child-mothers

Updated: May 5, 2025

These little child-mothers who take care of the younger members of the family deserve special seats in Paradise. Harriet taught little Henry Ward to talk plainly, to add four and four, and to look solemn when he did not feel so and thus escape the strap behind the kitchen-door. His bringing-up was of the uncaressing, let-alone kind.

Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators