Show J If F ail WOMANS WOMAN'S TYRANNY By By Winona Wilcox K Kill ill Children a born wife and mother maam That's why my children all allran allran ll ran away from home explains e. Collins the green grocer to the bishops bishop's lady in Getting Married the Shaw play which Is one of the winters winter's successes in N New w York After we have laughed at Shavian humor It Is quite worth while to take it seriously for the perfect mother Is often the most tyrannical of her sex She accomplishes marvels with her children The They never disobey Their manners are perfect ct They are models I at school and members of the mothers' mothers club are all anxious to find out how the perfect mother does it But very often the average busy mothers are educating the future eena- eena tors and governors by their halfway methods of doing things which leave something for the child to decide for himself and to execute according to his own fanc fancy The perfect mothers mother's control of her children often amounts to hypnotism The child trained from the beginning to wait for his mothers mother's judgment never never never nev nev- er gets into any trouble never arrives anywhere either because he has been despoiled of his initiative Every grain of originality has b been en stamped out of him He has not even evena a will of his own And when In college college college col col- col- col lege he Is thrown on his own Judgment he has none to fall back on He lie is weaker than the orphan girl who had no no mother to guide her Then of course his bad conduct breaks his mothers mother's heart and the family family family fam fam- ily friends are surprised at the rascal rascal rascal ras ras- cal after the splendid bringing up he had had This tyranny of the ideal mother Is Isso Isso isso so subtle the children who run away from home never can explain why they do so It is disastrous In many ways I 1 wonder said a clever great grandmother grandmother grandmother grand grand- mother why all the marvelous babies grow up into such commonplace men and women The loving tyranny tranny of the born wife and mother is one one explanation It Is the compelling influence which reduces genius to conventional standards and rewards mediocrity because It conforms conforms conforms con con- forms to law and therefore never makes anybody any an trouble I |