Brigham City Bugler | 1891-08-01 | Page 3 | Darwin and his Children

Darwlu and Uli Children. His aon Francis states that he does not remember over hearing his father epeak an angry word, yet the children never thought of disobeying him, "I well remember," aays hia sou, "one occasion when my father reproved me for a piece of carelessness; and I can still recall the depression which come over me, and tho care which he took to disperse it by speaking to me soon afterward after-ward with especial kinduess. "He kept up niB delightful, affectionate manner toward us all his life. I sometimes some-times wonder that he could do so, with uch an undemonstrative race as we are; but I hope he knew how much we delight cd In his loving words and manner. "How often, wheu a man, I have wished when my father wits behind my chair, thai he would pass his hand over my hair, as he used to do when I was a boy. Ho allowed hiB grown up children to laugh with aud at him, and was, generally speaking, on terms of perfect equality with us." Holder's Hold-er's Life of Darwin.