WIFE, MOTHER, AND GOOD CITIZEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 240, 30 December 1927, Page 5

WIFE, MOTHER, AND GOOD CITIZEN

“WILL NEVER GROW OLD” An interesting account is given in an Australian paper of the life of Mrs. H*. MacLeod, who has taken a prominent part in social welfare, civics and politics in Melbourne for a considerable number of years. The writer says: “Mrs. MacLeod’s life is one of those which may be quoted to prove that the cares and responsibilities of a large family need not debar a woman who so desires from taking her place as a citizen in the public affairs of the community. She has six children, four sons, three of whom served during the war, and two daughters, and now as a grandmother is finding yet another happy interest in life. “It is because her ilfe is so full of varied interests that one thinks of Mrs. MacLeod as a woman who will never grow old. Her recreations are reading and music, of which she is passionately fond. She grew up in an atmosphere which fitted her for the life she has followed. “ T had the advantage,’ she says,‘of having wise and far-seeing parents, who talked to me from childhood on the questions of the day, who prepared my mind and advanced even then all the arguments for the modern attitude toward woman’s work and part in the world. These things were familiar to me before they came into the sphere of practical politics, and I can see, as of course all thinking people can, a marvellous change all over the world, especially during the last 10 or 15 years.’ “Again, like all thinking people, she firmly believes that the best results in social welfare and community work, come from the cordial co-operation of men and women.”