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And our grandchildren will be just as far ahead of us as we are of our grandmothers. Isn't it wonderful?" "I like you Western people," said Mrs. Hollister, coming in at that moment followed by Ethel. "I've just told Mother," said the girl, "that Western people can give points to us.
It is no question here of old-fashioned precepts or theories, handed down by parents, grandmothers or school-teachers, to be taken with a grain of salt. It is something living and vital, which concerns you directly. You look up to the older boys: you want to be like them; and approved of by them.
If men did not marry their grandmothers when it was, for all they knew, a most hygienic habit; if we know now that they instinctly avoided scientific peril; that, so far as it goes, is a point in favour of letting people marry anyone they like.
The two mothers, though each really convinced that her own son was the tallest, politely decided in favour of the other. The two grandmothers, with not less partiality, but more sincerity, were equally earnest in support of their own descendant.
Peter said something about stamping on their grandmothers, a Kaffir phrase which sounded gruesome in Dutch. The man laughed. 'That is all I want to know. You are on the German side? 'That remains to be seen, I said. 'If they treat me fair I'll fight for them, or for anybody else that makes war on England. England has stolen my country and corrupted my people and made me an exile.
I am but afraid of the damsel's peevish virtue, for she hath been brought up after the fashion of our grandmothers our mothers had better sense." "What! so fair, so young, so quick-witted, and so difficult?" said the Duke. "By your leave, you shall introduce me as well as Chiffinch." "That your Grace may cure her of her intractable modesty?" said Christian.
Whether this awful example had any influence or not history does not mention; but it is certain that our grandmothers were miracles of fidelity and obedience.
"I should be ill," she continued, "if I did not live on the borders of the fairies' country, and now and then eat of their food. And I see by your eyes that you are not quite free of the same need; though, from your education and the activity of your mind, you have felt it less than I. You may be further removed too from the fairy race." I remembered what the lady had said about my grandmothers.
We have less of that plain common sense than our grandfathers and grandmothers. They had less than their fathers and mothers. We need more than our ancestors, because life is more complicated now, than it was then. We can get more if we will, because there is more real understanding of the science of hygiene than our fathers and mothers had before us.
In time we may even hope to train the eye until it recognizes the difference between a beautiful and a grotesque form, between a flowing and a jagged line. In time we may restore the sense of quality, which our grandmothers certainly had, and which almost every European peasant brings with her to this country. These principles are teachable things.
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