Our Women and Children
Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards.
MOTHERHOOD
What does the word “motherhood”
mean to the average person? What
is the underlying idea of the concept ?
Dees the son, grown to manhood, as
• sociate the idea of perfect mother
hood with something tender and beau
til'ul in his own experience; or does
he have an ideal of motherhood as
remote as possible from that experi
ence? Does he want his wife to be
like his mother and to bring up his
children as he was brought up, or is it
the other way round? When a man
regards his mother as an example to
be avoided rather than as an exem
plar to be followed, then something
has been wrong with his rearing. Some
one has failed in the business of be
ing a mother, and some one else has
had to suffer the consequences of the
failure.
Why do so many mothers fail ? Is
it not because they lack imagination?
Because they cannot see the effect
of their training on their childrn’s
later life? They have fixed rules to
fit present circumstances. Their dis
cipline is for today; none of it has
reference to the future. If mothers
had a little more vision, they would
not try to govern their children to
suit parental convenience, but they
would let the youngsters be them
selves. A mother should be able to
see the man in the child, as the gar
dener sees the bush with its blos
soms in the tiny sprout; and she
should care for her children as he
cares for his plants,—not trying to
twist them into unnatural shapes, but
providing the proper conditions for
them to develop according to their na
ture.
a cnim wno is rearea according u>
an inflexible rule does not develop
that elasticity of mind which enables
him to adjust himself to changing
conditions, to develop the power to
think independently anci wisely. Le
gality is one thing; morality is some
thing altogether different. You can
force a man to obey the law by stand
ing over him continually with a club.
] tut we can’t have a policeman for
every citizen. Morality is obedience
to law, not through outward compul
sion, but through inward conviction.
Only he who complies with the law
through choice can be called moral.
A child may be forced to obey a per
son in authority, but his compliance
with a law of his elders does not
necesarily improve his morals or de
velop his character. Not infrequently
it has just the opposite effect. Fortu
nately sometimes, the expanding life
within the child proves stronger than
any external force. It is like the
growing oak tree that cleaves the
•stone.
Help your child to develop judg
ment rather than compel him to obey
arbitrary rules. The arbitrary formu
las of conduct you manufacture for
him today may not help him in the
least in his later relationships. When
your son grows to maturity he will
not be surrounded with the same con
ditions that made up the environment
of his childhood. He will perhaps go
to new places and come in contact
with new people. Even if he does not
leave his native town, he will have to
face new conditions; for his town
will change with the times. His city
will not harbor the same ideas that
prevailed in his youth. Men will
think differently, and he will have to
keep up with the procession. Are'
you preparing him to meet the tests
of life that will come to him when he
is a man ? Are you preparing your
daughter to be a better mother than
you are?—Mother’s Magazine.
VACATION AND DETERIORATION
Thoughtful educationists are rap
idly coming to believe that the aver
age American school child gets too
many days of vacation, and more es
pecially that the summer vacation is
detrimental to him mentally. Un
happily, there are altogether too many
cases in which not only the intellect
but the general character of the boy
or girl suffers during the long vaca
tion.
Habits of industry, punctuality, and
self-control, which the school con
stantly teaches, are likely to be weak
ened under the happy-go-lucky plan
of living which so many families fol
low in summer. It is well to have
some fixed rules, therefore, even in
vacation time. Every boy or girl
shov'd have daily duties to | erform.
in order to keep up the industry habit.
The boy or girl whose whole vaca
tion is given to play, without a
thought but for pleasure, is likely to
deteriorate during vacation.—Mother's
Magazine.
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BLACK TERN
(Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis)
Length, ten inches. In autumn oc
curs as a migrant on the east coast
of the United States, and then is in
white and gray plumage. During the
breeding season it is confined to the
interior, is chiefly black, and is the
only dark tern occurring inland.
Range: Breeds from California,
Colorado, Missouri, and Ohio, north
to central Canada; winters from Mex
ico to South America; migrant in the
eastern United States.
Habits and economic status: This
tern, unlike most of its relatives,
passes much of its life on fresh water
lakes and marshes of the interior. Its
nests are placed among the tules and
weeds, on floating vegetation, or on
muskrat houses. It lays from two to
four eggs. Its food is more varied
than that of any other tern. So far as
known it preys upon no food fishes,
but feeds extensively upon such ene
mies of fish as dragonfly nymphs,
fish-eating beetles, and crawfishes.
Unlike most of its family, it devours
a great variety of insects, many of
which it catches as it flies. Dragon
flies, May flies, grasshoppers, predace
ous diving beetles, scarabaeid beetles,
leaf beetles, gnats, and other flies are
the principal kinds preyed upon.
Kishes of little economic value, chiefly
minnows and mummichogs, were found
to compose only a little more than 19
per cent of the contents of 145 stom
achs. The great consumption of in
sects by the black tern places it among
the beneficial species worthy of pro
tection.
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