DUTIES OF MOTHERHOOD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11654, 8 June 1912, Page 2

DUTIES OF MOTHERHOOD.

REMARKS BY LADY ISLINGTON The responsibility of motherhood ' tho subject of .in address delivered Lady Islington at the annual nieit:nj the St. Mary's Mothers' Union, Anvkfe of which she is president. In her address (reports the "Hw® Lady Islington emphasised the eilfCl? ness of example and disciplin?. iit the ti* ing nf children, especially during early years when their imitative was attended with such iniportail US'She had observed in New Zealand tendency on the part of parents to be indulgent, with the result that iM young prii-ls gave too much pleasure and amusement, iho:igh in I back blocks girls found happiness in I>< ing in their homes, and were not so Wt fc>r excitement. The pearefulness ot 1 buildings., tho tranquillity of village '■ and the general s'.'.nse of dignity wero : conscious factors in making Kngkph .?■ more steady, and the influence of, tw tion must be supplied. in the colonic the mothers. Tho right sort of hi;in c tlucncti inira prevent such unha-ppmess/ rlisaisi<;r as were. Buffered in the Doniifl by young gir!«s who had succumbed to ! temptations there seemed to be in : country. That influence must, be estf from the days of infancy, by the nation of precepts of pride, modesty, ' dignity. Speakuig of the training of boys, fc Islington urged that all mothers c-lic t-aach their sons to bo chivalrous toi ri women, and to love and to honour '• mothers, go much that they would tc? themselves as protectors of all v.u3' She spoke also of.- of niartf and .suggested that oim r ,woni>a would to:', blame if meriVwore"', their ideals regarding women