The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-29
Some Facts About Motherhood

The esteemed New York World, in touching upon the request for leave of absence to bear chd which has preferred the Board of Education of New York City, by teacher, refers to the circumstance that Baby Garden is to be established, in which mothers employed at outside work may leave their youngngs, during the working hours.
 Onr contemporary experiences the shock which every ne unfamiliar idea brings to the ultra conservative minds which has not had time to accustom itself to a chagH The psychological principle IS the same which operates on the thinking apparatus of horse when it an automobile for the first time
 Theidea of tI3aby Ctarden'' is not especially new, and it good and useful idea The of it will not de on as e'ose the oTer 1GE1 deany of the world requires the Perpetuation of it's species.
 There are widows with children, whose useless husbands have abandoned their families and women who chG "a eiron the n proceeds of labor in the world Outsldg the home.
 Modern convenience requires special provision for involve Esshifting responsibility In all the cond tons that referred to the preceding paragraph there only waning in the degree of mother love- but that noble sentiment exempled in high form of
 Then too there are of such exalted gifts that
 their duty the world to their husbands and to their children to and keep duties outside the family
 Shall great singer great artist great business whose talents command huge value in the the tasks connected with the rearing of child Most certainly The rle indeed, may be laid down, that wherever able by her honest work in the out side world to maintain her family greatly improved financial and economic scale she will be warranted in do ing This is what such in fact do. Their ch dren arebeneted mother love not thereby diminished any more than father love is The difference between father love and mother love difference nat ura instinct and Junction. and not difference based occupation
 Thousands of women millions of women gagged in work outside the home This being admitted it
 must also be admitted that convenence should be created for caring for the children whose breadwinners en-, Such conveniences ARE being created.
 It does not at all follow distinguished contem- oary to be believe that the mother much less the father in each and detail the best to have charge of the child. The PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM is example in point So is the doctor. So is the nurse
 It is the duty of the mother to bear the child The duty of educating the child somebody else will usually better If the mother the bread winner that duty about the highest she perform If she takes the pro- ceeds of her work and procures for her child all the vatages the world has to offer by the employment of ers in ne that is fortunate child and mother love is exhibited in it's wisest form.
 So The World after all shocked merely the thing that is, that long has been, upon large scale.
 The only question involved in the New York situation is this Should the teacher who mother, be discri inated against9 We think not.
 Those who make motherhood difficult and who pre- vent the family being placed sound basis the real friends of suicide If The World wants the mother to stay in the home devote her entire time the of her children then let The World demand that the state shall raise motherhood the dignity of profession and guarantee to woman, because she is mother subsistence adequate to maintain herself children.
 Cease from worry, dear contemporary. About father love there may be doubt But mother en- .dure as long as God rules.