Show ra this mother mothers nothing ie Is more thoroughly wrong than the idea that a woman fulfills her duty by doing an amount n of f work that Is I 1 far beyond her strength she not only does not fulfill her duty but eho elio moat most signally fale in it and the failure is truly deplorable thiera can be no sad let fight sight than that of or a broken down overworked over worked wife and mother a woman who ia tired all her life through gh if tho the work of the household cannot he mccoms by order alstern and aud mod 1 erate work without the necessity of scaring wearing heartbreaking heart beart breaking toil toil that is never ended and ne never ver be gun gull without making life a tread mill of labor then for the eake sake of humanity let the work go better live in the midat of disorder t than ban that order should be purchased at so high a price the cost of health tb happiness happi nees and all that makes existence endurable the woman who spends her life in uri necessary labor is by thin this very abhor unfitted fitted for the highest duties of home she should be the haven ot reet rest to which both husband and children turn for peace and merit she should b be the careful intelligent adviser and guide of the one the tender confident and help mate of the other how is it poa pos sible for a woman exhausted in body and as it a natural consequence comp quence in mind also to perform cither other c of thee these offices no it is not possible ll 11 ible the constant train is to too great nature gives way beneath it she loles lo 10 c health and nod spirit and hopefulness and arid more than all her youth th the let lost thing a woman vroman debould r id alto allow w to a elip h f irom her for no matter how bow ab old he 07 ie is in yeara years ehe she should be young in heart and feeling forthe for the youth of age is tome some times more attractive than youth itself to the overworked over worked woman this green old ape lire is 13 out of the question old age an couii cot on ber her sere and yel low before for it its time her dispo siaion is ruined her tem kempar per is soured her very nature is i changed by the burden which too tou heavy to carry is dra dragged ged alon along AS long as wearied we ri ed feel e and tired hands can do their part even her affections are blunted and ehe she become becomes merely a machine a woman without the time tn be womanly a mother without time to train and guide her children as only a mother can call a wife without the time to t 0 sympathize with and cheer her hus hatband banc a woman so over overworked worked d during arin th the 15 day that when night cornea beg her r sole thought and roost most intense 1019 longing ing is for the rest and steep that very probably will not come and even if it should that ebo she is too tired to enoy enjoy better by far let everything go unfinished to lire live as beet best ehe she can than to entail on herself rot and family the curse of overwork |