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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 36, 10 November 1911, Page 7

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i WOMEN OF TQ-OAY. You women of to-day, who fear so much The women of the future, showing how The dangers of her course are such and sueh — What are you now? Mothers and wives and housekeepers, forsooth! j Great names! you cry, full scope to rule and please! Room for wise age 'and energetic youth!— But are you these? « | Housekeepers? Do you then, like those ot yore, , Keep House with nower and pride, with grace and ease? No, you k*;ep servants only! What is more You don't keep these. ■ i Wives, you say? Wives! Blessed indeed, are they" Who hold of love the everlasting keys, Keeping their husband's hearts! Alas, the day! You don't keep these! And. mothers? Pitying heaven! Mark the cry From cradle death-beds! Mothers on their knees! Why, half tlie children born—as children die! You don't keen these!

And still the wailing babies come and And homes are waste, and husbands' hearts fly far. There is no hope until you dare to know

The thing you are I

—Charlotte Perkins Stetson