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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-03-22
woMAN's WORK HARDEST,

"No ordinary work done by a
man is either as hard or as respon-
sible as the work of the woman who
is bringing up family of small
children for upon her time and
strength demands are made not only
every hour of the day, but often
every hour of the night. She may
have to get up night after night to
take care of a sick child, and yet
must by day continue to do all her
household duties as well; and if the
family means are scant she must
usually enjoy even her rare holt
days 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 so loved and trusted; for
the lives of these women are often
led on the lonely heights of quiet,
self sacrificing heroism.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-03-22
rHE Mosr DESIRABLE rAsK.

"Just as the happiest and most
honorable and meet .ssSSff3sii task ttiiat
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 important, the most hon
orable and desirable task which can
be set any woman is to be a good
and wise mother in home marked
by self-respoct and mutual forbear-
ance, by willingness to perform
duty, and by refusal to sink into
self-indulgence or avoid that which
entails effort and self.sacrifice. 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 greater careers of outside use
fulness in addition to- not as SUBJ
stitutes for-their home work; but
l am not speaking of exceptions; 1
am speaking of the primary duties,
l am speaking of the average citi-
zens, the average men and women
who make up the nation.
THE WORK WHICH NEVER ENDS.
'Inasmuch as am speaking to
an assemblage of mothers shall
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-03-22
THE SUPREME BLESSING.

"Fhere are many good people who
are denied the supreme blessing of
children, and for these we have the
respect and sympathy always due
to those who, from no fault of their
own, are denied any of the other
great blessings of life. But the
man or woman who deliberately
foregoes these blessings, whether
from viciousness, GOODNESS, shallow
heartedness, self-indulgence, or
mere failure to appreciate Alright
the difference between the all inn
portant and the INDEPENDENTLY,
such creature merits contempt as
hearty as any visited upon the SOL
der who runs away in battle, or
upon the man who refuses to work
for the support of those dependent
upon him, and who. though able
bodied is yet content to eat in idle
ness the bread which others pro-
vide.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-03-22
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In this age of genuine prosperity
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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-03-22
AN UxLoyELY CREATURE.

"The existence of women OF this
type forms enc OF the most unpleas-
ant and unwholesome features Of
modern life. II any one is so dim
of vision as to fail to see what a
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-03-22
NOT TOO TAME, EITHER.

"The woman who is a good wife,
good mother, is entitled to our re-
spect as is no one else; but she is
entitled to it only because. and so
long as, she is worthy of it. Effort
and self.sacrifice are the law of
worthy life for the man as for the
woman; though neither the effort
nor the self-sacrifice may be the
same for the one as for the other.
! do not in the least believe in the
patient Griselda type of woman, in
the woman vino submits to gross
and long con tinued ill-treatm snt,
any more than l believe in a man
who tamely submits to wrongful
aggression. No wrong-doing is so
abhOrrent as wrong-doino by man
toward the wife and the children
who should arouse every tender
feeling in his nature. Selfshness
toward them, lack of tenderness to-
ward them, lack of consideration
for them, above all, brutality in any
form toward them, should arouse
the heartiest scorn and indignation
in every upright soul.
RECIPROCAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES.
81 believe in the woman's keep
ing her self-respect just as l believe
in the mans doing so. believe in
her rights just as much as 1 believe
in the mans, and indeed a little
more; and / regard marriage as
partnership, in which each partner
is in honor bound to think of the
rights of the other as well as of his
or her own. But l think that the
duties are even more important
than the rights; and in the long
run ] think that the reward is amp
Ter and greater for duty well done,
than for the insistence upon indi-
vidual rights, necessary though
this, too must often be. Your duty
is hard, your responsibility great;
but greatest of all is your reward.
/ do not pity you in the least. On
the contrary, feel respect and ad-
miration for you.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-03-22
EXPERIMENTATION THE THING.

