Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-01-11 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

MOTHERS.  'he e'otrtstio life of the mother can generally be told by observance, the dispositions of the several ohildren compreluar the family. The first child ig almost invariably like the father. At the nntsf tof her married life the wife thinks nine% of her husband. she dwells on his exeellencies if he bas any, and if he has none, she will make many for biro. His irnsure is before her night and day, and bee thoughts lovingly dwell on him!. All that, tells on the disposition end features of the offspring and the ohild Is almost sure to he like the father. Tint a good deal of the pleasing allnelon is gone before another child ia born, The mother has by that time lesrned to dwell on her sorrows, her sufferings and her disappointments, and thne brooding much on herself, the emend child Is almost sure to resemble the mother, it a chili is open-hearted and open. handed, it is probable that while he was borne the father was prosperons and generous to the mother; If a child has a moody disposition, it is very probable that business was In a low state, and the man was MOD'ir bile that child was being carried. The treatment the mother receives while she is bearing her children. is reflected by eaoh child as it comes Into i:,e world, and each one is like a volume of the family history, end a revelation of how the father tr. eted the mother. If the children are vioioust, Nat. fol. dishonest, ko., they are more or less faithfully ?' fi-ctine the character of the father during the yeers they were begotten, and the conduct towards his wife while she WAS bearing his children. Ills character and his conduet come back to him. What be sows he reap., he will eet what he gave, and generally what he sent witl return to him. These facts add greatly to the solemnity of pareetsee, end show to us that the reform of society Mlle co-nruenoe not in boyhood, or even at birth but lone before birth, we need not reform but preform. We roost commence our work of reclaiming the people by beginning with the unborn, and until that is done we are sure to have anxious and expansive work with each generation. A philosopher was asked when a child's education ought to begin, and he replied " Ten thousand years before it is born." lie was right. The laws of heredity are so stern, lefFxible, and certain in their action that we are sure to hand over to our children all the charanten isties of all their ancestors. These are all more or Its condensed in that child, and what is bad or !dens in the child has been given to it. HOW lightly some men become fathers. They thrust felons, thieves, burglars, gamblers, harlot n-annfac. hirers, and murderers upon the world with a light heart. These criminals seldom ()Inv hoe) 6 '110,14 parents, parents, that is, who feel the sllemnity of of the parental relationship. If men are not prc. pared to add to the moral streneth and wealth of the world. but will persist in elegra.lincr it by unwelcome and ill-hrought.np children, they ought, in the name of society, to be castrated. Things will not and cannot be permitted to go on as now they do. The vicious parents area stand' n and serious menses to aoclety, and the problem permits of only a drastic solution. We ought not to hesitee to do our national duty,  The mothers .Sre the the true einostors and saviours of society, au I we have to look to them to sweeten and sanctify our whole soots! life Lot us dwell for a while on child-bearing, And moving, and eltitd•trainfwg.