WOMAN AND LABOR

The Housewife

By Angela Morgan

(In “The Woman’s Journal.”)

It is she who makes ready the army when day is at hand,

When the bugle of labor is blowing its mighty command,

Oh, fierce are the feet of the workers who answer the call,

But swifter and fiercer the toil that hath weaponed them all.

Do we boast of their brawn? Do we trumpet the cause of the fighter