The Detroit times., 1909-12-14
hO-NOMAA HAPPY
UNLESS 4 MOTHER
If She osn Bear Great Children she
Can Do No Other Great Work,
Says Mrs. Bacon.

NEW YORK. Dee. u The lew
book that Mrs. Josephine Dodge bas h.
am Bacon has written. I'm the Border
Country has caused great sur
among womans suffrage advocates.
as well as revealing an interesting
chapter In the life OF tl" famous
authOress.
The book is a message to No.i TO-
cali women. Mrs Bacon says oht
feels competent 10 write of tae nm
ject I'm the intimate style 80" mas
chosen. for She is the molhcf on
three chidren--a very happy mother
and she abandoned her wotN a. a
wliter Of stories 10 devote herself
a. her family. This cost her Sl5.onp
per year. money which flowed into her
la9 from the publishers al her t1sc!n
ating stories.
Mrs. Bacon, i'm the book. madn one
statement which especially NED
the suffragets. 1t was this.
No woman living will ever do "a
great work who could uot have borne
great children. ard IL she can hedf
great children. She can do no oin'r
great work
In an interview with the core
srcndent OF this newspaper Mrs
Bacon, wife OF Selden Bacon. an ar
tcrney, told OF her motive IN writing
ire now book and said
Il am fur having babies And I'm
particularly in favor of twins Home
ami the Cradlesidc IL the plac' TOR a
woman ,,- .- .....----,,.
Dent you believe in careers VAS
asied.
~. Outside of the home women
can't do things as well as men do
item The big things Of The world
are al TO be done by men
What is left for women
ITO make the men In my story
tnc Bee-vUmau says 10 woman
artist: Go back and let men max"
thr pictures. De you make The men
Haven't women ever done big
things ~ the world?
None OF them except the women
who brought into The world and
trained such men as Washington and
iLcon. The biggcsr thing IL" sur
frgeets can point 70 Is that or" pic
ture. The Horse Fair bv Rosa B2n-
hour
why women haven't even lo1'n-
cd how TO manage their homes They f.
uSed To- wrrp their babies mp IN fold +
after fold OF unsanitary wool a2tll z (
man invented healthy garment .or
babies. Why. even the mills hodl" +
WIS invented by man 50 were I
cnKling irons. The best drcssm2kerS /
are Inon.
History -RIoyes- hat. Women can do
their best i'm homes Household work /
is made up OF many little THINGS. sJch 7
as cnIy s Woman s mind can grasp
"TfIvr r1cf- and women ,I'frTfent
rairryt@' ..a>5~ $500 t'tr's-~ - 49, -...~t
-fnrecu. yes: N-womar can DO
lot-N~f. -ht+iv~t things -at once; sUcn a.
ar~--@ee~sse%y-~ for F.,tlHiag- - homo.
But mans mind can handle only
big things. and these one al a time"
But doesn't your theory muA" yro-
man a drudge
mo. The coming OF children brings
a great reward" For further answer /
Mrs. Bacon showed me the passaa /!
from the book:
Even as God makes the harvest
for us TO spoil. and smilc- and
makes another. so must wor"n
weave what the year viii wear. anG .
wash what the day Will soil Aul
die and moulder into roses dat b
other men shall one day pick Our
men-chidren finish their loveir TOYS
and set them on the shelf, oJt our
work is too great that We should
ever finish It: il is so great thai !
must needs be made OF MANY inv
matters, done, now and again Ef"
the growing rains and sha!.cung
SHOWS"
"Are you contented TO woTj Inst
way now, after your years OF freedom
aud fame?'
"Yes. More contented than ever
was in my life before and vas
making more money than most mon
But I've found that No womal can
be happy until she j.. married 9l
has. as many children rs Col sill
send her"
You think then. that man
ought TO be master I'm his home
Indeed | do. Do J think he onght
To pay his wife a salary Thor"
ought To he a law making husbands
do that If girls had the choice be- .
tween being stenographer a. s. A.
week and raising good children Tor
good husband at 81 week 'h'v
would choose the latter task hume .l
ately.''
But are good husbands to p"
found?"
Maybe they arc not plentiful now
I don't know about that. Bur J 10
krow that If all the women Ia NmerIcJ
TODAY were To begin having bapi, '1d
making the boy-babies good men AMI
tho gfrl-babics good women il would
rot be many generations before this
would be bissful. happy COUNTRY
90 you think women ought no. 10
work ut all outside of the home?
"Indeed. they ought not. And Vo-