The Mother's Part

NZ Truth, Issue 983, 27 September 1924, Page 12

The Mother's Part

♦ For Next Generation We Build.' Miss Kathleen Norris writes the following m America and of Americans, but is it not true everywhere? We hear a lot about the "sins of the father." But what, of the sins of the .mother? Are they, too, not visited on the children to the third and fourth generation? If a woman is phenomenally fat and lives for the pleasure of the table, her daughter is going to have a delicate stomach. And her grand-daughter may have a weakened moral force. Seen m such homeiy little instances the sins of the parents being visited on the children is as clear as spring water. All rich mothers are not bad mothers. But they have a harder task than the poor mothers. The claims of society need no£ separate them from their children, although they almost; always do. j 1 Families m every town reverse their positions. The rich m time may be- j come poor, and the poor become rich.' The rich man's sons are a failure, the poor, man's sons steadily, rapidly mount m the world. The actual history of all our fine American families is — good mothers. Good, simple, loving, God-fearing-mothers. Their power neVer fails. It is based on a great cosmic law that cannot fail. We are making the world for the next' generation. Every bit of courage, optimism, unselfishness and love we put into it will make somebody happier. Every tiny speck of weakness, hate and depression is planted where it will bear terrible fruit. The Kingdom of Heaven is as the leaven that a mother hid m a measure of meal. The world will not see it for twenty • years. But it will come to light some day.