Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-08-18
ADDRESSED TO MOTHERS.

uutil you are sure tney are incorrect
mistrust breeds estrangement.
Do reflect that pert child is an
abomination. Train your children to
be respectful and to hold their
tongues in the presence of their su-
periors.
Do, if the baby cries, warm its
feet before you dose it.
Do sing to the little ones the
memory of a nursery song will cling
to them through life.
Do attend to them yourself; a 90
between betwixt mother and child is
like middleman in business, who
gets the largest share of the profits.
DO dress the children sensibly :
cover up their limbs in winter, and
study health first and appearance
second.
Do show the children that you love
them; do not expect them to take it
on trust -
Do, as they grow older, win their
confidence. If you do not, some
body else will.
Do maintain a respectful tone to
their father before them. If he is
not all you wish, still make them re-
spect him. He is always their ia
ther, and disrespect to him is a re-
Election upon yourself.
Do, as the boys grow up, make
companions of them; then they will
not seek companionship elsewhere.
Do let the children make a noise
sometimes; their happiness is as i'm
portant as your nerves. aa 81
Do respect their little secrets. If
they have concealments, worrying
them will never make them tell, and
time and patience will probably do
their work.
Do allow them, as they grow old
er, to have opinions of their own.
Make them individuals and not mere
echoess =
Do remember that without physic-
al health mental attainment is worth
less. Let them lead free, happy
lives, which will strengthen both
mind and body.
Do bear liz mind that you are
largely responsible for your child's
inherited character, and have patience
with faults and failings.
Do talk hopefully to your children
of life and its possibilities /; you have
no right to depress them because you
have suffered. aote
Do teach both boys and girls the
actual facts of lite as soon as they.
are old enough to understand them,
and give them a sense of response
bility without saddening them.
Do find out what their special
tastes are, and develop them, instead
of spending time, money and pa
tience in forcing them into studies
that are repugnant to them.
Do teach them to be courteous by
example. Be courteous to them.
Do, as long as it is possible, kiss
them goodnight after they are in
bed. They do like it so, and it
keeps them very close. d4
Do, if you have'Elost a child, re-
member that for the one that is gone
there is no more to do; for those 1e-
naming, everything. Hide your
grief for their sakes. s. aie al.Ifia
Do make yoursboys and girls study
physiology. When they are i'll, try
to make them understand why-how
the complaint arose and the remedy.
as far as you know it.
Do impress upon them from early
infancy that actions have results, and
that they cannot escape consequence
es even by being sorry, when they
have acted wrongly.
| Do, as your daughters grow up,
teach them at least the true merits of
housekeeping and cookery; they will
thank you for it in later life a great
deal more than for accomplishments.
| Do try and sympathize with girlish
flights of fancy, even if they seem
absurd to you. By doing so you will
retain your influence over your daugh-
ters, and not teach them to seek SYM
pathy elsewhere.
| Do remember that, although they
are all your children, each one has
an individual character, and that
tastes and qualities vary indefinitely.
Do cultivate them separately, and
not as if you were turning them out
by machinery.
| Do encourage them to take good
walking exercise. Young ladies in
this country are rarely good walkers.
They can dance all night, but are
tired if they walk a mile. Girls
ought to be able to walk as easily as
boys. Half the nervous diseases
that afflict young ladies would disap-
pear if the habit of regular exercise
was encouraged.
! NEVER.