Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-23
A CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL FOR MOTHER

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A CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL FOR MOTHER
The latest suggestion from Iowa CITY
is a correspondence school for Iowa
mothers. This in connection with the
child welfare research plan which re-
Gently failed to get by the legislature.
Just what the plan is except that
the course would be established in con-
nection with the state university ana
be more especially devoted to the sci
euce of baby raising is not indicated.
However it will be hailed by the av-
erage mother as tidings Of great Joy.
The ordinary, every day mothers OF
this state are simply crazy for cor
lrespondence school.
Little Mrs. Jones who is doing her
own work and whose two children
came in the first two years is dying
to take the course after the supper
dishes are washed And Mrs. Brown
who has managed a menagerie OF -FOUR
BOYS until the oldest one is ready for
high school would enjoy marking her
papers and sending them back TO De
credited by d maiden lady al the cor
respondence school almost as much as
she would movie snow. But the real
educative Joy would thrill the breast
of Mrs. Stokes who never had any
children and never meant to but VINO
knows exactly how the other woman
children should be raised. Shed revel
in it.
The average Iowa mother would pay
a bout as much attention to CORE
spondence school course on mothering
as the average newspaper man PAID TO
that s. L. l. chair Of journalism once
the pride and profit of professor
who shall be nameless here. The aver
age Iowa mother goes direct TO the soil
for her information. She runs over
home to see mother She dashes across
the street TO ask the advice and in
emergency the aid of Mrs. Soandso
who has raised family OF seven With
out a hitch. skip or break and landed
every one of them winners. II she de-
sires scientific information size takes a
mothers magazine and makes the Kids
uncomfortable trying to live up to 1t.
There's a lot of things Iowa mothers
ought 10 know about baby raising. One
of them is that we need lot more
babies in Iowa But she isn't going
TO take a correspondence school course
10 find them out. She's going to de-
pend largely on other and older women
for the information she needs. She
doesn't realize that she should be an
expert on Group until she wakes up
some night to hear little Tommy
wheeling like jitneE bus and then in
stead of wiring a correspondence
! school she telephones for the doctor
and chases across the alley in hel
robe de mutt for Mrs. Thompson VINO
with remedies ancient and effective has
the kid breathing sIeetly before the
dactor arrives. After that she gets
iup when the young ones have crouI
and packs them with a cold applica
or whatever treatment the necessitie!
and symptoms Of the case indicate
After a few experiences she has tn
situation well in hand and her kids
thrive and grow tall and have children
of their own and she runs across thu
alley to the young mother with bottle
ence and bosses the job. And Their
you are.
OF course there are lots Of things
mothers ought to know that they don't
but if you recall mother seemed t
know what she was about pretty vel
when it came down to an emergency
on affairs from sunburn after seyera
hours Of swimming to the time tn
baby swallowed the pin. Somehow sh
seemed to have about as much SAT
and sane knowledge and executiv
ability as any one you ever knew
didn't she? And in the long run tn
tea and the turpentine and lard on
circular section Of brown paper an
the general list of mothers remedte
from a stubbed toe to the time W
tipped the churn over seemed to reac
the proper spots, didn't they?
! Say, b'jinks, can you imagine mothe
taking course in kid management Q
a correspondence school?