Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-01-15
DUTY OF MOTHERS
TEACHING DAUGHTERS BY GIL
ING THEM RESPONSIBILITY.
'n'entlVs" Often the Only THING
necessary to Bring Out chiIds
0uaIIties-PIan Adopted by
One Woman,


ms season of the year is Just the
'llle Tor the housekeeper to take
pains and make plans to develop in
her youngest daughter all the quail.
.les mat go to make up an all-round
housekeeper.
w away for a whole day now and
.nen and leave the entire responsible
NY OF the Observation-Disclosures cook.
lug and dusting-to the daughter. If
you are without help in the kitchen,
Oil the better, for the daughter will
learn all the quicker and learn all
tne more. If you have one or more
oder daughters send them away and
give over all responsibility to the
youngest, who is sure to be over
Swallowed so long as older sisters are
around.
have a friend, that while her two
older daughters, both capable house
Keepers, were away this summer, gave
TulI charge to a daughter of 10. She
spent each day Of one week away, re-
turning at night, just in time for sup
per. She neither gave any orders in
the morning or went into the kitchen
at night before supper. Everything
was satisfactory and a most excellent
dinner served one night when there
were two extra for supper. Things
ran with wonderful smoothness, and
the house was kept in apple-pie order.
other members of the family could
scarcely believe it, as this suddenly
developed housekeeper of but 10
summers had always shirked respon.
sibility, and even work, to such an
extent that her older sisters and
brothers had long been convinced that
their youngest sister was simply
lazy" and never would learn.
When will mothers believe that So
called "laziness" is simply lack of in
centive Further, that incentive with
some natures comes spontaneously,
when presented to them as a form of
duty; others have to have a spontane-
GUS desire to create an incentive In
this case it becomes the parents high
est duty to search and search with
ingenuity, wisdom and patience until
the power to quicken the handspring
Of the childs character has been
reached.
This may mean many failures and
many heartaches, but with each at
tempt much is learned to form
stepping-stone to widen experience. 1t
certainly is just as grievous fault to
neglect to SO teach and train our daugh-
tiers that the mantle of all our house
keeping qualities will fall upon them
as to neglect giving them a common
school education.
l thoroughly appreciate the fact that
it is more often far easier to do
thing yourself than to with patience
see 1t half done by the daughters.
But if we look at this as but one dis
agreeable part of our business of
housekeeping, we will at once accept
the temporary annoyance with cheer
fitness. One of the most eXasperat-
ing duties to me is to teach a child
to make cake, and yet | have always
forced myself to accept it as but a
part of my business, just as the hus-
band has in commercial life many
annoying details to wade through. l
think men are more inclined to take
such things "as a matter of course"
One son demanded to be taught the
art of cake making, even to fancy
icing, and to-day no one of the four
that followed has been able to touch
his quality of gingerbread. Outside
of our duties to our daughters as fu-
ture housekeepers we should bear in
mind that the work Of the hands de-
velops the brain, else how would we
have the present wonderful inventions
in modern machinery?
l do not wish to sidetrack too often
from practical housekeeping, but
wise housekeeping keeps in mind
the sacred fact that woman's
duty is not done when she just pro-
vides good, wholesome meals, CON-
Portable clothing and neat house.
She must by thought, word and deed
teach her children by giving them re-
sponsibility, and thus force them to
think, to manage and to work in their
own homes, if she aims to be wise"
housekeeDer