President Roosevelt and Mothers.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, 15 July 1905, Page 60

President Roosevelt and Mothers.

One cannot but admire the President of the United States for the health and vigour he throws into everything he undertakes, and his earnest desire to improve matters in connection with the vast State he controls; but one cannot help thinking he goes sometimes a little beyond the mark. lie has just lately again been holding forth on the blessedness of large families, and haranguing a National Congress of Mothers. He drew up terrible charges against the selfishness of those—as lie ( hose to put it—who prefer life in flats with only one child—or two at the outside—to the ordinary homelife with a large family. He even went so far as to call the parents of small famill-s self-indulgent, cold, and shallow-heart-ed; but here one cannot help thinking that the same might more truly be said of those who bring a numerous family into the world, regardless of how they are to be brought up. and oblivious to

the fact that all profes-ions, occupations. and trades are already overcrowded. For men it is bad enough, but for the woman worker it is far worse.