The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-04-09
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MOTHER wAVERLY's PURITANi
CAL IDEAS
Copyright. 1915. by tho Newspaper
Enterprise Association

Copyright. 1918. by tho Newspaper
Enterprise Association
Yesterday Harry. Eliene, Jim
Edie and Mother Waverly happened
In nt the same time.
During tho evening Eliene and
spoke as a matter OF course about
what we would do when our ba.
bles came
did not realize until after
they had gone and Mother Waiver
/ ly began to talk to me about the
holy instincts OF motherhood"
sacred secrets pertaining to It
should be disclosed that &C.
cording TO the puritanically inclined.
Eliene and |. with our tender love
and perfect spiritual Joy in the
coming important events were not
only vulgar women but menaces
to the young and shocking to the
adult members OF decent society.
II cannot understand, Margie."
said Mother Wayerly. how you
and Eliene can talk about your ba-
bies when they are not yet born.
| ! think Il IS not only immodest
but indecent. Why. did you realize
that Mr.. Edie was there. an unmar-
ried man7'
why shouldn't We do this2"- ]
asked Surely. even you viii con
cedc there is nothing ribald or In
| decent about a baby. We all were
babies once. And while nature has
decreed the manner OF child's
birth. do not think II has ever
sentenced the woman. who for the
sake OF bringing an immortal soul
| out OF the vast vacuum of the UNI
movable and giving II a chance
In Immortality IL willing 10 suffer
the torments OF the damned for
hours. TO speechless prison.
"As for birth and motherhood
being secret there Is nothing In this
world more public.
1T Is almost as universal and
common as marriage.
i II certainly believe that the birth
OF a child is n sacred thing. but that
is no reason why | should not talk
about IL. One holds his religion
sacred but withal feels privileged
to shout II from the housetop. True
love Is sacred but II Is the most
talked OF thing In the world and
nothing is taken from the sacred
ness OF these two wonderful ideals
OF humanity because some be-
nighted people with vulgar minds
scoff and ridicule them.
These people would have us be-
lleve there is nothing in love but
desire. nothing in religion but self.
deception.
They seem also to forget that
love, which is an emotion, and re-
ligion, which is faith. can be ig-
nored by the materiallstic. but that
birth. like death, is fact and can
not be put aside.
THE school boy in the streets
should be taught the sacredness not
only OF childbirth but OF the woman
who Is willing TO brave the fortunes
OF hell to become a mother and re-
place the dying race.
Instead OF ridicule and vulgar re-
marks he should take off his hat In
reverence as they did In ancient
Athens when an expectant mother
walked the streets.
when these mock-modest people
pirate about the holy instincts of
motherhood want to tell them that
the instincts of motherhood are
not holy--they are only the natural
ones that woman shares with
every other female animal that
bears young.
Holiness implies soul-and In
stincts' have no soul.
My baby. little book. is holy to
me because II already possesses a
soul--the beautiful soul of Dicks
and my love. would not desecrate
II by talking OF my instincts In re-
gard to It. nor by considering II an
indecent subject OF any remark ]
might make about II.
We have certainly outgrown the
old testament idea that a woman Is
mnclean for 40 days after she has
borne child and today we should
know that woman wears no
stigma during the months OF gesta-
tion-rather she is the symbol OF
the worlds only hope.
ITO be continued tomorroW.)