Show A PLEA FOR MOTHERS an A amendment moo dment cred to the iho advice 0 a woman lecturer A few evenings ago a boston w v it nn journalist who writes the essays gluten bread dress n iiii iii corsets and tho the like for th the 0 WOL all s column of a sunday aper read a lecture to a parlor full of harlem women her subject was how to bring up children ono thing that she insisted on was wag that children should bo be tailo taught g h t to do things to be prepared for emergencies for example said she 1 I would teach a child what to do in case of a fainting fit I 1 say to my girls girls I 1 am not much of a hand at fainting but if I 1 do take a notion to faint some some day when you are about get me some water pour it on my head bead and face cold water girls not hot water im sure that if i tho the unexpected omes comes c and a nd I 1 fall ball in a fainting fit some fine morning morz mg the girls if they happen to bo be near will know what to do and will do it promptly may I 1 interrupt you yon for a moment asked a little brown haired woman who looked to be about fifty why certainly answered the lecturer well what I 1 wish to do said the brown haired woman is to take issue with you on this proposition of yours years that it is tho the proper thing to instruct children what to do to their mothers mother when they faint on other points I 1 have nothing to say maybo you are right in the general proposition that children should bo be taught to do things but as tg tc this matter I 1 wish to utter a warning word to offer an amendment so to speak SI 1 I used to think as you do I 1 remember as well as can be how I 1 used to tell my girls to do tho the very thing that you say you told yours to do I 1 thought as you do that it would be a shame to leave any person who should baintin faint in the presence of my girls go without proper care so I 1 used to say remember girls to uso nse water the tha thing when a baby faints well ono one day some one came to my house and told me that a little boy had bad been hurt in the next nest yard I 1 was almost ill at the time but just the same I 1 rushed out to the scene the little chap chal was badly hurt and it took me quite awhile to get him in such away a way that I 1 could safely leave him but tho the timit came at last and I 1 staT started for home when I 1 was within about a rod ot my own house I 1 grew dizzy and saw stars and then fell in a heap in the gutter A couple of irishmen picked me up each taking an arm and dragged 00 mo me up my front steps and laid me out on the piazza then they ran rang the bell and when my daughter labello isabello came to the door one of them pointed at mo me and said good miss an is that yer mother there alyin all in a a hape dead fainted away isabelle isabella gave ono one look and then called out to her two sisters quick girls mas fainted after that the deluge yes that tells the story isabelle got tho the ice pitcher mary a foot tub and kate a ten tell quart tin pail I 1 consider it almost a miracle that im alive today of course im telling tellin all this from hearsay I 1 know anything from the time that I 1 fainted until I 1 heard rate kate frantically crying out water more water quick isabelle moro more water V and just after that one of the irishmen saying 0 be aisy darlina dar lint or yell be after brownin yer mo mother therl wet wed well that begin to tell the story stor I 1 was wai soaked and great streams of water were running off the piazza and down the tha stairs you did just ri right ht girls I 1 said as soon as I 1 could speak you did just what your mother told you to do but dont do it again then I 1 got down on my knees and wrung out my skirts is as well as I 1 could and while I 1 was in that position I 1 could hardly keep myself from saying oh lord I 1 thank than thee that they call out the fire department now ive taken up lots of your timo time but I 1 wished willied to make an amendment to your proposition what I 1 would propose is that every mother save her own self from the dauger danger of drowning by saying to her girls when aben sho she bids them pour water on fainters faintere fain do bo sure my d dears ears to try the remedy for the first time on somebody else than your own dear mamma now new york times |