THE MOTHER'S HOUR.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 734, 5 February 1910, Page 11

THE MOTHER'S HOUR.

..-:The:raischief of a mother:getting tired (says: the/'Lady's Home Journal") 18 that it .affects the children., There; was-.once an ■ ecceiitrio .but ■ wise schoolmaster -.who, his pupils, misbehaved; rranished himself.- .'He was the'orie.-.to blame, he said."::-That "holds-'true'in'all ■ dealings iwitli-human nature. We.must :be.a± our eerenest.:. and\ oheerfulest. ; , : if ' we: are- 'to .transact that.sort .of business, well.-.' The nervousimotner'.'makes tb*,.ohildt6n;.net-' ; alwajß. v niaki

.the most hbise/Tlhen'she'has a headache.' ; They, do riot understand why they axe so ,uncpnirnonly-bad, - and.;.she- thinks.-that, they.. ate,possessed' with .devils.. ;But the. .reason: iis;,that she .'has. poisoned-...the domestic, atmosphere'and; they breathe it., •Under/.these.'hard/conditions the poorer ' ; .mothere:.take/to v -rum,and '..the: .richer employ 1 ai'night.nurse as well,as ■a.da'y nurse.:.' But the mothers whose circumstahces';.are ■).■; middle : sized j 'who. are ineither/rich nor poor, are at.a.loss. . ■ ; : Now-.a .lot'pf poetry is ..written about. ■ .the'''Children's Hour,", buttho: number l . ,bf the.; children's- hour ■■in-.- many families is twenty-four.;.'lt. lasts, all" day: and. all night/;,. What is,needed in the midst'of. : this 'importunaie':':deniand, is., a -/.'Mother's ■'{ -jjiij'/l. -six'O 'M*.u(»;u f :ii:iiiutcs i '; ,<icor ', sh ; ut"and;locked; children outside.in care : of ysbmebody/v'elso/; or- ■, 0f,:,/each/ ;'o.ther; mother inaccessible except, in' case of fire .or-broken limbs.-;' Then - the weary mother: collects her'scattered' wits, : mends. her . frayed', nerves, "readsl ."a book; takes'a nap,' '. '.oiv site':.srill; and does: nOTaiiii?—like, the , ■ winter".'life. of■'■;the-.Maine .farmer, :who. saidi'^SornctimeVwe/setand'think, and, ;-Bometiihes ,we ; just'set!'-'/ At/ the, end.;, of;,.' ;the.hqur therej enters a new .mother, ..with .hew patience, new/ uriderstanding,/-and a ~ new'smile.. •Yes,; ! the-hour is .hard, to . manage; how can the.family,get onf But : it"is "worth'-while./;;...::■:, '//!-;.'/// /.