Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-01-07

with your fellow beings and listen
to them. II you feel too rusty
to talk with progressive minds, be ST.
lent and drink in what they have to offer
and think it OYER by yourself. A good
listener Is always valued parsonage
socially. Make yourself OF importance
TO the people with whom you desire
your daughter 20 associate. II Won
nave not the means to entertain, Won
can at least fit yourself to be entertain
ed. and TO learn what is good form and
what is best to avoid doing. And Won
can In small and graceful ways repay
the social courtesies you receive at no
great expenditure Of money. | know
mothers whose sole role socially is to
lounge at home in an old wrapper after
"udying' UP the house, and to luxu-
rate In the accounts the society daugb-
TOR brings home of peoples doings.
and dressings and sayings. This sort
OF mother very soon degenerates into a
gossip. Habits and customs with which
she does not familiarize herself soon
grow 70 seem matters for gossip and
rldicule, aud not infrequentlv thu
daughter degenerates with the mother
IN this respect. In order TO ''amuse
dear, devoted, domestic mamma" she
must descend TO the level of her mind.
and tell her bits OF scandal and crit.
else people, since she is not able TO an
preciate and admire the worthier and
higher things one finds TO admire in
cultured and progressive circles.
find scores OF women who take great
pride In being mothers; they asspme
plying and patronizing airs over the
wives who are not mothers, and sueak
OF their own part IN life as the ali-im-
portant one. Yet at the same time they
are not living Up TO the motto uoblesse
o3tigc. IL the role Of mother is the
grcategt life can offer womap-ss
concede 10 20 be-then the obligations
OF that rOlC are equally great and seri-
Gus. The woman who has brou0bt a
beautiful and interesting girl into the
world has less right TO sit down and
neglect her mind and her social duties
than the childess woman, who wrongs
no one but herself. IL is her duty IN
cultivate herself i'm every possible man
ner, 70 control her temper, overcoma
hor mental sloth, and 20 ft herself 10
be a valuable social character whether
she likes u or not, since the entire fu-
ture OF her daughter may depend upon
the position she occupies, and upon thu
harmony OF her BACKGROUND. -"
have known girls opportunity for
making a good marriage TO be rniped
By tho wrapper habits" Of the mother
"a mother who had ample means with
which 70 clothe herself becOmingly, but
who, through sheer mental Iazlpess
and the habit Of staying in the chimney
corner day 10 and OUT, had grown 10
think that her personal appearance was
matter OF secondary consideration.
But the young men who freQuented the
house imagined the daughter following
IN the mothers footsteps later on In
life, ard avoided compromising them
selves a man thinks OF something
besides good cook and housekeeper
when he contempates taking a wife,
no matter how important those consid-
erauons are TO him after he has taken
her.
mother should represent her house
hold not la tho role OF an excellent SER
want but good mother. She should
mover make 10 necessary for her chill
dren 20 apologize for her appearance or
her ignorance. From their infa9cy she
should begin 20 make herself Ag object