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PRENATAL CULTURE. 



Overcoming 

 Sensitiveness. 



Maternity is 

 Divine. 



A Queenly 

 Mission. 



these powers are too weak in the mother, they 

 should be most diligently cultivated, or if too 

 strong, restrained. This is the period for the 

 mother to mold the ambition, the self-respect, 

 the dignity, the stability, and the aspirations of 

 her offspring. 



If the mother is very sensitive, she should go 

 out much, entertain her friends and strive to 

 overcome this weakness. Many children are ready 

 to cry at the approach of a stranger. Many 

 grown people are so sensitive and self-conscious 

 that they cannot do justice to themselves in pub- 

 lic. It is criminal to so endow a child. There 

 are many whose super-sensitiveness is simply 

 painful. This hereditary sensitiveness is largely 

 due to the practice so common among prospective 

 mothers of keeping themselves secluded from 

 society, afraid to be seen and ashamed to have 

 any one notice their condition. 



Maternity is normal ; maternity is divine ! She 

 who is engaged in this sacred function has just 

 cause to be proud. She is worthy of the homage, 

 respect, and admiration of all men and women. 

 She should walk the streets, go shopping, attend 

 the theater, the lecture or the church, not with 

 a sense of timidity, but with a conscious pride. 

 She should hold up her head and, instead of try- 

 ing to conceal her condition, go about without 

 the slightest embarrassment. Even if criticism 

 shall come, as a result of present social ethics, let 

 every prospective mother go anywhere and every- 

 where that will cultivate her self-reliance, her 

 intellect, or ennoble her sentiments, ever conscious 

 of her queenly mission. 



