A score of copies of Mary Wood-Allen’s booklets have been sold among the members, and copies of _The American Mother_, _The Mothers’ Journal_, and _Trained Motherhood_ are taken. This club meets once a month, and papers are read by the members, or by some invited guest. Physicians and ministers, school-teachers who have had success along certain lines; kindergartners, and lawyers have spoken to this company of women. Each year a printed program is issued, and the meetings are open to all who wish to attend, whether members or not. The discussions which have followed the papers, have been interesting and profitable in the extreme. One or two are appointed to open the discussion, and questions are freely asked. This club is only three years old, but it would be impossible to measure its influence for good, and its suggestive helpfulness in the community. Would that there were a similar society of women in every city in our land. Yea, more, in every village and rural community. Literary clubs and classes have multiplied, all over our land, _ad infinitum_; and is it not time that mothers’ classes were more common and popular? Depend upon it, more pleasure and profit can be gotten out of such a class, than from any other proposed line of study. Why? Because it goes to the very root of things, and comes so near to the hearts of all that it can but create interest. Woman has done much in literary study and improvement, but here is a mine that has not been worked as it should have been; and depend upon it, no richer field can be found in all the realm of art, science or literature. THE END. * * * * * OFFICES OF PUBLICATION IN THE UNITED STATES THE VIR PUBLISHING COMPANY 2237 LAND TITLE BUILDING PHILADELPHIA, PA. IN ENGLAND THE VIR PUBLISHING COMPANY 7 IMPERIAL ARCADE, LUDGATE CIRCUS LONDON, E. C. IN CANADA WILLIAM BRIGGS 29-33 RICHMOND STREET WEST TORONTO, ONTARIO * * * * * Maternity Without Suffering BY MRS. EMMA F. A. DRAKE, M. D. Condensed Table of Contents HEALTHFULNESS OF CHILD-BEARING—Wrong notion about child-bearing corrected—Dangerous subterfuges—Contrast between willing and unwilling mothers—Ennobling maternity—Causes of painful parturition—Suggestions for proper exercise—Errors in diet—A proper regimen—A contributing cause to pain—Is painless parturition possible?—Opinions of scientists and physicians—Reasons why some women have painless child-bearing—The author’s experience as a physician—The conditions necessary for painless maternity—Danger of extreme methods—Effects of bad advisers—Contributing factors of antenatal infanticide—Nothing to dread in normal childbirth—Extreme methods not necessary.