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Show Beauty of Motherhood. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, wife of Harold F. McCormick, with lime. Schuman-Heink and Mrs. Frederic Schoff, has contributed to the current issue of a well known magazine an article ar-ticle touching the philosophy of motherhood moth-erhood under the caption "What My Children Mean to Me." Writing under the sub-title of "In the Capacity of Mother Woman Finds Her Greatest Glory," Mrs. McCormick finds the true gratification of life in the dominion do-minion of the home, incentive for no bler acts in her maternal love. She says in part: "It is not until we have experienced a condition that we know. It is only after we ourselves have felt, have suffered, suf-fered, or have enjoyed, that we can say, I know.' This knowledge gives us tht power to sympathize, to appreciate; it broadens our horizon, makes us more rounded in our development, increases our chances for usefulness and deepens our powers, of enjoyment. Why, then, should we not welcome the unfolding of the wonderful new world which comes to us after marriage and receive the fullness of the Creator's great gift? "When we waken to the realization that the baby in our arms is our own. that we have the right, the privilege, the honor, to be called mother, we find that something new is within us, a love so different from any that we have experienced ex-perienced before a pride, a jealous care, a great, overwhelming joy. All this we could not know before, and how wonderful it is! A little soul loaned to us to love and to care for. What great confidence God has put in our love and our wisdom to make us such a gift! Life now has a new aspect. No, it is not more beautiful than it was before, but it is more rounded our horizon is broader so much is open to us. " 'But,' one says, 'there is so much sacrifice in a mother's life; so much she gives up, so much she gives out which is not appreciated, and for which she never receives any return.' "May I ask what sacrifice is? Is doing do-ing what love prompts us to do ever a hardship or a deprivation? Are not the noblest deeds of one's life the deeds prompted by love? And can love ever be small? "Looking at it from the narrow standpoint, children broaden our scope, help to make us more our ideal selves: their touch is absolutely necessary for our highest development. But looking at it from the true standpoint, what we may give out of time, strength, thought, to these little beings,, we gain back threefold in the richness of a home with children. t "Thus in the capacity of mother the woman of beauty, of talent, of charm, of executive ability, of strong conviction, convic-tion, of artistic temperament, of high ideals, of broad intelligence, of commanding com-manding presence, of warm sympathy, of keen perception, of deep feelings of noble ambition, of loving humanity, finds her greatest glory." |