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202 The Century of the Child
influence in a home. They must make up
their minds to real reform, such reforms as
those introduced by a lady in Stockholm; bur-
dened though she was with social engagements
and public obligations, she refused to accept
any invitation except on one day of the week,
in order to spend her evenings quietly with
her children. How long will the majority of
mothers sacrifice children to the eternal ennui
and vacuity of our modern social and club
life?
There is no intention here to recommend
that social life and public activities shall be
deprived of the influence of experienced and
thinking mothers. But I only wish to point
to the cases of overstrain now caused by the
stress of excessive sociability and outside ac-
tivity. This kind of over-exertion, more es-
pecially, injures the home through the mother.
In our day as in all other periods, be our opin-
ions in other respects what they may, pagan.
Christian, Jewish, or free thinking, a good
home is only created by those parents who
have a religious reverence for the hoHness of
the home.
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