The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-06

die. And how fast the little world
grows. There is never a more lonesome
time in mothers life than when that
| little tot goes to school for the first
time She knows that when he has
crossed the fence of the door yard, he
has crossed the home dead line. Let
us make the bit of sentiment true, that
the hand that rocks the cradle rules the
world, and keep the little world with
US as long as possible. .
! II l had a boy, i would believe that
anything that concerns him would con-
Germ me. child means more to d
| mother than to father The relation
or the child to the mother is different
than that between the child and father.
The man leads a life out in business as
well as the life at home, while the wom-
an lives but the home life. The home
Is to her what leadership and name is
to the man. If Dewey were a married
man, what would his name be to his
wlfeE The woman says to the child:
For me you stand for leadership, for
ambition, for my life's work.
Mere physical toll is not the most a
mother gives to a child. If she gives
no more, she is merely nurse. She
gives her soul to him. So the child
grows, and you look up to him instead
| or down, and he leaves home. What
| have you to show for your work? You
nave your boy. He takes out 20 years
or your heart and soul and strength
into the world. And what does the
world do for your industry? It can't
do without your boy, and yet this gov
eminent protects by the stars and
stripes business which depends for its
existence on its ability to lay hands on
| that boy, and drag him down and down
until not vestige of anything human
IS left in him. The government does
this, and then says to women: Don't
| hit up your voice, don't NEEDLE with
something that is not in your sphere"
God designated the woman, oil whom
he laid the responsibility of mother
hood, to be the best mother.
There was never a greater robber
government since the sun shone than
the government Of the United States in
the home 1t robs the child of the right
! to be well born, for it makes it posi-
bic that the parents may be intemper-
ate. Or, il the child is well born, it de-
pr1Ves 1t Of being well reared by putting
the saloon in the way of the children
Men say that women should keep the
children at home. When the children
| get out of their mothers homes into
their fathers streets, they go wrong.
4 There is no place for the children, but
| the street. They can't fly and land is
too much per foot to give them play
grounds. Our back yard is paved, our
streets are paved, and the children new
er touch the earth, and if a spear of
| grass struggles up we put up signs
saying Keep off the grass A few
city lots would save the building of re-
formatories
Either men cannot make the streets
clean or they won't. Either they would
if they could, but they can't, or they
can If they would, but they won't
l don't believe the women have made
the home safe. I believe the men and
women together make it so.
| If women have made the home safe,
why don't the men invite the women out
to make the streets clean? That they
do not do it makes us believe that they
can if they would, and won't.
If you men won't, then we must The
time has come when the women of this
country have right to demand that
the streets are made clean for their
children. 1t is the greatest piece of
4 cowardice in the world, if the men can
not make the st1 Gets safe, and will not
unite the hands Of the women and let
them try.
4 The republic cannot be unless the
childhood o. the country has more of a
chance than it has now. 1t is not posi-
bic for republic to be drunk and exist,
for where the people rule, they must
keep clear heads.
The w. Q. I. y is built on the foun-
cation Of total abstinence for the in
i dividual and Prohibition for the state
land nation, and the foundation is as
i strong today as when it was first laid
i 1t IS because these foundations are firm
that they will be eternal. Without total
i abstinence there cannot be prohibition:
and without prohibition there cannot be
total abstinence. We have the right
to control the appetites of those who
cannot control themselves.
God grant US law in liberty and lib
erty in law" and that is the Women's
/ Christian Tenn GRANGE union.
| Rev. Mrs. Shaw took her seat amid
i applause and Miss Elizabeth Corridor
i sPoke for a few minutes on the desire
for increased membership, and TOLD
something of the Maine convention OF
last week.
Miss Eva Foster, daughter of Bishop
Foster, of Boston, was introduced with
her friend, Miss Sewell, of Boston.
Miss Foster said a few words OF
thanks for the greetings she and her
friend had received. Miss Sewell also
spoke on the privilege of being present
as member Of the organization.
The collection was then taken, and
white bows distributed to those who
were willing to pledge themselves tc
get new members.
A duet was then sung, and the bene-
diction pronounced by Rev. James Boyd
Brady, D. D., of Grace church, Worces-
ter.