Your Mother: Do Not Forget

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 18, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 20.

Read the full edition

Your Mother: Do Not Forget

To manifest an interest in whatever interests or amuses her.

That, though she is old and wrinkled, she still loves pretty things.

To make her frequent simple presents, and be sure that they are appropriate and tasteful.

To remember that she is still a girl at heart, so far as delicate little attentions are concerned.

To give her your full confidence, and never do anything which you think she would disapprove.

To make her a partaker, so far as your different ages will permit, in all your pleasures and recreations.

To lift all the burdens you can from the shoulders that have grown stooped in waiting upon and working for you.

Never to intimate by word or deed that your world and hers are different, or that you feel in any way superior to her.

To treat her with the unvarying courtesy and deference you accord to those who are above you in rank or position.

To study her tastes and habits, her likes and dislikes, and cater to them as far as possible in an unobtrusive way.

To bear patiently with all her peculiarities or infirmities of temper or disposition, which may be the result of a life of care and toil.

To remember that her life is monotonous compared with yours, and to take her to some suitable place of amusement, or for a little trip to the country, or to the city if your home is in the country, as frequently as possible.—Success.