The Wit-Sharpening Process To me, as a thirteenth child and the mother of six children, one of the saddest results of our present phase of progress is the very advanced outspoken teaching to women, which is making us all so busy trying to direct our lives exactly in the direction we desire, that we are in danger of disregarding all the laws of Nature, saya Lady Lawrence in the Morning Post."
The result of this teaching is Tend~ ing us towards the absolute disappearance of Inrze families among the class from which we have drawn the men and women who have been the most successful pioneers and builders of our great Empire There can be ro such trailling as that given to each other by the children in a really large family, because the training and trai pening is always in force. am not speal solely of tke strictly educational training, but of that of the continual sharpening of mind and wits which is very necessary if one is to hold one's own as a member of a large family actly the most useful training with which to face the world.
Think of the outlook of any only child compared with that of the member of a large family! For after all, home is a miniature world, with the same sort of problems to be faced daily, which will have to be fazed in a wider sense later in life.
And take the training in sacrifice. This for a girl is one of the most important things towards making her a worthy wife and mother in the future. The boys learn when necessary to make sacrifices in the larger things of life, but the daily sacrifice becomes almost a matter of routine to a girl when the family is large.
1 were a man ard cho wife, I know she would be, sible, the member of a large famil and thereby one who had of necessity learnt the true value of friendship and had a thorough knowledge of the little weaknesses of the male sex; one who would not only understand when to speak and when to hold her peace, bat would probably be far more sympathetic and tolerant towards these small weaknesses. For an only child, alas, often thinks the world revolves around it and it alone. but adhered to as the "point of shoe saturation" reached at the out-from mosquito net.
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