The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-05
j proper .nstruc-
.;on of Our Little
Ones.
|..,..tyin Answering Queries
..,.aed by the lpquisitive cni'd
Pr''o ,.., policy-The Danger or
ave Answers 20 Questions
by MEMO"
,Convriphted.)

BY MEMO"
.,,,,ubtsS by a layman, are read In
THESE "a thousand homes, scattercu III
hye nS,ota in the Union. In tnis oou ,ayc ~
every sound week by week IN tno arramgoi
mis- Wis paper only, as we Tor their exclusive
pu'''' .hiId lust learning to toddle can
..,a forth a string OF What's" and
p p that will be the desperation OF
40 most learned philosopher. heard
w " ans recently that was propounded
Uhsn a child by former United states
v, . commissioner. Papa" said he.
as.,ore there was anything. what was
,hs,e and what did 1t look like?" These
Questions Of childhood signify much to
,ssm. i properly and patiently answered.
Their little inquisitive minds are like
MAGNETS gathering particles OF metal
here there, and everywhere, and inbuing
tboss particles with their own individ-
uality. :,
near mother whose whispered "Yes"
!. working in it's effects on the children
Gathered around you, and will work on
generations OF men whom your eye shall
never behold; strong father, whose pur-
nose If life has been to win and to honor
that wife with worldly goods and moral
purity. thrill at the knowledge that
thousands OF eyes like yours look over
these written words. Let me put to you
question. How will you answer your
child when with puzzled look and a
growing sense OF its own existence 1t
comes to ask, "Where did ] come from?"
Will YOU evade the question with blush
ngs and confusion, and tell the child
some story about storks and goo seberry
bushes? So surely as you do you will
soon find it listening with avidity to the
story told by some more knowing CON-
panion, and your silence and evasion will
seem to Il like an association OF impurity
and shame with the child's existence.
Learning about holy things at the un-
holy iount Of inhamed guessings, little
wonder il latter in life the child should
regard loye and marriage as merely
refined names for lust and self-gratifica-
ton.
lcannot do better Mt this point than
quote beautiful passage written by DR.,
Mary Wood-Allen: "But supposIng, at
the time when the innocent child came
with his honest query, the mother had
taken him in her arms and with holy
words bad told him OF the days when he
had been part OF her own life, when
held 10 her close and protecting embrace
be had grown with the beating of her
heart, and been modelled by the touch OF
her thought, when her love had EMBODIED
him, and her prayers had created the
tenor OF her own thoughts, when through
long days she had dreamed OF him, and
worked Tor him, and prepared for his
coming, and finally had gone down into
tne yale OF physical pain, perhaps even
10 the gates OF death, with brave cour-
age TO welcome him to his independent
earthly existence. DO you not believe
mat the holiest of feelings would have
osen aroused in the ehild's heart, and
nenceiorth to him mother would be the
'enderest holiest word. and love and
marriage be symbolic OF unselAsh loyalty
az most sacred responsibility? When
'oe sweet story fell upon the ear Of one
en''o' he threw his arms around bis
nO'ners neck. excIaiming, Now mamms,
world"
40 apology is needed for bringing in
,'' SUBJECT here. Just as "intensest
'y'e oegets the 8ercest hate" 80 the uplift
=; auu .ne downfall Of our race both are
Implied to sex differences. Homes and
OIL 'ne associated arts that 20 to adorn
n m"'' sustain them take their origin pri-
.'a'''y from the fact that man seeks
.,o ~an LOT his own, she takes for herself
t s,Oue' Yet those very sex differences.
ma vusa Misrepresentation OF all that they
n..a through the criminal silence Of
tho ua,, a through the prurient prudery Of
th y. pro'essedly pure, are Hateful to over
vra. NV anu render null and void all the
Tba. se ,,,. mat is possible in our race.
and ~, u'aerences are at once the Heaven
who aS naoes OF our life, and wise is he
blesssd t ~ the path that is right, and
W they who guide him therein.