The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-01-30
THE CHIlD'S IDEAL.
Why Fathers Should Live Clean Up
riuht Lives.

right Lives.
Address Of Mrs. H. ]. Kennedy of
Kalispell at the recent meeting of
the Mothers club
We are aiming to educate ourselves
and our families up to the highest
ideals of moral. temperate and Chris
tian living, so our lives from day to
day will be a prayer of faith. hope
and charity.
The hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world This is true in
part: but outside the homes where
the loving hand rocks the cradle Of
innocent. helpless babyhood to the
ers, We find arrayed against that in
fuence the influence of the saloon
and its accompanying degrading sur
roundings. When the feet which soon
will be coming forth from the homes
of loving care and prayers are met
by these conditions. is it any wonder
that many stray from the paths of
virtue and sobriety.
We meet young boys staggering
up the streets. smoking cigarettes.
laughing at some obscene joke told
in his hearing by some smart man
on the street corner. Further on we
meet the father, smoking a cigar,
arm in arm with the man who laughs
at his own low wit.
We rock the cradle while We
dream of what the future will bring
to our babies. 1t is all fair and
grand, the coming years. There is
no dark side then. We see states
men and. perhaps, a president; sure
ly, nothing less fills the vision of the
mothers eye.
How proud the father. Is there
any pride in the world equal to that
of the young father when his boy
can toddle across the room, climb to
his knee, joyously prattling, When
| grows big I'll be like my papa No
one so perfect as his own papa.
How can a man with the fumes of
whisky and tobacco bear to have the
| lips of his clean souled baby pressed
against his? Blessed innocence OF
| childhood. is it any wonder that oul
| boys see no harm in drinking lit
tie, or smoking little, or any won
der our girls see no harm in marry
| ing young man who takes a glass
and can smoke good cigar? Why
father does it, it must be all right;
why. its manly and there is nothing
a boy shrinks from more than the
ridicule of his boy companions. III
be called Molly Coddle or taunte>
| with being tied to "mother's apron
strings" simply breaks his heart, an(
so the first downward step is taken
1t is to fight against this influence
OF evil which is threatening on
homes and our very souls that WI
work together as Christian temper
ance women.
Can a woman be a Christian an
not work against this terrible curse
which is darkening their homes an
destroying the JOY and happiness c
their children. Joy and happlnes
is child's birthright, and he VIII
robs them of it commits crime
; Will our laws help us here an
give us the relief we plead for? In
agine the mothers asking the father
OF their children for the right I
rear them under clean conditions
| and have removed from the doors
, their homes, these surroundings
} degrading influences; this tainted a
!, mosphere of moral corruption. IN
1 right of every chance to have he
e sons grow up hOnored and respects
bic men, and her daughters pure an
|, virtuOus women.
l. When women petition for Justlt
/ in this we are met with the col
d stare of insolence and the evasive I
n ply, What is, must be, and what hi
t, been, will always be- and the mot
$ erhood of women must go on belr
+ outraged and derided by the Law
s made by the men, who have solem
l. " pledged themselves as sacr'
o duty to protect the purity, honor al
life of our homes.
e The woman's voice must plea
1t the woman's heart must bleed, VIM
II vice flaunts her triumph in the ia
n Of decency and sobriety,' secure
o. the knowledge that the laws OF
II country protects it. Weigh again
n grain of gold the honor of the
h. man soul. When the question or
ly cal option comes to issue the m
lie who goes staggering by and W
III would sell his soul for glass
n whiskey has a right to vote for ma
ry ing the laws that govern our tow
while the educated, refined mott
OF stands by helpless and all but pc
ic erless.
ed We must see to it that our childr
nd are educated along this line OF tie
Is. perance and Christian living and ke
o. our own homes pure and clean.
to Ask our teachers if it is not &C