Show THE CROSS MOTHER bows ow bitter feeling and loving attention at no time in her busy days is an intelligent mother so apt to told fold the arms and close the eyes of maternal justice as when she is cross says saya housewife the crossness is chiefly caused by fatigue weariness of mind and body and sometimes of soul with tired nerves and weary body she cannot endure the common dern demands ands made upon her and ill III temper follows she sows bows bitter feelings and repels loving attentions with hey her irritable hasty words broadly speaking no mother has any right to get so tired she cannot afford it IL it takes too much out of at 1 her life and too much out of her childrens 1 lives such a condition can more I 1 frequently be prevented than is generally I 1 believed the remedy lies near at hand let a mother find out what makes her cross and then let her avoid tho th cause if possible if social pleasures weary her let them be decidedly I 1 lessened if there is too much sewing 1 too much cooking or too many household I 1 cares lessen them if economical efforts cause the severe strain stop i economizing at such a cost that is the worst of wastes let the first economy be of that precious commodity a I 1 mothers strength even the extent of ones religious and philanthropic work I 1 should be carefully examined and it if 11 the trouble lies there calmly and wisely I 1 dismiss some or all of it from the list of duties for what doth it profit a man an it if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul it is surprising how easily seeming interests or needs needa can be spared without injury to the home life whenever the thoughtful woman seeks to find them and surely one of the worst of household influences is crossness |