Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-29

udices and pride catered to. and the boys
be left to grow like weeds, to be like them,
too often, pulled up and cast aside after
maturity y, nobody ds seeming to realize their
almost at hand. Boys need the peculiar
refining influence to Be obtained only from
simple yet elevated and attractive home
life. They need it, If anything, more than
generally able to make their own sun
shine and happiness at home. and boys can
only shine in the reflected glory.
Parents make mistake that they have
no playtime with their children. The hour
or two in the evening. just before the
babies are put to bed. which the true moth
er devotes to amusing and solacing her
little ones. entering into their joys and
sympathizing with their little worries and
trials, should never be given UP as long as
a child remains at home. When they get
too old to creep into her arms and rob out
the story of fancied wrong, they can yet
come to her knees in the twilight and talk
over the days work and worry with her,
and be sure Of her gentle counsel and adj
monition.
Some Duties of Parents.
A mothers sweet way Of getting over
hard places helps a fellow a lot, when he
has about made up his mind that the
world is hollow sham, and who can doubt
that the girl whose heart is a book of open
pages to her mother is going to keep in the
straight path? If these fretful, fault-find-
ing, hypochondriacal mothers only realized
how much sorrow for themselves, how
much misery for their children, they are
fostering in selfishly pushing their Off
spring aside to permit Indulgence in their
own peculiar aches and ailments, or to be
able to devote more time to the world,
they would surely devote more time and
motherly attention to the home circle,
where their influence widens each day and
leaves its impress on the world in what
ever is good and honorable and of high
degree that comes to one who bears their
names.
Nor should this intimacy with the chill
dren be confined to the mother. 1t is just
as much the duty of a father to learn the
habits and tastes of his children as their
mother. He should make himself their
counselor and the able coadjutor of the
mother There should be no division of in
terests, no conflict of opinions between the
parents to weaken the influence of either
with the children. They should be anil
mated alike by desire to obtain the best
results in the rearing Of their children. The
very best results in properly rearing chill
dren can be obtained by interesting your
self IN their pleasures and recreationS.
Parents who provide for and share in the
innocent amusements Of their children lay
up for themselves a store of filial love and
gratitude which they probably could rot
obtain so surely in any other way The red
letter days Of childhood are those in which
father or mother took some especial pains
to give the little ones pleasure. The hap
piest hours which memory holds sacred for
most men and women are those connected
in some way with the f1reside Of the pater-
nal home, and to create this close bond Of
sympathy between themselves and their
children parents must take an interest in
the pleasures which are naturally the
ruling element in the lives of their children.
When parents are thus interested in the
affairs Of their children 1t more firmly &C.
ments the bond between the brothers and
sisters. bringing them more closely to-
gether, and increases their affection for
each other. Their common interests in
childhood carefully fostered by judicious
parents, remain a commonality through
life be it long or short. and the childish de-
lights and pleasures constitute a tie Of
treasured memories, remaining long after
the world and its busy work has been laid
aside for the quiet, secluded retreat of de-
Ginning years. > SONORA SARA