The morning call., 1890-06-06
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.
They Should Read and Study for the SAX
of Their ChiIdrn rem.

They Should Read and Study for the Sake
of Their Children.
Editor JVomdn'S CoEunn, Morning Call:
For their children's sake mothers should
study They should read and fill their
minds with the experience of others. Many
with experience and ability can tell how
many things can be accomplished in such
an easy and graceful way that the task will
be more of source of pleasure than an
noyance. Many an unsefsh mother has
sad 'Oh, cannot take the time; there
are so many things to do for the children"
She does not for moment think that by
educating and cultivating herself she is
doing more for her children than if she
spends all her time in looking after or at
tending to household duties. Of course,
cheap novels will educate or cultivate no
one. Nevertheless a mother should read
and gain all the knowledge possible, so that
she will be able to answer her cbildren'S
reasonable inquiries without losing her
temper. She should not tell them: 81 don't
know; Don't bother me-; Go ask your
father" Courteous answers to children's
questions about things which nature has
opened no to their wondering sigh. for the
first time are necessary. Ii you send them
to the father for such answers you place
and you lose your control over them if you
should ever tell them when they have been
guilty of doing wrong: Wait until your
father comes home"
When children ask questions of their
mother they are seeking knowledge, Ii
she does not make some answer, and one
that puts the inquiring mind al rest upon
the subject. her influence as a superior being
to whom the child has always looked up
will have fallen one step in its estimation,
and as time rolls on she will go down, step
by step, until her influence ceases entirely.
Children of such mothers think, as years
roll on, that all mother is for is to wait upon
their bodily wants. She Is snubbed by
gr0wn-up sons whenever she advances an
opinion. Her daughters keep her in the
background; she has no cultivated taste,
or as they think, no style. They have
never looked to her for an explanation of
anything they did not understand. Sh Q
NAV have always stinted herself in clothing
that they might wear finer. Her hands
may have become calloused with hard work
that theirs might be kept soft and white
for their music lessons. She may have de-
MED herself the time to seek knowledge
that they might have more time to attend
to their studies. Still, she never can gain
that lofty pedestal where she might have
sat enthroned as superior being in her
children's hearts.
There are children who by natural gifts
advance to the front rank of knowledge
who have just such mothers, and their
guidance is due very often to the father
They love mother with all her imperfec-
tions, who are too noble to be ungrateful,
but they feel keen, secret sense of loss as
they kiss the dear, withered cheek and feel
how much more of a mother Qn the true
sense she would have been had she devoted
some OF her time to study, to keep step by
step with them in their progress. There is
nothing that can make husband, daughter
or son more happy than the conscious pride
and knowledge of the attainments of the
wife and mother in the control Of the chill