The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-05-20

of self-control with patience in i'm
portance. Probably, if we had per
self control, we should be armed
against the great majority of the mis-
takes to which we must confess, ant
we should furnish to our children
such models of conduct that childhood
would be revolutionized. Unfortu
nately, we do not live in the millen.
mum, and mothers do sometimes lose
self-control. The hasty decisions. the
unjust judgments, the bad examples
are the signs that rise to reproach us
There are many things that make il
difficult for us always to maintain
such command of our irritable nerves
as satisfies our ideal. We are quite
human, though our theories are right
But there is one thing that the good
mother can do, and that is to refrain
from the things over which she has
dominion and which she knows nut
her into such mental or physical
state that she finds control difficult.
A little self-study will help in this
matter, and it is a wise plan, when
the aterclap of humiliation comes, to
diagnose the case and learn the real
cause.
Late hours, overeating, improper
or unsuitable clothing, too many dut-
les outside home, too much club
work. too many visitings, too mucsh
reading, too many frills put on the
clothes of our little ones or on those
of our own, too much dwelling on the
good fortune of our neighbors and our
own misfortunes. and largely insult
ficient fod, are some of the trivial
causes that make it difficult for the
mother to hold her temper in control.
Whatever it is, find it and cut it off.
1t is said that the iritableness of
school children is much more largeyl
due to insufficient nutritious food
than to overwork in studies. and I
believe that much of the lack of
self-control in mothers is due to the
same thing. Learn what preparations
of food are nutritious and palatable
and eat them for the sake of your self
respect.
The good mother always has a sys-
tenn in work or study. and requires
of the kind in her children.
In this way only can she find the
hours for her own relaxations and fon
hose good times together which chill
1ren so enjoy. There was an age
when children could grow up as ma
;ure pleased, but nowadays they must
grow up as life pleases, and this |
means a training irksome at times to
both mother and child. Therefore the
mother should have well-defined
method in the rearing of the home
lock. Not an infexible one, not one
o be changed each time she hears
ome other persons theory, but one
apable Of such additions and curtail-
nents as are adapted to her special
leeds, and she should carry out this
Ian with iron hand behind soft fing-
RS, '-s
We should wish for the mother
to do outside her home.
hat she may bring the best from
he outside world back with her, and
hus break up the humdrum of every
ay care and thought. r..
We should choose that the mother
e highly educated, but usually she
not. She can, however, make Of her..
elf an intelligent mother, and this
oes much further than mere school, {
lg. am often surprised to note how !
tile use mothers make of what book {
nowledge they have, and how little l
fort they employ to increase that {
nowledge. The newspapers we have S
18th us always and. properly used, 6
ley serve as educators, for they r
ring to almost every home the great I
lblic events that are making history \
I'd which are certainly important to G
e mother, who has almost exclusive s
in her hands the training of our y
ture voters. There is also in the n
eat newspapers much general mat il
r bearing on mother and home. But t
e find too often that mothers over f
ok these two really valuable de-
lrtments of the daily press and d
aste their time and degrade their n
inds by reading sensational &C V
UNITS of wrongdoing, thus associat. n
g themselves with characters with p
hom they would not be seen in pub ii
:, and whom they would not think IL
inviting to their homes in person. Ct
Edward Everett Hale said: "Touch b.
oulders every day with some mind F
eater than your own" to keep YOU al
least at yOur level Our n,h1;o ! nj