Evening star., 1941-03-04
Children Are
Proud of
Mother
Her Perfection Is
Outstanding in
Their Rating
By A neel0 Pafri

Mother stands for everything
precious in a child's life. She is
home, protection, friend, the dis
perser of every good thing, and he
looks to her with unshakable faith
and undying love. If he is hungry,
tired, failing, lonely, i'll he turns to
his mother, secure in her power to
heal his distress, and she does.
No trouble is too heavy, no diff
Guilty too thick, no threat too awful
for her to face and subdue in the
service of her child. Strength and
endurance beyond the ordinary hui
man reach comes to her when her
child is threatened and she works
miracles in his defense, pulling him
out of seemingly hopeless grief and
starting him out once more to learn
his way and do his duty.
Doctors and nurses do their best,
teachers work with might and main,
the whole force of society may be
harnessed in the service of a
stricken or backward child, but it
Is mother, her love and understand
ing and spirit that brings forth his
whole energy until he feels his
mothers strength, her will, her
boundless love lifting him in ON
nipotent arms to bear him safely
through. Then he will put forth
his effort and win his own life.
There is no understanding of this
tie between mothers and children.
1t is there and it holds while life
lasts, and afterward, as long as one
Is left on earth. One of its ex-
presSions is the child's unbounded
pride in his mother. She is the most
beautiful, the most powerful, the
best of all the mothers on earth,
and nobody can shout him down in
her defense. She is first, be 1t
cookies, clothes or contours.
Busy mothers sometimes overlook
this and are not careful to keep up
to the children's standards. They
don't select their dresses with the
nice eye they once used, and there
Is 50 much to be done they are not
so particular about hair-dos and
manicures. There doesn't seem to
be time to see the latest movie, read
the new book, visit the shops to note
the latest in table setting and house
decoration and they fall a little
behind, which is natural enough.
Children who are fast growing into
young men and women need so much
and mother gladly goes without SO
that they may have what they wish.
But this does not really satisfy the
children because what they want
most is the prettiest, the best-look-
ing, most attractive mother in town
They want to be proud of her, be-
fore the other children.
When the children are little they
see only the comfort mother is and
give no thought to anything else
about her. But as they grow older
they see her beside other women
and they are uneasy if she does not
measure up. They can't say much,
they are loyal, but they do wish
mother would spruce up bit.
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do this as the children get little
older, and the effort she puts into
keeping herself flt, well groomed
up to at least the day If not the
minute, will be repaid a hundred
fold by the affectionate pride of her
children and husband. They will
love her no matter how she looks
or what she wears, but they will add
pride to affection If she stands up
well through the years and counts
as a regular person to the end OF
the chapter.
MIR. Patri has prepared leafiet
entitled Helpful Habits" in
which he tells parents how to
set and maintain good habits.
Send for 1t, addressing your re-
quest to MIR. Angelo Patri, care
of this paper. Enclose a self-ad-
dressed, stamped (3-cent) en-
velope.