Part 3

Teach your daughters to be deserving, have them learn to appreciate, to be sincere and you will encourage a better class of young men.

Let them grow up in idleness, teach them to despise labor, let them depend upon someone for a continuously happy time, and you will cultivate the good-for-nothing young man.

Do not let them expect to marry a worthy man unless they show themselves to be worthy. The laws of nature will not permit otherwise.

Honor the man of toil. To snub him shows ignorance and bad breeding.

Neither good looks nor fortune should figure as a drawing card. Nothing but virtues embodied in the knowledge of common sense will conquer.

Virtue prevails Where beauty fails.

Nor will riches easily won maintain comforts and satisfaction which only true merit will reward.

To be occupied encourages health and thrift; with self-denial--self-respect and happiness.

To be idle invites ills of many kinds; it breeds discontent, engenders poverty and brings misery--and as the wheels of commerce are continuously turning around, the rich becoming poor and the poor becoming rich, the importance of acquiring the knowledge of common sense should not be so woefully neglected.

Try not to accumulate wealth, but exert your talents in promoting your children to become self-reliant and you will have endowed a legacy which means more than untold fortunes to them, a consolation to the parent and a blessing to the community at large.

The poorest boys and girls in the world are those not taught to work.

October, 1897.