A MODERN MOTHER

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 56, 3 September 1936, Page 19

A MODERN MOTHER

ENVY OF HER CHILDREN

If, as I think, to be a parent In these days is a greater adventure than it has ever been, I also think that it is a greater adventure now to be young (writes a modern mother in a recent issue of "Family").

I envy my children the new world in which they and their children will live. It is not going to be the testtube world of the theorists if the fine boys and girls I see about me are to have anything to do with it. It will be a world of more sanity.

I envy my children because they will see the wiping out of arbitrary social differences. They and their children will have none of the rigid sense of class which made our own parents look so ridiculous.

I envy my children because they will be much better acquainted with themselves than we are with ourselves. Where there is darkness in our minds there will be light in theirs. Reason will have a keener edge. Passion arid prejudice will be deprived of their long dominion.

I envy my children because they will have far more leisure than we can hope for. They will certainly have more time to study the arts, to discover beauty, to cultivate good manners. People will think with their minds and not with their nerves as too many do now.

Specially do I envy my children because by the time they have grown up the sham enthusiasms, the fads and crazes, peculiar to the last few years, will have worn themselves out. False reputations will not be so easy to make. It will be less of a gamblers' world than ours. Character will count again. The still, small voice will be heard once more. Faith will be revived.