Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-01-25

mother, cumD upon your Knees
hundred times day and empty their
burdens into your willing, sympa-
thetIc ears. Let them run to you in
your busiest moments and find you q
ready liste ner. 1t is better to spoil
meal by their intrusion or a dress by
their muddy feet than to miss the
chance to touch for eternal good the
hidden springs of your children's
lives Never rebuff them, never turn
them away in petulance or irritation.
Never say when you can possibly do
otherwise, "Mama's too busy" Re-
member Satan is not too busy. Take
an interest in everything that con-
Germs your boys and girls, their tiniest
toys, their nest commonplace sports,
their unintelligible chatter, and you
will soon find wealth of confidence
pouring into your ears, that you
would not exchange for the material
treasures of a hundred worlds. Who
is equal to motherhood? Yes, it is
stupendous responsibility, and yet l
pity the girl or woman who does not,
deep down in her heart, honestly long
to be a mother. No angel task is
half so sublime as the chaste privilege
of motherhood. Mothers, never de-
ceive a child. Robert Hall once
reproved young mother because in
putting her baby to bed she put on
her own nightcap as if to go to bed
and lay down beside it. MADAM"
he said, "You are acting a lie and
teaching your child to lie" You may
say that this is carry ing casuistry to
an extreme, but was Robert Hall not
right? Is it safe to indulge the
smallest deception with your children?
Never promise and fail to fulfil,
whether you promise penny or
punishment. [ have heard mothers
say this: "Now do as I tell Y on and I
will take you to see the horses Or the
chickens" The child obeys and the
mother forgets the promise. Other
mothers say this: Nov if you don't
go to sleep the boyle man will get
you" Awful falsehood again.
Another offense is 5ribing children to
do right. "If you will be good boy
will get you some candy" eff you
will 60 to church or Sunday school I
will buy you a watch or DOLL"
Childrt learn to think that obedience
and duty doing are valuable only for
the reward they brig. Reason with
your children, you can do this before
they are year old. Teach them to
do right for rights sake, to love truth
and duty for truth al d duty's sake.
Tell them about God and conscience.
Let them know that there are better
things in this life than blocks and
wagons and whips and dolls, that
Gods approval is better, your
approval is better, their own con-
sciences approval is better. Be true
yourself and let them early learn
from you the inherent beauty of truth
and the intrinsic value Of goodness.
Mothers, teach your children the
seriousness of life and it's temporal
and eternal rewards. Once young
girl still in her teens lay dying; her
weeping mother held the feverish
and emaci4ted hand. "Mother," said
the dying girl, you taught me how to
dance but not how to pray,
how to get into society but not
how to get into Heaven how to win
the favor of young men but not how
to win the favor of God, and now 1
am dying with nothing to comfol
me. Mother, why did you leave out
the most important thing of all?
Teach your daughters that there is
a higher ideal in life than entree into
society or agility on the ballroom
floor. Do not make your girls doll
babies to be kept in bandboxes Or
picturesque ornaments for society
exhibition. Show them that the
milliner and the dressmaker and cos
metics cannot make true woman.
Show your boys that the tailor and
the shoemaker and the haberdasber
and wearing buttonhole bouquets
and parting the hair in the middle
cannot make true man. The world
to-day in its onward rush needs
sturdy men and genuine women, it
has no honorable place for artifi cali
ties aud distortions, feather tops and
mushrooms. human apes and parrots.
[ speak earnestly and with serious
intent when I say, do not pamper
your children and put emphasis on
the wrong things in life.
Mythers, show your childre that
every life is incomplete until Jesus
Christ has remoulded it. A mother
may be social queen, but ste is
unfit for her duties to her children if