The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-11-01
Mistress of the Home.

was admitted, dwelt continually on the
incredible fact that she was regarded
with constant affection by one so bril-
liant and commanding as her boy.
This mental attitude is of course en-
tirely wrong and much to be depre-
Gated.
Experience has been a richer and
more profitable feature to mothers
than schools and colleges have been to
their children. The right management
of a home imparts to woman who is
responsive and receptive. sympathetic
and enthusiastic, something quite as
useful as university education.
heard not long ago story that
seemed to me full OF the sweetest
sentiment and the most practical sug.
gestiveness. A daughter who had
been graduated witt high honors came
home with her diploma and spent her
first vacation in becoming intimate
with her mother. In the four years OF
separation the two had drifted little
apart; not In love but in acquaintance
with those common affairs that form
the staple of life in thought and con.
versation. The daughter did not go to
her room or her hammock and spend
hours In study and reading that would
have been exclusive, though delightful.
but Immediately took hold Of the daily
work with will. In every possible
way she lightened her mothers burden
and when after her mother and herself
had passed many pleasant afternoons
| together over books that to the mother
opened a new world of culture, the
daughter planned a course OF study
that they might pursue together.
Their home was remote from neigh-
bors and they had plenty of time. Re-
sisting the inclination to go abroad
and find congenial field for study or
professional work. the younger wom-
an STAYED by the elder and awakened
her to a new youth.
The saddest thing In life is to wit
ness the Encouragement of a woman
who having accomplished her task OF
educating her children, finds herself
solitary and neglected, the return for
her devotion being that she Is over.
} looked, while they are absorbed by
, ambition and their own business or
: their new relation. Sons and daugh-
tiers marrying early seem to lose
identity as integral parts of their old
home. Their parents do not enjoy the
training in patience which ID theirs
r when at Thanksgiving and Christmas
Z John and Mary find it impossible to
! come home, and when they are made
, to feel that their convictions and opin
ions are of little account with the sec
, ond generation.
a After woman is so years old she
. may as well die" was the bite
, speech of a mother who realized thai
so far from taking the first place will
her children, she had become a cipher
in their estimation.
Naturally, when children have lef
behind them schools and school mas
u tiers and are confronted with the prob
lens and situations of maturity the!
, have a right to independence. The.
must take the responsibility for thei
own actions. They are not unlike tn
d birds that have learned to use thei
o wings and get their own food and tina
10 no longer Heeu lue SUPERVISION Una
If was once so untiring in the days o
8 the nest Yet it were well for mos
d grown up children to delay too muc
re training of their parents. How shal
e we train our mothers would best b
ir answered In most instances, by a
j. emphatic order to let them alone. LIE
1t mothers dress as they please, set thel
t. tables as they like, hold fast to littl
&. provincialisms in their dialect. III
i'd checked, and be old-fashioned II the
III wish There are endless varieties {
10 roses in these days. but the whit
y. rose that blooms in the old-fashione
at garden is sweeter than any OF tn
is newer productions.
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