Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-27
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NURSERY

10 good account can make herself an al
| most angelic visitor to the childrens hos
ptal. She can go and play with the little
| ones who are well enough to be around
can read to them, and tell LIEN stories and
sing. tell songs they love. perhaps to the
accompaniment of mandolin or guitar If
she has the children on her mind she will
not find it great trial to mention them
To Kind elder women with longer purses
! than her own. collecting occasionally the
FUNDS OF which hospitals are always in
want.
All sorts of diversions in the way of dolls
toys. scrap books and puzzles are useful
IN chidren's hospitals. But growing plants
when may thrive in the sunny windows,
are. II possible, even more welcome than
toys These green things growing mean
much to the tired eyes of the little ones
lhey are unconscious preachers; with
every day messages from God to the
children who see their beauty
The young people who undertake any task
by way of visiting in children's wards need
TO remember that promises made to such
little ones must be sacredy kept An i'm
pulse OF generosity may take a girl to the
hospital one afternoon a week, but she
must see to 1t that If it be an engagement
| it shall be kept
st Try
To remember that my tallest girl was
once the baby" remarks a mother who has
four children of assorted Sizes that my
seven-year-old boy was in his turn petted
and cuddled. and that only short time ago
| the next to the youngest was the tenth of
the flock and received his share of coddling.
| These children. through no fault of theirs,
| have been pushed along the line to make
room for the baby. have made 1t a matter
| of principle never to allow them to feel
that they have lost anything by the arrival
| of another child. 1 still pet and mother
| each of them with as much tenderness as
IL he or she were the only child in the
| home.
| Each of them Is still mammals baby
| Their common sense teaches them that
| their baby sister cannot wait on herself,
| and consequently requires constant care
| than they. And I shall try to make them
| feel that even when they are men and
| women they shall never be too old for their
mothers petting."
Wise mother she For she realizes with
| thoughtful consideration that although her
| children have outgrown babyhood they
| have not outgrown the love of being loved
! Many child under a high school jacket
| or white pinafore yearns for the mother
| ing lavished upon the latest arrival in the
| family.
The mother who pets only the baby and
| gives up caressing the growing boy and
! girl loses her strongest hold on her son S
| and daughters heart. 1t is to be remember
| ed that with the disappearance of baby
| dimpies and baby plumpness the fondness
| for mothers tenderness does not also van
ish: II often grows more vivid.
| Mother surely has enough love to go
| around. And the child who is subjected to
| temptation. to INughtiness. and is not at
| traetive to everybody needs the mother love
and petting even more than the dimpled
darling whom every one seems to love. and
upon whom everybody Is ready to bestow a
! tender word or caress. Nobody u too old
to pet