Women and the Labour Party, by Various Women Writers (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... the nursery of to-morrow. by Margaret Mcmillan. "Educate every child as if he were your own" Rachel McMillan. why do you want nurseries?" asks the woman in the street? Why? "Why," we make answer," is there a nursery in every rich man's house? Why are there, it may be, three or four rooms even set apart to the children, and their attendants, nurses, maids, and governesses? Is it not because they are needed? Rooms and nurses are needed by the children?" "But shouldn't a mother do everything for her little ones?" we are asked. "No," we make answer again, " She cannot do everything." She may feed, wash, mend, cook, earn wages, and be a slave to her family, but even then she cannot do everything. The big things, the great human tasks she must then leave undone, or leave to others. Can she teach, train, inspire, and develop the soul of her child after a day at the wash-tub or in the factory? '."Dear women of England, you have now the vote. It is time to go into this whole question of nurture with the object of finding out what the child of the poorest home needs: and also what is possible, or impossible, for any woman. The rich man has a motor-car and we ride in trams and buses. The rich have great libraries, baths to every bedroom, tutors and governesses. The poor have public libraries, public baths, and Council Schools. But all have these things privately or publicly, because they need them. Well now, looking at our small and crowded homes, our ailing children, our dangerous and it maybe dirty courts where little ones play, we say, " We want nurseries for all children because they are badly needed,") Having grantea so much let us then ask, What kind of nursery should we have? How can we build them and link them to home life? How should we staff them? How train the n...