How Fathers May Avoid Making Mistakes.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue III, 21 July 1900, Page 138

How Fathers May Avoid Making Mistakes.

Of all relations among individuals, in all combinations which life offers in this world, there is none that is more wonderful than motherhood. and fatherhood comes next. The mother mnv be represented as a dove, with love ami gentle care brooding over the

young: the father as an eagle, strong, eager to defend and help. The mother should lie an embodiment of sweetness and gentleness; the father a citadel of strength. A father, then, to avoid his failures, must be of fine, large, quality, strong, sane and loving; a self-forget-ful, pleasant guide; a ehum for his boys, a lover for his girls, a comprehending husband, a comfortable man. With a father like this, and a mother such as we have sometimes seen and often dreamt of, the pathway of childhood becomes not one of thorns, but one besprinkled with flowers, and life is changed from a dreary round of mistakes and failures into a comfortable, successful, ami beautiful journey, brightened by cheerfulness, gladdened by comradeship, sweetened by love, and enjoyed alike by mother, father, and children.