Good Words for the Mother.
By Editor
PERHAPS we ought to say good words for the good mother; but the following utterances from President Roosevelt at the recent Mothers' Congress in Washington, D. C., are worthy of consideration by both men and women: “The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman or business man or artist or scientist. “I abhor and condemn the man who is brutal, thoughtless, careless, selfish, with women, and especially with the women of his own household. The birth pangs make all men the debtors of all women. The man is a poor creature who does not realize the infinite difficulty of the woman's task, who does not realize what is done by her who bears and rears the children; she who can not even be sure, until the children are well-grown, that any night will come which she can have entirely to herself to sleep in. “I abhor and condemn the man who fails to recognize all his obligations to the woman who does her duty. But the woman who shirks her duty as a wife and mother is just15as heartily to be condemned. We despise her as we despise and condemn the soldier who flinches in battle.”