in cross tones, instead of making your voice unpleasant to hear,
endeavor to make it sweet and loving.

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Thoughts for Mothers

The Earnest Mother.


Mothers seldom realize the influence they exert in molding the lives
of their children. It is the faithful teaching, as well as the
consistent practicing of an earnest mother which results in forming
characters of nobility and uprightness in the sons and daughters. The
work cannot be begun too early. From their very birth, our children
receive impressions. What the character of these impressions is
depends upon surrounding influences. A true mother's influence should
last long after she is at rest. Said Thomas H. Benton: "My mother
asked me never to use tobacco; I have never touched it from that time
to the present day. She asked me not to gamble, and I have never
gambled, and I cannot tell who is losing in games that are being
played. She admonished me, too, against hard drinking, and whatever
capacity for endurance I have at present, and whatever usefulness I
may have attained in life, I have attributed to having complied with
her pious and correct wishes. When I was seven years of age she asked
me not to drink, and then I made a resolution of total abstinence; and
that I have adhered to it through all time, I owe to my mother."

Mothers, do not think your little ones are too young to receive
advice; it is true they may not act upon it for many years, but they