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Show HELP MOTHER We have been lately devising all kinds of plans to help this class and that class. The government gov-ernment has organized a bureau bu-reau to furnish help for the farmer. It has strained its publicity department in rounding round-ing up help for the great shipbuilding ship-building plants. W e have gone into the highways and byways in search of labor for the war industries plants, and have extended ex-tended a helping hand to this industry and that. In fact, we have been busy playing the good Samaritan until we have developed a perfect mania for useful service. But with it - all we have strangely overlooked the one most deserving of help and the one who most needs our help the patient, uncomplaining uncomplain-ing housewife. . Who's going to help Mother? Mother used to have help. Heretofore father, son, daughter daugh-ter and the hired man and woman wo-man could be called upon for various acts of usefulness about the house. Father had some spare time before breakfast that he could turn to Mother's account. Son was rarely too busy to run her errands, and daughter spent the greater part of her time in Mother's company comp-any and was her good right hand. The hired man could find time for useful bits of service ser-vice while the girl help was always on hand. Now all this is changed. Father is out and away a1 dawn you know he starts ar hour earlier .doing his best tc speed up production. Son is ir the army or in some "needfiv industry," atnd is frequently working overtime. Daughtei is pounding the typewriter keys ill an office early and late. The hired man has faded away tc join the great ranks of labor ers in. some public works, anc the hired girl is now a nurse oi a Red Cross worker. Mother is alone ! . And Mother is not only alone with her work, but her work has increased and seems destined des-tined to keep on increasing. She must see that the inner man of the entire family is satisfied sat-isfied three times daily. As this is an era of strict economy, old clothes must be made to do longer-duty aud the patch, endorsed en-dorsed at Washington, must be applied to various and sundry garments. Neither must garments gar-ments be worn too long between be-tween washing. In the intervals inter-vals Mother must care for the milk and butter, feed the chickens and pigs, and as the men folks are very busy, must frequently take the produce to market. Her spare time, formerly form-erly devoted to social duties, is now given .to selling Liberty Bonds, WTar Savings Stamps andraising funds for the Y. M. C. A. And with it all she somehow some-how God only knows how manages to sew and knit many needed garments for the Red Cross. Is Mother busy? Well, yes. Can Mother stand the strain indefinitely? God and Mother only "know. Qne thing is sure, she will keep going' till she falls. But with all our help devises hadn't we better devise some means of lightening the strain on Mother? Mother hasn't asked it. But the need exists just the same. Let's think about it. |