Young Mrs. Wrathall was here yesterday all in a
twitter of pleasure, because her husband is letting her take lessons in
music and drawing."
"Why, mother, she must be thirty years old. What did you say to her?"
"I reminded her that she had four little children and the world could
get along without water-color sketches and amateur music, but that it
could not possibly get along without wives and mothers."
"You might have also told her, mother, that if the Progressive Club
would read history, they might find out that those times in any nation
when wives were ornaments and not mothers were always periods of
national decadence and moral failures."
"Well, John, you won't get women to search history for results that
wouldn't please them; and to expect a certain kind of frivolous, selfish
woman to look beyond her own pleasure is to expect the great miracle
that will never come. You can't expect it."
"But Jane is neither frivolous nor selfish."
"I am glad to hear it."
"Is that all you can say, mother?"
"All.
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