Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1884 — Two Ways of Looking at It. [ARTICLE]

Two Ways of Looking at It.

Henry Ward Beecher.—l don’t wonder that some mothers weep when their daughters are born, and cry: “Oh, that it had been a son!” There are some sad experiences that would lead a mother to pray that every one of 1 her children be men. Mary A. Livermore.—l reluctantly accepted the invitation to visit a very wealthy lady in a city where I had been lecturing on the subject of “What Shall We Do with Our Girls ?” As she closed the dams of her grand house behind her Rhe sidd.: “My daughters are a source of w/uneasiness to me, but what in liCaven’s name shall we do with our boys?” There on the bed, with his overcoat and boots on, lay her son, a handsome young man, stupid drunk. A few months later she wrote me that she had gone to his room and turned back the covers of his bed to find him with his throat so terribly cut that he had almost decapitated himself, while a note lying on his table explained that, unable to break off his depraved appetite for strong drink, he had put an end to himself.