Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1907 — BE KIND TO THE WOKEN. [ARTICLE]

BE KIND TO THE WOKEN.

The Best Crop, Says Roosevelt, is the Crop of Children. \ in nis iari:a:t»pQjts talk eresratm RoofPvelT s.i!<l: • . “A man. whi>t§er lie lives on u farmi or in a town, who Is see better social and economic oondrtMns I nrevaii through the country at large, i.-CvouM he exceedingly careful that I they prevail first as regards his own | womankind. _ IT “I have hearty sympathy with the ■ r ove:r.ent to better the condition of | the average tiller of the soli, of the average wageworker, and I have an even heartier sympathy and applause* for the movement which is to better The -condition of their respective wives. “There Is plenty thsjt Is hard and | rough and disagreeable in the neces- ■ *ary work of actual life; and under the best circumstances, and no matter how tender and considerate the husband, the wife wilt have at least her full share of the work and worry and anxiety ; but if the man Is worth his salt he will try to take as much as possible of the burden off the shoulders of his helpmate. “The .best crop is the crop of children; the best products of the farm are the men and women raised thereon ; ' and the most Instructive and practical treatises on fanning, necessary though they be, are no more necessary than the books which teach us >ur duty to our neighbor, and, above all, to the neighbor who Is of our own household! “I have not the slightest sympathy with those hysterical and foolish creatures who wish women to attain to • easy lives by shirking their duties. I have as hearty a contempt for the woman who shirks her duty of bearing and rearing children, of doing her full housewife’s work, as I have'for the man who is an Idler, who shirks his duty of earning a living for himself and for his household, or who is selfish or brutal toward his wife and children. “I believe in the ImpplngS that comes fronf the performance <Jf duty, not from the avoidance of duty. But I believe also in trying, each of us, as strength is given us, to bear one another's burdens, and this especially in our own homes.”