FRENCH MOTHERS.
There is one thing that French mothers do not do enough. Thnt is, to separate fiom their growing boys, to sond them to the school of life, outside tho home, and into situations whero they must look after themselves. The mother's happiness is completo only with her children around her: let life not keep them too much apart. From this arise too fenrxuino ideas of distance, and a too timid attachment lo tho natal soil or tho maternal city. Tho dillicultr is that il is very reluctantly udmitted among the French that tho timu must come for the nestling to use its own wings. I have seen most e.vcel'ent patents moitv themselves nearly to death Ircauso «, daughter will not
acquiesco in their ideu.v, or -wish lo accept tho husband of their choice. To a pan or n daughter, very devoted but independent, it is often said, "You lovo nu> no longer." But if we have touched hero upon a. bomowhat delicate point, '1110 good will and lovo of the French mothers are above nil pr.iiso, even if sometimes farsightedness and breadth of mind he somewhat lacking. — Choi leg Wagner, hi the Cosmopolitan.
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Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 20 May 1905, Page 15
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FRENCH MOTHERS.
Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 20 May 1905, Page 15
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