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Show tion to break into print with a contrary notion. Mother love, he says President William Allan Neilson, president of Smith college speaking-can speaking-can be a good deal less admirable than it is commonly supposed to be. Addressing Smith alumnae in New York the other Hay, I.V -tfri lh:.t "nine timrs out of ten. mother love is self-love." Mothers want their daughters to "do well'' in school so that credit will be reflected on theniseU-ps, They plan their daughters' careers with that, rather than the daughters' well-being, in mind. They send their girl.s to college and immediately in- -quire how often the girls ran leave college and come home, awav from the great opportunities which college life holds out. We believe the undoubtedly well -meaning j and hyperscient if ic educator has the score twisted, twist-ed, intending to i-av this is the case ui one out of ten instances. But we won t even believe that. We don't know, but one out of a hundred or a thousand might be remotely possible. Just what the seore may be. though, is of no particular particu-lar interest to a layman. For the sake of avoiding argument with savant, we giant that there may be a half grain of truth in it all. It will do no mother any harm to ponder the matter intropectively. Sclf-interet Sclf-interet is a powerful force in human conduct, sometimes coloring and even overthrow ing high and noble emotions. But everything else aside, we still believe that earthly existence offers nothing like mother love. Barren indeed is the life of the child to whom it is denied. Is Mother Love Self-Love? JUST about everyone, we suppose, has believed J without being taught that in all the world there is nothing quite like the love of a mother for her child and of the child for its mother. A quality approaching holiness is bound up in it. .Nothing else is as compensatory for the bumps and knock and cruelties always seeming to lie in childhood's path. Now comes forth the first man in recollec- - A , |