Mark you this situation well, you farm fathers, and attack it in all possible haste with the best available relief. A happy, contented, well-protected farm mother almost certainly means the same sort of farm children, while the converse situations will also run in the same unvarying parallel. Do not satiate your desire for more hogs and more land with the sacrifice of the peace and happiness and the very life-blood of your wife and children! REFERENCES The Nervous Life. G. E. Partridge, Ph.D. Sturgis-Walton Company, New York. This book is especially recommended as an aid to the relief of the tired farm mother. Parenthood and Race Culture. Charles W. Saleeby, M.D. Chapter IX, "The Supremacy of Motherhood." Moffat, Yard & Co., New York. This is a book of great value for students of race improvement. From Kitchen to Garret. Virginia Van de Water. Chapter I, "A Heart-to-Heart Talk with the House Wife." Sturgis-Walton Company. Wholesome advice concerning the conservation of the mother's strength. Proceedings of Child Conference for Research and Welfare, 1910. L. Pearl Boggs, Ph.D. Page 5, "Home Education." G. E. Stechart & Co., New York. The Efficient Life. Dr. L. H. Gulick. Chapter XVIII, "Growth in Rest." This entire volume is highly recommended as being suitable for over-worked mothers. What the Farmer can do to Lighten his Wife's Work. T. Blake. _Ladies' Home Journal_, Feb. 15, 1911. The Higher Tide of Physical Conscience. Dr. L. H. Gulick. _World's Work_, June, 1908. Education for Motherhood. Charles W. Saleeby. _Good Housekeeping_, April, 1910. The Profession of Motherhood. Dr. Lyman Abbott. _Outlook_, April 10, 1909. Power Through Repose. Annie Payson Call. Chapter XII, "Training for Rest." Little, Brown & Co. _Wallaces' Farmer_, Des Moines, Ia., is especially to be commended for its editorial championship of The Farm Mother. The Freedom of Life. Annie Payson Call. Chapter IV, "Hurry, Worry, and Irritability." Little, Brown & Co. Ideas of a Plain Country Mother. _Ladies' Home Journal_, May 1, 1911. _American Motherhood_. Coopertown, New York Monthly, $1. This magazine publishes many short articles bearing on the subject of this chapter. How to conduct Mothers' Clubs. (Pamphlet No. 302, 8 cents.) _American Motherhood_. Coopertown, New York. CHAPTER V _CONSTRUCTING THE COUNTRY DWELLING_