The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-03-17

night to take care Of sick child, and
yet must by day continue to do all
her household duties as well; and IL
the family means are scant she must
usually enjoy even her rare holiday
taking her whole
BROOD OF CHILDREN
with her. The birth pangs make all
men the debtors OF all women. Above
all our sympathy and regard are due
to the struggling wives among those
whom Abraham Lincoln called the
plain people, and whom he 80 loved
and trusted for the lives of these wo-
heights of quiet, self-sacrificing hero
Ism.
Just as the happiest and most hon
orable and most useful task that can
be set any man is
TO EARN ENOUGH
for the support of his wife and family,
for the bringing up and starting In
life of his children, so the most i'm
portant, the most honorable ana de-
sirable task which can be set any wo-
man is to be a good and wise mother
In home marked by self-respect and
mutual forbearance, by willingness to
perform duty, and refusal to sink into
self-indulgence or avoid that which.
entails effort and self-sacrifce. OF
course there are exceptional men and
exceptional women who can do and
ought to do much more than this, who
can lead and ought to lead
GREAT CAREERS
of outside usefulness In addition to-
not as substitutes for-their home
work; but l am not speaking of ex-
ceptions; / am speaking of the pri-
mary duties, l am speaking of the
average citizens, the average men and
women who make up the Nation.
Inasmuch as I am speaking to an as
semblage of mothers ] shall have
nothing whatever to say in praise of
an easy life. Yours is the work
which is never ended. No mother has
an easy time, and most mothers have
very hard times; and yet what true
mother would
BARTER HER EXPERIENCE
of Joy and sorrow in exchange for a
life of cold selfishness. which insists
upon perpetual amusement and the
avoidance of care. and which often
finds its fit dwelling place in some
fiat designed to furnish with the least
possible expenditure of effort the max
imum of comfort and of luxury, but in
which there is literally no place for
The woman who is a good wife.
good mother. is entitled to our respect
as is no one else: but she is entitled
to 1t only because, and SO long as,
SHE is WORTHY
of it. Effort and self-sacrif1ce are the
law of worthy life for the man as for
the woman; though neither the effort
nor the self-sacriice may be the same
for the one as for the other. | do not
in the least believe in the patient
type of woman, in the wo-
man who submits to gross and long
continued i'll treatment, any more
than / believe in a man who tamely
submits to wrongful aggression. No
is so abhorrent as wrong
doing by man towards the wife and
the children who should arouse every
TENDER FEELING
In his nature. Selhshness towards
them, lack of tenderness towards them,
lack of consideration for them. !
above all, brutality in any form to-
wards them, should arouse the heart
lest scorn and indignation in . every
upright soul. a.
believe In the woman's keeping
her self-respect Just as | believe in
the mans doing SO. i believe In her
rights just as much as l believe in
the mans, and indeed little more. |
A GREAT DANGER.
If you mothers through weakness
bring up your sons to be selfish and to
think only of themselves, you will be |
for much sadness among |
the women who are to be their wives |
In the future. II you let your daugh-
ters grow up idle, perhaps under the |
impression that as you your
selves have had to work hard they
shall know only enjoyment, you are
them to be useless to others |
and burdens to themselves. Teach |
boys and girls alike that they are not |
70 look forward to lives spent in
AVOIDING DIFFICULTIES
but to lives spent in overcoming diff
,ulties. Teach them that work, for
and also for others. is not
a curse but blessing; seek to make
hem happy, to make them enjoy life,
out seek also to make them face life |
with the steadfast resolution to wrest
success from labor and adversely, and