The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-27
KANSAS CO1AENT
PLACING THE REWARDS.

PLACING THE REWARDS.
me INSTITUTIONS which are constantly
Wnom to shower rewards are somehow
oNer!ooklng the heroines who are most
worthy OF their attention.
All aoout them in the silent places OF
Lne homes are the American mothers
VINO deserve more credit than they ever
get Tor the numerous acts of mercy
that they daily perform
Inc deeds the mothers do are covered
ana hidden by the privacy Of their lives,
and NOBODY ever knows.
Nobody knows the struggle the sac
tince ana the pain that the mothers
are oDI1geG to endure under the burdens
OF duty when their weary bodies are
racked with pain. 1t Is the mothers
part to give up fler needed sleep in
croer that the old garment may be
made serviceable a little longer; to
watch beside the little ones crib during
the long nights when Nature and Dis
ease struggle for its breath; in thou
sand ways to plan. contrive, toll and
Sacrlnce in the effort to make the dol
lar DO the work of two and to make
the lives OF those around them more
happy and lovely.
The mothers deserve a fairer deal.
Their place in the outing party should
not be vacated as soon as the lunch
has been prepared. and when the plans
tons to enjoy the pleasures of the
mountains or the sea the mothers
should not be left entirely out of the
calculations
For real heroism tho mothers lead the
world and the medals of honor will not
mean much SO long as the mothers are
Heglected.-Wicllita Beacon.
INTEMPERATE FATHERHOOD.
1t has finally come and a woman
brings the message. that in ten years
1t viii be as much of a disgrace to
be the father of 10 or IL children as
1t is now 10 be drunkard."
Mrs. Lareine Helen Baker, of Spo-
kane, suhragette. is reported by the
Omaha World Herald to have made
this onanous statement. so anti-RooSe-
yedtian in character at the National
Woman Suffrage convention in Wash
tngfon. Not more than 10 per cent
of the children are born of love and
the other so per cent are not wanted"
she said. and she called Roosevelt an
Ignorant man for urging large fani-
lies and declared that the greatest
crime of the age is too many children
Mrs. Baker does not explain why this
peculiar condition Will come in ten
years and she leaves us to conjecture
children is to escape the odium that
she says will be visited on the father
of ten We are also left unenlightened |
as to whether or not the friends and /
family of this disgraced father are to |
suffer ostraciSm with him.
Mrs. Baker says that l. is quality |
and not quantity that we want in chill |
dren, and one cannot be blamed very |
much for wondering If this does not |
depend somewhat on who is to be the |
perhaps. 1t IS Mrs. |
Baker or some other woman.
That too many children in the homes |
Of the very poor constitute an evil |
condition may be admitted. Too many |
of course, are too many any |
where. It Is 5inaply question of what |
too many" means. Mrs. Baker says
ten are as disgraeeful to the father as
FIVE are probably as bad
as moderate drinking. according to this
standard while total abstinence would
be the supreme Yirtue.-Ottawa Repub-
ia. sVe
30 |
DESIGNATING, MARRIED MEN.
The good women of Pittsburg are so
opposed to married men flirting that
hey desire a. law compelling all mar
led men to wear wedding rings in Or
Ter that the innocent girls may spot
hem at q glance and be saved from
he sin of a Irritation with a married
nan The ladies are right, but the in
ignia prepared are not as conspicuous
Is they should be. We move that
very man that is married be compelled
o wear a red derby and a yellow vest.
n this way the girls would haze it
yer before them and could not be
AIKEN in. If any sly buffers tried to go
Harry Kemp style in order to rid them
elves of their derbies, then the tell
ale yellow vest would get in it's work
md the girls would be saved. Clearly
There Ought to Be a Law.-Lawrence
World.