I helped to make
this home. We had twelve hundred dollars in the bank when I
stopped working, and John was pretty well established.
"I don't regret it," she went on, still speaking as a woman of
the future, "even for the children. Of course I do wish we had
started earlier. But I would have wanted to wait a while for the
children in any case. People risk too much when they start a
family before they become sufficiently used to marriage and to
each other to know that they can keep on loving each other and to
know that they have in them through their mutual, continued
happiness the power to make a happy home, a noble home, for
children to live in."
As for the number of children she will have--we reserve that
subject to a future article. We call attention here only to this:
That the facts which were cited from the Smith College records
are harmonious with many other facts and records tending to show
that the fertility of the modern wife has been considerably
underrated, just as the fertility of the colonial wife has been
considerably exaggerated.
And this:
That Mary got to her childbearing period sooner than she would
have if she hadn't insisted on marrying John before he was ready
to support her.
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