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Show WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO. As a wife and mother she can make or mar the fortune and happiness of her husband and children. By her thrift, prudence and good management she can secure to her partner and herself a competency in old age. By her tender care she can often restore him to good health. By her counsel and her love she can win him from bad company, if temptation in an evil hour, led him astray. She can do as much as man, perhaps even more, to degrade him, if she chooses to do it. As a wife she can ruin her husband by extravagance and folly; and by want of affection she can make an outcast of a man who might otherwise have become a good member of society. She can bring bickerings and strife into what has been a happy household. She can become an instrument of evil instead of an angel of good. As a mother her words and her ways should be kind, loving and good. If she approves, her language should be choice and refined. The true mother rules by the laws of kindness; and to her children the word "mother" is synonymous with everything put, sweet and beautiful. |