San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-22


been incontinently fioored by having
the hose turned on them unexpected
ly.
Who has not seen some gosling of q
young man, wise in his own eyes, the
pet of home and the curled darling OF
the family circle, starched within an
inch of his life and with an opinion
wenh his mouth is allagape for the tri
of his irresistibleness that ought to
kill at forty yards, posing in the pres,
ence of some mischievous girl whom
he expects to astonish with his per.
sonality. How coolly and demureely
she waits the proper opening and then
when his mouth is all agap for the tri.
butte to his projections, turns the hose
full in his face. With what innocent
unconsciOusness she sees him gasp for
breath, her wide opened eyes fixed on
his face with the most intense inter-
est. How deftly she covers up her
hand and leads him into the trap the
second time.
Three lessons are never needed ex-
cept in the case of fool, and no girl
who is an adapt at turning on the
hose ever makes a mistake. That
young man arises from his seat on the
stool of self sufficiency a wetter and
a wiser youth. He will feel for sea-
son that there is no pleasure in life,
but as he grows in years and has his
eye teeth cut he may even grow to
smile at the first hose piping. 1t is
not a joyous experience, but it yields
peaceable fruits in the end. If that
young man had had the hose turned
on him at home by mother and sister
in his younger days it would have
saved him heap of modification later
ON. Here is where the angels of home
are not wise.
You can almost always tell the
young man who has had the hose
turned on him early in his life; that
is the young man who has had it turn
ed on judiciously. In the days when
child was made to be seen and not
heard, the hose pipe was always in
evidence, and the poor victim of that
school of repression could not open
his or her mouth without habing the
stream turned on and the half uttered
words forced backwards to their
source. That day has passed and the
pendulum has swung to the other ex-
IRENE, and too often it is the sons and
daughters of the house who hold the
nozzle of the hose and turn it on Ma"
and 1.-The Governor" whenever they
express opinions that are not in ac-
cord with the up-to-date youngsters.
Between these two extremes there
is a happy mean, and here the nozzle
of the hose is in the hands of exper-
fence. Mother generally mans the
pipe in these households, but it Is in
loyingness and a care for the feelings
of her growing up babies that she
turns on the stream whenever 1t Is
imperatively necessary. Not in anger,
not in the ruthless keenness, not in
carelessness, not to show her super
iority, but to check presumption
and pertness in its incipiency
does mother turn on the hose.
In every well regulated family
this is the rule and not
the exception, and where mother does
not do it the boys grow up arrogant
of manner and speech and conceited
of mind and overbearing in all their
characters.
There is nothing win take the howl
out of a young puppy like a dash of
cold water in the face. There is
nothing will take the conceit out of a
young prig like a jet of good strong
hose pipe in the teeth. The world is
full of women today who in their
hearts mourn because their hubby
mother was too sparing of the hose
in his youth. There are other wives
and their name is legion, who can
only find life with their husbands en-
durable, as they become expert il
handling the hose. Not that their hus
bands suspect this, by no means. TC
suspect is to be on guard. Wife is too
wise to let her hand be seen, but i
is on the hose pipe all the same, anC
at the proper moment the doucht
! comes.
! Blessed is the moral hose pipe il
the hands of a judicious woman. The
hands of a man in general are mo-
supple enough nor his heart tender
enough to be entrusted with the noz
zle. Blessed beyond all, is the man o.
the woman who has learned to handle
the hose for himself, or herself, ant
learned at what particular moment /
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