The farmer and mechanic., 1915-06-01
LOVE BEGETS LOVE.
Susanna COcrOft In Washington
Herald, on how to Be Healthy.

love a person, just start in by dong
something for that person and love
will come.
We speak Of maternal love as if
it were something apart and different
from any other form Of love, born
with the child and peculiar to the
physical mother. Maternal love is
largely service, the quick response Of
the mother to the child's need Of her.
Adopted children are often fondly
loved and stepmothers, contrary to
the general opinion, are generally de-
voted to the children in their charge,
especially if they come to them while
young and dependent on their care.
A child is often more fond Of it's
nurse than of it's mother because it
has known the close bond Of COM
| panionship.
Washing grubby little hands and
| feeding hungry little stOmachS and
putting tired little bodies to bed is
| hcmely service. but no woman can
perform it without loving the little
! hands and the tired little bodies.
| Nursemaids are careless, largely
| through ignorance and lack of edu-
| cation-rarely SO through lack Of af-
! fection for their charges. We see
them talking to the park policeman
while baby investigates the nutritive
| quality of dirt, but we see them also
!
| or giving up a rare holiday because
the children have some need.
| l think most mothers honestly ad-
5, nit that there is more than wages due
| this class Of service.
| I have in mind a cantankerOus,
| elderly member Of a friends family
| who has always seemed an annoy
| arce and disturbing element to every
| member Of it. Recently it was dis
| covered nor OplV that the woman WA :
| threatened with a serious illness, but
| that her income was very much cur
| tailed. AS a matter of duty the
| family got together and arranged to
provide the money and the comforts
that the old lady needed. The result
was that they all commenced to grow
very fond Of her and the peculiarities
that had once annoyed them began to
appear as harmless idiosyncrasies.
From trying to get rid Of the old lady
and throwing the burden of her oc-
CasiOnal entertaining from one to the
other, different members of the
family commenced to take an inter-
est in her affairs and to vie with each
other in setting them for her.
Possibly a part of this curious
change Of feeling was due to desire
to play fair. Poverty and depend
ence in old age are sad, and people
who have learned the secret Of right
giving know that a gift to be accept
able must be given with love and
pleasure in the giving.
But it all comes back TO the same
sources you will grow to care fol
those you serve.
It is love for humanity that makes
much social WORK that would other.
| wise seem intolerable bearable. II
mind is gifted young woman of {
family rich and socially prominen
who, in one Of our slum neighbor-
s. | hoods, has estab blished a kindergarter
which she not only supports. but per
scnally runs. Her instructive mothe
heart loves all these little children
all of them poorly dressed when the,
come to her in the morning. many O.
them dirty, some diseased, man,
Of them unlovely in person and char
acter But she sees nothing but love
do for them the more she loves them
Nothing would persuade her to Civ
up her personal share in this work
Working in the same city is anoth
er young girl. refined. beautiful,
trained nurse of unusual attainments
She has chosen for her field of labo
that Of visiting nurse for tubercula
patients in the districts occupied b
the poorest and least intelligent O
our immigrant class. The woman
who knows nothing Of such condition
cannot imagine the squalor, filth an
conditions Of disease she meets an
.ries to help-not in clean, sanitar
hospital wards, but II these dark, i'll
smelling ,often dangerous homes G
the afflicted people. The pay is nc
much, half Of what she would gai
IN private practice, but she loves he
work and her poor unfortunate pa
tients.
But they like to do things fo
people; frankly I don't" some on
says.
How do you know? Just try it fc
a while. If you have in your HON
OF environment some one who "rut
you the wrong way" your thought {
that person is a menace to vo,
I'd. health Notice I say your thought {