Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1881 — As they Average. [ARTICLE]

As they Average.

The average boy believes that he may be happy when he is a man and can do as he likes; the average man finds that lie cannot do as he likes, and sighs to think he was not aware of the fact wheh he was a boy. The average maiden imagines that most husbands are indifferent to their wives, and that a wife may keep a man a lover until he is old enough to die; the average wife finds it about all she can do to bear and train her children, cook, wash, sew, and keep her house in “half decent order,’’and twice a year visit her mother, who lives six miles away. The average teacher imagines that never yet was one so tired as he, nor had a harder lot, and endured it better. The average parent of the average scholar thinks that in some things the present teacher might be improved ou. The average spinster believes that nobody but herself knows just how to bring up children; while the aged grandmother realizes that most pooS)le have to bring up at least two beore they can know how to bring up one properly. The average man or woman who has never had the eare of children, wonders “how people can have their houses so cluttered up and budgets in every chair,” and they imagine that a person’s bump of order must be small indeed who can not successfully manage by moral suasion any five ordinary boys and girls. Those who love and have the care of children know that th y are not like grown people; but must have both play things and pets, and physical and mental exercibe, even though there may be a budget in every chair, and muddy footprints on the floor. So if come to pass that on an average each is happy in his own conceit, and would not change himself, his views, and his lot in life with any man.

An elegant picture of Mrs. President Hayes is soon to be placed in the White House. It is the donation of the friends of the temperance cause who thus honor the recipient for her devotion to their principles. The pieture and frame are to oost SB,OOO.