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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1051, 19 November 1903, Page 3

Miss Vida Goldstein, the female emancipator oi Australia, says . “ Women to a great extent have been ■emancipated from domestic duties by the invention of machinery.” And a tired mother observes in reply '- “ And are the duties of a mother of a family any the less for modern inventions ? If she has a sewing-ma-chine, she has very much more sewing to do to-day than she had formerly when all was done by hand, and the machine is not yet invented that will scrub the floors, clean the windows, wash the dishes, make the I dinner, do the washing, dust the furniture, patch clothes*darn stockings, and at the same time look after the welfare of a ten-months’-old baby that lias a passionate desire to creep out of the kitchen door, and fall down five steps on to the bricks I iff the yard, or to crawl into the sink under the tap, and fight the cat I for the last scrap. “ Emancipated from domestic duties by machinery !■ Rubbish ! Where is the machine that takes one ounce of the burden off the shoulders of a mother who lias seven youngsters ranging from half-a-ycar up to twelve and a-lvalf? The idea that woman should take to politics because she has nothing much to do at. home will inspire a cry of derision in the hearts of nine I out of every ten good mothers in Shis country*’ l