The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-26
rhe rr.iuins of the Mother

It Is well that the sentimental Ideal of motherhood we have so long wor- shipped Is beginning at last to share honors with it's important, if less poet ic sister. practical knowledge. says The Philadelphia North American. Mother love ts beautiful thing. but 1t has too long been looked upon as quite sum- cient in itself for the successful train ing of child. Love may be the great est spring of action. but knowledge should be the guiding power.
 q have spoiled her, I'll admit" said mother in explaining her daughters wilifulness to a trained nurse. And having complacently acknowledged the fault the mother seemed satisfied that ft would relieve her daughter of all re- sponsibility and furtier consequence. But It wouldn't
 The daughter was even then paying In suffering for her self-will and diso- bedience, and she will continue to pay throughout all her life for the lack of proper discipline as a child, which should have checked and controlled the headstrong spirit that was leading her now into all sorts of follies.
 Only trouble and sorrow can give her the training now which she could so easily have been given the plastic child mind and heart
 "Has Mary drunk her hot waterY- asked Mary's father oue morning Mary hesitated and glanced at her mother And this mother, because she knew that Mary rdisliked the hot water and that At was simply a hobby with the father, seaid Yes and Mary received her first lesson in deception. Nobody can tell what the outcome may be.
 Another mother who ieagued with her daughter to deceive their father be. cause he, was so mercilessly stern, lived to see one after another of them de- NNnA AAR . AAA A. by q clandestine marriage. The moth CT weeps and moans and says she does not understand how her children could lie to her like they did.
 He is causing his father a lot of trouble" said some men in speaking of friends son. He has reached that age when he thinks he knows 1t all"
 Every boy sooner CT later reaches that age. But the boy whose father and mother are the best friends he has, who are the ones to Ehom he has al- ways gone with every interest will not cause much trouble.
 It takes far more than mere mother love to bring up children. It takes training, study, know ledge, It takes self-control in the parents themselves The mother who spoils child through weak indulgence does not truly love her child. She loves her own pleasure in going along the line of least resist anca.
 Many a child's future would be far happier if 1t were brought up by train ed men and women who have made a study of child culture rather than by over-indulgent parents. The very men ton of such a thing raises a protest yet the running of many a child's moral fibre in the families of the we'll do by lack of self-contr0l in the parents needs the Interference of society quite
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 Motherhood and faeherhood should not only be placed on a sentimental pedestal. but equal recognition should be given to the necessity of an ade- quate training for the responsibilities assumed.
 Children can. like T TNpsy, "just grow" but it goes without saying they devel- op into happier and more useful men and women if they are properly train ed