Doubtless, you in your own life, have known of more than one second wife who was jealous of her husband's love for the first wife's children.

When women are heartless they are desperately cruel, and do not hesitate to vent their hatred upon the little ones whose look, Mrs.Browning tells us,-- "is dread to see, For they mind you of their angels in high places, With eyes turned on Deity." She also reminds those whose consciences are so hardened by selfishness that they dare be cruel to the mere babies in their care that-- "The child's sob in the darkness curses deeper Than the strong man in his wrath." We have not to do in this Talk with this type of woman, but with beings of the mother-sex who would, if they were allowed, make life brighter for the bereaved little ones.
One way to keep step-children's affection is to talk to them often and reverently of their own mother.

This is due to them and to her who bare them.

Do not allow them to forget her, and guard against the entrance of any jealous feeling into this sacred duty of keeping her memory fresh.

The children were hers, and in the eternal home will be hers again.