The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-03-27
HOME CIRCLE COLUMN.
A SCORE CARD FOR MOTHER

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scarum renegade instead of a human be.
ing, let me advise you to call this girl in
and have her assist you in filling out a
score card to determine your rank as a
mother of such daughter. Perhaps
this will help you to be more patient
with her and it might suggest ways
whereby you might improve your re
cord. Have her help you as follows
/. Taking proper care of your own
health.
,. Status as home companion and
guide for the children.
3. Attitude toward the school, the
church, and the community.
4. Reasonableness in matters oil
dress and personal appearance.
5. Patience in dealing with the
daughters peculiar desires and tastes.
g. Motherly guidance in the perfor.
nance of house work.
7. Informing the daughter as to the
secrets of life.
s. Home instruction in regard to
thrift and frugality.
8. Attitude toward daughters flu
ture marriage aud motherhood.
10. Womarly disposition toward So
ciety and the nation.
The idea of the first point is to en-
phasize the fact that the care of per-
sonal health is flndamen al for mother
hood. A sick mother is scarcely ever
fair and just in her treatment of the
young daughter.
Point two is intended to emphasize
the need of furnishing home entertain
ment and sociability.
Number three indicates the need of
connecting the home training with
that of the great institutions co-ordi-
nate with the home.
Some mothers dress too shabbily,
others too gaudliy to be helpful guides
and companions 10 their daughters
Every growing girl has a right to
her own peculiar fads and faucles, her
pastimes and her avocations. Not every
mother recognizes this right.
Some mothers hold their girls over
much upon the hundrum of house work
and make them sick of it all. Others
cheat and spoil their daughters by
teaching them none Of it. Every girl
has the right to be taught how to par.
form all the common duties of house.
keeping.
Mothers should impart to then
daughters the simple elements OF per
sonal hygiene and should tell enough
about the origin of life to satisfy cur.
iosity.
The best home instruction as TO thrift
and frugaiity for the daughter is that
given by means Of precept illustrated
by concrete example in the manage
ment of the family budget. The house
keepers of America spend many mill
ions of dollars per day. They neec
much early instruction in order tC
become able to handle these vast sums
economically. Score closely here.
The welfare of the nation depends
upon the integrity OF the common
family, aud this in turn is very closely
related to the com patibility Of the mar
and wife, The mother who is not pre-,
pared to teach her growing daughter
how to know a good, manageable mar
is lacking in her maternal equipment
OF course, much of this training il
given in various indirect ways, and i.
to extend through the so called teer
years of the girls life.
To mothers largely is due the for
nation of their children's character
If she is vain and frivolous, wanting in
those strong qualities at heart and
head, the children will likewise imbibe
much of her nature; but so much ha.
been written on a mothes'r great in
iuence over her children that there il
but one little thought left to be said
To the toiling and careworn mothers
all over the land our heart goes out i.
deepest sympathy and | would sal
where you have good comfortable home.
consider yourselves happy and hole
yourselves up with as much dignity al
the queens Of the earth, for who has a
fairer right to the good things OF eartt
than you?-Dr. w. A. McKeever
University of Kansas.