Show mother and school ingston alio llio stun transcripts 1 1 I wonder tennyson is report cil cl to 1 have said in a lato into t on I 1 wonder lel any ally one should fail to ece that the central figure in my air oe in the tile princess is ii the child chih gince ince the philosophy of the world always comes round at last to the p poetry odthe of the world wo we may guess that speculations and experiments in the s science of womanhood will only show in its larger outlines and fuller fidler ecjpe the time ti bas come already when true women are oro ashamed of any ignorance of nursery laws the instinctive lovo love they share with the lower creatures or the jel jealously lilous ly guarded aradi eions no longer answer nut not to know the beat food the hoit bet clothing the best regulation nir air and light and sleep for OF the bob baby ali is fell felt to be disgracefully un unintelligent in le just as surely the time is coining comine we must believe when not to kii know and use the best means for training the growing mind and soul will seem if possible worse how can it be that mothers who would fiercely protect the infant ii life fe from any tiny interference of carelessness or ignorance fall fail to throw the tile same shelter sheltering ing passion or around aund the child just a as his need of it grows deeper and find more conscious men might doubt its wisdom in ages when that maternal passion was unguided by intelligence it was in such times that the tile cast iron school systems were adopted that are still at work inE in england and whole professions processions process dons ions of mothers have had to see boy organized for instance as william cowper and thomas de do quin quincy ey were go from their arms to be bruised if not crushed as they were under tinder such systems but to what purpose have women been growing wise wiser r is not to become able to work with men in the larger plans and systems which shape the world of hu human man life into the ful molds of a better future it pertains to the crudest and lowest form of maternity to cease to plan and share the control of the child the moment the animal development is safely well begun it seems monstrous and inexplicable ia in this age that woman should humbly allow those whose claim on her is so infinite to be swept away from her into the whirl of a machine in whose construction and guidance she has no part true enough the child is born for the world and mu must qt grow into its right relations into its full individuality A mother is not a very tender one who lias has no pangs to smother when to broider the long clothes and neat little coal coat is needed no longer longcr when then the dainty devices of kilt hit and sash must give way to the commonplace mon place of tailor tai lor made suits and when her best beat kisses and stories are tire only an item jand no longer tho the sum of happiness for the boy but slie she is not very cry large or wise if at this point ehe she cannot translate lier her love with a new now dialect to meet the change here as everywhere else ele it is first that which is natural at of berward that which is spiritual if the child must begin to weave himself into the web of society if the school must take him then to what purpose is the massachusetts mother more learned and far seeing than a malay if she can do no more for him birn in this crisis than meet him with bonbons bonbonis bon bons or even fol follow loi him with prayers it is ij a sign of strength to bo be silent when fate says Is must but it ia is wise to be be quite sure of the inevitable before we submit there are things enough from which our children cannot be protected burd burdena enli enough they can only be taught to bear but can one who thinks and observes help believing that the evils of the schools are in tile class for which there is i 8 possible remedy the least mothers kracau can toisto do is to think and vote yote on these matters and that may mattir naturally lead on to the tile most when celia in middlemarch Middle idd lem arch march gave out her little aphorism that men kne knew best about every thing except the things women knew better babies and so go on phe she uttered the sub stance stanc of the whole argument for school suffrage |