The Russellville Democrat., 1893-10-26
ThE PARENTS
That Is to say, a Man and Woman With
 Children. Do you see the man and womans

How many ls enoughf
 It seems as if some people never knew how maav was enough
 Is one enoughf
 1t is just as much bother. or more.
 How is thatY
 On the with-one chicken principle Doesn't one have better chances than if there were dozenR
 Not SO good
 How can that bef
 Givsit up. Itis the rule, though, that one child is usually terror.
 Why is thsti
 Owing to the fact, l suppose, that as there must be one black sheep in every flock, this one is black.
 Do parents know how to control their own ehildren9
 Not as we'll as other people do.
 They like to have good ones don t theyf
 They think they do, but they don't seem to get at it always
 Isn't it because they love them so that they lack strength to correct themg
 Well, call it that.
 Aren' children born bad
 Some are born bad, some achieve bad ness and some have badness thrust upon them.
 T diCAkH HfS lb DlAl4ts RItns Oftener than most people would dare to tell them
 Parents owe as much to their children as the children to their parents, don't theyf
 More
 More7
 Yes; for parents place them on earth, and the children are in no wise responsible
 Should parents be rigorous toward themf
 No, they should be sensible.
 What would you call sensible9
 Parents should be on terms of fellowship and friendship with their children; make companions of them.
 Doa' they do that9
 Do they do it7 How many fathers of families are good fellows with their boysf How many stand in the relation of chief of a tribe rather than as an elder brothers It's the exception for boy to be very bad when he has had his father for companion and friend as he was growing up.
 How about the motherf
 There's more of companionship in that quarter, for the mother is always in the house.
 But there are the bad girls2
 As a rule the bad girl is born, not made. A good mother has saved many daugh- ter, though, that careless mother would
  have lost.
 Are parents always competent teachers for their children7
 No.
 They want to be9
 Yes; but circumstances are against them.
 Morally 2
 Scarcely ever in that respect among re- spectacle peoplef
 How then7
 In the general affairs of life.
 How does it happen sof
 In new country like ours the children, as a rule, are in advance of their parents, by reasonof their superior advantages in youth.
 Should parents keep up with their chil- lreua
 By all means.
 Don't theyf
 No.
 Whyf
 For various reasons. They are older and slower to adopt the new manners, customs and education they think all that is need ed is to give those things to their children; they are ignorantly unselfsh, and some times they are indifferent, careless and lazy.
 Should children respect their parents just the sameg
 No
 No9
 Exactly that.
 Whyi
 Children are taught to respect those who are worthy of it, and if parents do not re- spect their children, and the advantages which they give them, they can hardly ex pect to receive something for nothing.
 But isn't this saerilegeG
 Not from a modern point of view.
 Yet children must move parents who are good and kind.
 Naturally, yes; in other regards it de- pends. A boy cannot respect that father when that father, with money plenty to acquire advantages and rise to higher plane, refuses to do so, though he may place his son there. The boy cannot help [, cling his own superiority, and it hurts him to think his father cares so little for the higher order of things.
 Shouldn't the child overlook thisR
 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 thtm what the world demands from him.
 How is it with girli
 The same. Can bright, intelligent girl find pleasant companionship in a mother who mas neglected her own capacities as that girl was growing up, and has made DO advanee7
 But the mother, possibly, could not have kept up with the daughteri
 No, not in all things. but in the little things; and it Is the little things that count.
 Are they all this wayf
 Oh, no. But they prevail largely in the great majority.
 What is the great msjorityl
 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 chil dren of wealthy peoplei
 The wealthy are strict observers of the emaller amenities. In the greater matters of morals, religion and domestieity the balance is in favor of the great majority. How does that come about
 The poorer people think mere of happi ness than in pleasure, and the greatest hap piness is in good homes. Should parents be made eonfdants of by their childrenY
 Always. Parents should know their ehildren's friends, and particularly fathers should know the mep whom their daugh ters know
 Don't theyi
 Some fathers seem to oe afraid of the | young men who are friends of their daugL- 1 ters or if not that, they think their daugh- i ters are mere children, and the men they | know are boys and beneath their Ssten- ton.
 They don think so when young man | asks to marry one of the daughters, thought | Hardly; and then, when sometimes it is l too late, they begin to try to find out some