The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-11-13
A Talk with Mothers.

AS Irene Aroon has requested that l shall
give of my experience with children, I think
will continue my talk with mothers But, dear
Irene, l do not feel that have finished or
shall finish while life lasts, the care-strewn
road that you, perhaps, have just started on.
True, my path may be compared to one that
has opened out on g. level plain. know that
the dear children try to smooth the rough
places and lead me gently down the western
slope. true mother is a mother always; no
matter how old her children are they are to
her children still. There will be care and
anxiety for their welfare SO long as there is
one spark of motherly love in her bosom. The
youngest of my children is so old that ne ham
dies, with cool and fearless hand, pair of
gay young horses, and yet my children's &C
lions say, as did the little boy, when asked to
define the word "home." Said he >aHome,,
home--why, home is where mother isl" Yes,
we should win our children's love so COM
pletely that no place will be home to them like
that where mother is. =, sf.T
How shall we win that love? By yielding to
their every wish and whim? BY no means.
That is just the way to spoil them, and lay up a
harvest of sorrow for the mother. Nor should
their wishes be all thwarted and the gay young
spirits all crushed down by too severe disci-
pine ~ as so. +%
The mother should fist discipline herself,
and she should begin that discipline long be-
and they can do that at d much earlier age than
many think. co. .0 ~ faj 40
If the mother is in the habit of keeping her
OWL tongue and temper under CONTROL her
child will be likely to inherit the same faculty.
Does the mother give way to using slang
phrases or low language, her child will do the
same. She is the first teacher, learns the child
it's first words, and she should be careful what
those words are. u Il o Z -FEt4 a. r%ff-
knd-hearted nurse, as she laid q little ba be
in it's mothers arms, said: Now, Flo for this
child's sake, stop this way you have of using
improper language and slang phrases, and use
only such words as are chaste and good.H You
do not want your boy to use such language as
you have been in the habit of using, do you?"
"A @No, said the mother, Il do not" y f4
"Then begin now to break yourself of the
habit you have got into or it will be too late be-
fore you are aware of 1T u ~ 's7 -
The mother promised and seemed in earnest.
Three years passed: her boy was q bright,
fine-looking, little fellow. The mothers habits
were unbroken, and she would laugh to hear
him repeat her own words, words that made
her old friend shudder and turn away with
sigh, for she loved the boy dearly.
It is natural for children to follow thelex-
ample of their parents, but it does seem easier
for them to initiate faults and imperfections.
For that reason we should be doubly careful
what we do and say. sEy
A gentleman once took his little son to pub
lie dinner A waiter came around asking each
guest what he would take to drink? He came
to theboy before he did to the father. The lat
ter was watching to see what the choice would
be- The boy looking in the walters face said:
please, sir, will take the same as father does.
Some had chosen wine, some brandy, but the
father quickly said: & will take a glass Of
water"
Thus he saw and acknowledged the inn
portance of a. good example before his child.
IT. IvY's MOTHER.
H1NsDALE, III. & " -