The Washington herald., 1912-03-31
GREAT CHANGE IN
MOTHERHOOD IDEALS
The 0ld-fashioned Mother No
Longer Exists.
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Nellie B. Van SIingerland has organ
lied very interesting club with the fol-
lowing objects:
Antitrust and germ determination,
methods, inventions.
Anti-insanity. prevention, restoration,
and better laws.
AUTHORIZATIONS diseases methods.
Anti-court case delays. laws enforced.
Anti-smoke methods, inventions.
Anti-death penalty.
Anti-marriage laws, for detectives.
Marriages of the healthy to be encour-
aged by laws and otherwise.
Educating the young to avoid pitfalls.
Educating the young TO prevent diseases.
Educating the young and mature to
solve the sex problem.
Board of health laws. to uphold and
enforce
Pure morals. pure blood.
Pure food, pure drugs.
Heredity.
Inebriates, detectives, criminals, pre-
yention, restoration, &c.
Longevity taught
Cooperation, arbitratio encouraged.
Women Fitted for the Work.
The work undertaken py these good
women is colossal. but it is work emf
nently fitted for women to do.
Too many centuries have gone by in
which women believed their work con-
sisted in marrying and no questions
asked regarding the moral nature and
physical fitness OF the men they married
to become husbands and fathers. and in
bearing children and leaving the educa-
ton of these children entirely to schools.
Not one mother in one Thousand ever
considered it her duty to talk to her boys
and girls regarding The emotional phases
of life, or to prepare them for an under
standing of the work. before they were
thrown into the maelstrom.
Ignorance was misnamed innocence ano
sorrow, sin, invalidism and lifelong trag-
edies have resulted from these mistaken
methods of the old-fashioned mother.
There is just as great a difference be-
tween the old-fashioned type of mother
and the mother who has now come upon
the scene, with her mothers clubs. as
there is between the old-fashioned
broom and the vacuum cleaner.
One raised a terrible dust with much
everybody in the house with flying
germs.
The other takes the dust away with
out allowing it a chance to do anything
or anybody harm.
And with one-tenth the labor
GIorIed in Large Families.
The old fashioned mother prided her
self upon her skill in making with her
own hands the most appetizing and in
digestible condiments and creating a
family Of dyspeptics with her loving la
Dor.
The moment one of the children was
ailing she proceeded to stuff it with more
food, and she believed a good, hearty
appetite a sign of health.
The modern mother studies the chem
ical value of food and knows that no
one ever took cold save from an over
loaded or wrongly loaded stomach. And
she proceeds to teach her children TO
fast when they are i'll, and to avoid
Overeating always.
The old-fashioned mother gloried in a
big family
If one was halt. another blind, another
deaf, another afflicted with spinal trou-
BILE, she called il the will of God
The old-fashioned mother believed all
disease the will of Cod
Result of Breaking Gods Laws.
The modern mother knows 1t to be the
result of breaking Gods laws. And she
busies herself in studying ways and
means TO educate men and women to I'M
derstand the laws of health and TO live
accordingly.
II will require several generations be-
fore the best results will he observable
from ., efforts of these new women. 8"
But these efforts will bring results.
Great, glorious, and wonderful results.
Let every man and woman who has
time and heart to give to il take an in
terest in this new league.
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