TIED TO HIS MOTHER'S APRON STRINGS.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2935, 12 July 1878, Page 3

TIED TO HIS MOTHER'S APRON STRINGS.

Miss Kate Thorn, who would be none in any man's side, says of modern young "men, whom she has clearly studied :— " Tied to his mother's apron strings, eh ? Why» what does that expression generally mean when applied to , a young man ? Why, it means just about this—that the young man, of whom shallow-brained fops and addled headed sports speak thus despairingly, is one who does not smoke, drink, nor swear—one who has not forgotten that God once gave for all time a command which reads—' Honour thy father and mother, that thy days may be long in the land'—ii means that he is one whom virtuous men will. respect, whom refined society will welcome to us ranks, whom good women and pure girls will receive into their homes with pleasure, and whom his wife, when he gets one, will respect and love next to her Creator. It. is too much ,the custom now-a-days to sneer at parental authority, and to disregard the advice and admonition of our elders. Old age is no longer reverenced; it is ridiculed instead." -!