THE MOTHER'S TASK.
I'm afraid "Old Maid" is decidedly old in every sense of the word calling for "sacrifice." Here is niv sacrifice: A young life given to my children that tlicy, too, may be good citizens. When times became bad I had to go to work to feed them, and by so doing I gave my country more by way of my luii"s, so now am a bedridden invalid and parted from my family. Their dud. an honest man with no convictions of any kind, earns £2 10/ in a relief camp. Therefore, you see, tile children make the sacrifice too of both parents. .1 was healthy when married, but the three years of poverty and overwork tol l its tale. My advice to "Old Maid" is get olf the shelf, marry a relief worker from camp, and so relieve the Government of one man's wages of 10/. The Government will repay by giving her a relief farm. She may then in time have her class of seven children to teach and do her stuff cheerfully, for "okl maids' children are always easiest managed " POTHOOK ASTD A-B.C. '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 149, 25 June 1932, Page 7
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188THE MOTHER'S TASK. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 149, 25 June 1932, Page 7
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