A PLEA FOR MOTHERS.

Evening Star, Issue 17379, 15 June 1920, Page 6

A PLEA FOR MOTHERS.

" . TO THE EDITOE. Sir,—Not having the pen of a ready writer I have waited long for someone abler than myself to take up this matter: but it would seem that there is no one to advocate the cause of "the mother." I have often wondered what became of the organisers of-the "Baby Week Campaign" held in this City a few years asro. Did their interest in the matter begin and er.d in that one week? There are hundreds of mothers hero in Dtmedin who are and have been for several years underfeeding themselves, in order that their little children may have a bare sufficiency. Whole families are living on half the amount that some of our lady teachers are receiving at the present time. Every week oar Hospital is discharging mothers who have not the strength to walk the length of a room. Possibly neighbors have been kind in caring for the children, and the father has done all he could; but think what it must be for a sick mother to face a muddled house and very often sick children. We have in this City a convalescent home for children, but how much more is such a home needed for mothers! Can anyone advocate more babies under the present conditions? I think not.—l am, etc, June 15. A Mother.