“MANKIND IN MAKING.”

White Ribbon, Volume 8, Issue 96, 1 May 1903, Page 8

“MANKIND IN MAKING.”

To the Editor.

Dear Madam, Your article on “ Mankind in Making ” contains an assertion that English sons now treat their mothers as imbeciles.

I am only a temporary visitor in the colony, and cannot speak for colonial sons ; but I do take up the defence of English sons, and I assert that one of the strongest points in English manly character is that of deep affection, reverence, and respect for the mother. Possibly the writer in your paper regards a mother as t>eing treated as imbecile when her adult son—strong in brain and body—treats her as requiring tenderness and care, and strives to relieve her of the stress and responsibility of life's burdens by taking or sharing them himself.

I speak of adult sons, not of mere boys, who are irresponsible and featherbrained, and who, in the whirl of juvenile delusions, and in their inability to see life as it really is, are often scarcely responsible heings, and blind to the value of many r 4 the chief things in life—to the self-sacrifice and love of the mother amongst them. I am, etc., An English Son. L The subject is briefly dealt with in our leading columns. Ed. White Ribbon.]