THE AMERICAN MOTHER.
A" writer in the Atlantic Monthly condemns American^ mqthqrg strongly for the <Avay .in ,which they, bring up their < childreni -They do' nob know, show to iimuse' their- children jfroperly,"'- ■' consequently cbildrenjs amusements in Amer•ica havo become entirely artificial ; theatres, vaudevilles, circuses,' hippodromes, mechanical toys and elaborate papSr •dolls- made in '-Germany e±h'afts6 And 'hethe children^ minds".- -"Nd woh'-' def ' we see them blase at^B, nervous 'wrecks at 12/ neurasthenia, ' insomnia, 'dipsomania^ ' and decadence ahead • -of them." Finally, the American mother is indicted for not being 'the intellectual •comiade of her' children when grown up. ''Her .boy, now a man, of course, loves her as of old, buii ohe'lias not been ,his intellectual comrade, his"' Strongest {inspiration, as she might have been Tiad jsho put her brain into-her' motheihood."'
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 122, 23 May 1908, Page 15
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132THE AMERICAN MOTHER. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 122, 23 May 1908, Page 15
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