The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-03-22

impression that as you yourselves
have had to work hard, they shall
Euow only enjoyment, you are pre-.
pairing them TO be useless to others
and burdens to themselves. Teach
boys and girls alike that they are not
TO look forward to lives spent in
avoiding difficulties, but to lives spent
in overcoming difficulties. Teach
them that work, for themselves and
also for others, is not curse, 5ut c
blessing; seek to make them happy,
to make them enjoy life, but seek also
to make them face life with the stead.
fast resolution to wrest success from
labor and adversity, aud to do their
whole duty before Coo and to man.
Surely she who can :hus train her
sons and her daughters is thrice for
tunate among women.
There are many good people whoarc
denied the supreme blessing of chill,
drcn, and for these we have the re-
spect and sympathy always due to
those who from no fault Of their own
are denied any of the other blessings
Of life. But the man or woman wLo
deliberately forcgoes these blessings,
whether from viciousness, coldness,
shallowheartedness, self-indulgcuce,
or mere failure to appreciate Alright
the difference between the all-impor.
tant and the unimportant--why, such
a creature merits contempt as hearty
as any visited upon the soldier who
runs away in battle, Or upon the man
who refuses to work for the support
OF those dependent upon him, and
who though able bodied is ye: content
to eat in idleness the bread which
others provide.
The existence Of women of this
type :orms one of the most unpleasant
and unwholcsomc features Of modern
life. If any one ia so dim Of vision
as to fail TO see what a thoroughly uu
lovely creature such woman is wish
they would read Judge Robert Grants
novel, "Unlcavened Bread ponder
seriously the character Of Selma, and
think of the fate that would surely
overcome any nation which developed
it's average and typical woman along
such lines. Unfortunately it would
be untrue to say that this type exists
only in American novels. That il
also exists in American life is made
unplcasan,ly evident by the statistics
as to the dwindling families in some
localities.
1t is made evident in equally sinis-
ter fashion by the census statistics as
to divorce, which are fairly appalling
for easy divorce is now, as il ever has
been, bane 10 any nation, curse to
society, menace to the home, an in
citement to married unhappiuess and
to immortality, an evil thing for men
and still more hideous evil for wo-
men.
These unpleasant tendencies in our
American life are made evident by
articles such as those which I actually
read not long ago in q. certain paper,
where clergyman was quoted, seem
ingly with approval, as expressing the
general American attitude when he
said that the ambition of any save a
very rich man should be to rear two
children only. 30 as to give his chill.
dren an opportunity "to taste o few
OF the good things oflife."
This man, whose profession and
calling should have made him mo, al
teacher, actually, set before o.he:s the
ideal, not of training children 10 do
their duty, not Of sending them forth
with stout hearts and ready minds TO
win triumphs for themselves aud their
country, not OF allowing them the op-
'portunity, aud giving them the privi-
lege of making their own place in the
world, but, forsooth, Of keeping the
number Of children so limited that
they might. taste u,few good things'
The way to give child fair chance
IN life Is not to bring it up in luxury,
but to see that it has the kind of
training that will give it strength If
character. Even apart from the vital
question Of national life, and regard
ing only the individual interest Of the
children themselves, happiness in
the true sense is huudredfold more
apt to come TO any given member of y
healthy family Of healthy.minded
children, we'll brought up, we'll educa-
ted, but taught that they must shift
for themselves, must win their own
way and by their own exertions make
their own positions Of usefulness,