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you seen the helpless kitten crushed under a fat little
arm, and heard its useless wails, as the "loving child"
mauled and hauled it about with no word of protest
from the mother?
If you called the attention of the mother to the fact
that the kitten or puppy was being misused, ten to one
she became your enemy for life, and spoke of you ever
afterward as an impertinent and ill-bred person who
undertook to tell others how to bring up their children.
One of the important features of humane work is
the direction of the thoughts of the parents to the rights of animals.
Parentage is the oldest profession in the world for
men and women; but there are the smallest number
of prize winners in that profession of any in the
world.
Many a woman believes herself a good mother
because she is ready to fight for her child through fire
and water and to walk over the dead bodies of other
mothers, and other children, in the effort to make way
for her own; and because she loves her child in this
selfish manner, she is blind to any suffering it gives
other human beings or animals.
Real good motherhood must include the universal
motherhood. It must make a woman love her child
so unselfishly that she is willing it should suffer while
learning its lessons of kindness and thoughtfulness and
protection, rather than to enjoy itself while taking
away the toys, the privileges, or the rights of other
creatures --- human or animal.
Almost every even half-civilized woman to-day,
shrinks from the sight of a cruel driver beating a horse,
or from seeing the kicks and blows, often given
wretched street dogs and cats.
