The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-24

Loving Children.
Bigne.s Is not the sane as size. AT least
ALWAYS. and it is not to be estim I'd
by weight. The people saysa s.icr-
woman. whom | most dread as
...estS are those who have no capacity
for small ~i,leasurcs." |. too. have TIE
same trouble. John ha, IA bulky friend
who never plays a game or roinps with
children. and do not know what To do
with him. When we go out to play GRO
quet. he stalks up and down with his
arms crossed under his coattails and has
tot the least interest in our sport. Their
John has TO leave us and go off to dis
cuss the resurrection Of the body or set
tie some other high and mighty problem
that neither of them knows anything
about.
John doesn't like it, but he feels the
obligations of a host-;lnd. as for me, !
don't think any guest ought to disrupt a
family and become a ~distracting ele-
ment. Why can't the man get off his
horse and try to see what other folks
need and like: This is all the worse be-
cause, if we propose a walk. he sees
nothing to interest him: doesn't notice
the trees or the flowers and strikes IN
with a disputatious TRADE about DIR.
Briggs ~ the higher criticism. When
theology runs dry. he goes into politics.
and we must discuss tariff n silver or
be impolite. l like hospitality. 1t makes
me miserable when | cannot be sure of
pleasing my guest. l simply have TO
wish that Edward Knox would stay
away.
Women Is a rule are mad up for
smaller things. and it very much pleases
me that Emerson decides genius to be
capacity for small things. But know
a few women who are terrible charac-
tiers 10 get on with. Mrs. Jane GeaTy
comes in to talk over the last book by IA
woman author. A pleasant topic this.
But how unutterably silly this wise
woman is when She tries to please chill
dren-for she really tries. Think OF
asking a e-year-old if she knows what
the analysis" of candy Is. When she
walks with me. she pokes a h~ollyhock
and calls it a geranium.
do not know whether the anclent-
meant the sun and its rays when they
talked about Samson and his long tress-
es of hair. and | do not much care. But
Samson was and is interesting for this
reason: He was a physical prodigy. with
a gentle capacity for very human feel
iugs He could be cajoled into a frolic-
some mood and was terrible only when
he must be. David is Il better sample Of
tile great big body full of small and
pleasant ways. - said "A certain great
preacher. Learned my first love for the
clilllike of my brave father. who never
despised small things. and then learned
the same lesson of Jesus. | am IA Chris
tan because real Christianity is great
ness in small things.
One of Jules de Glouvet's novels. The
Woodman." saves its hero. who Is a
poacher and always ready for killing
and eating and little else. by means Of d
little child The child kills ont the
mans furious passions, and the sight OF
the little one converts him to ii new sort
of life. That is the mission. is it not, Of
our children to keep us from growing
old and hard in u emotions: But what
can a woman do with visitors who either
frankly say they do not like children. ..
who manifestly are very Indifferent IL
them? 1t becomes a necessity at once 10
create two households, to keep the chill
dren busy somewhere while we attend
to our guests.
We are all fond of trifine discoveries.
We like our rambles in the woods and
glens to find new flowers. John gets "a
n.o,%oJ nc IN nf Tho hpt-s urhan hn f,b1l
a rare flower. We talk it over, and it is
added to some ones herbariuln with
pride. Indeed | cannot see that there
is any other way of making life very Ell
joyable or livable even but by the tri-
Aes. The japanese Romeos make love
by calling on the object of affection
carrying in one hand a fiowerpot with a
pet plant. We ought. l believe, to cul-
tivate these simple ways. Those who
cannot be happy without noise. display
and excitement are on the road to being
incapable of happiness at all.
DIR. Bremen says: ''Basing my asser-
ton on my private practice and at st
Vincent's. | will say that the boy who
smokes at : will drink whisky IT II. take
to morphine at go or % and wind up with
cocaine or other narcotics at 80 or soon
after" Above all things have a homely
way of living. SO childlike, simple. fresh.
that you will never be blase or any OF
your household lose the capacity for be.
ing pleased. | have heard of dead moral
natures and of intellectual powers ar,
rested in the way Of development and
have seer cases of both sorts, but there
is quite as much danger Of loss of faculty
for pleasure.
went to church yesterday and heard
a clever discourse on the Christian obi
cation of loving. The preacher said Il
US. Just love. only don't love yourself
that is all there is to the law Of religion
But | do not believe that preacher Wa,
doing anything more than retailing
wares he had bought in the lump and did
not know anything about, for he wen
on with illustrations of all sorts to en-
phasize and explain love, but all hi,
examples were Of a snowy sort. TIE
real Christian luve is III trifies OF tn,