Woman’s worst failure then is due to the stupid blunder of putting comparatively trivial things before the most important of all. The result is bad children and waste of a generation or two—all for putting cooking and sewing before the training of children.
Now will any one venture to say that any particular mother, you for instance, has got to put cooking and sewing before the training of children?
Any mother who really makes up her mind to put her children first can find out how to grow tolerable children at least.
And that is what Mrs. Diaz means by preparation—a little knowledge beforehand—the little that leads to more.
It can be done; and you can do it! Will you? It’s a matter of choice; and you are the chooser.
Domestic Problems. By Mrs. A. M. Diaz. $1. D. Lothrop Company, Boston.
We have touched on only one subject. The author treats of many.
Dr. Buckley the brilliant and versatile editor of the Christian Advocate says in the preface of his book on northern Europe “I hope to impart to such as have never seen those countries as clear a view as can be obtained from reading” and “My chief reason for traveling in Russia was to study Nihilism and kindred subjects.”
This affords the best clue to his book to those who know the writer’s quickness, freshness, independence, force, and penetration.