Middletown transcript., 1895-07-13
For the MIDDLETown TRANSCRIPT.
WHAT TO TEACH OUR SONS.


There has been a great deal of bos
going the rounds of the newspaper
entitled "What to Teach our Girls
or daughters" How would it do t
give our boys little instruction?
Teach them that five segars at fiv
cents piece cost twenty-five cents,
Teach them to keep their feet off tn
sofa in parlor, and their hats off tn,
piano.
Teach them to say "no" and stick Il
it, when Jolly fellow asks them tt
take drink.
Teach them to wear cheap neck-tie.
for common and do it like king.
Teach them to sew on buttons, In
case a wife might be sick OF away.
Teach them to dress according to
their income and health, not wear heavy
shoesfor every day use, and light pumps
for Sunday to show fancy stockings.
| Teach them that gardening is health
full after the sun goes down and their
business is over.
Teach them to hang up coats and
hats to help make room neat.
Teach them not to pick out the most
stylishly gotten up young angel at an
evening party, but to hunt out the
domestic girl, no matter if she is old
fashioned and cannot talk slang.
Teach them that tight shoes make
pin-toed young men, and high stiff
collars make red noses.
Teach them that refined, loving girls
do not run to skating rinks every night,
and tramp the street every day.
Teach them that they cannot visit
places of doubtful character, and re-
main pure, any more than girl can.
Teach them that rich girls reputa-
tion is no more valuable than a poor |
girls, and should be respected as
much.
Teach them the old rule "a place
for everything, and everything in its
place." and for them to put things in
their places, if they had used them,
and not expect woman to run after
their heels.
Teach them to pay as much attention
TO their sisters and wives accomplish
nents, and praise them, at least as
much as they do other women who
nay not do half as we'll.
Teach them to live within their in
'ome, and not spend every cent they
make, and then marry some poor girl,
md expect her to wear her wedding
lothes for ten years, renovated and
yed, and disguis ed to deceive her girl
ood friends, who are laughing in th cir
leeves at the flimsy deception and
banking their stars that they are not
led to dude.
Teach them that a good, honest, >
working girl is worth forty airy fairy
.illians in billows of white tarletan Z
nd tiny white kid slippers at ball,
'hough these are the kind that re- b
sive the most attention). c
Teach them that no young mans t.
ind is improved by reading police d
apers and dime novels and the readers u
such are not fit associates for any Ii
ne. In
Teach them that it is quite as chiv- W
ric to 60 in the cellar and bring up b'
al for wife, as it is to 60 riding up 81
I'd down the streets on a prancing 81
'rse, with white feather stuck in 1t
cir hats and calling themselves CO
lights. lei
Teach them that it is as much their Vi
ace to help shake carpets, as it is for ID
'men to wash windows and scrub mi
ints all day, to say nothing of the WI
dinary house work on hand, provided
ey are not able to hire it done.
Teach them that they Lave as much
'ht to spend their evenings at home lie
their wives, who, perhaps, they have wi
atched from a merry home circle, in ne
lively town and buried miles out on rol
farm, with nothing to look at, but a thu
od stove and an old almanac. tht
Teach them that if there is stove aw
be put up, that they will derive as thu
lch benefit from its warmth as the eve
man, and that it will not ruin them Gre
get their noses blacked. thr
Teach them not to expect that their ant
yes can cook, wash dishes, black me
yes, and scrub cellar stairs, in let
nty dresses and white aprons any mo
re than they-the boys-can do the
ir work in perfect toilet. gar
each them not to find any more Des
1t with home cooking than they as
ald with Mrs. Browns or Smiths or
sre they took tea last, and where cea
praised her sour rolls and burnt cea
g and worked preserves from the use
d gol Wi
each them when they 60 to the sno
eau drawer for a clean shirt, to mai
mine it before putting it on, and the
go to the very bottom for one torn, era
minus button, and then stamp no
ind as if the townwas on fire. IL
each them that when they get our
ried not to expect to marry q grad true
from college, from a cooking BRO
'ol, a trained nurse, first-class
,stress, tailoress, laundress, musi.
!, chambermaid, financier, book. !"
yer, and an angel all In one. nose
each them that a woman cannot "
any more for ten dollars than a "Bu
/. kno
Zach them to tell their wives the Wei
b, as they expect 10 hear the truth take
! their wives. in regard To where 81