LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 16, 18 April 1907, Page 37

LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER

A • home is what a mother -niatak" it (says ti>e.London * Catholic Weekly'). A daughter, is, in nine " cases out of every ten, 4 the reflection of her mother. The training of the girl of fifteen is shown in the woma,ii 01 fifty. A son may, by contact with a rough world, - sometimes outlive his early home influences ; a'daughter -rarely does. A mother's word, a domestic proverb, told at eventide bythe quiet fireside, has -been recalled 1 by many a woman years . after it was uttered. ' i thank God that my mother told me what other women have •been taught by the world,' is a beautiful- tribute to the influence of a mother. The world has a sharp way of teaching its truths to a girl. Is it not far bettersthen, that her mother should tell her with -that sweet and sympathetic grace and gentleness which only a mother knows ? Let the world build upon your foundation, but do you lay the ground story. Any builder will tell you that the whole strength of "a house depends upon- its foundation. The -flowers most beautiful to the .eye and sweetest to the smell grow tin good soil. The world's noblest women have sprung from{ood