Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-13
SAFEGUARDS TO PURITY.

Close Intimacy Between Parents and
Children Ia n Very Potent Factor.
There are parents who think they
can bring up their children, and espe-
cially their daughters, in large degree
ignorant of the evil that is in the world.
AS the king in the fairy tale banished
all spinning wheels from his dominions
that his daughter might not wound her
fingers with a spindle, and realize the
prophecy of the spiteful fairy at her
christening; even SO mothers withhold
useful and necessary knowledge from
their daughters, lest with it may be
mingled something leading to harm.
And even as this charming prin-
cess, notwithstanding every pre-
caution. by accident came upon
the only spinning wheel in the
realm, was wounded by the spindle.
and fell into her hundred-years' slum-
Der, SO often does the young girl un-
awares stumble upon experiences of
whose possible existence she never
dreamed, and which are even more dis
astrous to her than those that befeil
the sleeping beauty.
Boys and girls as they grow up will
learn the ms and outs of this wicked
world If their parents do not give
them this knowledge, somebody else
will; and the manner in which this in
formation is given is in all moral re-
spects vastly more important than
the matter. The parent may in
struct the child in everything it should
know, satisfy its curiosity within
proper limits. and thus preoccupy the
ground that would otherwise be sown
by chance cultivators more with tares
of vice than with the wheat of knowl-
edge.
It is simply astonishing how some
Young children pick up slang words,
vile words, profane words, and attach
to them meaning. Objectionable words
and phrases seem armed with hooked
burrs, and cling tenaciously to the
mind they catch hold of. 1t is equally
surprising how instinctively they con-
ceal all this knowledge from their
parents
1t is not possible for the mother to
cultivate to great intimacy with her
child. She should have the Juvenile
heart spread out before her as n
mirror, rejecting every thought,
every feeling, every passion
of the child. Thus she will be able jul
diciously to administer antidotes to vice
and build up safeguards to virtue.
When there is perfect understanding
between parents and children; when
the daughter feels that she can carry
every thought and desire to her moth
er. and the son is in full sympathy and
counsel with his father, there is little
danger that the happiness of Christian
nareuts will be wrecked by the profit
eacy of their children, little danger that
the children will wander far from APP
proved lines of conduct-Good Health.
A Popular MYTH.
The time-worn million stamps" lie
attn survives, and is likely to prove inn
mortal. People all over the country
are irving to accumulate one million
cancelled postage stamps, in the belief
th.t \ standing offer is made by the
government or by somebody OF big
.,,r;ze for such collection Some think
,fh.t ten thousand dollars is the sum
Guaranteed, while others imagine that
the reward is the endowment OF . per
,r.nent bed in hospital The popu.
,l.r notion ON this subject being some
what underlined, letters asking about
- are constantly received at the post
once department. But no denials serve
70 DESTROY the widespread faith in this
ss-.nge chimera. Letter.