Women should now be clear-sighted enough to see that the world needs from them not the same but different contributions to the upreach and onward march of the race from those elements in which man has excelled. If society-at-large is to become truly a family of those who love and serve each other, then human beings of the mother-sex must take into public life and public service the best they have learned and taught in the individual home. What women most need now is to "retain all the good the past hath had" as they step forward to their full liberty and responsibility in new relationships to life. QUESTIONS ON THE MOTHER 1. What, in general, have been the social demands upon wives and mothers, and how have these been met in the past? 2. What, if any, of these inherited social demands are now met by social agencies outside of the private family? 3. What, in general, may be defined as the line of demarkation between the private obligations resting still upon mothers for personal service to family life and agencies of public child-care and social standardization? 4. How far is a trend toward minimizing the demand for personal service of the housemother in the private family to be encouraged? 5. If a mother, in average financial condition, has the "three and one-half children" eugenists demand of each family, and does her duty by them in private family life, how much of her time and strength must go into the housemother's service and for what period of years? 6. What amount of time and strength might be left, in the case of strong and competent women, for other vocational work? 7. Is the modern "nursery school" an adequate substitute for the early home-training? (See report, "A Nursery School Experiment," published by "Bureau of Educational Experiments," 144 West Thirteenth Street, New York City.) FOOTNOTES: [3] (_a_) See, for example, "Conveniences for the Farm Home," Farmers' Bulletin No. 270, and (_b_) "The Farm Kitchen as a Workshop," Farmers' Bulletin No. 607. CHAPTER III THE FATHER "Who plants his soul in stalwart sons and daughters keeps on giving His life and vision to his fellow men; His power grows like leaven. "His children strive to take his spirit up and keep it living; They share with all the love he gave his own, as he had shared, And lives, his love has served, all call him father." From the Tribute, _To My Father_, by HORNELL HART. "To dwell in the wide house of the world; to stand in true attitude therein; in success to share one's principles with the people; in failure to live them out alone; to be incorruptible by riches or honor; unchangeable by poverty; unmoved by perils or power--these I call the qualities of a great man."--MENCIUS.