Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-02-01 | Page 25 | The New Old-Fashioned Mother

l ir The New Old Fashioned Mother p HE modern mother gets a 3 lot of publicity these days J z i 1 She is looked upon as something very new and very very 1 different from the mother of a a. generation or so ago w Sometimes she site is reprimanded because she has bas taken up politics or oi welfare work w rk or perhaps sho has loft left tho the home to go out and work At other times she is praised because she is keeping abreast ast of the times and is more of a chum and md companion to both her husband and ana her herk k children 4 From Prom a recent observation howe however er it would could seem i 5 that mat the modern mother is just like the thc old-fashioned old mother Everyone E who h has lias as read the famous books 4 f Little Women omen and The tiThe Five Fi Little Peppers Peppers' are ter surely burety sur ly reed agreed d that Mrs Hrs March yi and d Mrs Irs Pepper arc Ire arct t ideal mothers Modern women who could do their job M of or mothering as well ell as either of those two fiction characters char char- I l i actors would surely be he called perfect Vo We r 0 know a a. modern modem mother who might well veil have halve I Ir j. j furnished the copy for Louisa M. M The Tho woman oman is isa a atall tall slender blond type lype She is sweet of or manner She Shey y AIRS hns a silvery silver laugh and nd twinkling e eye e which transform t her u usually nally placid e expression into something very young oun l and very very cry alive J e Just one look at her and you can tell that there is n a great depth of human UD understanding ing and ami s mixed mixed with a delightful sense C of humor This 38 35 at the most is the tho woman who l looks no older than is mother of eight children five girls and aud three bogI boys bog I That does docs not 1101 sound very err mo modern ern you JOn say So o that thatis is not mo modern Families of more than three are arc quite quit old-fashioned old in this day ay and age but the woman is modern despite her family of old fashioned cd size size She is training her bel daughters to do something useful to be able to support th themselves s She is sen sending ing everyone every everyone one of the eight rig except the smallest to gymnasium classes She Sho attends n a a a gymnasium class herself with wilh witha her el eldest cst daug daughter ter She takes lakes all ull of tho the children to see sec good plays PIny s un and she teaches them what she knows of good music She bu budgets gets her hushan husbands husband's s 's income inome an and mends mend h his Lis socks With the aid of her daughters she docs does all of her housework except the thc washing ashin and heavy work old fashioned that lint other mothers moth moth- You lOu say that this is all nIl ers of or a generation ago ngo did such things b Perhaps they did Perhaps this mother is is not so wonderful as fiS she seemed but her children are the pic plc picture pic ture tore of the tho best physical and mental health They are area a I Y very verv Q real and living ving proof that she is a n perfect mother