This poor little creature is never
permitted to ./lay with other' little
boys for fear he may acquire dude
ways, or learn something he shouldn’t
know. He is made to practice on the
piano for hours every day, and is
tutored within aij inch of ..is life.
The result is that he is a pale,
aenemic little fellow, the but of all
the other children, who call out to
him as they pass. •’Baby, darling,
isn’t it time for you to have your
bottle?” or “Sweeticums, come go to
bye-bye land.”
There's a society that takes chil
dren away from cruel mothers. Dot’s
organize one to rescue the unhappy
victims who are being mothered to
death.
A LOOKER OX AT IOTHERHOOD.
Answer: It takes a wise woman to
know where to draw a line between
being tender enough to children, and
careful enough of then-' and not too
tender or too careful of them. And
strangely enough, if one must err, it
is better to be’on th hard side than
the s.Jt side. For life > battle all
the way through and the victory
goes to those who can hit the Hard
est and fight the longest. It is won
not by the weakling and those win.
have been brought up on silk cushions
and protected from every rough con
tact with the world.
Certainly the crudest mother who
beats and bangs her children about
does them no such injustice as does
the mother who raises up a si#j.sy
boy, for she gives him a handicap
against which he struggles in vain.
