Show THE HIGH COST Of MOTHE S The following Is quoted from the fa famous famous fa- fa a amous Third House serl series s appearing lc In Pictorial Review Rc b by Mabel Iube Pott Potter r Daggett Dag Dag- gett gelt If It you were ere a manufacturer engaged let us say in the making of tables and chairs and half the output of at your factory factor factory fac fac- tor tory as was alwa always s broken or put together wrong If you were a n florist devoted de to the tho cultivation of oC roses or orchids 60 50 percent per percent cent of which each season withered and blighted If you ou were a stock stack breeder producing producing pro pro- blooded d cattle and half halt of them regularly died on your our hands why hands why measures measures measures mea mea- would have havo to be taken to Improve o your particular line of business or you'd oud leave lea It it would you ou not Well that's the wa way ay It I Is toda today with the tho most Important partner In the business busl- busl ness nes of or carrying on the race It used to tobe tobe tobe be that t she lic had no means of ot taking stock of the tho firms firm's profit and loss 10 s But Within recent years bookkeeping nl methods to tabulate tabulate tab tab- the progress of the tho population have appeared Private a le philanthropy the municipality mu mu- the eta state te and the na nation all collate statistics that are aro spread on the pages paged of the dall dally press She has rend read them Only 60 0 per cent of or the baby crop each year ear reaches ruche maturity babies bables are dying annually annual in tho the United States to say a nothing of those who survive suI marred and damaged In the making ItIs It ItIs Itis Is an appalling Inventory that she has lias faced And within her intelligence has crystallized crystallized a new determination has I en to the This is what given pause production of ot the American family Is h It any am wonder onder There Ther are aro those who have called It race suicide The They are lire wrong wron It Is le race roce retrenchment women omen risk their lives to get et babies hables here Therefore There There- fore rore ore the they are most concerned about this extravagant reckless waste of humanity having descended In agony to the border borderlands borderlands borderlands lands of or existence to faring brie ne new life liCe into the world orM It Is tho the mockery mocker of- of of fulfillment fulfill ment to come back to consciousness s with l anI only a dead bab baby or worse a diseased baby So long as that was accepted as ashe the he mysterious visitatIon of or providence pro wom women n dumbly ced Now ow that science has relieved relle the tho Creator of ot all complicity In III such results th they y hn have vc rebelled re- re belled Henceforth tho the babies that are horn born torn must bo be better b horn born rn Women omen who have hava avo children n are going to have havo them right This is the eruct Delict of modern mn- mn t Governments Go that are are crying out against diminishing birth returns pl please se l ta take ake e notice Courtesy Courtesy of ot Pictorial Review Re fie I vl view tow June 1914 1314 |