EDUCATION OF MOTHERS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9128, 12 June 1895, Page 4

EDUCATION OF MOTHERS.

In his recent lecture to women, Mr J. 08. Hoare,. among the difficulties end drawbacks of home, mentioned !»'(?• families, narrow means and eelfieh hu>' banda. Women took their work as wivei and mothers too much as a matter of course. Only when they estimated aright iw >** portance and its grandeur would they tr»W themselves to perform it worthily. *»* Hoare appealed to the mothers present w say how muoh they knew of human nature when they bore their firet child. How mow , 'had they taught their daughters on tw* •übjeot ? If babies could only wmembar, »

touching book might be written on the Iffonies of the first born, or experiences of child. When the opporMuHtv *w 80 e ,xat ' w !'>' was thc result no better* Mr H< arc assiuned two reasons in rtnlV to this enquiry—t he first general. Oar home* were often selfish, their comforts ■hutting out from our sights and minds those other homes, the abodes of vice, misery, Kjualor and degradation, bio's on our humanity and ii-tellixence. Millions were •pent in all civilised countries in the endeavour to mitigi-e the inevitable results of •uch homes of pauperism and crime. Most o f our women couil lind within a htone's throw of their own hom-e those so narrow and poor that humanity could scarcely thrive jn ihem. Such might be raised by the interest of awoniao. She must not go as Lady Bountiful, nor need she put on the more or lets becoming cap of a religious order, but limply with the earnest desire to help a a«ter. We talked much of rescue work. It was good, but the work of prevention was better.