WANTED—More Mothers
B are not thinking now of wives. There seems to be plenty of them, and many of them change their names so often that one does not know exactly what to call them when saying ‘ Mrs. — — • We are thinking of mothers; real mothers; old-fashioned mothers; womanly mothers; the kind that make the home. We are short on homes; real homes. We are short on mothers; real mothers. There are lots of “ tots” growing up, and “ kids innumerable, but they are so different from real children, the kind that have the imprint of a mother upon them, the tokens of a mother s care, a mother’s holy kiss, the holy touch of a mother’s hand, the fragrance of a motherly, Christian home. God designed woman as the home-maker, but somehow she seems to have been side-tracked. There are so many good women,—well-meaning, even Christian women,—who have been hearkening to a strange world-call to a “ new sphere,” a “ higher sphere,” a “ cultured sphere,” a sphere of prominence, where the books of great writers can be discussed, and politics and' social service and great national and civil interests considered; a sphere where the humdrum of the homd and family can be forgotten for a while, and the mind and heart find opportunity for expansion in the affairs of state and nation! The mother has a new vision. She can discuss great affairs with her husband. She can help to educate him,—if he can ever find time for it; for he, too, is engrossed with his lodge and his club and cannot give much time to the home. He must work hard to earn the necessary money with which to meet the monthly bills, which furrow his brow and put a weight upon his shoulders, and he must depend upon his wife to run the home, and she must depend upon the servants, and—oh, the children? Well, they must go to school andj look after themselves the best they cab, for this is the Twentieth Century and the New Age has an influence upon the home not always conducive to harmony. The husband and wife are broad ening out in opposite directions, and their attitude in the home towards each other fills the children with wonder; and somehow, somehow, the word “ home” has lost its former meaning, and the reason is clear: The home is without the mother! Is some serious mistake growing and deepening in the heart-life of women? Is the aspiration of the .woman taking the place of the God-given
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