El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-25

eral tendency and viii. though You would
willingly have listened to your first
accidental impulse. and YOU will con-
graduate yourself because of the OBJ
stacle that came In the way Of your
accidental desire. Although l have some
sympathy with the wife who is IN
faithful to her husband because of the
mad infatuatiOn of a moment and who
loves her husband no less for that, I do
advise those who are inclined towards
unfaithfulness to consider that even the
dream of unfaithfulness leaves no
pleasant memories behind. As there IS
nothing more exquisite about love than
the dream of it and the memories 1t
leaves behind il is sufficient to have
dreamed Of a lover and remember your
dream, for unfaithfulness itself leaves
nothing but sad and disturbing memories.
Early marriage diminishes the differ
ence in age and sentiments between
parents and children. It is this differ
ence that Montaigne wants to make
very great that the son may not becoma
the rival of his father on the battlefield,
IN business, in the pursuit Of honor; that
the father may be ready to retire when
the activity of the son begins. 1t IS no
longer suitable in our days. As Tor
rivalry, 20 years difference IN age IS
sufficient that it may not become dan
side it is an excellent tihinT Tor a son OF
20 to have a father of 40, because the
father will then at the same time be
able to flll the place of a friend, a com
Tade, an advisor and protector who viii
be in full vigOr, while if he were go, his
strength would already be on the decline
and his way of thinking quite different
from that of his son.
MOutaigne never thinks of the bring
ing up of children BY their parents and
in this regard great difference. IN age
between father and son, mother and
daughter, is very serious drawback.
When you are 30 and 10 respectively, You
still understand one another. but when
YOU are 40 or 40 and 10, understanding Is
difficult not to say impossible. Educa-
ton partly consists in living over again
your own childhood in your children, CIV
ing them the benefit of your experiences,
in becoming a child once more to under
stand how to guide and advise child.
You may he able to live your childhood
over again until YOU are 30; at 40 1t IS
difficult, at 80 impossible. I know this
from my own experience as a teacher.
At p I was a very good teacher, at 80 /
was excellent, at 40 l was a poor success,
at so / would have been a miserable
failure 1t Is necessary for a child to
have happy and light hearted parents
who are able to understand and take
part in its JOYS and pleasures. All good
men have had good parents and
ueurasthenics are only those who have
had melancholy parents.
There are almost no more gay and
Jolly parents nowadays; they are all
nearly 40 or so. It IS a disaster to
generation to have had parents whose Joy
Of living was a thing of the past.
The child who sees only its parents
is cheated of part of its life. 1t sees only
one side of life and the sight of human
life as a whole is an excellent and very
essential element in education. A child
must have before its eyes, infancy i'm
personated by its brothers or sisters,
youth and middle age by its mother and
father. ripe and old age by its grand
parents.