Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1913 — Hearth-Hunger. [ARTICLE]

Hearth-Hunger.

"Beyond the need for bread, a woman’s needs are two; deeper than all cravings save the mother’s paßsion, firm-rooted in our hndless past, is the hearth-hunger. The trees that sweep my chimney have their roots at the world’s core! The flowers in my dooryard have grown there for a thousand years! What milenniums have done, shall decades undo? We are not so shallow, so plastic as that! We will go into the mills; the shops, the offices, if we must, but we know we are off the track of life. Neither our desire nor our power Is there.” —Cornelia A. P. Comer, in Atlantic.