The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-30
A Fe7v AnsyerS to Letters
 Indicate Thought and Interest
By MRS. J. B. REID

with this experience I have gotten whole lot of happiness out of life. did not realize the responsibility Of dolng TOT my loved ones was so tedious, until 1t was about over, and the children were all grown, and there was time to look back upon it all Now, l do not see how 1 ever lived. Think of young girl in her teens going into a partnership for life with man scarcely grown himself, having planned only the beautiful side without any thought of peeping into the fUture From country bride she be- comes a partner in a town home, with all income scarcely reasonable for one yet it must be adequate for twoi Noth- ing is impossible. I have found that out long ago. We simply stretched our money and cut short our needs; it was all work, but sometime I think it was blessing. Nothing easy is ever worth while. We do not grow by lack of re- sponsibility, but by forcing our energies and making firm our determination. By and by the little home that we entered became our business; we lived within it's walls during our leisure hours. planning our daily duties, and making the best of what we had, and soon another voice was added to the debate. That tiny voice brought more calm, more pleasure, but greater responsibility. I had dreamed in my early life Of mothers love, her ambition and her undying attention; now, when that baby came, I realized the whole truth. The only thing lacking in my vision was the zephyr like trous- seau. Like everything else in my life 70 far it had to be practical. very sim pie and painfully limited. But baby thrved; he never knew the odds and ends that added to his beauty; that kept his little body from shivering with cold Then came another and another until No s arrived on the scene. And this Sctaas was tumultuous. Even if my part ner made more money, it took even more U fill the actual needs. I can't say we wanted. I can only say we did without lots of things we might have had. I saw no sense in whining or telling ones friends, so 1 made up my mind right then that this was our job-nobody e'se's. And as the children grew. one by one, from the crawling, we simply doubled our team, and pulled together; it was d wonderful pull, and the old man and me sit by the chimney now and laugh at the skeery times when the bread was low and things were all out Anybody can live somehow, just kind of get out of sight, and don't care, and be unhappy but that was not our plan. We made up our minds that if we did not own as much of the earth as somebody else the corner we lived in was ours, and that was home.
 Now we are just like we started 45 years ago, the young man and girl then now a bit gray and worn.
 ''I am looking for something to do and believe if you will give a bigger prize for baskets I can win it."
 These few letters indicate women are really planning are designing bigger things and are capable of doing them. just as the woman made the best of an humble start and finished the scheme Of her life with cheerfulness, so it is in everything we undertake; all depends upon the spirit.
 Benjamin Franklin said ''The ancients tell us what is best. but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest'