A WOMAN'S FIRST DUTY IS AT HOME.
"A WOMAN who is not strong, and yet has to perform the multifarious duties of house-mother and home-maker, must learn to recognize her limitations or she can not get through her task with satisfaction to herself or her family," writes Elizabeth Robinson Scovil in the Ladies' Home Journal. "She must learn to economize her strength and not fritter it away in doing unnecessary things, which some one else can do as well, that she may have enough left for the important demands that no one13else can satisfy. She must balance the claims of charity, society, and her own household, and resolutely refuse to be pushed beyond her powers of endurance. It is hard to shut one's ears to what seems a call of duty, but to the wife and mother home is the first duty, the special field given her to cultivate, and her part may be only to train and support the workers whose business and duty lie outside in the world."