. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. False Delicacy Between Mothers and Daughters.âAn young girls near the boun- dary line where childhood and womanhood meet, there comes a natural, wondering inter- est as to the difercnt relationships they see around them. This curiosity being the voice of nature, imperatively claims satisfaction, and if the mother does not give it legitimately the child will be only too likely to gain it from sources of whose very existence she is ignor- ant, simply because to he
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. False Delicacy Between Mothers and Daughters.âAn young girls near the boun- dary line where childhood and womanhood meet, there comes a natural, wondering inter- est as to the difercnt relationships they see around them. This curiosity being the voice of nature, imperatively claims satisfaction, and if the mother does not give it legitimately the child will be only too likely to gain it from sources of whose very existence she is ignor- ant, simply because to her they are superflu- ous. There are thousands of mothers who will talk with the kindest unreserve to those not liound to them with any tie but that of friend- ship, who yet feel the most false aud foolish delicacy with their own daughters. I know this to be the case. A great many young girls have come to me for information and advice on personal subjects, whom an unnatural re- serve kept from applying to their own moth- ers. I know it again by experience. I found it much harder to do my duty in this respect to my own daughters than to the daughters of others. And yet the duty is an imperative one, which requires to be attended to both much earlier and more positively than was necessary iu your own case. For assure your- self of one thing, that the knowledge which came to women half a century ago only as the result of experience, is ready now at every street corner and in every kitchen for your little girl, as answer to her fii'st wondering in- tuition. Nay, while she still nurses her doll and wears her childhood's aprons, all the myste- ries of human nature are questioning her in- nocent heart. Who is to answer her? Will you leave her to soil her white soul with the filthy fancies c^f dime novels, or still worse books. Is some servant girl, lewd and ignor- ant, to usurp her mother's holy olfice, aud defile the sacred sanctuary of your home? Or will you with calm and reverent w
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