Modern Mothers, Too

Ladies' Mirror, Volume 5, Issue 5, 1 November 1926, Page 52

Modern Mothers, Too

r I 'he mother of a modern daughter , should, if possible, be modern in her outlook. An old-fashioned mother is bound to receive many shocks from an up-to-date daughter, and the easiest way to avoid them is to be up to date, too. Comradeship is only possible if interests and outlook upon life coincide. I believe in freedom for the young. My own girl was brought up at a co-educational school— a method of education of which I thoroughly approve. There is a foolish tendency in these days to classify everything, and so, when we talk of the modern girl, we are apt to think of the ultramodern girl. When one thinks of an outdoor girl, one conjures up visions of a tweed-clad figure ; or. if a girl is described as a “dancing girl.” one thinks of her as flitting from ballroom to ballroom or hotel to hotel. The daughter of to-day has something in her of each of these “types’’ ; she is modern, she is sports-loving, she dances divinely, and, moreover, she still has, if not to quite the same extent as her mother or grandmother, the “womanly” arts of housewifery and needlework. Let her avoid extremes and she is charming; when she is good, like the girl with the curl, she is very, very good; but—one must admit it when she is bad, she is horrid!