Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-04-29

es. They could bear to find trim
Of a garment ill-disposed, without
making the whole house and the day
uneasy, and the sun and heavens
smile upon them In vain.
Phronissa taught them the happy
art OF managing visit with some USE
full improvement Of the hour, and with
out offense. If word Of scandal oc-
CURED In company, 1t was soon divert
ed or suppressed. The children were
charged to speak we'll Of their neigh
bors, as far as truth would admit, and
to be silent as to anything besides;
but when the poor or the deformed, were
mentioned in discourse, the aged, the
lame. or the blind, those objects were
handled with the utmost tenderness; |;
nothing could displease Phronissa more
than to hear jest thrown upon nat
ural inflrmatives: she thought there
was something sacred in misery, and It
was not to be touched with rude
hand. All reproach and satire of this
kind was for ever banished where she
came: and II her raillery was INDUCED,
vice and willful folly were the constant
subjects Of 1t.
Persons Of distinguished characters
she always distinguished in her respect
and trained up her family to pay the
same civilities. Whensoever she named
her own parents, II was with high ven-
Grafton and love, and thereby she nat
urally led her children to give due hon.
our to all their superior relatives.
Though 1t Is too much the fashion of
the licentious to laugh at the clergy In
all forms, and to teach every boy to
scoff at a minister, Phronissa paid
double honours to all those whose per-
sonal behaviour upheld the dignity of
their office; for she was persuaded st.
Paul was a better director than the
gay gentlemen Of the mode. Besides
she wisely considered that contempt
Of their persons would necessarily bring
with 1t q contempt of all their minis
trations; and then she might carry her
daughters to the church as much as
she pleased; but preaching and pray
ing, and all sacred things would grow
despicable and useless, when they had
first learned to make jest Of the
preacher.
But are these young ladies always
confined at home? Are they never suf-
fered to see the world? Yes. and some-
times without the guard o. mother
too; though Phronissa is so well below
ed by her children, that they would
very SelQOm choose 10 20 WltuOuI HeT.
They have freedom given them in all
the common affairs Of life, to choose
for themselves; but they take pleasure,
for the most part, in referring the
choice back again to their seniors. Phro-
nissa has managed the restraint OF
their younger years with so much rea-
son and love, that they have seemed all
their lives to know nothing but liberty;
an admonition Of their parents meets
with cheerful compliance, and Is never
debaled. A wish or desire has the same
power over them now, as a command
had in their infancy and childhood:
for the command was ever dressed In
the softest language Of authority, and
this made every act Of obedience de-
light, till 1t became an habitual pleas
ure.
In short, they have been educated
with such discretion, tenderness, and
piety, as have laid a foundation to
make them happy and useful In the
rising age; their parents with pleasure
view the growing prospect, and return
daily thanks to the Almighty, whose
blessing has attended their watchful
cares and has thus far answered their
most fervent devotions.