supremacy. The inherent attributes of motherhood must combine with those of fatherhood to square the balance of justice for childhood.

The world needs woman, her ideas, her way of reasoning, her insight, her sense of justice, her tender hands and her loving heart. The children of the world need her; for a long time they have been governed by the masculine mind which has made laws for them, established educational plans for them, opened juvenile courts for them, founded factories, mills, mines, in which little hands have hardened, little bodies have dwarfed, young minds and hearts grown prematurely old-and this, not because the masculine mind and the masculine heart would intentionally be drastic, but because men are not women, and fatherhood cannot be motherhood.

The Price

By Winona Douglas

(In The Woman's Journal.'')

Sleep, little dream child, in mother's arms;
Cuddle yet closer and take your rest,
Eyelids now hiding the blue eyes since laughing,
Laughing in glee here on mother's breast.

Dear are the moments with you I am spending;
Toil is forgotten in comfort and calm.
Together we are, wee one, in the gloaming,

Evening blessed, my babe's coo is a psalm.—

You were my dream child, and I must awaken,
My arms are empty, sweet babe unborn,

For me the lone quiet, while night is fast darkening; Darkening now, and there's toil on the morn.

The days come and go, toil is ever supreme;
Motherhood smother, the thought is vain.
Forget it, indeed, for wheels must be turning,
Turning incessantly-more wealth to gain!

Passionate Instinct

By Emily Huntington Miller

(From "Parents and Their Problems.'')

What could atone to a multitude of children for the misfortune of having been born, but the passionate instinct that takes no account of lack of beauty, grace or intellectual gift, but clings to its own with deathless devotion?

Functions Identical

By Mrs. Alice H. Putnam

(From "Parents and Their Problems."')

In one respect, at least, the functions of mother and teacher should be identical. . . . The teacher and parent must take their charge "for better, for worse."

orary.

The Adolescent Child

By Julia Clark Hallem

(From "Studies in Child Development."'
Instructor in the University of Chicago.)

American contemp.

It goes without saying that every mother has an imperative duty toward her son as he approaches

this important period in his development. Nature has done her part in preparing the boy's body, the mother must be doing her part in preparing his mind for all of these new experiences. There are many things which a mother can do because she is the mother, and because her mind is mature while the mind of the boy is yet immature. The mother, through her study, comes to see that the adolescent boy is about to acquire new powers. Before, he was simply an individual. Now he is becoming a part of the race, because he is acquiring the power of conserving it. To the mother who has duly prepared herself for her child's adolescence, its appearance will bring the same mysterious thrill which she felt when she first saw the child as a new-born babe. It has been said in this connection, "When a baby is to be born, preparations for its advent are carefully made. But when, in future years, the most critical time comes when the child is to be re-born, a man or a woman, it is rare that intelligent suggestions or wise words of counsel tell him or her of the importance of the period."

Mother

By Laura Simmons

(In the "Boston Herald."')

Oh, Mother-hands of balm and gracious healing,
And cool, soft fingers that could heal and bless!
So sure to charm the aching and the fever
With magic spell and soothing tenderness.

Oh, Mother-feet that grew so very tired

Treading Life's pavements and its burning sands! Have they found rest at last, and cooling waters Where they may stop to loose their earthly bands?

Oh, Mother-eyes so keen to probe the sorrows!
So quick to see the hurt and understand!
Do they not shine tonight from highest Heaven
Bright with the old-time courage, high and grand?

Oh, Mother-heart so wise and tender

That has not died, nor failed, but lived and wrought In deeds and words-in daily work and action— In lovely memory and blessed thought!

Oh, Mother-love that lives past death and parting! That reaches still to bless and guard and guide, To hold me from the snare undreamed and waiting— To point the refuge where I yet may hide!

And, oh-the things my heart hath yearned to utter! The joys that thrilled-the pain that seared and scarred!

But I must wait -I, too-till sunset's splendor Shall hold for me its shining gates unbarred.

Past joy, past sorrow, past the driving torrent Of tears, I see her stand and watch for me; And clear the sweet old Mother-question cometh: "Oh, child-dear child! And is all well with thee?"

Wise Mothers

By Mona Cairo

(From "The Morality of Marriage.")

We shall never have really good mothers until women cease to make motherhood the central idea of their existence. The woman who has no interest larger than the affairs of her children is not a fit person to train them.

The Factory Worker and Motherhood
By Kate Richards O'Hare

(American contemporary. Well-known Socialist speaker and writer. From "The Sorrows of Cupid.'')

I spent six months one winter in the various factories of New York in order to get information by actual experience. I can truthfully and conservatively say that not more than one out of two girls employed in the factory trades for a year or more are physically fitted to be wives and mothers, not considering their fitness mentally, morally or spiritually. There are six million women workers in the United States. If fifty per cent., not ninety, are made physically, mentally and morally unfit for wife and motherhood by doing work unsuited to their strength, then the wage-system must be weighed and "found wanting" indeed. Economic conditions which force women to work in unsuitable industrial occupations are not only a fruitful cause for divorce, but an outrage against humanity as well.