The biggest mistake we ever made was to take from the teachers the right to lick the kids. I believe the downfall of most men and women can be traced to some defect in the home. A home must be something more than four walls and a roof. The biggest monstrosity God ever looked at is the mother with her children playing about her feet and they not getting an inspiration of Jesus. We’re neglecting the home for the club, the lodge, the card party, the literary society and the social function. If a firm advertised for a bookkeeper it would expect something else than just a man on legs; something else than just a slot machine to shove its salary into every Saturday night. UP TO MOTHERS. God pity us. If mothers had failed as fathers have, God would have dumped you into hell long ago. God bless the women. I believe in women’s rights. If some of you women had to get to heaven on the testimony of your washerwomen, would you make it? If you see a kid with its stockings hanging down like the skin on a rhinoceros, and a dirty nose, it don’t take a prophet to say, “Ma’s gone to the club.” Outlawism is not settled by the street mob—it is settled in the home. I haven’t much faith in the woman who talks heaven and makes her home a hell. Don’t tell the children what you don’t mean. Don’t talk about your neighbors or anybody else. Don’t hurt your children’s self-respect by punishing them in the presence of company. Wait until the company is gone, then dust both hemispheres. Don’t lie to your children, and then wonder where they learned to lie. Don’t be a fool, and if you’ve got plenty of income, overdress your children and send them to school to make the children of some poor, conscientious man dissatisfied because their dad can’t give them as nice clothes. ELECTRIC FLASHES. The young man or woman who is ashamed of his or her father or mother, is a fool and too low down for me to spit on. To hear boys cuss you’d think cussing was a part of the school curriculum. The woman who tries to rid herself of the responsibilities of maternity, is as red-handed and black-hearted a murderess as she who chokes to death her 12-months old babe. Of all the contemptable, triple-extract of hell, God-forsaken, hell-born, infamous, vile, stinking and damnable people, the murderer who disguises under the title of doctor is the worst. A gambler, if he wins, is a thief, and if he loses, he’s a fool. So he’s both a thief and a fool, no matter how you look at it. If a church runs a lottery, then it’s a thief. There are three ways of spreading news, telephone, telegraph and tell-a-woman. But that’s really an insult, for some of these old he-gossipers have got the women backed off the boards. I pity the woman who’ll slap Jesus in the face to please some miserable society gang. The dance hall has proved to be the biggest graveyard this side of hell for young girls.