"The man is but a poor creature
whose effort is not rather for the
betterment of his wife and children
than for himself; and as for the
mother, her very name stands for
loving unselfishness and self-abne
CATION, and, in any society, fit to
exist, is fraught with associations
which render it holy.
"The woman's task is not easy
no task worth doing is easy-but
in doing it, and when she has done
it, there shall come to her the
highest and hottest joy known to
mankind and having done it, she
shall have the reward prophesied
in Scripture; for her husband and
her children, yes, and all people
who realize that her work lies at
the foundation of all national hap.
piness and greatness, shall rise up
and call her blessed
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-03-22
THE FAMILY
Discussed BIZ President AT
Mothers Congress.
ACTIVE. STRENUOUSgLIFE
OF DUTY AND SELF-SACRI-
FICE INSISTED ON.
woMAN'S WORK IS HARDEST.

WASHINGTON, March 13.-An adj
dress by President Roosevelt was
the feature of the evening session
of the National Congress of Moth
ers, now holding its triennial con
vention at the Metropolitan M. E.
church. Anticipating the Presi-
dents appearance, there was an i'm
mense crowd at the church, com.
posed largely Of women, and when
Mr.. Roosevelt, accompanied by Sec
rotary Loeb, arrived, he was given
a cordial reception. The President
was formally introduced to the au-
dience by Mrs. Frederic Schoff, of
Philadelnhia. the P-esii5Ss;:;t: % si
Congress.
He read his speech from copy
which he held in his hand, but now
and then he departed from the text
and inteJected some extemporane
Gus remarks when he wished to en-
phasize a point. The President
spoke as follows:
''In our modern industrial civil
ization there are many and grave
dangers to counterbalance the splen-
doris and the triumphs. 1t is not a
good thing to see cities grow at
disproportionate speed relatively to
the country for. the small land
owners, the men who own their
little homes, and therefore to very
large extent the men who till farms,
the men of the soil, have hitherto
made the foundation of lasting ma
tional life in every State; and, if
the foundation becomes either too
weak or too narrow, the superstruc-
ture, no matter how attractive, is in
imminent danger of falling.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-03-22

others the ideal, not of training
children to do their duty, not of
sending them forth with stout
hearts and ready minds to win tri-
umphs for themselves and their
country, not of allowing them the
opportunity, and giving them the
privilege of making their own place
In the world, but, forsooth, of keep
ing the number of children so lin
tied that they might "taste few
good things" The way to give a
child fair chancee in life is not to
bring it mp in luxury, but to see
that it has the kind of training that
Will give it strength of character.
Even apart from the vital question
of national life, and regarding only
the individual interest of the chill
dren themselves, happiness in the
true sense is a hundredfold more
apt to come to any given member
of a healthy family of healthy min
ded children, well brought up, we'll
educated, but taught that they
must shift for themselves, must win
their own way, and by their own
exertions make their own positions
of usefulness, than it is apt to come
to those whose parents themselves
have acted on and have trained
their children to act on, the selfish
and sordid theory that the whole
end of life is "to taste a few good
things"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-03-22

erage man possesses honesty, cour
age, common sense and decency,
unless he works hard and Is willing
at need to fight hard; and unless
the average woman is good wife,
good mother, able and willing to
perform the first and greatest duty
of womanhood, able and willing to
bear, and to bring up as they should
be brought up, healthy children,
sound in body. mind and character,
and numerous enough 80 that the
race shall increase and not decrease.
PRIMARY DUTIES.
There are certain old truths
which will be true as long as this
world endures, and which no amount
of progress can alter. One of these
is the truth that the primary duty
of the husband is to be the home
maker, the bread-winner for his
wife and children, and that the pri-
mary duty of the woman is to be
the helpmeet, the housewife and
mother. The woman should have
ample educational advantages; but
save in exceptional cases the man
must be, and she need not be, and
generally ought not to be, trained
for a lifelong career as the family
bread winner: and. therefore, after
a certain point the training of the
two must normally be different be-
cause the duties of the two are
normally different. This does not
mean inequality of function, but it
does mean that normally there must
be dissimilarity of function. On
the whole, l think the duty of the
woman the more important, the
more difficult. ana the more honor
able of the two; on the whole l re-
spect the woman who does her duty
even more than l respect the man
who does his.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-03-22
DEMoLIsHRs A CLERGYMAN.

