Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-11-11
4 Mothers Conclusions.

Much of the dreadfulness OF boys from
. 6 to Is is due to the fact that in so very
few homes q boy can be natural without
disturbing everything and everyone. But
who ever thinks of providing place for
the boys in which to keep their treasures
undisrurbed, where they can make all
the noise they like? If a man needs a
den to relax in. and everyone seems to
grant that he uoes-how much more does
a growing boy! Is it not dreadful to
think Of a live boy in an deliberately fur
nShed room, and all the other members
OF the family nagging him to keep still?
If mothers would give anything like
me the amount of study and pains to their
boys and the conditions which will bring
the best results, that those do who sue
coed with house plants, we might have
growing boys instead of what we most
often see, boys hard and Indifferent to
everyone. l know woman who thought
best never to show sympathy when her
little boy got hurt. and if he cried would
exclalm, You must be man, not a
little cry baby He soon stopped look
ing for sympathy, poor little fellow, and
he does not know the feeling toward any
other living creature, and I doubt if he
ever can. He was "a loving, tender child,
but it was just killed in him. In tastes
and other ways boys do differ from girls,
but within | believe they are much alike
and need about the same love and kind
cOHS1ueEdIlOIl. ana ITS lar DIS nave o.
served one sex is about as apt to make
havoc" as the other. if such is their bent.
We must not only be ready to talk to
and advise children, but also to listen
while they talk. Give the same atten-
ton as to your most welcome guest. Oft
Ell some little inciden; of the day related
starts a conversation quite broad and
vimpersonal and [ am amazed at the
grasp and reasoning of the mind of my
son not vet g, on the why's and where
fores and right and wrong of things.
Have | not reason to hope that tie talks
we have now, truly ''heart to heart win
help him to consider and decide for the
right in after years? The acts and con-
Tersatlon of grown persons seem oft
times coarse anu defective when judged
through the eyes and ears of a child I
have TO be constantly making excuses to
my boy for what be sees and hears I
am trying to develop in him the power
20 consider the character Of people, and
right and wrong. Both girls and boys
need this equipment.-Mrs. r. e. Dag
gett in Good Housekeeping.
Waiting on Queen.
1t is the privilege of a Queen to be min
istered to by ladies in whose veins flows
some of the noblest blood among her sub
Jects; and when, as in Queen Alexandra's
case, she can call each aristocratic Servi-
tor personal and devoted friend, bound
70 her as much by ties of affection as of
loyalty, she is indeed to be envied.
There IS perhaps no greater lady in all
the peerage than the Duchess Of Buc-
cleuch, who is proud to be mistress of
the robes to her majesty. The daughter,
sister, wife and aunt of dukes she has
every qualification for her office which
exalted rank can give her; and when we
add TO this that she is tall, stately and
handsome, queen of society and a wom-
an Of rare charm and many gifts, and
that she was an intimate friend of our
late Queen, as she is of Queen Alexan-
dra. it is clear that she is of exceptional
qualifications for her high Office.
The mistress of the robes is chief of
all the Queens ladies and brilliant
and imposing figure at al state cere-
monials, while. in addition to the mani
fold duties of her position. she enjoys
the doubtful privilege Of giving a state
dinner on the evening of the opening of
and Of being attired In black
when IN attendance ST court.
Next IN Importance to the mistress of
the robes come the four ladies of the
bedchamber, who are rarely of less rank
than that of countess. Unlike the mis-
tress of the robes, whose appointment is
political, these ladies are appointed by