About Mothers

A lady Blanda us the following with i request to publish i ís it possible to raise a family without ratsing your voice? Try it and yon will see, says Oiiild Garden. The Germans say : "Whata man has done he inay do." So may a woman, too. There are mothers wlio have reared their families with a fina hold and a gentle voice, blessed be their meuiory ! There are mothers who are doing it now ; blessed be their efforts ! Mark them well and learn their method ; it lies in controlling the spirit as well as the voice. It may be that the "old-íashioned mother" could do this more easily than the prevailing mother; life was siaoother, though it may have been harder in the "oíd times." In the rush and hastie, in the erowding and pressure of duties and pleasures iu these days, there is a nervousness in the air that we must struggle to overeóme. This is not the place to diseñas the greater grace of manner and modulatioi of voice that mar ka the thoroughbred inau or woman ; that is too well known and acknowledged. Does not the recognition of it bring a respect? It is just that self-control that will be a strong influence in coutroling your children. Be ñrm, unwavering, never yielding to "teasing." Have it understood, by practice and experience, that you mean what you say. Do not make threats that are never executed ; do not make threats at all. Penalties should be natural, logical resalta of misdemeauors. Have your children come to you when you want to speak to theiu, or when they want to speak to you. Do not allow talking f rom up or down Btairs, or in or out of windows. Reasou with a child, but do not argue or wrangle. If you are couscious that either of you are augry, cool down and then talk it over. Do not fly at him or pounce on him; what ap. pears at first sight wrong to you may le all straightened out. If he lias good reasons, listen to him. Never run after a child ; have hitn come to you at your culi. While you are talking with him it is not well to sit? unless, to be sure, you are delivering a "lecture." But little children grow restive under lectures. Ideas are said to flow more freely when the speaker stands, but in this matter you are seeking deliberation rather than freedom of speech. So far as you can, have one regular place where you may be found ; your own chair in your own window where you are "at home" to the little one; he grows impatieut in his tohim-important business as he wanders over the house or grounds to find mama when he wants her "right off." Do not give him the opportunity to feel, when he rinds you bodily, that he needs to find our mood before broaching his subject - to feel your pulse and get your atinoshere. Be ever serene andjust. Andre Castaigne, the French-Anaerican Rrtist, has drawii "A Panorama of lie Hu.lson" tor ti ie Midsutnmer Holiay (August) issue of Tue Century, vhich will be a "travel number." Mr. Castaigue'a series of illustrations begins with the Bartlioldi statue, and includes ne barbor of New York, General Graut's tomb, the Palisades, and the iighlands, and ends with a distaut and :ieturesque view of the Capitol at Alsany. Tlie pictures accompany au artile by Claience Cook on "The Lordly ludson."