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Show oorxorxxjooooocooooooooooo(ooooo,oooooo(:ooooocooi:a:iooo:io America's Great Debt to Pioneer Mothers I'loneer mothers played n great part In American annalH. following the ones tliey loved Ihey made homes spring up In Ihe wilderness. From helping lo hiillil Ihe cabin, raising Ihe llllle crops, weaving Hie clothes, down the long range of ceaseless loll which frontier life holds, they were co work ers with Hit! men who gave America IH stales Instead of Kl. I. cab A. Kaz mark writes. In Ihe National llepuhllc. Around the w ide inoul bed Hi i-placc nt nlghl In the Isolated cabins these mol hers of American yesterdays laid Ihe roiindallon Minion ol Twentieth century progress1. Here Ihey tiiaghl lessons before the coming of the schoolmaster ; here they laughl nil glut1 from the precious family Bible long before Ihe Hteepcn of white churches dolled Ihe landscape. All the seeds of civilization Ihey planted on each new fronller, iih the men planled Ihe wheat In the newly turned soil, drained ihe KwauqiH and felled Ihe fnrcvlH. Toller, laolher. teacher, preacher all these In one was a typical typ-ical pioneer woman who furthered the cause of America. |