The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-04-05
Rev. Anna Fl. Shaw.

This popular lecturer spoke for the sec
ond time in Wellington to a crowded
audience in the opera house Sunday even
ing. She was here year and half ago
and spoke on NThe Temperance Problem"
Sunday evening her theme was "The
American Home" a subject which could
not be considered without alluding strong
" &C the worst foe Of the home-the drink
traffic.
Miss Shaw is an honored and able
champion OF the best interests of the
home, the family and the nation. She
has studied the problems discussed by So
cial scientists and is competent to substan-
tiate all she says and presents her argu-
ments in a logical, forcible and eloquent
manner. Where she is best known she Is
invited to speak oftenest; and her ser
vices are in continuous demand. In
Hamilton, Canada, q week ago Sunday
filling engagements In New York and
Pennsylvania during last week, she is In
northern Ohio this week and will speak
In New Jersey and the farther east next
Sunday.
While admitting the supreme influence
of the mother In the home, Miss Shaw laid
much stress upon the need Of the iather's
influence there. She showed the injus-
tice Of placing the weight OF responsibility
OF the rearing Of children, especially sons,
upon the mother; the father goirg his
own ways, absorbed in his business or
profession; a1d, when In the home, II
not indifferent, yet less actively striving
to secure the confidence and the enter
taiDment OF his children, who monopol!ze
the time, the talents, the strength Of the
mother, making hers the supreme sacrifice
in parenthoGd. The mother should be the
house. keeper, but the father should bear
his full share in being the home-maker.
Not all women are both good house.
keepers and good home.makers They
involve different natural and acquired
qualifications. In some families the
children go most to the father for sympa-
thy and comradeship 1t would be better
for the boys II they felt disposed to cult.
yate the confidence and friendship Of the
father. 1t is his privilege and his duty "a
try to win them. Begin In their baby
hood and keep this hold upon their afiec-
tions. But there is, also lack Of disci-
pline, Of system, of sufficient attention
to child.training by the fathers
They are sometimes supposed 10
be too severely trained. She did not bo.
lleve that was the rule, but boys and girls
were allowed to "come up" without much
attention, save 10 supply their material
wants.
Mothers are everywhere exhorted to
make their homes safe and pure and
wholesome and then to keep their chill
dren there. The father has power the
mother has not, through his right Of suff-
rage; TO protect the home by purifying
the influences outside Of 1t, which make
1t unsafe for his children to be upon the
street and to mlngle with the community.
The growing political influence OF the
saloon power was shown 10 be one which
demands the supreme attention OF the
fathers in this republic. The question is
greater than the tariff or free trade,
greater than the question Of free coinage
or restricted silver, greater than all other
political questions combined. A little
book published within the last year, en-
titled "Children's Rights" was commend
cd. The partnership Of the state in shar-
ing in the profits of the liquor trahc was
severely and Justly denounced.
The lecture was entertaining and con-
vincipg and ELECTED many hearty com.
mendations.
A quartet composed of Misses Bene-
diets and Messrs. S,roup and Wadsworth
rendered very appropriate music. Rev.
A. g. Wall presided.