OVERWORKED MOTHERS

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13737, 19 May 1910, Page 8

OVERWORKED MOTHERS

« —. —, — TO THE EDITOR OF/tHE rKESS." gi rj —One hears so much nowadays on the above subject, that one wonders if the mothers of to-day "aro constitutionally different to-those of twenty or thirty years ago, or, indeed, to those •pioneer mothers who had untold hardships to endure, and had had no domestic help, yet must bate cheerfully borne their married lot, as witness the largo families so many had in. thoso days. The servant problem does not* enter into the question of declining birth-rate, because the women of today will not bear children, lor one hears continually girls on the eve of getting ma mcd declare there shall bo none, which often happens to be the case. Besides, the up-to-dateness of everything to help liome life in tho ,ptr«sent day ehould not allow of this incessant cry of overwork, when a little method and man-a<-~ement could effect much saving of labour of these overworked mothers. Tho reason that maids refuse to ! tak© service iv tho homes where there are children is that they (the children) are not restricted in rudeness and impndence by parents to the girls whose help is so much needed. —Yours, etc., A MOTHER OF THE OLDSCHOOL.