"This man, whose profession and
calling should have made him
moral teacher, actually set before
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-03-22
THE ROOT OF MORALITY.

I'm the last analysis the welfare
Of the State depends absolutely up
on whether or not the average fam
lily, the average man and woman
and their children, represent the
kind of citizenship fit for the foun-
dalton of a great nation; and if we
fail to appreciate this we fail to
appreciate the root of morality up
on which all healthy civilization is
based.
''No piled up wealth, no splendor
OF material growth, no brilliance of
artistic development, will perma-
rently avail any people unless its
home life is healthy, unless, the av-
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-03-22

They who walk with God do not
walk away from men.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-03-22
REAL HOME NECESSARY.

"But far more important than
the question of the occupation of
our citizens is the question of how
their family life is conducted. No
matter what that occupation may
be, as long as there lie real home
and as long as those who make up
that home do their duty to one an
other, to their neighbors and to the
State, it is of minor consequence
whether the mans trade is piled in
the country or the city, whether it
calls for the work of the hands or
for the work of the head.
"'But the nation is in bad way
if there is no real home, if the fam
lily is not of the right kind if the
man is not a good husband and
father, if he is brutal or cowardly
or selfish, if the woman has lost
her sense of duty, if she is sunk in
vapid self-indulgence or has let her
nature be twisted so that she pre-
fers sterile pseudo-intellectuslity
to that great and beautiful devel-
opment of character which comes
only to those whose lives know the
fullness of duty done, of effort
made and self-sacrifice undergone.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-03-22

anu SOlulu theOIy JudJ the WuOle
end of life is "to taste a few good
things"
WOULD EXTINGUIsH THE RACE.
"The intelligence of the remark
is on par with its morality, for
the most rudimentary mental proc
ess would have shown the speaker
that if the average family in which
there are children contained but
two children the nation as a whole
would decrease in population so
rapidly that in two or three gener-
ations it would very deservedly be
on the point of extinction, so that
the people who had acted on this
base and selfish doctrine would be
giving place to others with drawer
and more robust ideals. Nor would
such a result be in any way regret
table, for race that practiced such
doctrine-that is, a race that prac-
ticed race suicide-would thereby
conclusivelY show that it was unfit
to exist, and that it had better give
place to people who had not forgot
ten the primary laws of their being.
THE LIFE wORTH LIVING.
"To sum up, then, the whole
matter is simple enough. If either
a race or an individual prefers the
pleasures of mere effortless ease, of
self-indulgence, to the infinitely
deeper, the infinitely higher pleas
ures that come to those who know
the toll and the WEAKNESS, hut also
the joy, of hard duty well done.
why, that race or that Individual
must inevitably in the end pay the
penalty of leading a life both vapid
and lgnoble. No man and no wo-
man really worthy of the name can
care Tor the life spent solely or
chiefly in the avoidance of risk and
trouble and labor, Save in excep-
tional cases the prizes worth hav-
ing in life must be paid for, and
the life worth living must be life
of work for a worthy end, and or
dinarily of work more for others
than for ones self.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-01-05
WENoNAH.

