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Show DUTY OF MOTHERS TEACHING DAUGHTERS BY GIVING GIV-ING THEM RESPONSIBILITY. "Incentive Often the Only Thing Necessary to Bring Out Child's Qualities Plan Adopted by One Woman. This season of the year Is Just the time for tho housekeeper to take palna and make planB to develop In her, youngest daughter all the qualities quali-ties that'go to make up an all-round housekeeper. rGo away for a whole day now and then and leave the entire responsibility responsibil-ity of the household ordering, cooking cook-ing and dusting to tho daughter, If you are without help in tho kitchen, all the better, for the daughter' will learn all the quicker and learn all the more. If you have one or more older daughters send them away and give over all responsibility to the youngest, who Is sure to bo overshadowed over-shadowed so long as older sisters are around. I havo a friend, that whllo her two older daughters, both capable housekeepers, house-keepers, were away this summer, gave full charge to a daughter of 13. She spent each day of one week away, returning re-turning at night, Just In time for supper. sup-per. She neither gave any orders in the morning or went into the kitchen at night before supper. Everything was "satisfactory and a most excellent dinner served one night when there were two extra for supper. Things ran with wonderful smoothcess, and the house .was kept in apple-pie ordor. Other members of the family could scarcely believe it, as this suddenly developed housekeeper of but 13 summers had always shirked responsibility, respon-sibility, and even work, to such an extent that her older sisters and brothers had long been convinced that their youngest sister was simply "lasy" and never would learn. When will mothers believe that so-called so-called "fastness" is simply lack of incentive. in-centive. Further, that "Incentive" with some natures comes spontaneously, when presented to them as a form of duty; others have to have a spontaneous spontane-ous desire to create an Incentive. In this case It becomes the parents' highest high-est duty to search aud search with ingenuity, wisdom and patience until the power to quicken the mainspring of the child's character has been reached. This may mean many failures and many heartaches, but with each attempt at-tempt much is learned to form a stepping-stone to widen experience, it certainly Is just as grievous a fault to neglect to so teach and train our daughters daugh-ters that the mantle of all our housekeeping house-keeping qualities will fall upon them as to neglect giving them a common school education. I thoroughly appreciate the fact that It is more often far easier to do a Ihlng yourself than to with patience see It half done by the daughters. I But it we look at this as but one disagreeable dis-agreeable part of our business of j housekeeping, we will at once accept the temporary annoyance with cheer- j fulness. One .of the most exasperating exasperat-ing duties to -roe is to teach a child i to make cake, and yet I have always ' forced myself tp accept it as but a part of my business, Just as th.o husband hus-band has in commercial life many annoying details to wade through. I think men are more inclined to take such things "as a matter of course." I One son demanded to bo taught the art of cake making, even to fancy I Icing, and to-day no one of the four that followed has been able to touch his quality of gingerbread. Outside of our duties to our daughters as future fu-ture housekeepers we should bear .in mind that the work of the hands develops de-velops the brain, else how would we have the present wonderful inventions in modern machinery? I do not wish to sidetrack too often from practical housekeeping, but wise housekeeping keeps In mind the sacred fact that a woman's duty is not done when she just provides pro-vides good, wholesome meals, comfortable com-fortable clothing and a neat house. Sho must by thought, word and deed teach her children by giving them responsibility, re-sponsibility, and thus force them to think, to manage and to work in tholr own homes, if she alms to bo a "wlso" housekeeper. ' |