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Show The matron who appears before be-fore the members of the family in a shabby, soiled wrapper and makes the excuse, if indeed she takes the .trouble to make one at all, that "it is so much more comfortable." has little idea of the possible consequences of such a course. Could she but realize re-alize that her dress is an evil example ex-ample to her daughters, and pro- J ductivo of consequences that 'will reach far beyond her own span of life; that her husband and sons cannot fail to draw comparisons between her dress' add that of tho ladies they meet in other homes, and that these comparisons cannot fail to decrease de-crease their respect for hpr she might bo induced to .give more attention to her personal appearance. appear-ance. ' Mother sometimes say when a child shows a vile temper and shrieks a good deal, that it would endanger his life to punish him; perhaps so, hut you still more endanger his fature if you don't punish him. Many a gallows tragedy had its beginning on the mother's lap. We wish we could write it in imperishable, glowing letters on tho walls of every homeobedience, obedience, obedience! Obedience to law to household law; to parontal authority; unquestioning, instant, in-stant, exact obedience. Obedience in the family, obedience in the school I Whatever, from tho beginning, be-ginning, from the first glimmer-intolligonce glimmer-intolligonce in the child, there is expression of law, let there bo taught respect for it and obedience obedi-ence to it. It is the royal road to virtue, to good citizenship, it is the only road. |
