Show I 1 the home circle frky S st i M NOBODY KNOWS BUT MOTHER how flow many buttons are missing today ilon hott many playthings ale aie strewn in her ter way nobody knows but mother how many thimbles and spools has she missed how flow many burns on each little list fist how few many bumps to be cuddled and kissed nobody knows but mother how flow many stockings to darn do you know how many muddy shoes all in a row nobody knows but mother how many little torn aprons to mend how flow many hours ot of toil must she spend what is the time when her days work shall end nobody knows but mother howmann cares does a mother heart know how many joys from her mother love love flow nobody knows but mother how many prayers by each little white bel how many tears for her babe has she shed how many kisses hisses for each curly lead head nobody knows but mother 4 0 e I 1 preach little scold id less practice more 0 ft you seen mothers and fathers who will humor their children lit in every little thing thine and when they see what a pass they are coniing coining to they will suddenly stop and wonder why the po bewildered child makes such a fuss I 1 knew a mother once whose child had a very nervous temperament tem when the child was tiny the mother had humored her in her tear fear of 0 the dark As she grew up lip it seemed easier to humor her ter than not so the mother never made her go into a dark room and never made he her steep sleep alone at last fast when hen the girl was nearly sixteen years ot of age the mother suddenly realized how foolish her tactics were and all at once she ceased to humor the child the girl left alone in her room at night was surrounded in her imagination by a hundred horrors but her mother would not listen to a pleading to relieve her distress thinking site she was doing her duty finally after about a month of se ver deiy mental suffering the child contracted brain fever and nearly lost her life that is a severe case of course but to the point nevertheless if you are humoring your child unnecessarily it is well ivell that you fill find it out and stop but you cant expect to bring about a change in the childs nature over night you must go at such things gradually human beings cannot be bent to levery fickle wind that blows through tile the bum human n mind it if you want a good cure for the blues read a good rousing love story that hat is clean and decent or write and tell somebody all about it somebody who is a true briend friend and who will understand the best way in the world to chase base the blue devils away |