The evening world., 1911-10-24

that space OF time become a contribu-
tor 10 all of the best known magazines
BY birth she Is a Californian. ana IN
a~noea-an>e she has the luxuriant love-
illness which the women share with the
flowers OF that opalesccnt eglon
KNOWS THE HAPPINESS HER
OWN BABY BROUGHT.
ct don't want to seem o~pinionated.'
Ma Norris told me yesterday. but I
find tina. M own baby has brought me
moro happiness han anything else In
life. and when I see the NUMBER OF uh-
happy and chiidless women In New
York l wonder /; they quite realize
wha. they are missing.
".go triumph Of society. OF
nrofession or an art can give
woman the intimate tsndsr JOY
that GENES TO the poorest moshss'
with even tho most u~npromisins'
droolng baby In her arms.
.I sec very poor ONE with badly
dr.ssed babies in the Subway some
limos. and 1 always lool, at them and
think: Well. you have FOUND the hes
to happiness which so many wea''"'e'
women have thrown away
.'Becore my own baby came ! useo
to he oppressed sometimes by the M
Qualities Of life, the perpetual I'M
fairness which gives everything TO
some women, nothing TO others. But a
mother knows better than that
IT believe nrmly that the poor
%. mother OF q child 10 richer
than any enildless daughter OF
luxury. =.
'What are our women coming 10 II
they persist in Sinking the response
biut!es OF life? Think OF the thousands
Of homes in which there are no ehil-
dren. the other thousands In which
there are but one. II is unfair to a
child not to give him little brothers ahd
sisters TO play and study with. lh'nk
OF his loneliness. s~urrounded by grown
persons, as he Is for the most part
TT Is needless TO a that I do not
believe a man making 81. a week should
have nino children. | mean that wher-
ever there Is IA ome-a house-there
should be n houseful OF children.
NEARLY ALL THE WOMEN WERE
CHiLDLEsS.
And vet how many empty houses
there are! We spent two summers In
q country place near New York. peo-
nled mostly by families with incomes
ranging from 5000 to 5000 a year.
Nearly all the women were chl'dless,
and the Others wished they were. Why.
when my baby was born a woman
came TO me and said: Well. I've come
to see your little ball and chain"
"A baby is a ball and chain In a
way" Mrs. Norris admitted. but II
chains a woman to responsibilities. TO
usefulness, to the sane. real things of
TIE.
What does a c0Wdn tChO
spends the morning getting mani
cured and combing out her puGs
on a pilloV, and the afternoon
playing bridge, contribute to her
generdtionf Why, such pomen,
every one OF them, might be
dropped into the aching Uoid and
the porld uould roll on ernltin0
in the loss OF a burden.
Motherhood means so much more than
tust having a baby and turning II over
TO a nurse. suppose "a man snoulu come
home some day and say to his wife;
"'wsll, dear, Nv found some
one to nj my business for S25 q
month. Thatvl give me time to
take German Lessons and reduce
my figure
Wouldn't she think he'd gone crazy?
And yet that's what every woman does
who turns her house over to a SO
servant inc he' child 10 "A go nurse.
Mothers should bs able to teach their
children to look after their mental a?d
physical welfare.
There isn't anything n mother
shouldn't know, How can she help her
little boy who seems interested IN SCI
ence, her little girl who has a talent
for music. unless she tries to he pro-
ficient in the things her children want
to know? We hear a lot about the
woman with the profession. and she. at
least, has some usefulness. some value
TO the world. But motherhood 10 all
NE professions when Il 10 praGtissd
efaeisntly.
~. writing ~ nsyAe Hysa q ~