Show J MOTHERS SHOULD TEACH THEIR DAUGHTERS I 1 5 by BETSY CALLISTER K K K rant touch that you might MJ break if dont try to pour the milk you might spill it no I 1 dont want you to help me make the cake you would only upset things and make more work and so it goes and the little girl who would have been only too glad to help mother when she was five or six has outgrown her desire to do so by the time she Is thirteen or fourteen once of course mothers had to let their children help even when there were servants isow with improved shortened methods ot doing things they usually find it easier to do things themselves than to bother teaching their daughters to help and the number ol 01 girls of high school age who know practically nothing about cooking Is amazingly large this inability to do the countless and one things that girls all used to know how to do sometimes amounts to a real handicap the superintendent of a large nurses training school related the other day that a surprisingly large number of girls who were perfectly well qualified to do the classroom work in training school started train ing handicapped because they know how to do the most usual sorts of work about a house mothers really ought to teach their children how to use their bands she said especially mothers chosa daughters want to become trained nurses E by mcclure newspaper syndicate service |