Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-27

The old fashioned good mothars
in New England brought IN a Who'll.
race of dyspeptics by her New
England food-preserves and MES
and cakes, and pickles, and fried
things galore. And when thew suf.
fered from indigestion. rheumatism
and lung complaint" she told
them it was the will of God"
They Would Have Profted
1t would have been far better for
the descendants of these good
mothers If some scientifically or.
ganized society had taken the chill.
dren into its care for proper feed.
ing.
over in France recently the wise
law took child away from the
guiding hand" of q mother who
was living such an immoral life
that she was declared unfit to have
the care of her child.
Can American woman. tooD
This was an extreme case but
there are thousands of mothers
who are unfit to guide their chill
dren, because they are either SCI
fish, hysterical, ill-tempered dis
orderly, extravagant or ignorant
of the common laws of hygiene and
health.
Loving mothers" allow their
children to sit with stopped shou-
ders and caved-in chests to study,
or sew, or read; and so to con-
tract not only ungraceful habits
but weak lungs and a curved back.
Only one mother is recalled by
the writer who was so unusual
that she insisted upon her little
girl carrying her book above
cane, held horizontally across her
shoulders, in order to produce an
erect carriage result which
made the chief charm Of the young
woman later in life.
The girl stated that after few
weeks of studying in this way an
incorrect position of her chest and
shoulders became impossible TO her
Any mother could teach this sim
pie aid to health; but how many
do?
Should Care for Own Garments,
Rarely does one meet a boy or
girl of fifteen who breathes cor
rectly. Mothers should begin as
soon as the child can understand
to explain the necessity to breathe
through the nostrils, with closed
mouth. And to use ALL the lung
cells.
But how many mothers do?
Every child should be taught TO
fold it's garments when disroblng
at night, and to place the morn
ing clothes on chair neatly
ready for donning; this is the
foundation Of order.
But few children are so taught
The day nurseries where the cnh'
dren are kept during the mothers
absence are far better schools /"
order and good manners than lh7
homes. Yet no mother is so poor
she could not give her child tn'
first simple lesson.
They love their children anu
want them to be successful ME"
and women; but they do not kno"
how to train them.
Good mothers talk gossip hetoIF
their children, and speak OF wv
misdeeds of neighbors, who after
ward call, and the children are ire
quently puzzled to understand No.
the mother can be so cordial ana
welcome the people so Warln'
whose faults have been so crl"'
cised. T.,
This is an unconscious lesson 'u
hypocrisy and deceit when "''
been given the child.
List of Failing Parents Long
The list of the failing of parents
mothers especially, to proP7.'
guide children would fill volume
Anything which science can w.
and progress further, in the way
taking charge Of children, ana pr,
tecting them from the wrong Iue'"
cd of their mothers, will he a p'7s'
ing to humanity -,r
1t is far better to be a stIo"+
machine made" human being '.
one who is handbasted ana new
sewed and who comes to pieces
the first strain.
That is what happens 10 D'''
home made children.