THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 16, 1940. Bringing Up Father
ISN'T THIS A LOVELY
RANCH.
HOTEL HERE IN.
DALLAS?
a
WELL-WE MUST GO NATIVE EVERYONE
HERE IS IN COWBOY, REGALIA-
BUT-MAGGIE.
I DON'T LOOK GOOD IN A COWBOY
SUIT
'YOU DONITE LOOK GOODIIN ANYTHING "NEVERTHELESS YOU'LL QUI ON THE SULT I BOUGHT YOU. WE (XON" WANT TO LOOK DIFFERENT FROM THE REST OF THE REOPLE -
MUST BE
A WILD WEST SHOW IN TOWN-
By George MacManus
MAGGIE-I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD HAVE COME POY TOWN LIKE THIS HEARD A GUY „SAX I LOOK LIKE
A COVERED WAGON
MERCY ! FEE
HORRORS. WHERE DO YOU THINK THEY CAME FROM?
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I Hate BABY SNOBS
They flaunt their maternity in the face of all
Even the animal world yields better mothers
Writes
I hate a fair number of things.
Marjorie
Most of them could be classed under the word "humbug."
Snobbishness is D detestable form of "humbug." It means that we pretend to some virtue, gift or glory, that we know we don't possess by our own merits." Cir- cumstances, however, *give us some chance to claim this merit, and claim it we do, with insult ing arrogance.
The meanest and also the most pitiful form of snobbishness is that which makes us pretend to belong to a higher social level that we really do.
There are, however, more sub-| -tle and more 'cruel forms.
Bowen
displays being "they are min"
Such mothers feel themselves enlarged, ennobled by their ma- ternity, really a little better than
he childless.
been through too much ever to bo Snobs.
they feel
Far from boasting, pretty humble, for they know that there is no magic in mother- hood, but that the job has to be learnt from scratch. And often afresh with every child.
Only superstition can tolerate such phrases as "a Mother's in-
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Happy-and Silent
.Englishwomen are not very Besides, they have such-experi-good mothers anyway; they lack ince; who can deny that they the humour and the wit necessary lave entered a kind of secret for this relationship. And, more ociety with a jargon of its own? than foreign women, they have 'Mother knows" is the pass the "social life" that must not be word.
interrupted.
It is touching as well as beau-
Very often disappointed in their iful to see how all this mysterious marriages, based on the over- This is a feminine vice. If you lignity and wisdom is conceded exploited English "love match", meet a male snob you may be o mothers by women who have they pass a chilly sense of dis- sure that he learnt the odious not and perhaps can never hope illusionment on to the children. trait from his mother or his wife. to have, children of their own. Foreign women, on' the other
Boys loathe all forms of snob- With this deprivation often
hand, usually look on the family bery with instinctive hatred. The] comes lovely generosity that is as the main end of the union, and -snobbish boy-there aren't soometimes mercilessly exploited [are content to sink themselves in
many-usually gets what he has by the maternal snob.
the home and the children. learnt from the boasting of his The legends of the ages apart,
The suppressed romanticism of female relatives, knocked out of it must be admitted that there is him by his companions. And he very little basis for this mother-the Englishwoman, and the dull attitude of hor mate towards her, soon begins to realise that neither hood arrogance. The physical arrogance nor pretence of any side is one that is shared with tend to produce both indifference rabbits, rats, mice, and lesser with regard to the children and But there are some kinds of creatures. And these do their snobbishness about 'them. It is as if the soured wife should say, snobbishness you can't knock out job more efficiently.
kind will do.
I
way-I'm a "mother.” babies,
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Oddly enough, those women who alist's work, and a woman may don't boast, least of all before have least to boast of "give them-]produce a large family and those who have missed what they And there is selves airs" most offensively. Un- utterly incapable of dealing with enjoy so much. earned possessions, inherited prl-jit.
really nothing to boast about." vileges, benefits conferted on "That this fact is generally re-
The Childless them by the toil or luck of male cognised is shown by the eager- relatives, seem to provoke theness with which women_relegate Just as large numbers of very most violent forms of female their maternal duties. Feeding-attractive women do not marry, snobbishness.
bottle, nurse, governess, kinder-so large numbers of delightful, garten, prep, school take her kind and sweet women have not place; the more money she has produced children.
Secret Shame
"It is more excusable to be a the less she does for her children. Often there is a tragedy be- snob on these accounts than on But the spinster who has had her hind their courage. It may be that of maternity.
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But the maternal snob or baby add to the wearer's status in life. plays, only arrogant possessive Greengage Plums snob is cruel, and not so easily The truth is that nature and ness, A nasty form of female
What
defeated. read or
she the social code both play queer snobbishness. flourishes is something real, some-tricks,»
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I have been also the smile, per-| thing that other women may Many a woman with a genius fectly unselfconscious, exchanged Sliced Peaches want and perhaps cannot have. for understanding children has between the woman with the baby
Tradition, poetry,
reli-none of her own. And many a and the woman without. It is so glon, all cast a halo round mo-woman who really dislikes them charming that I regret I do not therhood. This, all combine to has a family,
see it more often. declare, is everything that is. If a mother can say that she has Finally, if that other lovely, sacred, miraculous and so faced all the fatigue, anxiety, has deliberately chosen a forth. What more splendid as antedium and self-sacrifice, of rear-ja dog and you have a baby in- embellishment to one's personali-ing her children herself, and she stead, are you sure that makes ty than fine children?
can show them with healthy you a better human being? Did
end of her altruistic motives? Will you de- Yet maternal love and pride labours, then she has something vote years and years to making can easily shrink into vanity. The to be proud of.".
it happy? And
quite children are "shown off," "boast=". Such mothers usually come sure that there aren't enough ed about, the main point of these from poor homes and they have people in the world,, anyway?
"Mother Knows" (?) dispositions at the
bodies, open minds, and happy you have the baby from purely
are, you
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