In fact, these owe a greater debt to posterity than the mother. Such women should not live for themselves alone, lest they canker. Contact with youth infuses youthful thoughts and enthusiasm, and keeps a woman's heart young, and if her heart is young her face will reflect this mental attitude.
There are thousands of children with living mothers who still need "mothering." One may work out her own youth and beauty culture while "mothering" a little one. It is worth a trial as a youth stimulant.
There are four great laws given to a wife:
"Brace up! Brush up! Clean up! Look up!"
The Colored Mother Beautiful.
When a woman enters into the marriage contract—into the partnership of home making—it is understood that parenthood is to be the chief aim and hope.
If a man is good enough to marry and to contribute his support, he is good enough to be a father or else he should not have been selected.