***************************************************************** Vol. XXIII December 1910 No. 6
THE WOMEN OF TO-MORROW {page 767-777 part 4.}
By WILLIAM HARD
IV
THE WASTERS
It got talked around among Marie's friends that she didn't want children. This was considered very surprising, in view of all that her father and husband had done for her.
Here is what they had done for her:
They had removed from her life all need, and finally all desire, to make efforts and to accomplish results through struggle in defiance of difficulty and at the cost of pain.
Work and pain were the two things Marie was on no account to be exposed to. With this small but important reservation: she might work at avoiding pain.
When the cook had a headache she took Getting-Breakfast for it. When Marie had a headache she worked not at breakfast but at the headache.