Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-09-08
WOMAN AND HOME.
SOME OF THE MISTAKES MADE BY
THE "eAsY oolNen MOTHER.

Keeping Up Appearanoos-Thc Dane Of
the sympathetic Woman 80 Broakfast
Alphabetically Education OF Cha.
drcn-Ihe Best Adviser.
l. the easy going the Ideal mothcri
After prolonged study Of those who err
IN other ways and unconsciously, often
with the purest motives, work great harm
N the baby live intrustod 20 their care,
one Is almost ready to believe that the
ability to "lct alone" is the most valuable
,fait In a mother. Yet on looking closely
into her ways and noting the results Of her
course that belief Is sadly shaken. Let us
observe hor little.
The home OF the easy going Is ovcrrun
By babies, that being the easiest way to
ct along Now nothing Is swcetor than n
wholesome baby. but who-bcsldes It's
mother-wants IL always In the fore.
ground, its dressing the most important
event Of the family life, the details OF its
breakfast occupying the whole household
and Is nap throwing n spell OF enforced u.
ltnee on every one within the walls
Out OF the cradle the children become
even more pcryasive; nothing Is forbidden
them and no care Is taken 20 teach them
the difference between use and abuse. In
consequence there Il not'a clean or whole
book on the premises, not chair that II
firm, not o table unmutilated. Boys ride
the spring furniture and harness tho
chairs II they do not hack and destroy to
the top Of their bent. Girls bang the
piano, take tea" IN tho parlor, scatter
cake aud doll rags at will.
They think they have good time; 80
does their mother. who consoles herself for
present discomfort and the alienation Of
her friends by the belief that they will out
grow all this lawlessncss. Boys will be
boys is one OF the first articles In her
ereed. IL IL ns II u gardener should let the
weeds grow up among the flowers In the
belief that they can be more casil disposed
Of when Of full size and well rooted, for.
getting that 'ho strong growing weeds viii
long before that timo have crushed the life
out Of the flowers, and that even ifby great
labor they are pulled up and cndicntod
then they will leave u SCARED and scanned
surface
Think Of the martyrdom Of n guest In
The home Of the easy goingl Not only arc
The children always under foot, all tho
chairs sticky and bread and butter on the
sofa, but the small tyrants themselves,
with their noise and unrcstrained wild
hess' insist on seeing her, probably soil
her gown with greasy fingers, hnndlo' her
fatasol and ian, run on with her umbrella
and often go no far rs TO demand any little
ihlhs In her possession that ploases their
fancy.
Aud how Ia the unframed child In other
eoplos housesi Is no not tho terror OF
ile hostess, who breads his cncroachments,
hs'lolence among the pretty things which
h'r own children have been taught to re-
tFeil lsnot such a child the true "infant
terrible" for which America Is famousf
Inc eh.ct upon the children themselves
hthe greatest. Left to their own devices,
WIN their wills unframed, tho seeds Of
Arelessness and sellshncss rapidly grow
M'o weeds which may take lifetime to
i0o' out, a sad WRONG II done 10 children
WHO are deiraudod OF the necessary discl.
pune who are not taught to respect tho
nsl's OF others and TO restrain their own
AWlesaneis. Because OF this neglect they
siedraded and feared by every ono who
anoWs them, when with n little control
.aey might have been credit TO parents,
10Y To friends and welcome guest every
re-oliye Thorne Miller in Wishing
'on Star.