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Show MOTHERS OF THEN AND NOW T Conditions Are Only Different, No M Matter What Sentimental Writers May Assert. The "popular" writer who bewails wbat be assumes to be the fact that oi the "old fashioned" mother ts no more hi la liable to defeat bis own purpose If hi that be Inculcating la children the b blgbest possible regard for their pa- ai reut It Is a danger which even the hi quantitative theory of literature or hi pace rates cannot Justify. b The mother of the past, of course, m waa different from the mother of the In present, as different on the whole as bi the conditions of life then and now, pi but since her daughter Is tho mother tl of the present there must he some ci points of similarly. All the good In ft our mothers and grandmothers cer- g talnly could not have vanished. It h will be paying scant tribute to those l I dear, good women who have laid down n ! their reccpis and examples and pass- ti I ed on to say so. Ami, of course, this tl I writer does not mean to do that, yet j n : be comes very near doing what he j o ; does not Intend. h ! The fallacy of the whole sent linen- tal notion that hecauso tiling and n : people are not llk tin y used to he h j the) me l ot lis good lies In the pat h ent fait that they cannot he alike, and s j If they were II would simply he he s cause of the resent generation being (' so much l e,,.r to lie past that it 1 was i. nah!e in i'o no mere than stand j still. |
