Radiant Motherhood

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dden so long? Yes, when the mother was a young girl it lay pervading her heart in tende

: Gita

eart, and of the linking up of the present with the future. All natural functions rightly performed give a deep satisfaction and content, but this, the greatest function of all, now so sp

nt to many, until, in the future, society recognizes the supreme importance to the race of the expectant mother. Some such course, however, might be possible to a larger number than it is at present were they to realize not only their personal good but the racial benefit of this procedure. In our country, owing to our artificial and unclean attitude, the mother-to-be, particularly during the later months, stays at home so far as possible, and does not go from place to place. When going about entails batt

he future. She can, if she has the skill herself, sew the little clothes, stitching into them sunny thoughts and beautiful hopes, making them links between the present del

nd numerous possessions, the joy of which can be but partly grasped. Within a tiny home, a mothe

the man whom she adores. Some men are negligent of the charms and enravishments of children, but I think in every man who fully loves and is fully l

ast the mother's mind during this time, but, if the mother is wise, she will not too intimately visualize the

whole world around them. On such an idea of delight she may lavish every day invigorating thoughts and wonderful dreams; none will be wasted, of that she may be assured. If, at the same time, she is securing the coming child's bodily well-being through the proper material channels, then she can feel that these dreams of higher than material beauty