A Mother's Year Book

Cover art
(woman and baby)
Title page
A MOTHER'S YEAR-BOOK
EDITED BY FRANCIS McKINNON MORTON AND MARY McKINNON McSWAIN
NEW YORK THOMAS Y CROWELL COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1911, BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY.
PREFACE
This little volume has been compiled for mothers and is lovingly offered as a tribute to the memory of the almost perfect mother whose love cradled my own childhood so sweetly as to make all motherhood forever more dear to me.
It seems to be true that the years of a woman's life that sink deepest into her heart and are fraught with her keenest joy and pain are the years when her little children are clinging about her skirts. Then it is that she is truly wealthy with small cares, and small hands clinging to her knees. But then, too, she is often too busy with the passing of the full days and the long nights, so often punctuated by the restless clinging of rosy fingers and all the dear demands of babyhood, to realize fully how blest are the days through which she is living.
It is especially for the busy mother that I have gathered this little collection of beautiful thoughts about childhood and motherhood, from some of the world's best thinkers.
I hope it may bring to some of them as much pleasure in the reading as it has to me in the preparation.