Show BETTER MOTHERS BETTER BABIES BETTER BRIGHAM I 1 should like to be a legislator in our state just long enough to introduce and pass a bill calling for more adequate care of our mothers and children in traveling we as a state have a wide reputation tor for our large families one of the oldest and most widely distributed advertisers of is a picture of best crop it a picture of babies babies and still more babes and proud of them the predominating ch church frowns most emphatically on anything approaching race suicide and am sure that the major kopul 1 tion is trying hard to bring to tae fie state stale a healthy happy crowd of fiur rs ros identa a we va have acres but need sai sitters si tiers and it if they are to be of the right sort they will be young and just beginning beginning to io hekr rear their families it possible for us to show that we want rant them by being the state to branch off from the old od established railroad law thal eliat t gives a man a private blare to indulge in a habit which we frown upon as a w weakness alc and at the fmc time compels a performing tile the noblest wor vf of god that of rearing a family to sit in a crowded car with her little enec clustered arcuik her fortunate I 1 if they are seated together to ether without f I 1 lit the convenience tor for her comfort the hardest thing in ta alie is world for normal children to do is to keep still imagine then taking them on even a short trip they cant run about they talk loudly they cannot play and they cannot even have a nap unless the seat facing happens to be and mother happens to carry a pillow most often she happens not to as the children and their necessary clothing are all that she can manage and so the children get restless and cry and want to do the most impossible things the mother grows more nervous with each passing mile and ad just hiie when ll 11 sli she e has reached the point where she feels that she must break to lo the song san of peanuts popcorn chewing gum and candy there is temporary pacification the respite is short but sweet very very sweet and abd also very very sticky and when it is ended a I 1 new desire has been created 1 I want I 1 a drink usually out of respect to the law we suppose the coolers are dry about this time too loo one bej I 1 gins ins to hear murmurings murmur ings about the mother poor thing or you I 1 imagine that a with that many children would show more judgment than to fill youngsters with that trash etc and etc she would under normal conditions but it takes a very very strong will power to withstand N chil drens teasing and the disgusted looks of other pa at the noise and that will power in everyday life is called stubbornness afterward mother the long suffering ering lias has an another otiler duty one connected with castor oil and sup dry other remedies this may read funny actually it is mighty disagreeable it seems only fair that if one end j 1 of ct the car is set apart as a lounging i room for men the other end should be I 1 arranged as a rest room tor for babies and mothers just notice the comparison if a man to to spit a room to do it in a cuspidor at its his side not an effort required on oil his part save that of the actual spitting if a moth 1 fi I wishes to make her baby more coin 1 fordable for table she must leave the other children alone take the necessary changes and the baby and walk to the end ct cf the car ar to a little smelly lavatory j to do it IL one is nature tile the other only p habit and a filthy one seems that we are ae not highly civilized after a all I 1 a as civilization is gauged by the attitude ot of the male toward the female not ao a far from the big indian smoking in a council circle cud the poor squaw doing the things wroth while I 1 would not ask the men to give up their smoking place but it possible for some little move to be made to make mahe our children and our mothers happier and more comfortable while traveling AIRS R T WILLEY |