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Show A Vanishing ,Type The real old-fashioned mother is becoming be-coming rarer and rarer as the many new-fashioned ones ries up to take her place. Sometimes one finds her in the midst of a group of grownup daughters utterly unlike herself, taking a tender pride in talents and oualities which were unknown to herself and her contemporaries. con-temporaries. Occasionally ehe tries to accept these new idelas or to adopt her own to them, especially in conversation conver-sation with elderly women inclined to critisise the more modern daughters of their sex. Affection and principle may have been at war, but affection always wins the day. When the daughters happen to be bachelor women engaged in definite callings her admiration of their attainments is often mingled with a sentiment of pity, as if she felt they had been deprived of something which used to be considered the crowning success suc-cess of woman's life. Yet they do not seem to be concious of any loss themselves them-selves and are, she is sure, "the best girls in the world." Such mothers are delightful, because in their case to be old-fishioned does not mean to be intolerant in-tolerant and they can appreciate the present without being untrue to the past. J |