Miss Lille Sowden returned on Monday
from weeks visit with friends in Phila.
Several Of our sportsmen were outafter
rabbits the last day of the season but had
poor success
J. J. Kroner and family returned from
Cape May Point on Tuesday.
Pastor Kulp is arranging for two weeks
OF revival service in the NJ. Il. Church COM
mencing next Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer OF Phila., spent
the first of the week with their daughter,
Mrs A. S. Proud.
If previous arrangements were carried
out. Mrs Helen Rasmussen was married
Monday to Rey. Springer in Umtalli
South Africa. Mrs. Rasmussen left here
about fonr years ago for the mission fields
Of South Africa, where she met Mr.. Spring
er who is also missionary.
The Mems League Court includes two
evenings entertainment by former Weno-
nah gentlemen. "A trip to Hoiyland DR.
Geo w Bailey on Jan. 9th, and readings
from American author by Chas. NJ. Wiki
ms on Feb. 10th. The entire course Of en-
tertainments is most excellent one, and
affords rare treat that none should miss.
johnson Douglass has patented a speed in
dictator for showing the rate of speed and
number of miles traversed by any kind Of a
vehicle, but especially intended for auto
mobiles, for which he has received very
hattering offer for one fourth interest
Miss Fac florence has so far recovered
from her attack of diphtheria as to leave
her room, and the house was fumigated and
the quarantine lifted on Monday
Dr. Lorence's illness has developed into
pneumonia though his condition is not con-
sidered dangerous, and he seems to be hold
ing his own
Master Nalland Cox and Edwin Balm
ger both entered the Military Academy as
cadets at the opening of the January term.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-01-05
HURFFvILLE.

The public school reopened on Monday
Miss Fielding has charge of the primary
room as Miss Cramer is yet unable to take
charge. although much improved.
Miss Helen Evans Of Williamstowil has
visiting Miss Estella Pearson
G. j. Davenport has erected a new gal
vanized water tank.
Howard Hannold, our enterprising thesh-
er, is anticipating building a new house.
Harry B. Evans killed his large hogs on
Monday.
Miss Anna Turner has been visiting Miss
Bertha Steelman of Clayton.
Misses Annetta CLARK, Helen Evans, Es-
tella Pearson, Helen Atkinson made an en-
ioyable trip TO Philadelphia on Saturday
afternoon taking in play at the theatre.
Jesse Nicholson and Joseph G. Pearson
appraised the stock Of Jacob Richards on
Friday which was killed by dog
Howard f. Wick is making repairs to
his newly purchased property.
Our rural letter carrier, delivered two
hundred and fifty-nine packages in four
weeks which consisted mainly Of Christmas
gifts.
Rev E. r. Sherman has returned home
after an extended trip of seven months
Miss Maize Ccamar and mother have re-
turned home TO New Gretna-
/ Wilbert Hurff killed his poFkers on
/ Wednesday.
/ Miss Adelaide Sherman Of Camden is
I visiting Miss Katie Sherman
Friday afternoon aud evening was very
sociablv spent at Eva D. Parsons by the
Late House, Those present were Misses
Louella James Helen Atkinson, Estella
+ Pearson, Annetta Clark. Helen Evans,
Messrs Oscar Davenport, Ellsworth Wealth
erhy, George E. Doran and Frank Pearson.
Repairs are being made to the residence
OF Charles d. Wick.
The attendance at the church on Sunday
was much increased and the eloquent ser
mon by Rev. Peterson much appreciated.
The Grange had election Of officers on Sat
urday night and many changes were made.
A feast was partaken at a late hour.
Wesley got four rabbits, but we wonder
if Hiram just went for company.
1t was decided at meeting of the Trus-
tees on Monday night to renovate the in.
terror of the church. A. D. Fielding will
do the work.
a painters shop with cards and sign
boards displayed with large canvass bear
ing the word ''optician" was quite an ac
traction on Tuesday morning
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-01-05
Public Service Reduces Fares.

