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The Mother's Morning Delight: "It is the mother's pleasure in the morning to give the baby its bath. The child, while it is taken from its crib by the sunny window and made ready for the bath, plays in its mother's arms."

Identifier: womaningirlhoodw00soli (find matches)
Title: ... Woman in girlhood, wifehood, motherhood; her responsibilities and her duties at all periods of life; a guide in the maintenance of her health and that of her children
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Solis-Cohen, Myer
Subjects: Women Child care
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The J.C. Winston co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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es, and yet what true mother would barter herexperience of joy and sorrow in exchange for a life of coldselfishness, which insists upon perpetual amusement and theavoidance of care, and which often finds its fit dwelling placein some flat designed to furnish with the least possible ex-penditure of effort the maximum of comfort and of luxury,but in which there is literally no place for children? Respect Due a Good Wife and Mother.—The womanwho is a good wife, a good mother, is entitled to our respectas is no one else; but she is entitled to it only because, and solong as, she is worthy of it. Effort and self-sacrifice are thelaw of worthy life for the man as for the woman, thoughneither the effort nor the self-sacrifice may be the same forthe one as for the other.... The Woman who Merits Contempt.—There are manygood people who are denied the supreme blessing of chil-dren, and for these we have the respect and sympathy al-ways due to those who, from no fault of their own, are denied
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THE MOTHERS MORNING DELIGHT. It is the mothers pleasure in the morning to give the baby itsbath. The child, while it is taken from its crib by the sunny windowand made ready for the bath, plays in its mother s arms. HAPPINESS IN MABRIED LIFE 149 any of the other great blessings of life. But the man orwoman who deliberately foregoes these blessings, whetherfrom viciousness, coldness, shallow-heartedness, self-indul-gence or mere failure to appreciate aright the differencebetween the all-important and the unimportant—why, sucha creature merits contempt as hearty as any visited upon thesoldier who runs away in battle, or upon the man who re-fuses to work for the support of those dependent upon him,and who, though able-bodied, is yet content to eat in idle-ness the bread which others provide. The existence of women of this type forms one ofthe most unpleasant and unwholesome features of modernlife.... The Mother Blessed.—The man is but a poorcreature whose effort is not rather for the

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