CHILDREN'S COLUMN
CHILDREN’S TASTE. Children have an ardent love of grace and prettiness. They hover about a beautifully dressed woman, adoring every tint of her gown, and revelling in the lustre of her jewels. A careless, indifferent society woman who flutters into the nursery for a few -minutes before going out to a ball will often arouse the most passionate admiration in the breasts of her neglected children, who fall under the spell of her beauty. Far off as she is from them, she represents a world all light loveliness, and they cherish, the .picture of her in their hearts. She exerts through her outward charms an influence her character could not. command. The devoted mother who plods about in a dingy , gown is not nearly so much loved, although time, which equalises everything, reveals her value. But why should she lose the great advantage of attraction ? Putting aside all questions of taste and elegance, and dealing omy with this matter from the standpoint of cheerfulness, it must seem worth while to everyone who. thinks about it to supply :th© essential . element of bright 'colours: in their children’s .daily live?,.. The mother who* wore red bows on her slippers for her baby boy’s sake was not far out of the why.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1514, 7 March 1901, Page 65
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211CHILDREN'S COLUMN New Zealand Mail, Issue 1514, 7 March 1901, Page 65
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