Show HOME AND MOTHER president ROOSeVel tS speed speech at the late mothers congress held in washington continued from last issue into the womans comans keeping is corn core witted milled the destiny ot of the generation ti ta come alter after us in bringing up your children you mothers must remember that while it la 14 essential to be loving and tender lender it Is no less es to be wise and firm foolish tess bess and affection must not be treated as interchangeable terms and besides training your sons and daughters in the bufter and milder virtues you must seek to give them those baero aad hardy qualities which la in after life they will surely need some children will go wrong in spite of the best training and some will go right even when their surroundings are most unfortunate nevertheless an all kimmence amount depends upon the jamily training g it if you mothers through weakness bring up your sons to be selfish and to think only ot of themselves you will be responsible for much sadness amon among the women who are to be their wives la in the future I 1 it you lot let your daughters grow up idle perhaps under the mistaken impression that as you yourselves have had bad to work card bard they shall know only enjoyment joy ment you are pre preparing parini r then them to be useless to others and burdens to themselves teach boys and girls alike that they are not to look forward to lives spent avoiding dif difficulties but to lives spent in overcoming difficulties difficult les teach them that work tor for themselves and also for others Is not hot a curse but a blessing seek to make them happy to make them enjoy life but seek also to make them race lire life with the steadfast stead tast resolution to wrest success from labor and adversity and to do their whole duty before god and to man surely she who can thus train her suns sons and daughters Is thrice fortunate among women there are many good people who are denied the supreme blessing of nl children and lor these we have the respect and sympathy always due to those who from no fault ol of their own are denied any of the other great blessings of 0 life but the man or woman who deliberately foregoes these bless blessings logs whether from viciousness col coldness doess shallow I 1 self indulgence or mere mera failure to appreciate prec preci ate aEe aright the difference between the all important and the unimportant by such a creature merits contempt as hearty as any visited upon the soldier who away in battle or upon the man who refuses to work forthe tor the support of those dependent upon him and who though led Is yet content to eat to la idleness the bread which others provide the ech existence teace ot of women ot of this type forms one of the most unpleasant and unwholesome features of modern modem life 11 ie it anyone Is so dim ot of vision as to tall fall to see bee what a thoroughly unlovely ere creature such a woman is I 1 wish he be would read judge robert bobert grants novel unleavened bread ponder seriously the character ot oi Selma and think of the fate that would surely overcome any nation cation which developed its average and typical woman along such lines unfortunately it would be untrue to say that this type exists only in american novels that it also exists in american life Is made unpleasantly evident by the stat statistic as to the d wInal log families la in some localities it Is made evident in equally sinister fashion by the census statistics as to divorce which are fairly appalling for easy divorce Is now as it ever has been i a bine to any nation a curse to society a menace to the home an incitement cit ement to married unhappiness and to immorality an evil thing ahlo for men and a still more hideous evil for wom en these unpleasant tendencies in our american life are made evident by articles such as those which I 1 actually read not long ago in a certain paper where a clergyman was quoted seemingly with approval as expressing the general american attitude when he be said that the ambition ot of any save a very rich nan man should be to rear two children only so as to give his children an opportunity to to taste a few of the good things of life to be ba continued |