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heir morning to your children when they are six, or seven, or eight years
dor- old then you would have no reason to dread the 'embarrassment'
of telling them when they are older what they have perhaps al-
ause ready heard i n a w r o n g way f r o m someone else. L i f e and the crea-
see tion of i t are b e a u t i f u l . W h y not let them see i t early?"
tell
to "But," I again remonstrated, "though I admit that we would
make better friends of our children and save ourselves embarrassment
rry j f we d i d talk w i t h them more naturally about these things just as
en. you have done this morning, the average mother doesn't know her-
ve, self about buttercups and cottonwoods and apple blossoms."

to "That is very true, and that is why I and others like me exist.
ock You don't a l l know, but when your children come home and tell
the you, you can enter into their stories with sympathy and share their
ing interest. They have no embarrassment. Why should you? A n d for
ith any mother who truly wants to know, there are ways and ways of
f i n d i n g out. Get Miss Comstock's Hand-book of Nature Study. I t
ll- is the best thing I know f o r teaching mothers and teachers how to
se- teach their children. I think, M r s . Carver," she finished a l i t t l e
shyly, "that i f you mothers would study that book or one like i t ,
ars the creation of l i f e w o u l d seem a great, great deal more b e a u t i f u l ,
om and a little less—well, perhaps we would best say—necessary."
ty.
ys Then something suddenly arose in my throat, and because again
no
I couldn't help it, I put my hand on the shoulder of the Youngest
n-
ys Teacher.
ht " M y dear," I said impulsively, "you're a born mother, and you
we
ol ought to be one!"
ot Tears and a l i g h t came into the grey eyes o f the Youngest Teacher.
he " M r s . Carver," she said, " I am a mother already to children who
t,
re need one even more than as i f they had none. A n d by and by I ' m
e going to be a real one in the way you mean, but just now I ' m too
ut busy—helping God teach His miracle."
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