The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-03-14
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best training; and some will go ri5nt
even when their surroundings are
most unfortunate; nevertheless an
ir~mense amount depends upon the IA
mly training. If you mothers tro'
weakness bring up your sons To be
selfish and to think only of Them
selves, you will be responsible for
much sadness among the women who
are to be their wives in the future.
If you let your daughters grow up
idle, perhaps under the mistaken i'm
preston that as yourselves have had
= work hard they shall know o2iy
enjoyment. you are preparing them
70 be useless burdens to themselves.
Teach boys and girls alike that they
are not to look orward to ives spent
in avoiding difficulties but to lives
spent in overcoming difficulties.
Teach them that work, for themselves
and also for others, is not a curse
but a blessing; seek to max them
happy, to make them enjoy life. but
seek also to make them face life with
the steadfast resolution to wrest sue
cess from labor and adversely, and
to do their whole duty before God
and to man. Surely she who can
| thus train her sons and daughters is
thrice fortunate among women.
There are many good people who
! are denied the supreme blessing of
children, and for these we have the
respect and sympathy always due to
those who, no fault of their own, are
| denied any of the other great bless
ings of life. But the man or woman
who deliberately forgoes these bless
ings, whether from viciousness, cold
ness, shallow-heartedness, self indul-
| gence.or mere failure TO appreciate
Alright the difference between the all
important and the unimportant-why
such a creature merits contempt as
hearty as any visited upon the sol
der who runs away in battle, OF up
on the man who refuses to work for
the support of those dependent upon
him. and who though ~ablebodied is
yet content to eat in idleness the
bread which others provide.
The existence of woman of this
type forms one of the most unpleasant
and unwholesome features Of modern
Life. If any one is so dim of vision
to fail to see what a thoroughly I'M
lovely creature UGH a woman is |
wish they would read Judge Robert
Grants novel "Unleavened Bread"
ponder seriously the character of Sell
ma, and think of the fate that would
surely overcome any nation which
developed its average and typical
woman along sue lines. Unfortu-
nately it would be untrue to say that
this type exists only in American nov
els. That it also exists in American
life is made unpleasantly evident by
the statistics as to the dwindling
families in some localities. 1t is mad
evident in equally sinister fashion
by the census statistics as to divorce
which are fairly appalling; for easy
divorce is now as it yer has been,
a bane to any nation, a curse to So
ciety, a menace to home, an incite-
ment to married unhappiness and TO
immortality, an evil thing for men
md a still more hideous for mn
These unpleasant tendencies. in our
American life are made evident by
,rticles such as those which I actu-
lilly rea not long ago in a certain
paper, where a clergyman was quoted
seemingly with approval, as express
ns h general American attitude
yhcn he said that the ambition of any
save a rich man should be to ear
wo children only, SO as to give his
children an opportunity ito lasts a
few of h good things of life"
This man. whose profession and
calling should hav la him a moral
teacher. actually set before others
the ideal, not of training children to
do their duty, not of sending them
forth with stout hearts and ready
minds to win triumphs for themselves
and their country, not of allowing
them the opportunity. and giving
them the privilege of making their
own place in the world, but, forsooth,
of keeping the number of children SO
limited that they might"taste a few
good things" The way to give a
child a 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 of character Even
apart from the vital question of nat
ional life. and regarding only the in
/ dividual interest of the children them
| selves. happiness in the true sense
is a hundredfold more apt to come
to any given member of a healthy
family of healthy-minded children,
| well brought up. well educated, but
| taught that they must shift for them
selves must win their own way. and
\ by their own exertions make their own
| positions of usefulness, than it is apt
to come to o whose parents them
selves have acted on ad have trained
their children to act on, the selfish
and sorid theory that the whole end
of life is to taste a few good things"
The intelligence of the remark is
IN a par with it's morality, for the
most rudimentary mental process |
would have shown the speaker tina |
if the average family in which there
are children contained ut two
children the nation as a whole
would decrease in population so rap
idly that in two or three generations
it would very deservedly be on the
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