Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-17
Obe
Home Maker
EDITED BY
ALICE +. TALCOTT.
Mothers Talk vs.. Mothers Cooking.

remember mothers talks as long as
we do mothers pies.
All, but we do! The thing that
We remember longest on earth, that
makes us what we are, that is part
and parcel of what we call charac-
ter, is the memory of what mother
said to us.
In the great crises of life we don't
stop to reason. We act on impulse,
and the thing that decides us is not
the wisdom, nor the learning, nor
the philosophy that we have ac-
quired in our maturer years. 1t is
the principles that have been bred
in us, the ideals that have been
grounded in us in our childhood
1t is the memory of some talk we
have had with our mothers in SOL
emy twilight; it is the memory of
old songs sung above us in our era
die; of whispered prayers by our
bedside; of tales CT high and heroic
daring that have been our mothers
bedsire stories that give us the
courage and the strength to stand
up and do a mans or a womans
part in the world
Or else it is the memory of a
mothers whining and complaints;
of the false standards she inculcated
in us; of her envy and greed and
selfishness that makes us weaklings
in our hour of temptation, so that
we choose the easiest way.
Just as our mothers pies give us
physical nourishment or dyspepsia,
so our mothers talks give us the
big, broad, sane outlook on life, or
leaves us poor, bilious, jaundiced,
disgruntled creatures Many a
child's stomach is ruined by its
mothers cooking, Many child's
morals are wrecked by its mothers
conversation.
The Importance of talk that
child has with its mother is some
thing that cannot be overestimated,
and the pity of it is that mothers
do not realize this and that they do
not take the time and the trouble to
have more real heart-to-heart talks
with their little ones and to keep the
conversation of the home at a high
level.
Scientists tell rs that up to the
age of ten 80 per cent of the i'm
pressions that are made on child's
mind are permanent ones. Practi-
cally everything that little Johnnie
and little Susie, playing about your
knee, are hearing they will carry
through life with them. They are
human phnographs that will go re-
peating your ideas, your thoughts,
your sentiments for the next forty
or fifty years How vital then that
they shall hear only the things worth
while!
Yet the woman who considers it
almost a religious duty to properly
sterilize the childIen's milk bottles
never bothers to sterilize her con-
versation. Nothing would induce
her to feed her little ones on un-
clean food, swarming with bacteria
but she doesn't hesitate to let their
eager, hungry little minds gorge
themselves on putrid gossip that is
alive with suggestions that will poi
son their souls.
Mothers handy about lying OLD
proverb that says that what goes
in at one ear of child comes ou'
at the other" But this is not true
What goes in at child's ears lodges
there and terminates and at las
flowers into action. good or bad
AS a very small example of thi
take merely child's grammar, Al
children that are decently dressed
look very much alike. You couldh'
hazard a guess from the appearance
of dozen little Buster Brown boy
or Peter Thompson girls if you me
them away from their parents as t
what sort of people they came from
But talk to them. and in two min
utes you have the family pedigre'
You know whether they belong
educated and cultivated families c
to ignorant ones you know eve
the family's outlook on life. I'll
child's grammar, his choice of wore
and phrases, his attitude toward ii
other children, whether he is env
Gus or snobbish o. gentle and cou
teous and considerate. tell you abs
lutely what sort OF mother he hi
and the kind of conversation he
in the habit of hearing at home.
If a little girl never hears h
mother talk of anything but cloth
and fashion and social climbing, CT
you wonder that she grows up
think that those things are the me
important things in the world a
the objects most to be striven 10
If little girl hears her moth
and father continually QUARREL
and hurting hideous recriminatio