| Show DOMESTIC DUTIES some circumstances which have recently transpired here suggest t a few serious reflections on family matters mattei on the responsibilities of parents and guardians the duties which they owe to their children it has been truly observed that the family of man is the oldest and most valuable institution on the earth it should therefore be deemed the most sacred on earth the strongest safeguards should be thrown around aitto it to preserve its sanctity to shield and protect it against st evil designing intruders who would destroy its peace by robbing any one of its members of the only jewel virtue that will render life truly happy the responsibility naturally all y devolves upon the heads beads of the hou housenbold sebold the parents and guardians of the family amil Y it is their duty to know where their sons and daughters i are with whom they associate Z with what society they mix and mingle it were far better for their children to remain at home in comparative or even complete seclusion than to be constantly thrown into the tile company of those who imbibe and indulge vicious propensities and evil habits evil communications corrupt good manners they are contagious this is a truism which ver very many yany sad incidents in the history of many families have severely attested how frequently lias has it happened that notwithstanding the many cautions which have been given by IV wise ise and good men somo some innocent young girl has been thrown into the company of a base scoundrel whose acquaintances ripened into an intimacy finally culminating in the seduction of the young lady the loss of her chastity and when w she has become an outcast to be treated with w ith scorn and contempt he hasteen lias been allowed to e escape with impunity and epe athis diabolical crime whenever he be can find another victim parental authority in many any places appears to bo be fast declining and losing its force in the family government thousands of youths as soon as is they get into their teens throw off all parental restraint leave their homes choose a course for themselves and pursue it w with ith disastrous results to many home should as far as possible pbs sible be made attractive it should be supplied with good books and healthy current literature litera which Is now cheap and plentiful and the young members of the family should be encouraged to cultivate the habit of reading the parents should be the magnets to draw kil their children around their own hearth and furnish it with the means to make it more desirable 14 khan than any other place on earth this is a degenerate age and there arc are too many any allurements allure ments to tempt our youth to c evil il vace vice and dissipation which should be sedulously guarded against the father should by the strictest adherence to truth integrity and uprightness endeavor to inculcate these principles into the minda minds of his sons and daughters and to establish parental authority inflict in the family circle he ile should jealously guard against the invasion fl of liis his home by the libertine and the seducer we have no more sy sympathy in pathy for the deliberate seducer than we have for the deliberate murderer both should receive their deserts he ile should countenance the tile visits to his daughters of nono none but those whom he knows to bo be honorable men who would regard their purity pui ity and defend their virtue as they would the tile apple of their own eye the mother should realize as far as may be the potency of the influence she exerts for f or good or evil oyer her ter children she it is who more than the father moulds their cb character a facter and if she would train them up in tile way they theys should bould go she should go in the way herself and be sure it is the correct one gi great eat men largely owe their greatness to the examples and influences of their mothers a in many countries across the atlantic when a boy is an applicant for a situation an inquiry ia is instituted into the character of the mother which if it is satisfactory satia factory the tile boy is engaged the fathers reputation is not inquired into how much this speaks for the mothers influence fluence hi and with what bat solicitude e should she wield it for the best interests teres AS of society entire i iti ro confidence should exist between the mother and her ter children the daughter should have no secrets from tho the mother whose deepest solicitude should be to inculcate in the mind of the child tha principles of virtue chastity clim city love for tho the truth and an honest open frankness in relation to the affairs of the heart if children childr en would always observe the injunctions of tho the fourth commandment man Inan dment they would bo be certain to grow up aa is honorable men meu aed ned wo be respected by all good people but it lies lips to a great extent with the tile parents and their discipline and therefore they are under sacred obligations ligat ions deeply to study their domestic I duties |
