The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-01-24


So we have 40 minute and particular
description Of the palace at whose win
dow our glorifed mother sits, but there
is so much in the closing chapters of
the good old book about CROWDS and
pearls big enough to make gate out
of one of them, new songs and mari
age suppers, and harps, and white
horses with kings in the stlrrups, and
golden cand!esticks that we know the
heavenly residence Of our mother is su-
perb, is unique, is colonnadel, is domed,
IS EN- powered, is fountained. is glorlGed
beyond the power OF pencilcr pen or
tongue to present, and IN the window
OF that palace the mother sits watch
ing for news from the battle.
What a contrast between that celes-
tial surrounding and her once earthly
surroundings! What work to bring
up a family in the old time way, with
but little or no hired help, except per-
haps for the washing day or for the
swine slaughtering, commonly
called "the killing day" There
was then nc reading of elaborate
treatises on the best modes of rearing
children and then leaving IL all to hired
help, with one or two visits day TO
the nursery to see it the principles at
nounced are being carried out. lhe
most of those cd folks did the sewing,
the washing, the meudlDg, daTn:ng the
patching, the millinery, the maDtua
making, the Housekeeping and in hur-
ried harvest time helped spread the
hay or tread down the load in the now.
They were at the same time caterers,
tailorS, doctors, chaplaioS and nurses
for waole household all together down
with measles or scarlet fever, or rouHo
The house with Whovplng coughs and
Groups and runround fingers and
earaches aud all the iHfantile Gistem
peTs which at some time swoop upon
every. large household. Some Of those
mothers never got sted in this world 4.
Instead o. the self rocking cradles OF
our cay, which, wound up. will 60 hour
after hour for the sotacs of the young
slum berer, it was weary foot on the
rocker sometimes half the day or half
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Ius' cad Of our drug stores filled With
all the wonders Of materia medlca aud
called up through telephone, with
them The only apothecary short Of four
miles ride was the garre', with its bun
cheS Of peppermeDt and pepnyroyal
aod catnIp and mustard and camomile
flowers, winch we're expected to do
everything. Just think of 1t!
Fifty years Of preparing Breakfast,
dinner and supper The chief music
they heard was tnat of spinning wheel
AID rocking char. Tagged OUT; bead
achy and With al kles swollen. Those
old fashioned mo'uers-it a0y persons
ever fitted approprla. ely into good,
easy, comfortable heaven they We're tie
folks, al they gos there, and they are
reste. They Wear no specSacl-s, for
they have their third sleat-as they
lived long enogh on earth 10 gee their
second sight-and they do not have to
paHt for breath after goiug up the
emerald stars of the Eaerual palace, al
whose window they now sit waiting for
news from the battle.
But if anQ o-s keens on asking the
question. where's mother" l answer,
she is iE your present character. The
probability is that your physical seaE-
ures suggest her. If there be seven
children in household, at least six of
them look like their mother, and the
older you get the more you will look
ike her. But speak now especially
Of your character and not of your
looks. This is easily explained. During
the first ten years of your life you were
almost sill the time with her, and your
father you saw only mornings and
nights. There are no years in any life
so i'm portant for i'm preston as the first
10. Then and there is the impression
made for virtue or vice, for truth or
falSehooo, for bravery or coWardice for
religion or skepticism.
Suddenly start out from behind a
door and frighten the child, and you
may shatter his nervous system for a
lifetime. During the first 10 years you
can tell him enough ,spook. stories to
make him coward till be dies. Act
before him as though Friday were an
unlucky day, and it were baleful to
have Is at the table, or see the moon
over the left shoulder, and he will never
recover from the idiotlc superstitlons.
You may give that girl before she is 10
years old fondness for dress that will
make here mere dummy frame, or
fashion plate, for 40 years. Ezekiel XVI,
a. "As is the mother so is her daught-
er."
Before one decade has passed you can
decide whether that boy shall be Shy
lock or George Peabody. Boys and
girls are generally echoes OF fathers and
mothers. What an incoherent thing
for mother out of temper to punish
child for getting mad, or father who
smokes to shut his boy up in dark
closet because Ae has found him with
an old stump OF cigar IN his mouth
or[SJr that mother to rebuke her daugh-
,er for staring at herself too much in
the looking glass when the mother has
her own mirrors so arranged as to re-
peat her form from all sides. The
great English poets loose moral char
acter was decided before be left the
nursery, and his schoolmaster in the
Schoolroom overheard this converse.
ton: Byron, your mother is tool"
and he answered, II know it,"
You can hear through all the heroic
life of Senator Sam Houston the words
of bis mother when she IL the war of
1872 put a musket in his hand and
Said: There, my son, take this and
never disgrace it, for remember I had
rather all my sons should fill one hon.
oraDle grave than one of them should
turn his back on an enemy. Go and
too, that while the door of
my cottage is open to all brave men it
it is always shut against cowards."
the mother of Nero. muir
deress, you are not surprised that her
son was murderer. Give that child
IN overdose OF catech1sm, and make
him recite verses of the Bible as a pun
Isnmeut, and make Sunday bore, and
be will become stout antagonist of
Impress him with the
kindness and the genlaiiJy and the
IoVeliness of religion, and he will be its
advocate and exemplar for all time and
eternity.
4 few days ago right before our ex-
press train on the Louisvills and Nash
vile railroad the preceding train had
y,