Show Aged Salt Lake Woman Says Sanctity of Home Is Nations Nation's Cornerstone By Mrs Emmeline B. B Wells President of the National Women's Women's Relief Society of the Ch Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day I Saints hERE are few superfluous T THERE fathers One may believe beleve In pensions pensions pensions pensions' pen pen- for deserted mothers or push pensions for widowed mothers or preach pensions for forthe forthe forthe the mothers mother of illegitimate children children chi chi- chil chil- dren and still sun insist that a very bad father in a family is much better than no father at all aU A certain college woman became the mother of three sons She had advanced notions about the father being only a biological incident tn- tn In Incident o Ho Bo in a childs child's existence when her husband forgot his mantaI marital marl mari taI tal al vows it I was easy esy for her to divorce him She was so sure that she could I succeed in being both a father and arid anda arida a mother to her sons so confident that thai their fathers father's presence in the home homo would lead his children into I evil evi ways She had been ben a teacher teach teach- tech tech- er en she was energetic she had a a. fortune Why bother with wih a bad father on the side in her otherwise otherwise otherwise other other- te wise perfect home By and she remarried tho the man She proclaimed to protesting protesting protest protest- ing lag friends that even an intelligent and conscientious mother is an awful awful failure as a father to her children She failed to understand her sons as they grew up She could guide gide nurse nure pet and sympathize sympathize sympathize with wih her tier big boys but sometimes sometimes some some- times they needed to be set right suddenly and swiftly without ar argument argument at- at reasoning or entreaty So she restored her sons' sons father to theta them them Men ren covet their childrens children's re respect respect respect re- re and admiration The older they grow gow the more they want it I. I Therefore as children arrive at an anage anage anage age of understanding bad fathers father conceal their from their offspring And very often oten they reform Children are often ofen the means of restoring a father to respectability Is it not then a crime for a mother to rob rb a father of his only chance of becoming a decent human being by thrusting him out of the home Is a woman's womans womans woman's womans woman's wo wo- wo- wo mans man's personal suffering too big a phd to pay for a husbands husband's re redemption re- re dempton from wickedness It must be he admitted that there Isa is isa isa a tendency to make man only a biological Incident in the life of ot the child to make him a drone in inthe inthe inthe the human hive to make him su superfluous sri su so far as the home me Is concerned concerned All All of of which Is Is of course not as al it should be Mans Man's I Sty ity Iy for the welfare of his offspring keeps him civilized Men Ien are sometimes more brute than human but the worse a man is IB the more Imperative it i becomes tp to force him to assume his re responsibility re- re for paternity Kingdoms may be b overturned overture but hut not fatherhood I |