Show why women should read bead laying aside the thought of our own rest and comfort let us look a little higher for the children childrens a sake we must mare make ma ke the most of our setles many mans an unselfish mother has said goh oh I 1 cannot lae tae tu 1 e ant att J this time there are so many t things h ln gs to do for the children she bhe does not realize that she may do more for them in the end by cultivating herself than if it she spends all her time on clothes and cooking A generosity which makes the recipient weak or selfish Is not a blessing blessi na but a curse eurse have you not be geen e u grownup grown up sons who snubbed their 1 mothers opinions in the same breath with which they called call cail ed her to bring their slippers slip pera perR the meek little woman has trotted around to t 0 wait on them so long that they have come to think that that is all a she is good for their sisters keep maln main in the background because she 61 a bit of style and is so uncultivated bated forgetting that she has always worn shabby clothes that they might wear fine ones that her hands have become horny with hard bard work that theirs might be kept 8 soft oft and white for the piano and that she has denied herself books and leisure that they might have both and there are other children too noble for such base ingratitude who feel a keen though secret sense of loss as they kiss the dear withered cheek and think how much more of a wo woman maii mall a mother might have been I 1 if fihe she had not shut herself away from the culture and sweet companionship of books for |