Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1911-12-26
CLUB PAPER BY MRS. SMITH

plicitly believe that sending their
children to Sunday school regularly
Is about all that Is necessary to make
them grow up into good men and
women. mean no disrcsncct TO Sur
dav schools when | say that little
religions instruction one hour In the
week can hardly relieve mothers OF
all their responsibility for child's
moral training.
As to the qualities OF thoroughness
aud concentration We are surely all
agreed that they make for the highest
degree OF efficiency. and without ef-
ficiency education is as dead as faith
without works. should say that the
hest possible training for efficiency Is
the doing OF everything undertaken,
even in our earliest years. as thor
oushly as our present state Of knowl-
edge renders possible. To be always
thorough is so difficult OF accom-
plishment. that few indeed who have
not been trained in the way 10y both
teachers and parents, especially par
ents ever practice II OF their own vo-
/ ,ition in later life. No child old
enough to talk. and play the slmples,
games, is too young to be trained to-
ward both thoroughness and eoncen-
tration. Observation and memory
are the two faculties most capable
OF responding to this early training,
the wise mother encourages her child
to talk with her about what II sees
and hears and brings out by judi
cious questions the important points
OF the subject under discussion. She
Is never too busy TO answer It's ques-
tons, not perfunctorily. but to the
best OF her ability. In whatever trips
they make together, whether these
be short or long, she does not fai!
10 call his attention to things of in
terest and beauty, and afterwards
! question him In order 10 recall them
to his memory. In fact, she Is con-
stantly on the alert 10 help make
these early impressions clean cut and
vital We can teach child 10 re-
member anything he understands by
telling II in m interesting way. The
power of telling story entertain
inely is the most effective part of a
mothers educational equipment, and
one she should spare no pains in ac~
Quiring. II she does not already pos
soss 1t.
In training her daughters no sub
iect is OF more importance thar what
IS generally known rs domestic
science The lite-work of the vast
majority of women is the making and
keeping of homes That the training
for so well-night universal calling
should he most thorough, would seem
to need no mention. Yet how very
often It * totally neglected.
! Happy indeed, happy and fcrtu-
nate Is the tiny girl who Is allowed
TO trot AZ her mothers side all day
and take part in her occupations; 20
cook when mother cooks. &c dust
when mother dusts, 10 sweep with
hey pvgmy broom when mother
lsweeps, and TO sew on dolly's gar
ments when mother sews or hers.
For s'Ia learns without conscious
effort what no amount of school
training in domestic science in later
years could quite give her. She learns
not only how to care for home;
she learns TO look upon the work as
movable. OF course that kind OF
home training means vast trouble for
the mother. hut have long since
concluded that being a mother is syn
onymous with taking trouble with
children that nobody else would take
For II she desires the best results
the mother must superintend these
baby efforts at housekeeping us care
fully rs she will in later years super
intend the learning OF sonata.
should hate to be understood as
advocating turning a little child into
n household drudge. Quite the con-
trary; unless we can make our
daughters efforts at housew ork
seem to her a pleasure and priyi-
lege. we had better leave tina; part
Of her training 10 more competent
hands. II is sure TO he the greatest
misfortune for any human being q
look with dislike upon an occupation
she will probably he engaged in all
her life At this day, with the excep'
ton of the immensely rich. ans
woman who has n well. cared for
: home and family must take some par,
in the labor involved; 10 the excep'
ton, this paper has no possible ref
, ercnce.
, And this brings us TO consider that
portion Of our girls who will not
, marry Under our rapidly chansine
{ economic conditions, more and more
, women are preferring TO remain sin
| Gle, at least during their early youth
$ They seem more and more TO share
2 the opinion Of that bright girl who
y said. Marriage is like going Il
, Heaven-to he Indefinitely postpon
!. ed" There women are not often con
T tent 10 remain In their childhoo,
hntna, x,sfthnus anx n,aunotfnp .Nat