Of course, motherhood brings to women certain limitations, but the thing we do not recognize is that these limitations are temporary. And, if, in the ages past, women were able to combine with motherhood the most arduous physical labors, it seems probable, that, in the present and future when the demands of maternity are less rigorous, women should be able, with gain to the race, to enter new fields of labor and accomplish laudable results.
Surely there is no greater safeguard for man and woman than the work in which mind and body can delight.
Overheard in the Marriage Congress
By Adella M. Parker
(From the Suffrage Edition of the “Daily News,” Tacoma, Wash.)
Once upon a time all the men in the world gathered together to make the laws of marriage. And the women, learning of this, gathered also, protesting and saying:
“A woman is one of the parties to every contract of marriage. Why do we also not make the laws of marriage?”
“Woman’s place is at home,” said the men.
“But,” said the women, “the marriage agreement is the very basis of the home.”