' Then the thriftless young housekeepers from boarding-
school life have no ability either to teach or to control
their incompetent assistants, while ceaseless "worries"
multiply in parlor, nursery, and kitchen. The husband is
discouraged by the waste and extravagance, and wearied
with endless complaints, and home becomes any thing but
the harbor of comfort and peace.
Add to all this, the now common practice which destroys
maternal health and unborn offspring — the loose teachings
of free love — the unfortunate influence of spiritualism, so
called — the fascinations of the demi-monde for the rich,
and of lower haunts for the rest, with the poverty of



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thousands of women who but for desperate temptations
would be pure, and the extent of the malign influences
undermining the £unilj state — that chief hope of our race
—is appalling.
Woman, in the Protestant world, is educated onHjfor
maarriagey hoping to have some one to work for her support,
^and, when this is not gained, little else is provided.
