, 1908-04-22

of motherhood.
''Unless the average woman is a good wife
and good mother, unless she bears a sutl-
cents number of children, 80 that the race
shall increase and not decrease, unless she
brings up these children sound in soul and
mind and body-unless that is true of the
average woman, no brilliancy of genius, no
material prosperity, no triumphs OF science
and industry will avail to save the race from
ruin and death. TIL mother is the one SUI
preme asset of National life she is more inn
portant by far than the successful statesman
or business man or artist or scientist.
ABHoRs SELFISH MEN.
ri abhor and condemn the man who is
brutal, thoughtless, careless, selfish with
women, and especially with the women OF
his own household.
"The man is q poor creature who does not
realize the infinite difficulty of the woman's
task, who does not realize what is done by
her who bears and rears the children. I alb
hor and condemn the man who flils to re-
cognize all his obligations to the woman who
does her duty.
"But the woman who shirks her duty as
wife and mother is just as heartily to be
condemned. We despise her as we despise
and condemn the soldier who finches III
battle. A good woman who does full duty
is sacred in our eyes, exactly as the brave
and patriotic soldier is to be honoured above
all other men. But the woman who, whether
from er.Nardice, from selfishness, from hav-
ing u t Use and vacuous ideal, shirks her duty
as wife and mother, earns that right to our
contempt, just as the man who, from any
motive, fears to do his duty in battle when
the country calls him.
WANTS Practical SCHOOL Work.
ri want to ask your assistance for two OF
three matters that are not immediately con-
nected with the life in the family itself, but
that are of vital consequence to the children
In the first place, in the schools see that the
school work is made as practical as possible.
For the boys / want to see training provided
that shall train them toward and not away
from, their life work that will train them
toward the farm or shop, not away from it.
With the girl, see that it is not made q
matter of mirth that the girl who goes to
college comes out unprepared to do any of
the ordinary duties of womanhood. Sec in
other words, that with the higher education
which she should have-for she should have
a right to just as much education, to just as
high an education, as any man-see that
with that goes the education that will fit her
to do her fundamental work in the world.
AS regards our public schools especially L
want to put in a special word in behalf of the
right kind of Fairgrounds.
ENC school is q good school II it has not q
good playground. Help the children to play,
and remember that you can often help them
most by leaving them entirely alone. I mis-
read them if they themselves do not often
know how to play better than we old folks can
teach them.
To Stop CHILD LABOR.
at is the gravest kind of wrong, not only
to the children but to the whole community,
to turn out the boys aid girls, especially in
the congested part of the city, with Il place
to play in but the streets.
"You cannot have good citizens, good
men and women of the next generation, if
the boys and girls are worked in factories to
the stunning of their moral, mental, and
physical growth. Wherever the National
Government can reach, it should do away
with the evils of child labor, and I trust this
will be done, but much must be done by the
actions of the several State Legislatures, and
do, each of you, in your several States, all
that you can to secure the enactment, and
then the enforcement of laws that shall put
a stop to the employment of children of
tender age in doing what only grown people
should do.
"Do not forget that love is what the fami-
ly is based on, but don't do children, don't
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