THE IDEAL OF MOTHERHOOD.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—The urgent need so well set forth by "A Woman Teacher" in your issue of March 31st in her letter upon "The Ideal of Motherhood" can be met by that admirable organisation, the Mothers' Union, started by Mrs. Sumner thirty years ago, and now numbering over half-a-million members in all parts of the Empire. One of the chief aims of that society is "to awaken in mothers of all classes a sense of their great responsibility in the training of their boys mid girls, the future fathers and mothers of the British race," and to assist them in this duty by every possible means. It is more especially needed by the higher classes, who, as your correspondent points out, so frequently leave the entire bringing-up of their children to nurses and teachers. If all parents who feel the force of her words would attend the annual Conference of the Mothers' Union at the Church House, Westminster, on April 27th, I think they would learn the true solution of the problem, and how best to co-operate with teachers in the formation of their children's characters. May I also venture to suggest that if every parent who is in sympathy with these aims would take a friend to whom the Mothers' Union is quite unknown, its influence would be much extended thereby P—I am, Sir, &c.,
FRANCES MACLEAN.
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