Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

Isn't he likely to feel hopelessly embarrassed when
he is left thus suddenly alone with his son. with
nothing to guide him but stick and the primitive
male instinct to smash something when it goes wrong?
What is this influence of the father long de-
ferred, likely to be,-he, who never took time to
read DR.. Halls books he who searching his past,
can remember only threshing that did him good.
and lot of dressings that didn't
If, is cast at reproach we have gained
too much influence in mothering of the world,
why don't men take hand? No is holding
them. 1t does seem, however. that the return of
man to his place in the household and in the other
really important affairs of life ought mean some
thing better than return to that last resort of
thick wits, the rod DR.. Hall is perhaps thinking
of the good old days when father not busy
that he could no longer maintain his proper place
in the household in the church, and in the school.
But a good many boys away from the good old
fathers
And women don't take the starch out of bows
always A boy looks up to his father; he offers his
arm to his mother, and takes care of her, unless
she IS of the failures.
| read story, not long ago, of boy who was
adopted by his timid maiden aunt He weak
and spindling child but he the only man in
that house, and had to look under the bed, and
chase off cows, and do all the hero work for that
family, he rapidly developed into bold and fear
less youth. l believe that story have seen that
happen,
think father ought to assert himself of
the gentler SEX call strike spanking and insist
on some of the privileges of home. I'm tired of
saying my prayers to God! He never pays any at
tenton, complained little girl to her mother
day. Il think I'll try some nice polite angel" And
that is many a childs unconscious attitude toward
its father. where the mother has to play next
substitute for the polite angel.
Fathers place in the house is not always exactly
enviabe; but l don't think the ferule is his best
friend. Some fathers of that order who say,
What is the use of my going to the seaside. when
l can send the checks just well from here?" And
fathers all right. The incest
sympathetic and approachabe to that degree that
children not sent to them but go to them. l
don't want to lose that kind of father don't want
the stern old fathers backl
But what has undoubtedly hurt my feelings the
most, and rankes still most keenlv is this remark,
in the course of the disquisition: Women see
clearly and feel deeply the virtues of peace but
did ever anyone of them appreciate those of con-
fict. war. understand how every vigorous
boy needs sometimes to try the wager of battle?'
Is this what the Spartan mother gets for handing
her his shield, and telling him come home
either with it or it
And if we leave out this somewhat grisly female
how about the stories read to boys eXtoling the
let them come crying home to us, to weep
shoulders but make them meet the crisis like
man. How about the football enthusiasts among
the fair sex? Could ask for "apprecia-
ton !? How about Joan of Arc, and Mrs. Fitz-
simmons? Did not the whole world read and mar
vel at those historic words. Il Hit him in the
Stats, Fifty? How about Mrs Jeffries. Did she
show proper appreciation of the virtues of combat
too. when she led her champion sternly away by
the from revels which would interfere with his
profession, thereby gaining for herself the headline.
Mrs. Jeffries Deserves the Belt?
One woman! l could weary you by instances.
All would say is, there is ginger in our sugary
sweetness What about the Suffragettes, and
fortress of Peter and Paul because she cannot stop
fighting for Russian liberty: One woman! Shall l
make a list