Beginning January 1, the Public Ser
vice Corporation of New Jersey, in ac-
cordance with its very liberal policy,
reduced the number of fares collected
on its Camden, Gloucester and Wood
bury line, between Camden and Wood
bury, to two, instead of three fares,
as heretofore, the dividing line now
being Timber creek, Gloucester.
A ten-round trip Communication tic
ket will be sold at any of its numer-
Gus offices for $780, good between
Kaighn's avenue, Camden, and Wood
bury or National Park
Another ticket will be offered at
the rate of twenty-one tickets for
S100, which will be good for one fare
on any five-cent fare collection, on
either the Camden and Suburban or
Camden, Gloucester and Woodbury.
Railway Division
These tickets may be procured at
AS Federal street or Twenty sixth
street and Westfield avenue (B. G..
Hollowell, AGENT, Camden; 4 South
Centre street, collins & Pancoast,
agents., Merchantville; 213 East Main
street, mrs E. G. Hillman, agent)
Haddonfield; Haddon avenue near
Washington, (H Frech, AGENT, Col
Iingswood; ga Chester avenue, (J. H.
Barcklow, AGENT, Moorestown; 1870
South King street, Or. B. Lippincott,
agent), Gloucester; Broadway, (Jos.
W. Pratt, AGENT, Westville, or 100
South Broad street, (John s. Jessup,
agentl, Woodbury..
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-01-05
BRIDGEPORT.

The New Year shooters made the town
lively on Saturday night We would sup
pose by the booming of guns everybody
saw the new years advent.
Our schools have again re-opened with
the usual attendance.
The railroad company isa making some
alterations at the station, cutting down
part of the old platform and extending the
low platform 100 feet down the road. The
old ticket office is left in its exalted posi-
tion making very convenient observatory
for strangers to view the surrounding coun-
try
New Years Day viii long be remembered
as most pleasant mid-winter day, making
a reminder of a pleasant May day, while
Jan. 3 and were good reminders of Win
ter.
Officers elected for the present term in
Bridgeport Lodge No. so, A. O. y. w. are
as follows: Master Workman. John Kirby;
Foreman, VIM. J. Helms; Oyerseer, John
F. Truitt; Financier, e. T. Oliphant: Re-
corder, Hance Helms; Guide, John Shold-
ers; ]. W., VIM. Fl. Springer; Representa-
tive, Capt. John F. Truitt; Alternate, r.
Z. Oliphant; Medical Examiner, E. T..
Oliphant; Trustee for 3 years, William FL.
Moore.
Officers elected for the current term in
Enterprise Lodge No. 139, /. o. 0. F. are
N. G., John Magin; Rec. Sec'y, John F..
Truitt Per. Sec'y, VIM. Risler; Treasurer,
Geo. Uron; Trustees, James II. HeWes, y.
f. Truitt, Geo. Uron.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-01-05
BLACKWOOD,

On Tuesday afternoon Mrs. j. L. Wilcox
entertaied the Philadelphia Matinee Euchre
consisting of five tables at her home.
The Blackwood Building and Loan Asso-
citation will hold its monthly meeting on
January ninth.
T. S. Wentz has filled his ice house
with ice measuring four and half to six
inches,
Mr.. E. B. Humphreys, Of Texas, is a
guest for the holidays at the home Of DR..
A. E. LeFevre.
Miss Adelia Hagerman, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Hagerman, of Central
avenue, and Mr.. Ebert Bradshaw, of Gren-
loch, were joined in wedlock at the NJ E.
parsonage by Rev. B. G. Lippincott. d. D.,
on Friday evening, December %.
Miss Emma Eastlack is visiting her
cousin, Mr. Heite and his family, in n. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Heating gave a
New Years dinner at his home on Central
avenue.
Mrs. Rebecca Sinnott has just passed the
eightieth milestone in life.
The young men of Blackwood gave a
turkey supper at Mr.. Frank Rapp's store.
Mr. Marshall Williams, of Pittsburg.
was the guest of Mrs. Benjamin Williams.
Mrs. Samuel MatIack and son, and Miss
Emma Butler, of Gloucester, were the
guests of Mrs. Milton Rudderow.
Miss M. Ruddderow and Miss Mary
Rudderow were visiting friends in Camden.