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Show MOTHERS OF THEN AND NOW Conditions Are Only Different, No Matter What Sentimental Writers May Assert. Tho "popular" writer who bowalls what ho assumes to bo tho fact that tho "old-fashioned" mother Is no moro is ltablo to defeat his own purposo if that bo inculcating In children tho highest possiblo regard for their parents. pa-rents. It is a danger which oven th6 quantitative, theory of lltcraturo or space rates cannot Justify. Tho mother of tho past, of courso, was different from tho mother of tho present, as different on tho whole as tho conditions of ltfo then nnd now, but since her daughter is tho mother of tho present thoro must bo some points of similarity. All tho good in our mothers and grandmothers cer tainly could not hnvo vanished. It will bo pnylng scant tribute to thoso dear, good women who have laid down their recopts and examples, and passed pass-ed on to say so. And, of courso, this writer doos not mean to do that, yet ho comes very near doing what ho docs not intend. Tho fallacy of tho wholo sentimental sentimen-tal notion that becauso things and people aro not like they used to bo they are not as good lies in ,tho patent pat-ent fnct that they cannot bo nllkcr, nnd if they wero It would simply bo becauso be-causo of tho prcsont generation being so much inferior to tho past that It was unable to do up more than stand still. |