RAGE SUICIDE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10346, 2 May 1905, Page 3

RAGE SUICIDE.

MR ROOSEVELT'S SPIRITED DENUNCIATION. NEW YORK, March 14. Mr Roosevelt, addressing the triennial convention of the National Congress of Mothers last night, said :—- --"What true mother tvould barter her experience of joy and sorrow m exchange for a life of cold selfishness which insists on perpetual amusement and the avoidance of; care, and often finds a fit dwelling place m some flat, designed to furnish the maximum of comfort and luxury, but m Avhich there is literally no place for 'children? < '.-'.' "The man or woman who deliberately foregoes the supreme blessings of children, whether from viciousness, coldness, shal-low-heartedness, self-indulgence or mere failure to appreciate the difference between the all-important and unimportant, why such a creature merits a contempt as hearty as any that is visited upon the soldier who refuses to Avork for the support of those depending upon him. "To the existence of this type of woman m American life are to be attributed the statistics of dtvindling families, m some localities and the census of divorce, Avhich is fairly appalling.. . ; „',.; Easy divorce is a bane to any nation. It is a curse to society and a menace to the home, an incitement to married unhappiness and immorality, an evil thing for men, and a still more hideous evil for women." —Reuter.