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One Law Of Morality

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Day
13
Month
March
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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Words dropped from our children'slips often set older heads to thinking. The other day our littlo girl of ten years, said to me, " Mamma, what rnakes it any worse for a girl or woinaii to use bad words than for boys or men ? Why can't boys get along when they get hurt, without swearing about it, as well as we girla do '" I thought a moment before replying, pondering in my mind, whether it was best to let her young mind become fixod in the common rut of society, teaching her that men are privileged characters, only we poor, weak women are truly the responsiblo ones, or whether I should give her a Ihorough lesson in equal rights, equal wrongs and equal responsibility. - Unly a moment, however, did I hesitate, before settling upon the latter, seeing at once she had imbibed much of tho true principie already by nature. I told her no one had any right to use such language, no one sex r.ny more than the other, that whether the" thing was right or wrong in the sight of Heaven, was the question, not how it looked before the world. An oath is an oath, and wrodg everywhere, whatever may be the lips whence it emanates, thore is not, there never can be sex, in right and wrong. Her young mind seemed eagerly to drink in all the truths I told her, and I am quite hopeful in thinking one more will be added to the workers for equality when she becomes a woman. I wish all fathers and mothers could be roused to this great truth, which I feel underlios so much that is wrong everywhere ; if they would mako the same ro quirements of each, with oqual precisión, their habita, principies, modesty, and last, though by no means least, purity. Now, let a number of men be alono together, and their conversation and langnage will be such as to make a truo woman blush with shame, should sho hear it. Let ono lady onter their presence, and how quickly will they turn their conduct to gentlemanly politeness. Woman's presonce is much, and it were bettor so thau not at all, but I always feel like saying. , Your God, you always have with you, be ashamed to treat his presenco any moro lightly than you would mine. - [Hattio E. Willot. Pleasant days can be spent in the orchard, taking away all dead branches, scraping off old rough bark where verïnin can hide, and cutting off the stubs of dead limbs and covering with graftiug wax to keop from furthor decay. Limbs or branches broken down by wind or ice, should be carefully removed, and tho wounded parts cut nmooth before applying was.

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Old News
Michigan Argus