The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29

1 upon their husbands as if they were 1 heaven itself. and thus escape celestial l punishment. Their identity is completely l absorbed. You all are aware of the status of Japanese women as citizens.
 II is no use, unles you are blessed with q Junoesque figure or the face Of Helen, l to waste time reading beauty hints. You will look as well as you can. anyhow. l for your own sake. Women who win are l the ones chosen for wives Men seldom marry for beauty alone. It is tho char aeter. the soul of woman, which the happy home radiates.
 The best thing to do is 10 keep the at mosphere of home pure and healthful and i love will not grow cold. Warmed over love reminds me of souhe that has fal- len or a withered morning glory. You Ina just IS well bury it and be done 1 It does no good to denounce these evils so long as the proper means of hindering 1 them are discarded. Sensible women know that the family is worth while.
 There is no joy like that that is given by fond husband and satisfactory chil- dren. It makes you glad to think they selected you for wife and mother You 1 afC in a measure responsible for the hus- band you draw but as for children
 we cannot fashion our children after our fancy. We must have them and love 1 them as God has given them to Us. Bring
 
 le listeth. One has one kind of gifts, an other possesses another. Each one em- l ploys them ana each in turn in his sepa- rate fashion good and happy becomes" 1 Marriage is desirable. but difficult. and, like other business, the moro time you give 1t the greater the reward. Those who do anything to degrade the family relation must meet the vengeance of the great Law Giver.
 The Kansas Woman's Christian Tem- perance union, in session recently, made | a resolution to send delegation to Tope- i ka praying the legislature to make more | binding marriage laws and to prohibit | the marriage of those who are not of age, those not physically strong, new acquain- tances, and those financially weak. | The Chicago domestic relations court 1 founded upon the principle that the fam i fly is the unit around which all else that l is good must be built, and anything that l destroys that unit works evil to the public good. in the first six months returned ] l230 husbands to their homes and col l lected and paid over to wives and families s25,00o which would have gone to other purposes. These are steps in the right | direction
 rhere has been much discussion of late ] by our sOlons regarding lax marriage and i divorce laws, and the great need of spe- 1 oial legislation to regulate both. Here we women are unable to act intelhgently. i as we are not yet initiated into the mys- telous order of lawmakers.
 However. this is one matter where Eve i Is not to blame. and We are to be con graduated. When women have gained tho right of suffrage. when they become l creatures like Bulwer's women in the l Coming Race" they may hope to frame 1 laws that will not only be constitutional and non-confiicting. but just laws that w.ll be enforced.
 l Ae trust the family in all countries will bc restored to it's unity and integrity in ] all respects and preserved to bless and l senctitfy coming generations.