MR ROOSEVELT ON THE HOME

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 106, 8 May 1907, Page 3

MR ROOSEVELT ON THE HOME

4 President Roosevelt, in a letter to Mrs E. H. Merrell, president of the New York State Mothers' Assembly, has written: "Now and then people forget that exactly as the mother must help the breadwinner by being a good housewife, so the father, in his turn, if he is worth his salt must in every way back up the mother in helping to bring up the children. "No amount of cultivation, no amount of business force and saga city, will make the average man a good citizen unless that average man is a good husband and father, and unless he is a successful breadwinner, is tender and considerate with his wife and both loving and wise (for to be loving and weak and foolish is utterly ruinous) in dealing with the children. " I think it a crime for a woman to shirk her primary duties—to shrink from being a good wife and mother. Of course, the woman should have the same right as the man to train her mind—to better herself —and occasionally a woman can, and ought to, follow some special vocation in addition to (never in substitution for) her home ■work."