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 and woman, an escape from the worries and torments of life into an oblivion of sexual indulgence which the "law allows and court awards," and which has received the sanction and blessing of the court and council of Heaven.

The lives of women will be much wider and more interesting when the new order is established. Only a call to maternity will sanction maternity. There will be no unwilling mothers. The children born will be wanted. Their coming will be looked for, anticipated with joy; and due preparations to receive the little lives will be made. No heart-broken wail of the anxious mother with already more mouths than she can fill turning to her for food, at the arrival of still another little stranger, will be heard. For every child born, the State will make provision. Either the mother will be paid so much per child so long as it lives and thrives, as her wages for important work done for society in bearing and rearing it; or her absolute independence of her husband will be secured in some other way. The State doctor (a woman for this office) will prescribe and care for the child from the moment of its birth, and State nurses will be