Item - Step-Mothers

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 35 no. 32 — page 4
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXXV, no. 32, June 21, 1880 (Issue)
Author:	C., D. S.
Date:	June 21, 1880
First Sentence:	It has become so much the custom to hold forth to ridicule as the caricatures of fiction the hated office of step-mother, that she who has with many misgivings and heart shrinkings accepted the place of "second mother" to a family of children, often feels as if she were under the ban of society; and when she has fulfilled in the tenderest way her carefully performed duties-burdensome only because the eye of suspicion is ever upon her-how often is she chilled and insulted by the unfeeling remark made in her presence: "Oh, of course she cannot be expected to treat them as if they were her own-she is only their step-mother!"