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Daughters Start Trouble
Are Baltimore county mothers, like those of elsewhere, the real enemies of their children?
This question seems self-answered. Any mother who carries her sons breakfast up two nights of stairs and gives him a motorcar when he is 15, may be a loving mother—but her real love is for herself.
All mothers do not go so far as the breakfast trays and motor-pars. But the world is full of
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mothers who are their children's worst enemies, after all.
A very young woman, touched —as so many of them are in college years—with a half-baked; skepticism, an ignorant atheism, and a general inclination to quote wrongly phrases about sacred things that were obviously beyond her comprehension, said glibly one day to a group of older persons, that undoubtedly there was a lot of "rubbish" in the New Testament.
"Well, not rubbish," she emended it generously, "but things that aren't true. Aren't) true nowadays, anyway. Now you take that part about love fulfilling the law, love being all the law and all the prophets—do you believe that?"
Sombeody put an affirmative, and the collegian went on talking.
"Well, I think that's nonsense," she said with spirit.
"Take my two cousins. One of them had a-mother who didn't give a rap for him, slapped him into a boarding school when he was only 7 years old, went off with his father to China and didn't even see him for years.
"And he turned out to be a fine man. And the other cousin had a mother who idolized him, devoted her life to him, gave him a motorcar when he was 15, used to carry his breakfast up two flights of stairs every morning. And he drank and gambled and treated her terribly. He broke her heart. How about love there?"
Such a mother knows the world. She knows—or ought to
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know—something of the temptations and pitfalls that are ahead of the boy. She knows that he will need every bit of courage, character, moral and mental, and physical armor he can muster to get successfully through the fray.
And she deliberately disarms him, weakens him, softens and blinds him.
Mothers fear the future for the children. They fear poverty, dislike, mistakes, sins, weaknesses, the soil and the grime.
Yet nothing the future can possibly bring is so dangerous to the growing souls and bodies as just exactly what mothed is doing for them today and tomorrow.
From the time they are six months old she cannot say "no" to her children.. She will lie to their father, steal from the rent, wear out her own strength in a passionate desire to—harm them. What no red Indian can do today, what there are no lurking tigers or fabulous dragons left to do, she will deliberately do. With her own hands she will pull down their honest impulses, ruin their sense of proportion, weed out any impulses toward unselfishness or bravery, weaken them with compromises and sometimes ruin them..
They are not always ruined, of course. Their companions, their neighbors, their school teachers and sometimes even a budding sense of duty in themselves go far to save them. But the effects of their mother's spoiling is with them all their lives none the less.
Mothers, these mothers at least, are selfish. They want still to be everything in the world to the adored babies whose whole world they were a few years ago.
If dad says "no," and the little daughter begins to cry, mother secretly determines that somehow —anyhow !—the forbidden pleasure shall be brought about. Tf the doctor has said no sweets for Tommy until that little kidney trouble clears up, mother slips a cookie into his hand with a sweet, mysterious smile. She and her boy understand each other. He knows his mummy is always on his side!
And at the time she is more than rewarded when the little girl strangles her with a grateful embrace, and when Tommy says boyishly, "Oh, gee, thanks, Mum!''
But 10 years later when little daughter wants somebody else's husband, and takes him, and when Tommy—in the very prime of his youth, goes into alcoholic consumption, everybody in town censures the young persons for their moral and physical indulgences, and sympathizes with that
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"wonderful, devoted mother of theirs, who has simply given her life to those children!''
We are all what our mothers make us. The stenographer who is always late, always pale and languid and pimple'-skinned may not know it. But it is mother's fault.
Mother let her sleep morning after morning. Mother let her whimper and fuss her way out oC the dose of castor oil, sent an excuse every few days to school, explaining why Ruth could not get there on time.
The small boy who refuses to let any other child touch his toys may be only a small problem, while he is -six and eight. "He's terrible," his mother says, helpless. "I have to get the girls entirely separate sets of toys. Nobody can touch his own things but his lordship! 'However," she adds,, resignedly, secretaly pleased, "they're all growing up so fast that in a few years it won't matter."
And so the boy goes into high school, and into college, and on into an unhappy marriage, never having learned to share. He never has the joy of giving. His mother settled all that before he was 10.
No, things to him mean just one word—"Mine." Why should he give his sister the old car when he buys the new? He can use two cars. Why should Mary have any of the family furniture when mother die..^v He can store it, if he can't use it. He may
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