Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-20
- Confessions
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The Old and the New Mother.
by Barbara Boz

A LONG with new ideas in housekeeping and modes of living is there not
coming a new mother? You see her now and then, but at present this
new attitude of hers toward the responsibilities of motherhood is not
always understood by the feminine part of the world at large. She is apt to be
~1uaseo" ut ist she ushering in a newer and better motherhood?
Two mothers in this little suburb often set ne to bordering the matter
One IS ne olo-fashioned mother. There are six children, the older mes able
o to go out In the world and er their own living, the youngest sill small
nhHen. lhism mother has pinched and saved and denied for her brood, for
INC istner las been able to earn only a modest salary. She has displayed
an executive ability and IN energy that would have brought her large returns
brought no particular returns 20 far as her children are concerned. They are
quite ordinary. None Is brilliant In any way. They have had the usual public
sonoo education. They take all their mother docs for them as matter of
curse n now hiatt they Ire beginning to &C out in the world and fend for
themselves, they are looking out largely for their own interests, as young peo-
Pie ire apt to do The mother is getting old; she is not as strong as she might
q las lot kept In touch with the intellectual progress of the world, for neither
time nor energy was left to do 1t when her days work vas over. The children,
IL course, love her and respect hr, as children dc, but they think she~+s a bit
oidTashoned, lot quite up-Wdate, that her opinions and advice are not al
ways to be considered because she doesn't know about things.
II the other mother had stayed In the home, her life would probably have
earned a good, fat salary every week, which, added to her husbands, makes a
comfortable family income. She has put a good housekeeper in the home so
matt is run, lot sblishly perhaps, but well. She has tent the children to
good schools, dressed them smarty9 and they view life from a far better posi-
hn both in the matter O. a home and associates than do these other children.
But the point ito be considered most of all lis their attitude toward their mother
morally, but they have a thorough admiration and respect for her. They not
only are proud OF her looks-one of the youngsters, who is only II, said one
day admirtngy: There is son class to yu, mother"-but they know she las
made a recognized place or herself In the business world, and they respect
her advice and counsel
There is a vast difference in the methods pursued by these two mothers
though both aree equally capable women. There Is a vastd difference in the
homes and in the children. Results 50 far show that the new mother has the
best o. it, nt only In her home and children, but also as regards herself. And
sometimes wonder If this isn't the next stage in development, if there will not
come new mother, and If the old mother who has served her time faithfully
VIII lot become only a loving memory and al example of patient, unrecognized
soh-sacrhe such as the world car nowhere else show.