Show pilgrim grim mothers died young do you know what happened to the pilgrim mothers my friends 9 I 1 will tell you they died they died young it took two or three of oc them to bring up tip one family the fathers were tough and lived long but work and hardship made short abort work of the wives listen a minute of the men who graduated from Yale between 1701 and 1745 became husbands what happened to their wives 33 wives died before they were 25 years old 55 died before they were 35 years old 59 died before they were 45 years old those husbands lost wives before tull full middle age harvard wives faced faxed no better take 1 the harvard class of 1671 as typical it had eleven graduates of whom one died a bachelor at the age of twenty tour four of the remaining ten 4 were married twice 2 were married three times for ten husbands therefore there were eighteen wives I 1 it has been truly said that you can measure the height of any civilization by the plane upon which its women live treasured measured by that standard we have made great progress in the united states slates but we have not made enough an electric motor which runs a wash ng machine or a vacuum cleaner works tor for three or five cents an hour there are still millions of women doing this work which motors can do selling their time at coolie wages of three cents an hour having to neglect the highest work entrusted to human beings the work of motherhood short fleeting years some day you gentlemen gentled expect L to lv have every home iri in the united states electrified my friends why should you wait until some day why dont you do it immediately mine dia tely next year within the next twelve months does that seem impossible I 1 tell you that I 1 bel believe eve it would be possible by the right sort of concerted advertising to arouse such a sentiment in the minds of the women of this country that every woman would realize that it is beneath the dignity of human life for her to work for throe three cents an hour the time in the life of a 1 child when a mother can exert her influence is terr terribly ably brief give me a child until he be ia is seven years old a great philosopher said s aid and I 1 care not who has him afterwards seven years in which to mold character seven short fleeting years what hat a tragedy that a single moment of these years should be wasted in work which an electric machine can do it is a thrilling subject it opens a whole new world of opportunity to us it gives us its a new interest a new enthusiasm every day that we lose in this business of electrifying homes costs the nation in its richest wealth the training of children the lives and happiness of mothers the title of c f this speech is how long should a wife live the answer in the old days was not very long the homes of those days had two or three mothers and no motors the home of the future will lay all of its tiresome routine burdens on the shoulders of electrical machines freeing mothers for their real work which is motherhood the mothers of tho the future will vill live to a good old age and keep their youth and good looks to the end |