On a hot night, in the dusty streets of a dirty city, you see hundreds of women sitting in the doorways, TAKING CARE OF BABIES. In lonesome farm houses, far out on monotonous plains, with the late sun setting on a long day of hard work, you find women, cheerful and persevering, TAKING CARE OF BABIES. In the middle of the night, in earliest morning, when MEN sleep, all over the world, in ice huts North, in southern tents, in big houses and in dingy tenements, you find women awake, cheerfully and gladly TAKING CARE OF BABIES. ---- We respect and praise the man selfishly working for himself. If he builds up a great industry and a great personal fortune, we praise him. If he risks his life for personal glory and for praise, we praise him. If he shows courage even in saving his own carcass from destruction, we praise him. There was never a man whose courage, or devotion, could be compared with that of a woman caring for her baby. The mother's love is unselfish, and it has no limit this side of the grave. You will find ONE man in a thousand who will risk his life for a cause. You will find a THOUSAND women in a thousand who will risk their lives for their babies. Everything that a man has and is he owes to his mother. From her he gets health, brain, encouragement, moral character, and ALL his chances of success. How poorly the mother's service is repaid by men individually, and by society as a whole! The individual man feels that he has done much if he gives sufficient money and a LITTLE attention to her who brought him from nothingness into life and sacrificed her sleep and youth and strength for his sake. Society, the aggregate of human beings, feels that its duty is done when a few hospitals are opened for poor mothers, and a little medicine doled out in cold-hearted fashion to the sick child. Fortunately, it may truly be said that the great man is almost always appreciative of his greater mother. Napoleon was cold, jealous of other men, monumentally egotistical when comparing himself with other sons of women. But he reverenced and appreciated the noble woman who bore him, lived for him, and watched over him to the end. He said: "It is to my mother, to her good principles, that I owe my success and all I have that is worth while. I do not hesitate to say that the future of the child depends on the mother." ---- The future of the individual child depends on the individual mother, and the future of the race depends on the mothers of the race. Think what has been done for mankind by thousands of millions of perfectly devoted mothers. Every mother is entirely DEVOTED, entirely HOPEFUL, entirely CONFIDENT that no future is too great for her baby's deserts.