Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1882 — Boys and Girls. [ARTICLE]

Boys and Girls.

“If I had a dozen children I would want them all boys,” said Mrs. Thrifty. “ Boys can take care of themselves, they are energetic, enjoyable, and it doesn’t take half as much sewing to keep a family of boys along.” “ Now” if I shoufd have any choice,” said Mrs. Workhard, “I should rather have my children all girls. Girls are so gentle/so hopeful, and have so much more refinement than boys ; and then it is such a pleasure to sew for them, they look so prettily in the garments made for them.” • “Very well, ladies,” said Mrs. Sensible, “you are both right and wrong. I believe in a mixed family—part boys, part girls. The boys influence the girls to self-reliance, the girls refine the boys by their gentleness. A boy who is brought up with sisters makes the most manly man, and the girl who is brought up with brothers makes the most womanly woman. ” — New Haven Register.

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