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The Mother's Work

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
February
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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We notice an article on home dressmaking- in one of our family journals, the advice to mothers to cultivate the art of hand sewing, especially on children's clothmg. One reason given for this is that no decoration is so fashionable and suitable as the stitches placed by a mother. Then the statement is made, "We are all apt to sew in great ambitious and loving wishes, and isn't it possible there may be greater hope for all we pray for coming to the little people if work and devotion are eombined?"' We really think no sensible woman will, after a moment's thought, be disturbed by such remarks as this. But there may be some young mothers who may be striving to so plan their work and sewing that they may have some time left for other things. Just when this has been accomplished by dispensing with a little trimming here, making the children's dresses by plainer pattern, so the work can be done on a machine instead of by hand, she comes across the article referred to. Her heart sinks. Every mother likes to see her children daintily and appropriately dressed. But to have this, she must put hand work on them, feather-stitching, embroiderv, etc, we suppose. We should like to be informed also wherein exists the superiority of ambitious and wishes laboriously worked in by weary hands over those whieV kept time to the swift motion of the treadle of the se w ing machine. Is, then, one's love and interest to ba measured by the amount of work put upon the ehildren's garments and not by the tender care and watchfulness, the sympathy wlth their pursuits, their disappointments and successes? Women and mothers of the present generation have many of them learned that tliese things are more important than the extra ruffle on the dress or the extra finish of hand work on the little garments. If time and strength are lauking to accomplish both, the latter and not the former is the one to be neylected, and the children themselves, as they grow older, will be the first to acknowledge this. Let no one, then, be diseouraged by articles which would persuade us that our children can not be properlydressed or cared for unless a certain nuinber of stitches are taken and a certain model followed. Circumstances alter case3 and no one can be a judge for another. Only let us be si'.re that the more important things of Ufe are not overlooked while our attention is given to those which are not to be uegleeted entirely, but only given their proper share. - Western Rural. Pomo rVironio "kiekers" - ViiIa.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier