THE DOLL'S MOTHER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 303, 16 September 1908, Page 5

THE DOLL'S MOTHER.

Sir Lauder Bruuton (says an English paper) thinks every little girl ought to bo taught to wash, dross, feed, air, and gonerally earn for her doily as she may have to do in later life for a real live doll in another form. Certainly it is fairly obvious to thosd who deal with the poorest classes that the majority of women know nothing of the duties of motherhood. What is even worso than their absolute ignorance is tho reliance they place oil tho advice of other mothers who are supposed to be experienced. But there are mothers of a higher station in life who are yet unable to engage nurses for their children, and who are equally unfitted to have the charge of babies. No doubt (continues our contemporary) thero is something in Sir Lauder Brunton's suggestion that from tho very beginning every tiny maid, whatever her station in life, should bo taught maternal duties by means of her dollies and never suffered to treat them in any way that* a baby should not be treated; but this is the way, one fears, to rob dolls of their fascination, and to make future mothers rather like automatic baby-tenders.