The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-17

Don't theya
No.
Why2
| For various reasons. They are older
| and slower to adopt the new manners,
customs and education; they think all
that is needed is to give those things to
| their children; they are ignorantly un-
selfish, and sometimes they are indiffer-
| ent, careless and lazy.
Should children respect their parents
| just the samel
No.
| NO2
Exactly that.
Why
Children are taught to respect those
! who are worthy of it. and If parents do
not respect their children. and the ad-
vantages which they give them, they can
| hardly expect TO receive something for
| nothing.
! But isn't this sacrilege2
Not from n modern point of view.
| Yet children must love parents who are
| good and kind?
Naturally, yes; in other regards it de-
! ponds. A boy cannot respect his father
when that father, with money plenty to
| acquire Advantages and rise to a higher
! plane, refuses to do so, though he may
| place his son there. The boy cannot help
| feeling his own superiority, and Il hurts
| him to think his father cares SO little for
! the higher order Of things.
Shouldn't the child overlook this2
| He can't possibly He must compare
! his own parents with other fathers and
mothers he knows Of like position and
| means and proper pride compels him to
| demand in some degree from them what
| the world demands from him.
How Is it with the girls'
The same. Can a bright, intelligent
! girl find pleasant companionship in a
| mother VINO has neglected her own
| capacities as that girl was growing up,
and has made no advance!
But the mother, possibly, could not have
kept up with the daughterl
No, not in all things, but in the little
things; and il is the little things chat
count.
Are they all this way2
Oh, no. But they prevail largely in the
great majority.
What is the great ma iority2
The great majority in America is the
kind where the money and what it brings
are enjoyed by the second generation
Is there more respect for parents in chill
dren Of wealthy people}
The wealthy are strict observers Of the
smaller amenities In the greater mat
tiers, of morals, religion and domesticity,
the balance is in favor of the great ma
jority.
How does that come about2
The poorer people think more Of happi-
| ness than Of pleasure, and the greatest
happiness is in good homes.
Should parents be made confdants Of
by their children.
Always. Parents should know their
children 8 friends, and particularly, faith
ers should know the men whom their
daughters know.
Don't theyl
Some fathers. seem to be afraid of the
young men VINO are friends Of their
daughters or, If not that, they think
their daughters are mere children, and
the men they know are boys and beneath
their attention
They don't think so when young man
asks to marry one of the daughters,
thought
Hardly; and then, when sometimes It.
is too late they begin 70 try to lind out
something about the man they should
have known all about in the beginning.
Why are fathers soR
r Mostly thoughtlessness; scarcely indif-
ference, say.
They are TOO busy TO think about such
things, Ell
The Lord only knows.
Mothers are better informed2
Oh, yes for most mothers take closer
interest I'm their children than fathers do.
Why Is thatl