Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-04-26
THE MOTHERS ENDURANCE.

The patience of mother is growth,
development, just as truly as a Ian
guage Is. Many a young mother has
found, with surprise and nisgiving.
that she is deficient i'll the quality
which she somehow expected would
come to her with her baby; she fears
that she is lacking in the true spirit
which moves and controls motherhood;
ST g thinks there must be something
radically wrong i'll her nature when she
finds that the mothers arms. which are
said by the poet to be made of tender
ness, are made also of muscles. that tire
and ache as the child lies within them,
and that the weight of a little head
upon her breast is not always easily
borne. She wishes she dared ask some
old mother If she { We're tired Of
holding her baby; if she to ever felt
once in while as If she would give
everything shs possessed for one night
of the sweet, uutronbled sleep of her
girlhOOd: but she dare ask no one: for
more than anything else, she breads to
be thought Al unnatural mother. 1t
would help her if some wiser woman.
knowing her heart. could say to her:
You are tired: now comes the reaction
from the strain Il body and mind
which new duties have brought up
on you: the day is not distant when
you will feel different about this" And
she might be able to give the clear
meaning of the injunction to :" let pa
thence have her perfect work." to help
her see that patience IL not an accom-
plished fact, something that one may
get at once and wholly. One way to
help along the perfect work is to dwell
in ones mind upon the wide distance
there is between the little child and the
grown man to prevent ones self from
expecting too much of the child, and to
cherish the belief that In many eases
the irritating and querelous complaints
of a child grew out Of some inner trou-
BILE You do not comprehend. Many a
poor child has been whipped and sent
te bed and been looked upon as trans
gresaor of the moral law when he was
suffering from indigestion. Children
are sometimes SO fill ed with pain that
they cannot fix their minds upon the
cause, or point it out, and SO are pun
ished for ugliness when they are already
suffering AS much as they can bear.
What wonder that we see so many
characters. SO many men and
women who seem warped and twisted
out of all proper form, when We consid-
er the Constructions to which they
have been subjected as children! Two
ladies were one day walking down the
street with little boy three wears old.
He was certainly very natural boy.
He cried for nothing: his face WAS
flushed, aud every time his mother held
his haUd close To hurry him along rs he
Jagged behind he cried ont in an unbe-
coming manner His mother WAS i'm
patient. ana said to him: "fou know |
never whip you unless yon are very
naughty boy: bnt think | must when
We get home, you behave 80 badly"
The child cast his eyes up imploringly
at her and cried on. She discovered by
and by that his hand felt feverish in
her own. and locking down III it, saw
that one t the boys finger nails WAS
torn off, and was hanging by a little
thread of flesh. Ever time she had
taken his hand she had tortured him,
a I'D he was suffering SO intensely that
it never occurred to him to explain that
as the cause of his misdeeds. That
mothers heart sank within her. and she
felt that no sermon had ever prea
so loudly to her of thu ,auty and value
of patience. We need to use vorv care
fully our power over our children, and
not often render ourselves liable to re
proaches such as "A father received IA
few DAYS ago from hia two vear-nld
daughter: Papa must not shut baby up
IN the bedroom when she Is naughty,
for papa Is great big mali and baby
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