The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-03-19
TIRED MOTHERS.
Hney should Brsng UP Their Children ca
Helfs Them.


HEIR Them.
Ihereare many mothers who lie down
atnightso thoroughly tired out thatthey
hardly care whether or not they ever
wake again. Yet after all is this
WEAKNESS of flesh and vexation Of
spirit necessarily Would not q little
sellf-sacrifice on the part OF all the
other members OF the family ease this
weary mother from fully one-half her
laabor2 There Is Jeannie's dress. Cold
7 not be made W 4 simpler pattern?
Gould not Willie give up part Of the
pleasure that he expects to enjoy and
for which his mother is making sacri.
iiees that he would not ask IL nc only
understood IL? Would not the baby
pc happier II he were dressed IN b
dainty gown as plain and brown as the
Eparrows than il he were zessed In
spotless white, merely because ii is the
sastom TO dress little children In that
way? Is it indispensable to the health
and reputation of her children that
they should be clothed in finery and
fed with dainty food? Let the little
mother pause and reflect. Is she not
sacrificing her life to merely the
opinion of the world? Does not JEANNE
demand special fnery because her
friends wear it, and would il not be
good discipline for her to do without it?
There is the rub. The mothers love
comes in and the mothers pride ready
to make any sacrifice that her daugh.
ter shall not be mortified by inferior
clothes. Has she any right to wear out
her strength and nerves for such
shallow cause? Her children need the
spur of little adversely, and she is
trying to stand between providence and
them. If they are completely shielded
from all trouble or sacrifice of their de.
sires, when the time comes, as it surely
will, when she can no longer shield
them, what ability will they have to
take care of themselves?
Little as she realizes it she is doing
her children a greater wrong than she
is doing herself. She is bringing them
up with every wish gratitied that it is
in her power to crafty, only to make
them long for things that she cannot
give them. 1t is much harder to go
backward and return to simpler ways
than it is to go forward, even though
we know we are wrong but this is just
what is demanded in a great many
families. Hundreds of families are liv-
ing far beyond what they can honestly
afford. The children are brought up
with false ideas of what constitutes
necessities and luXuries. Instead of
taking pleasure in simple things they
long for what is impossible for them to
have until they finally believe that they
are entitled to it. Nothing worth hav-
ing was ever acquired and retained eX
cept with hard labor. Even people
who have acquired sudden fortune
have discovered it was fieeting, and
only held it with care and work. 1t is
not natural that we should live in this
world in perfect ease and happiness.
Life is ever made up of mixed passages
of light and dark.
Let the mother that loves her chill.
dren allow them to make some sacrifice
and learn to bear small disappoint-
ments for fear of greater ones. Above
all things, let her teach to face honest.
ly and unfinchingly the circumstances
in which they are placed in this world
and. never allow them to assume a
wealth they do not possess. They
thus will be prepared to meet sincerely
and faithfully any position in which
they are placed.-N. Y. Tribune.