WOMEN'S PARLIAMENTARY CLASS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 8990, 1 January 1895, Page 3

WOMEN'S PARLIAMENTARY CLASS.

TO THE EDrpOR OF.TUB PRESS., Sir,—lt appears a class of this description | has been started in our midst. One may i well ask, what next? I wish to say that it is to be devoutly hoped that all modest [ women who have a proper respect for themselves, who love their husbandß and children, as all good women ought, whoso supreme delight it is to make home the dearest spot on earth, will keep a respectable distance from any such class. How much more becoming on the part of our married women to stay at home, and teach their girls to sew, knit, darn, make father's shirt, learn to make their own dress, keep home sweet and clean, and cook potatoes properly. The force of such an example would do infinitely more to make our young women think what honour God has placed within their reach tb.au all the pratiug, gabbing, brazen-laced Parliamentary class women ever likely to appear in bur midst. Should I ever be guilty of the sin of idolatry, it- will be worshipping a good woman, whose life is something after the pattern I have described. But save mc, I pray, from our colonial mother loose jaw. What a contrast to be sure is the latter to our old English, Irish and Scotch mothers in the rural districts, with their shining, cosy homes, their snow white caps and aprons, aud their hearty welcome to their perhaps comparatively humble home. How refreshing to Borne of us to think how they taught us first of all to say, Our Father, &c., or to Borne of us ScOtch and Irish folks, to repeat by heart the 23rd Psalm. .;.■:.■ j The sublimest; picture ever given to the world of such scenes is to be found in Scotland's immortal bard's poem, "The Cotter's Saturday Night." So much running to meetings of one kind and another at night has a most baneful effect on our boys and girls, and I am humbly of opinion that our' Churches and religious bodies are largely to blame, for this pernicious habit. But the children are largely to be excused whilst mother sets: them the example. What a corrective the Old Book is for all these things. Just let some of our aspiring Parliamentarian women read Epistle to xitdr, .specially the 2nd chapter, "And lay it to heart."--, Yours, &0., •'•-■'••'■ Father.