my mother were
taken i'll, and all the servants were taken
ill, and was theionly one who was well,
and everybody wanted cup of tea"
This was an argument that could not be
answered. This little girl is by no means
an angel, and she is not a child in a story
book, but she is one who is being educated
properly, and who will make some man a
marvelouslY good wife
Bah AS BOYS CHAMPION.
Our boysl win you tell me the reason
why our boys are inclined to be more hon
orable than our girl childrenl A boy will
do almost anything rather than tell a lie
that is going to hurt anybody; but our
little girls, too many of them, calmly and
eoolly fib, and nobody seems to think
much of it. don't like angel children;
don't like children who never make mis-
takes, but / hate mean children, and this
girl or this boy, my friend, will have the
right to turn to you or to me and ask,
why did you make me what I am2"
In the world as it is to-day, a mother
makes or unmakes her children, and if
your boy or your girl, my boy or my girl,
become liars and thieves, have mean
nasty ways, are greedy and gossipy, who
is to blame9 That was a beautiful white
book of life when it was given to you.
What have you let your children write on
it, 1t seems to me that that will be one
of the questions it will be difficult to
answer. There Is no necessity of talking
now about hereditary traits Certainly
your boy or your girl did not inherit lying
and malice and greediness from you, and
even if he had, when he was nothing but
a baby your great influence could have
exterminated the vices that, even if they
were inherited, were not developed. I
sometimes wonder what mothers think
they We're made for. L think that when
that great gift Of a child comes to a
woman, a something born of her own
flesh, and which had its creation in per-
feet love, she should get down on her
knees. and ask God Almighty how she is
to care for this great blessing, so that it
will not only be an honor to him, but a
source of Joy to herself
THERE ARE GOOD MOTHERS,
plenty of them, and sometimes the prodi-
gal wanders away from them, but he
always comes back, realizing, and he
says it with laugh that is half mirthful
and half sad, that ga boy has no friend
like his mother.D 1 like the prodigal; he
has never seemed TO me like mean chap.
His faults appear TO have been those of
great exuberanee, rather than of premedi-
tated vice. But after all, while one may
have a tender feeling for the prodigal,
it is the son or daughter whose virtues
are even and who remains with us who
are our comforts. You can make your
child what YOU wish-what is it going to
bel Badly-behaved, impudent, forward
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