Said he: "I _do_ remember about that strange piece of baseless folly, the result, like all other follies of the period, of the hideous class tyranny which then obtained.

What do we think of it now?
you would say.

My friend, that is a question easy to answer.

How could it possibly be but that maternity should be highly honoured amongst us?
Surely it is a matter of course that the natural and necessary pains which the mother must go through form a bond of union between man and woman, an extra stimulus to love and affection between them, and that this is universally recognised.

For the rest, remember that all the _artificial_ burdens of motherhood are now done away with.