Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-29
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
chel..a P.rad. prinkina Fountain.

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 cbslssa Parade Drinking Fountain.
 Mir. Editor: Did you ever take a walk up Washington street and turn at the Junction of Washington and Broadway, to return to your official duties via Broadway Ca walk, by the way. that every able bodied editor ought to take every morning., i, and when you arrived at the fountain that once adorned Franklin square. and gooo olo 1a Ioun- that filled the basins, variousiy ar ranged for horses, cattle and dogs, then tunrned to go up the steps to the basin for human beings, tell me. did you get your feet wet while standing on the steps, and did you wonder while thus standing in the water on the top step, how your thirst was to be Quenched? Of course, we do not expect the city to furnish individual sanitary cups, but now you have to bend to the stream Of suarkling water that gurgles out of the side of the pipe, taking off your hat of course, and trust to luck to get as much water into your mouth as down your neck. You might try to force the water up into the little bowl on the top of tfie combination, by stopping the hole in the side and end of the pipe with your finger, but success would not crown your efforts. If you have not tried it. do please, and all the city fathers as we'll take such walk and such a fine drink and then send the official plumber to fix up their pug zling combination so that the hundreds who crowd this place on Memorial day can get a drink in the natural way, and not by absorption.
 ONE WHO TRIED TO DRINK.
 Norwich, May 2s. 1914.
 Suffrage.
 MT. Editor. to the men and women who listened to the r.,,Ae of Ar-e A George of Boston in this city on Tuesday evening"
 Why does Mrs. George hold woman responsible for the training of the child? Apparently, in her conception of the family, the father has no part in the moulding of the chiId's charac- ter. Local environment, also, she ap- pears to discount absolutely. Listen ing to her one gathers the idea that the training of the individual Is com pleted when the young woman or young man leaves the home, and that the product turned out then remains the same product throughout life.
 There are some of us who find 1t impossible to fasten upon either mother or @ father or upon both par ents together the credit or the dis credit of 8 child's success or failure in life. It cannot truly be said that women have in their hands the train ing of character, except as we make
 
 sense human being is what all of his ancestors have made him. Mod ern psychology teaches us to believe, and teaches so well that we must be- Heve, that the personality of an in- dividual Is the result of the peculiar blending in himself of primitive anil maI instincts, of his temperament (something which is dependent upon whichever organ of his body infiu- ences his mind most) and of his ethi-
 A1. |. that the amount of moral training which the individual is capable of making a part of himself depends upon the blending of that animal in stfncts which is peculiar to himself. Therefore it would seem that while mother and father may propose the future of the child. nature has already disposed of him in the niche in life which sine intended him to fill
 These facts do not disparage moral training in the home nor do they lib- crate woman from her obligations to inculcate in her child as sound and broad basis of morals as she her. self is capable of grasping, but they do remove from her mind an exag- gerated and abnormal view of herself as being solely responsible for the training of her children.
 We question if, by remaining in the home, a woman is more capable Of doing this than she is when she takes c part In CIVIC ana national analrS. It is widely admitted that the individu- al develops as his sphere of knowledge, sympathy and action widens. Arc we then going to find woman in the narrower sphere of the home wiser than woman in the larger sphere Of the world? It is an old axiom that experience is the best teacher. No one can speak forcefu1Iy of anything which he has not himself experienced. It is the men who have done things who speak to us with authority and to whom we listen with belief The woman who has had practically no experience with conditions of life out side of the home will never be so capable of advising her children how to meet those conditions as the wo- man who has met them eourageously and wisely herself. The moral teach ing of women is daily tossed aside lightly by their sons, for men com- monly say that women do not under stand the world. that it is impossible to live and carry on business in the world in just the way that women demand. Women are not practical, they say. They mean that women