January, 1893 During the holiday season I have been brought in contact with large numbers of people and public fetes, and I have been struck by the great difference between the appearance and dress of the two. The latter, for the most part, except among the extremely poor, are dressed far beyond the former, and beyond what the condition of the ...
Mother’s Corner
Founding Kindergartens
January, 1893 There is a womanly movement, aided by the strong-brained men, to start free kindergartens as a protection to society. Neglected children, with a fair mental endowment, are often brutalized by hardships and suffering, during the very years that common humanity commands that they should have at least the comforts and play-time of an ordinary kitten. The plan which may be ...
Teaching Children Self-Dependence
November, 1895 - So many begin wrong with children. They teach them that everything must be done for them. They are not expected even to amuse themselves, and so, by-and-by,
Plain Words To Women
September, 1895 It is a matter of surprise and condemnation that many respectable women, when among themselves, are sometimes prone to converse upon certain themes in a manner which would put them to shame were it known to the other sex. Now, the subjects of these conversations are all right. It is the manner in which they are treated. There is no ...
Max’s Wife
(For The Ladies World) By Paul Carson – July, 1893 Max is the eldest and has always done as he pleased. He was thirty then. I, Pauline, twenty-seven, Margaret, twenty-five and Paul, a college boy of twenty, were staying with our widowed mother at Max’s summer place on the Hudson, while he was roaming around out West. One day Max wrote from a little ...
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