The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-02-26
Nanp Lee Sees Much
Good in Mothers Congress-.


isary descent Is that like breeds like.
Nzgur. Is an Arsadae who retains n her
cautious hand the clew with which she
never parts
Ore reason why we may soon become
hairless and too;hesS race Is that sActest
mothers are asw few and Far hstweea>
What ruin ny figure sn1ars my ccsu-
psexics, BY nursing ny baby like an ercf-
nary washe-wonan, No; T., says the xo-
man az 10 dale.
Lady dear. did ynt ever see TIA; lovely
Madonna with the Infant c.inginx 70 the
mothers heart. above which the tricking
rssls gItstenss The NEST beautiful ana ap-
psaisng sight TN nature Is the mother Civ
ing strength and rse 10 the blossom sprung
from a union OF heart. head and hand.
sos
| remember woman once who. though
more thar anxious. discovered she could
nor nurse her baby herself. What 10 do.
Was the qusstsdh. Get a wss-narse," said
a friend. Yes. do snssrei another: "A
drunken foreigner ihleysng neggesS,
Vulgar American. and subject your hairy
10 an Inheritance OF misery that your hus-
band will say came from the maternal side.
and you will say descended from bis fore
fathers" The poor little mother. after re-
aection, went into respectable grocery
store and laid In a supply Of condensed
milk that The infant be not contaminated
by the foStsr-mother. nor vitsaied by the
consump,ive cow, stn-cau baby shows
In its uphringing the survival or the httest.
and therefore should he treated with re-
spect.
Where TO send our children 10 school Is
also serious problem. The fashion Of to-
day seems 10 want 10 make girls half boys
and boys half girls. believe like the old
way best.
think l want my girls 10 grow up wo-
manly women, and my boys TO take care
of themselves in the oid-fashioned. manly
way
DO think a congress OF mothers the most
excellent OF ideas. wish there might he
one held quarterly In every city. nay. in
every hamlet in these United States. Much
Is done by comparison. by exchange Of ex-
perience, by union. Mothers can help one
another much. No one person Is a!l-know-
ing. Each woman furnishing one idea
could help steady the cradle where nesties
the future hope OF this country. There is
so much time before the boy or girl can be
put to school-fime in which that little life
may be made or marred by tudicious or
harmful environment. There are 50 many
mothers who mean weil but don't know.
and TO these women who. having had no
training themselves. do not recognize the
importance of training their offspring
mothers congress means the hope OF
saving grace
A woman reads a long article on In
fants' Food" or What Shall We Make of
Our Boys" or Shall Baby Be-" or some
other argumentum ad ignorantum, and II
goes in one eye and comes out at the other.
A congress OF mothers Is different thing.
Thinking. feeling. intelligent women
semhle and tell each Other of things that
will tighten the burdens OF being What's
the OF sending your mau-cfiid to West
Point. when he can't possibly pass because
he may be astigmatie or "A little deafe We
unhappiiy send our boys and girls out 10
pass an examination which would entitle
them 10 be soldiers In the battle of life
sometimes deaf 10 much that honor de-
mands. blind to much that integrity ex-
acts. Handicapped with ailments which
they have inherited or contracted through
ignorance. how can We expec. these en-
bryo soldiers TO fall into line at the sound
OF the minute gun.
There never were two words more preg-
nant with truth than these Experience
teaches" The assembling OF mothers In
council will do more for the good OF our
posterity than any other form Of direction
Every one OF us knows some little thing
however small that some one else wants
to learn.
Let the mothers assemble. compare notes
and help one another w that hard road
through which every mother mus, wander
with her little ones. Just as there is no
royal read to learning. so there Is royal
road that "A mother can tread which will
lead her to the crowning stone OF a moth
ers life. the successful upbringing OF sons
and daughters. morally, physically and
mentally. pure. strong and wise.
NANCY LEE.