Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-01-20
Five and Fourteen.

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which cause tue profourdest anxiety tt
a mother. At five years old, or there
abouis. the period of babyhood is past
while the period of girlhood is moi
vet reached, and between the two,
comes a time Of anarchy and chaos
The little soul is now bursting its
shackels and trying to re-adjust itself to
new conditions. The child is ceasirg
to be mere pet and plaything, and Is
beginning to live IN individual life,
Nothing is more common that 10 see d
docile, well trained child suddenly de-
velop, without any apparent reason, q
wilfulness and naturalization entirely
at variance with its previous habits.
The mother, who has been dreaming Of
sweet daughter who is to walk beside
her all her days. making life fragrant
and beautiful to her by sharing with
her all her youthful hopes, and joys,
and trusts, turns heart sick at the naugh'
tiness of the half-hedged termugant.
For it is the good, cherubic little girl
who usually manifests the change; q
spoiled child is so thoroughly disa-
greeable all the while that any accession
of badness is not noticeable. A great
deal of elf-condemnation and unhappy
foreboding would be spared the mother
if she would only recognize that much
of what is 80 very unlovely is not es
sentially wrong-that it is merely what
is good in q state of unripeness. The
fragrant blossom has withered and
fallen away, leaving in its place the
hard and acid embryo fruit. A wise
mother will be very careful to dis
tinguish between those qualities which
promise evil in their developed form
and those which are Eere crudities,
and her aim Will be to foster all the
uniolded possibilities in her childs
nature, and help to bring them to a
beautiful maturity.
Every one knows how tiresome and
unattractive q little girl usually is
when she has outgrown her infantile
sweetness. The little impertinences,
the saucy retorts and nnfattering per-
sonalities, which have won for her
smiles and caresses, or. at worst, an
admiring reproof, all at cnce become
intolerable, and are rebuked with
acerbity. The very ways which she
has been taught to consider charming
become subjects for displeasure when
the baby roundness and dimples are
gone. Her sense of justice is outraged,
and the unwsrped sense of justice in q
child is often very strong. She becomes q
little Ishmael, her hand against every
mans, and every mans hand against her.
In certain sense this can scarcely be
avoided, but. if the mothers love be
unfailing, and her SYMPATHY always
ready. che can keep sweet the fountain
of love and trust which, without that
refuge, might become very bitter. Just
when this new life is unfolding, q
mothers wise care is most earnestly
needed. The soul which has seemed
to draw its life from hers is beginning
to lead an individual existence. It is
to the perfect development of this in
dividuality that the neither should
bend all her strength. Each human
soul contains within itself the germ of
its own life. To make of it all that
may be made, the mother should only
guide the growth, leaving it free with
in the limits of moral probity to grow
into its fullest possibility. She can.
not lop it of here and there, or sup
press its growth yonder, without MAIN
ing and stultifying the whole nature.
The dangerous quicksands of this
period safely past, the mother begins
to breathe freely again. She again
begins to see visions, and to dream
dreams, till the second and more seri-
ous season of anarchy come to try her
faith. Childhood is over, and woman
hood is yet far away. The whole being
moral, intellectual, and physical, is in
state offerment. New motives, new
principles, new emotions. are battling
for predominsnce, and, until these rel.
alive claims are adjusted, no peace can
be hoped for. This second chaotic
period-which comes at about fourteen
years of age-lasts longer. and brings
more hopeless and radical overturn-
ing OF that which had seemed 80 firmly
established. If Q mothers care were
needed in the earlier change, it is in
finitely more needed now. New traits
seem to be starting into life, new de-
velopments are manifested. Changes
not only in purposes and ideas are
taking place, but changes in tempera-
ment, in disposition, in tone are mani
Testing themselves. There is need of a
wise hand which shall guide without
CALLING, . tender heart which shall
sustain without compromising with
evil. To aid in the conflict and insure
victory, nothing will help u mother
more surely. nor direct her more easily
in this difficult task, than the recogni.
ton that this. also. is merely q stage OF
growth necessary to full and perfec,
development of her child's nature. and
that to her is intrusted the privilege OF
fostering the growth, while she shall
be looking to the end with the pro.
phetio eye Of love-" Home and So.
ciety."
WASHING SILK STocK1NGs.-Make q
strong lsther with boiling water and
curd soap. Leave it to get almost cold
then divide it into two parts. Wash
the stockings we'll in one of the fathers
pressing them mn and down hr.,.;