Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1888 — Mothers Who Are Too Generous. [ARTICLE]

Mothers Who Are Too Generous.

It is true that the young wife end mother is more often too self-sacrificing ifhan otherwise. She sinks her own in•dividuality altogether too much in the leervice of her family. It is the easiest thing to do, to reserve nothing in the way of devotion, but it is not the wisest way. It develops selfishness instead of thoughtfulness in the beloved ones whom she serves, and it too often i happens that the wife and mother who denies herself constantly waiting upon others, and demands no consideration for herself, wakes later in life to find that she has made a mistake. Out of the fullness of her heart she has given more than she ought for the sake of her family as well as herself. The daughter whose comfort has always been consulted before that of her mother, the son whose hours of study or play must never be interrupted for his mother’s sake, the husband who knows that his wife is a saint of usefulness, impose unconsciously upon her goodness. And they develop a dullness of sympathy, and unreadiness to think of her needs, which is as hurtful to their own moral growth as it is heart-breaking and incomprehensible to the woman who has uselessly laid down her very life for them.—Christian Advocate.