Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-02-17

human bodies squirting under restraint.
exhaust the visitor and send her home
dlSInelWed for another days visit ut
school for AZ least another year. Whas,
then, If she has To pitch right int0 home
dutieS--get supper. mind the baby. set
the table light the lamps? | think amy
:altht--s mother asking herself these
questions III al honesty. will admit that
She would regard such programme. COM
pulSory upon her for five days week,
as unduly eXactiug. How must IL ap-
pear to the young child who has not
been idly visiting AT school hut working
To the full extent of his capacity at un-
natural studies? Very likely he has
brought home an armful of books. Can
We justly expect him TO spend the few
brief hours that intervene between his
home coming aud the evenings study in
work for u.s.
Yer If hc docs nothing for the family.
VIII he net grow SelhSht Are all of his
duties school duties! | think il is true
that the family and the home have
claims upon him that ought To he
pressed upon his attention every day of
the week. Children are tno likely 10 re-
gard mother as necessary convenience
or even highly satisfactory piece If
household furniture, warranted 10 with
stand the ScVereSt wear, and Ia treat
her accordingly. Some day. perhaps. she
Is MISSING: or some day she breaks down:
or even If the strength of love 50
Strengthens her body that she does with
stand the wear, at least she grows old.
the children drift away from home and
both have missed the sweetest Joy of
the sweetest relationship under the sun
the joy Of reciprocal service Nothing
that school can give will. | heartily be-
lleve atone for the loss Of this expert
ence. Neither "sothsr nor child can af-
font To permit the more formal intellcc-
tual elements of education. such as the
school gives. To uSurp the deeper moral
training given by the habit of Servm. in
the family.
1t is necessarily a difficult thing 10 adj
Just these two conflicting claims; hut no
one ever guaranteed that | remember
that motherhood was an easy task. or
ore requiring slight wisdom. ~ let us
take counsel together and see IL we can-
not hnd simple ways that Will, nevcrthe-
less. meet the emergency. In the first
place, we must clear our owes of SELFISH
ness No need of the child's help in our
work must blind us To his needs i'm his
own work. OF course he does not exist
for our benefit, but rather we for his.
The houSework then, that we shall exact
Of him. must be eXacted for his own
sake. though he thinks il is done for
ours. We can justly ask him Ia make
his own bed and put away his own
tIotneS before gong 10 School. Of To do
some other slight. but regular. Chnrc.
After school we can ask for help with
the supper dishes, or the evenings milk
ing-some other slight but regular chore
not hodgepodge of disa greeahle little
tasks and errundS. saved up to greet his
homecoming. On Saturday forcnoons
he can do more-clcan the barn. help
with the general sweeping. or something
of that sort; but the afternoon should be
his own-his iuviolate holiday. by not
overeXacting. and yet steadfastly exact
ing. we shall, let us hope. keep alive in
him that love Of home which blossoms
into cheerful service, both ut home an6
at school. Marion Foster Washhurne, IN
Mothers Magazine