The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-04
.= POINTS ON RAISING GIRLS.

some FUN , Wv taTN'S''NS
...,,rsI Snecd's son had come back to |
oTd home Tor a visit and had
,,-.,,gFt with him his wife and little
l---ybtar. q busy, prattling youngster
20 q. S57,,s3rs. who pulled her grandfather
v.s.szers and stuck her chubby fingers
.-+o his eyes with impunity
'.nsughter." said the colonel one
.--inq- after the child had been put
=. he'd and ne had rearranged his toilet,
u..5sr do YOU contemplate doing with
-Es- streak q sunshine
WIN. I'm going TO take the best pos
-.,1s care Of her" answered young Mrs.
seed and try to make good woman
'- ..y,u-re not figuring on making an ac-
49, or an artist or a stenographer out
If her. are you?
u. 70 % laughed the daUghter-in-law,
81 haven't got that far along yet But
why do you ask ,,,-.
vel [ didn't know. 1t seems like
....r,- 7voman's got TO have mission
.-.ss davs one that's different from
,,s original. and thought maybe you d
la o1if a brilliant career, with plenty
ra75-cIaps and bouquets in it. I'm
fgr-, clad to know that making a
,-55 vvonan OF her is all you've got in
80 Understand. I'm not saying she
-.,r7r.r have what they call q career
--7 he q GOOD woman at the same time,
L.-t I've GOT a kind of an old-fashioned
-o-sor that the finest thing on earth
is GOOD wife and good mother
7-.et-s a career that's higher than any
nan can aspire 10, and the good woman
,.bo doesn't get up to that level has
missed something in life.
ANYHOW. the making OF a good WON
an is q big enough job for any mother
A. tackle. I've always had a belief
not there was more care necessary In
vafsing girls than in raising boys. It's
g,ad deal the same difference as
thor. is between a post oak Saphne
and a rose bush. One can pretty near
~ take care OF itself, but it takes {
ro- o. watching and a lot o training L
hiring out all the blooming beauty O
the other When the Lord makes
woman he plants within her the seed'
If rornz qualities that when they grow
mo and blossom form the main differ
srra between her character and TIA
~ mans We can't exactly defin
them. but we know that they're there
and NE also know that women are nor
attractive. more lovely, and more low
ob1e i'm proportion to the development
If those qualities within them Some
times the seed don't seem TO nav
snroutad al all and then the woman
rrettv much the same as a man; thel
AGAIN they spring up and grow like
moon vine. and every man, no matte
how low down mean he IS. steps 10 on
side and takes off his hat.
Put all these qualities together, al
ran up. and you've got what we cal
v-,nanIiness. That's mighty bi
word. and it takes in nearly all IN
virtues that we can understand as we
as some we can recognize, but can
quite place It means purity and SoO0
ness and sympathy and tenderness an
luodesty and-but it's no use trying
analyze il. We know what II mean
even if we don't know why We knO'
it. and we're mighty sure it's wort
all the time and trouble it takes
produce it For il does take time an
trouble. It's very seldom that woman
Hness grows wild It's got 70 be deve
one5 bv cultivation what the high
proved farmers at the state universit
call intensive cultivation; and the motF
OF who makes good on the Job has
know what's what.
Vow my dear, I'm just a man, an
I've got no right to set myself mp
a counsellor for mothers. but SOM
times it's worth while to know how
man looks at these things, even If
does make q kind of a fool Of hin
self by mixing IN. I've got MOTTO
I'm the first place. that you can't b
gin training a girl too soon The
isn't ANYTHING new about that lde
but it seems to me that what used
be the rule is getting to be the exec
ton. and babies are left to grow
pretty much as they please on the tn
ory. I reckon, that it's no use to
anything until they get old enough
understand. Well, I've found out al
guess YOU have. too, that babies beg
to understand the minute they op
their eyes. and the time TO begin
the job Of making a woman is the d'
she's born.
And the first thing she ought
learn. my dear, is that her mother