Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1876 — Boys and Girls Together. [ARTICLE]

Boys and Girls Together.

Weddee happiness in many families has come near perishing through a misapprehension of the relation of the sexes, and it is for the young mother to restore it again to the world by properly training her boys to love and protect their sisters, and for sisters to be unselfishly loyal to their brothers. It is as much a mother’s -duty to train her son to be a good husband as her daughter to be a good wife,, and no hearth is the paradise it might be if there are in it conflicting opinions in regard to ’he natural duties of husband and wife. To begin when the boy and girl are first able to express their preferences and their pleasures, and also the might-makes-right opinions, which the lower nature always endeavors to fetch earlj- to the surface, is the only safe time and plan for themotlier, if she expects to perfect the characters of her children. The boy should be taught respectful consideration and a proper relinquishing of his personal comfort for the sake pf his sister, and the reason for this small sacrifice should always be given to him. He should beinstructed that it to noble and manly, and that there is pleasure even in little every-day heroisms; and that the stronger must be gentle and helpful to the weaker, or they will lose the honor and glory of seeming to possess power. The little girl, should be encouraged in her natural tenderness and its pretty manifestations to her brothers. She is happier In their strength than in a consciousness -♦Wwing endowed with it herself. And yet. she need not be instructed that she has no force of character. When she must help or protect herself, she should know

that she has reserved forces that ace always to be in waiting for the time of necessity. In the family circle the mother is constantly in possession of opportunities for bringing out and perfecting the manliness of her boys and the womanliness of her girls; and she can and ought to commence this instruction just as soon as -they can' understand her words.— The Metropolitan.