The Virginia enterprise., 1899-06-30
BE Chummy with Your Mother.

BE Chummy with Your Mother.
Just as soon as a girl thinks that she
has outgrown her mother, just that mo-
ment she is in real danger. NO greater
| safeguard ever existed than the conll-
| dcnce between mother and daughter ana
| it is wisdom on the part Of both to slS-
tain confidential relations as long as life
lasts. or, at least, until the daughter
| has been given into the keeping of some
| honorable, upright man, who will appre-
| ciate her all the more because of the love
and fealty she possesses for her mother.
There is no friend in the world so senu-
inc, so unseltish. so altogether delightful
as Il girls mother if the foolish young
creature will only get out of her head
| the notion that mother is Old-fashiOned
or a bit too censorious, says the Phila-
| delphia Times.
Her experience can be used oh! so adj
vantageously and painlessly by tn"
| daughter if she is not too headstronS to
realize that warnings are but given for
| her own good, are not croakings, b'lt
should guide her along the path Of life.
The instant anything occurs in girl S
| existence that she feels disinclined to tel
her mother about she can rest assured
that it is something about which she
should be ashamed. If she would but
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more appreciative than any girl CONT
dante and far more reliable. too.
! 1t is lack of confidence between mother
| and daughter that is the cause of sc
many elopements that rarely, il ever, re,
suit in matrimonial happiness. 1t is not
prejudice that makes Il mother object to
| the attentions of certain young men.
While she encourages those of another
| Her experienced eye, her great affection
| for her child combine intuitiyely almost
| to read character and with her maternal
| instinct fully alive she can see much bet
ter than her daughter the flaws that arc
| such indications of future misery. or the
| good points that portend solid happiness
| Girls, be chummy with your mothers
| They are your best friends. Some day
after you have tired of all the rest OF The
| world you will learn this fact and wish
oh so sadly. that you had never swerved
! in your allegiance to one who wouldn't il
the tortures of flame. or the rayages OF
| disease or the crushing of character
| swerye one iota in her allegiance to you
| When Homo is Sweet Home.
/ Fewer wives would sit lonesomely al
home, while their husbands roam else
| where in search of entertainment, if more
wives realized that home should be some
| thing besides a clean place to eat and
sleep in. Men ''hate" women's tea par
ties and large show functions. but they
like little dinner and supper parties
| Many families refrain from entertaining
| because they cannot do SO on an ex
pensive scale. 1t is, however, possible te
give small dinners and suppers that are
both enjoyable and inexpensive. ASH
people who either do or will like eacf
other, and if you wish the women to have
good time have just as many me1
guests as women guests. If the men arr
to have a good time make sure that some
of the women are pretty and huttering
Men like to be flattered. Oh, yes, they
do.
One of the surest ways to be awkward
'in company is to try to act different!
from ones accustomed manner. If one''
everyday manner is not gooc enough fo
a company, then it should be changed
but the most delightful company manner
! is the natural manner when it is natura
to be charming. One of the charms o
an agreeable manner is to seem unaffect
ed; another is to have something to sa.
worth hearing, and to say it easily ant
interestingly; another is to listen appre
ciatively when others speak.-The Gen
ilewoman.